DOUBLE LAUNCH: Bloodletter Magazine Issue Seven & Migrant Voices in Horror
About this Event
On November 3 at 6 PM, join us for an evening of poetry and fiction that proves storytelling’s alchemic capacity to turn horror into liberation—a post-polls reminder that our fears should be faced, not ignored. Show us your voting sticker for 10% off Bloodletter chapbooks.
Readers:
Christiana Drevets, Erin Finnerty, Angela Giaimo, Mary Kuryla, Devon Lukasiewicz, Nasma Kublawi, Jenan Marcela, Hena Mustafa, Jane Rose, Andie Sheridan, Vriddhi Vinay
About the readers:
Christiana Drevets is a poet living in Queens, New York. She is interested in writing about horror, dreams, and other mysteries. Her work can be found in Quarto Magazine, Inverted Syntax, Sortes, The Red Ogre Review, and on Poets.org.
Erin Finnerty writes speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in Does It Have Pockets, Bog Fancy: Tales from the Dank, and Mobius Blvd and is forthcoming in The Forge.
Angela Giaimo (she/they) is a queer Latine writer, artist, and first-generation immigrant from Colombia. They received an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and their work has appeared in Witch Craft Magazine, Cotton Xenomorph, and Write or Die Magazine. Angela lives in Maryland, where they spend their time contemplating the horrors. You can find her on Instagram @demonrising.
Mary Kuryla’s collection Freak Weather Stories (University of Massachusetts Press) received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Strange Horizons, and Weird Horror. Her stories have received The Pushcart Prize and the Copper Nickel Editors Prize in Prose, and the Glimmer Train Fiction Prize and are currently shortlisted for ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction and Brave New Weird.
Devon Lukasiewicz is a writer based in Southern California.
Jenan Marcela is a poet, artist, and bruja based in Brooklyn.
Hena Mustafa (she/her) is a first-generation Palestinian-American lesbian poet and filmmaker. Hena’s writing is sensual, textured, and raw.
Nasma Kublawi (she/her) is a Palestinian writer and producer. Nasma’s writing is intuitive, rhythmic, and sensory. Hena and Nasma have been creative collaborators since 2024. Together, their craft and voice explore the ancestral femininity that binds them to their shared homeland. They have performed their works across leftist and Arab spaces in Brooklyn, NY, and are currently developing their chapbook, set for publication in 2027.
Jane Rose is a fiction writer hailing from rural New England and based in Brooklyn. Before returning to her first love of writing stories, she made low-budget horror films, worked on other people's movies as a special effects makeup artist, and created and guided a literary horror walking tour. She has had work published in Triptych and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a nominee for the Henfield Prize.
Andie Sheridan (he/they) is a trans Chinese/American poet currently residing in Brooklyn with an MFA from University of Massachusetts, Boston. His work is invested in queerness, critical ocean theory, and the experience of transracial adoption. Andie’s work has been featured in Leviathan, The Journal, and with Mass Poetry, among other publications.
Vriddhi Vinay is a Brooklyn-based writer and researcher who explores the intersection of folklore, radical survivorship, and community between South Asian women, queerness, and memory. She is also a researcher of intimate-partner violence against migrant women and an archivist of South Asian feminist literature. Her work has appeared in Artblog, the academic journal MUNDI, Kweli Journal, Tilted House Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, APIARY Magazine, Peach Fuzz Magazine, and Inklette Magazine. You can find more of her work at vriddhivinay.com.
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