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Champ Wongsatayanont

@champwongs.bsky.social
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Unintentional horror writer. Based in 🇹🇭 Bram Stoker and Ignyte Finalist ✒️ Stories in Reactor and Nightmare 🫶🏼 Clarion West, Tin House, Banff Centre, Faber Academy

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ok now I meet the real-real Somsak
The inside of a taxi from the backseat view. The rear view mirror has a lot of hanging amulets. The ceiling has yantra cloth with magical symbols
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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A few short story reading notes are now up in this blog post — I'm working on how to get back up to pre-end-of-PhD speed! tanaudel.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/m... #storynotes
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March and April 2026 short story reading notes
notes from last year because I’m not near my recent notebook This post is a roughly tidied version of my March and April 2026 posts (on Bluesky) about short stories. There’s a list of all the…
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Conrad Loyer @conradloyer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So excited/delighted/honored to have my first ever piece of flash fiction published with @bafflingmag.bsky.social and @neonhemlock.bsky.social !
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
...congratulations also to Ignyte Award finalists @aimeeogdenwrites.com, @vanessafogg.bsky.social, @mariahaskins.com, @davering.bsky.social, and @champwongs.bsky.social, who read his nominated story on Story Hour! (2/2) youtu.be/0Gwk1zD4qQo
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March 24, 2026 Story Hour: Champ Wongsatayanont and Lyndsie Manusos
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
(4) Normalising every day Thai food of a Phuket local: The perfect Khao Mun Gai (ข้าวมันไก่). This place does NOT skimp on ginger and chilli in their sauce
A plate of Hainanese chicken rice topped with generous amounts of ginger, chilli and chilli sauce seasoning. Iced Chinese tea, condiments, chicken broth and vegetable in the backgroundClose up of a plate of Hainanese chicken rice topped with generous amounts of ginger, chilli and chilli sauce seasoning
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜
Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Short Story are: Autogas Ferryman – @champwongs.bsky.social Because I Held His Name Like A Key – @aimeeogdenwrites.com Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels – @nkereuwxm.bsky.social (1/2)
OUTSTANDING SHORT STORY
for speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words

Autogas Ferryman – Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare Magazine)
Because I Held His Name Like A Key – Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons)
Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels – Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem)
Ichthyosis – M.L. Krishnan (Fantasy Magazine)
The Octopus Dreams of Personhood – Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots)
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novelette are: Human Voices – @isabel.kim Never Eaten Vegetables – @hhpak.bsky.social Uncertain Sons – @thomasha.bsky.social We Begin Where Infinity Ends – @somtoihezue.bsky.social What I Saw Before the War – Alaya Dawn Johnson
OUTSTANDING NOVELETTE
for speculative works ranging from 7,500-17,499 words

Human Voices – Isabel J. Kim (Lightspeed Magazine)
Never Eaten Vegetables – H. H. Pak (Clarkesworld)
Uncertain Sons – Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)
We Begin Where Infinity Ends – Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld)
What I Saw Before the War – Alaya Dawn Johnson (Reactor)
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
So honoured to receive this nomination among all the incredible writers!! 🙏🏼
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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-i... ("A Penrose Dirge" by Chris Campbell Lokton 855376 is the Grand Conductor and Chief Archivist of the sixty-seventh Aeon. It is determined to survive the heat death of the universe. Strange story but a lot of fun.) Strange story but a lot of fun!!! Goal unlocked!
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Asimov's Science Fiction June 2026
<P> The May/June 2026 issue of <i>Asimov's Science Fiction</i> has stories by Cecilia Holland, A.M. Dellamonica, Zhou Wen, Steve Rasnic Tem, Betsy Aoki, Chris Campbell, Dale Bailey, Stephanie Feldman,...
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My first time as a Shirley Jackson Award finalist! I've always wanted that creepy little lottery stone! Congrats to the other finalists! So many exclamation points! www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...
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Nominees Announced for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards – The Shirley Jackson Awards
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
(3) Normalising every day Thai food of a Phuket local: Little feast the night before I fly out for the con-hopping in the US!! If you'll be at Locus, Nebula or Stokercon, please let me know. Would love to meet y'all!
A bunch of plates on a stone table consisting of pork stirfried with lemongrass and shrimp paste, bitter melon stirfried with fried fish pieces, melinjo leaves stirfried with egg, and spicy southern tumeric curry with fish pieces and coconut shoots, all accompanied by two plates of rice and little serving bowls for the curryClose up of the tumeric spicy curry with a piece of very fresh piece of fish
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 24/05/2026
My new cozy science fiction story NOW IS A KIND OF FOREVER is up @morningtransport.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/now-is-a-k... Get your 60-day free subscription here: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024
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Now is a Kind of Forever
Kelly Robson returns to The Sunday Morning Transport with a new story, filled with brilliant, but hidden, mayhem and joy.
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ok how is this artwork so bang-on accurate for what the taxi would look like? I'm mad impressed! Please stay tuned for a new audio version of Autogas Ferryman with an incredibly gifted reader!
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Normalising every day Thai food of a Phuket local. This is a food blog now. Alt-text may be required for this journey. Here's my selection from a rice-and-curry stall. Literally 80 baht (2.5 dollars) for everything
A plate of rice with pink fermented beancurd pork stir-fry, curry paste pork stir-fry and bitter gourd stir-fry with egg and prawns. There is spoon and fork on the plate and a metal cup of water in the background
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Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The 2026 short story Stoker nominees at TtT: 745: [Ir]reversible by Anna Taborska 746: Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social 747: Stomata by @ledaniels.bsky.social 748: Inheritance by @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social 749: St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
The Bram Stoker Award in all its hefty Gothic glory.
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Best pad krapao in Phuket at Chuan Chim restaurant. Eat your heart out Mark Wiens
A plate of minced chicken pad krapao over rice with fried egg, on top of a black table with chopped chilli in fish sauce on the side.
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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New story day! I wrote The Song Shines On during my residency at Banff (with excellent feedback from friends including @champwongs.bsky.social and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social) so it's dear to my heart 💙
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026
Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Story Hour does not believe in April Fooling. Story Hour is no tricks, all treats. For instance, our April 1 guests are the seriously awesome Thomas Ha and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT—and that’s no joke! @thomasha.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Thomas Ha, a man of mixed Korean/Irish ancestry who has fair skin, brown eyes, a five-o’clock shadow, and thick black hair worn short and swept back from his forehead. He wears a heathered charcoal tee and gold-tone wire-rimmed glasses. He stands in front of a tree and a building sided with unfinished wood; the building appears to be in near-darkness, although the light on him is bright and casts only soft shadows. He looks directly into the camera, smiling faintly.Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican man with tanned skin, brown eyes, brown hair cut short, a short beard that’s mostly gray, and a well-trimmed mustache that’s about half brown and half gray. He wears glasses with black plastic frames, a V-neck white tee, and a tan aloha shirt with a pattern of toucans. He sits in a leather-backed chair with a decorative shelf and a computer monitor behind him. With his face in three-quarters view and his chin tilted down, he looks into the camera with a faint, soft smile.
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
With the end of the voting season, please let me share my award eligibility one more time. Thank you! 🙏🏼
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Had such an incredible reading with the wonderful @lmanusos.bsky.social!! Her story "Unimagined Delicacy" was so so good that I felt myself become something else. The lingering sensations remain 🐙 Please read her story here!
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Unimagined Delicacy by Lyndsie Manusos
He picks up dirt with one arm. And then another. The suckers on each limb grab at the dirt, and he throws it in waves behind him. There is Miracle Grow in this soil, he sees by the specks of white and...
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/03/2026
One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY
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Seasons of Glass and Iron Release Day!
Dear Friends, It's here! Today's the day! Seasons of Glass and Iron is available wherever you get your books! In the normal order of things I should be where my book is – in a shop signing stock, or...
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
First time doing a reading with the amazing @lmanusos.bsky.social !! Please tune in if you can!
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For the lover: grief and despair For the kings: crown and banner "And what for me," I asked Sounded the Voice: Tablet and pen -- The Rubaiyat of Sadequain, Sadequain +
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism." @fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:
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Locus Is a Longstanding Bright Spot in Our Community - Reactor
Let’s show up and support them the way they support us.
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wen-yi lee @wenyilee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm a Nebula finalist!!!!! "The Name Ziya" is a story I wrote at 22 for my Clarion West application but also to grapple my own thorny relationship with cultural names & assimilation. It took 3 years to publish; I am so proud it's my first award nom and so so thrilled to share space on this list 🥲
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Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our not-so-little story, We Begin Where Infinity Ends, is a Nebula Award Finalist. Infinitely grateful🪲✨🫶🏽
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Found the Autogas Ferryman irl Real talk: The yantra on the ceiling is drawn by Buddhist monks to ward off danger/evil. The amulets and saisin strings are blessed and given by monks to also ward danger/evil. All in all, I ought to feel very well-protected.
Spiritual paraphernalia inside a typical Bangkok taxi
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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
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By the Numbers 10 - Arley's House
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In case you missed it yesterday, my Year in Review column for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available online, highlighting some of my favorite reads from 2025! locusmag.com/feature/the-...
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The Year in Review 2025 by A.C. Wise
The Year in Review 2025 It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year, or at the beginning of a new one by the time this is published. Whatever else is going on in the world, reading contin…
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 24/02/2026
Scary and melancholy
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thank you for this opportunity at @nightmare-magazine.com to write this SEAsian-flavoured noir!! 🥹 So grateful to everyone who enjoyed the story and voted for it! 🫶🏼
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
AAAAHHH!!! Absolutely FLOORED that 'Autogas Ferryman' is nominated for the Bram Stoker Award 2025 for the Short Fiction category!! This honour belongs to all the taxi driver uncles 🫡 Thank you everyone for reading and loving Somsak
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 24/05/2025
oh right, birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering
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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I’m really running up to the deadline on my stoker reading, but I highly recommend you check out “Autogas Ferryman” by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com. Such great, satisfying work.
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Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is my favourite thing from GRRM and the episode tonight is my favourite out of all the Game of Thrones TV shows. I'm so hyped, I can't sleep. It's sooo good!!
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a man carrying a child on his shoulders with the words come on written below him
ALT: a man carrying a child on his shoulders with the words come on written below him
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Highly recommend taking time to read "Autogas Ferryman" by @champwongs.bsky.social Especially if you're a voting member of the HWA; it's on the Stoker preliminary ballot and it's stellar www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
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Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 04/02/2026
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has announced a two-week residency with Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Sheree Renee Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, and Joshua Whitehead. Yes you DO want to do this. banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
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Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency 2027
This residency supports writers exploring potential futures, perspectives, and narratives.
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ooh! The list is fantastic as always. I'm honored that "The Millay Illusion" is on there in the novelette category! Also delighted to see my students @somtoihezue.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social make the list! Also also delighted to see a new category for translated novels. Congrats to all!
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night. As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Be a good person? That’s much too lofty. How about start by being a good son?"
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Congratulations everyone on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award!!! Took a long moment of rubbing my eyes to realise that Autogas Ferryman is on there too! Well done, Somsak. You go inter now. Thank you @wnwagner.bsky.social for the opportunity with Nightmare 🫶🏼
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This morning I woke up wondering if writing was an absolute waste of my time when there's so much work to do helping people and making the world a better place. And then I got a text from a friend telling me I had a novel on the Stoker long list. It's a really complicated & weird time to be alive.
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max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this story has been longlisted for the british science fiction awards! consider checking it out if you have voting powers, or if you don't have voting powers, or whatever, i'm not the boss of you! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Autogas Ferryman runs on the saying of อย่าเปลืองตัว (ya pluang tua) which literally means “don’t squander your life/wellbeing”. It's wasteful martyrdom to do the right thing which is ultimately insignificant against the grinding machine of an entrenched system. Take care of yourself out there.
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Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Received final edits on the novel from my editor at Putnam--mostly light comments, paring back, and line edits. All major structural changes were accepted--which is such a relief as it was such a weird first draft God willing, A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE should be in your hands in spring of 2027!
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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Oh, thank you so much for the inclusion of Autogas Ferryman. I love so many of the pieces in the list and it's such privilege to be included among them. And with so many more to discover! 🤩
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Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️ @drnpc.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Some more favourite horror of the year, here is Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com #booksky 📚💙 📚🪐📚🤖
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Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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