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Working Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Contributor Spotlight! 🪐 Nicoletta Giuseffi @dearnicoletta.bsky.social (she/her) is a pansexual princess under glass. She writes fantasy and horror, with work appearing in publications like Bourbon Penn, The Fabulist, and Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

very busy editing zines and writing for other zines in my other life, maybe I should bridge the gap one day...

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

writing an absolutely unhinged story and loving it, like real cackling and rubbing my hands together hours

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

happy birthday Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini in Green Porno. she's dressed up as a praying mantis. i appreciate her whimsy and weird.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was ecstatic to come across this review of my short fiction in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #37 Maria Haskins! Locus Magazine! wow!

A text clipping of a review article by Maria Haskins for Locus Magazine. Text reads: “Daughter of the Dynasties” by Nicoletta Giuseffi dives deep into the macabre and disturbing with a story about the Dynasties, a strange society and secret court where people’s body parts, and more than that, are consumed. Giuseffi’s prose is lavish and ornate, and the story slips into an almost delirious darkness as the lust and hunger of the Dynasties are revealed in nightmarish transformations, magic, and ritualistic devouring. It’s a heady, feverishly phantasmagoric story.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/05/2026

The May issue of LOCUS includes my short fiction review column, featuring stories from Baffling, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Get in in print or digital: locusmag.com/2026/05/issu...

Cover of Locus May issue. Bright flame red with golden lettering and a golden bird with wings spread. The May 2026 Locus magazine, issue #784, has interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and a spotlight on Locus Awards Featured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2026 Hugo Awards Ballot, M.R. Carey’s Philip K. Dick Award win, Christopher Caldwell’s Crawford Award win, Hachette’s choice to pull Shy Girl over suspected AI use, David Langford’s Solstice Award win, BSFA winners, artist Gregory Manchess’s Artemis patch design, and more.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

working with an editor on a piece today and falling in love with it all over again

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i love when i return to some writing i forgot i wrote and lines stun me here and there

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

......well

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

There's a kind of forest in western Oregon that you feel before you understand. The BLM just gave the timber industry permission to tear it all down.

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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Of course you're confused. That story was for girls.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I always get so many tummy butterflies when I give Japanese presentations in front of native speakers 😭

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

haven't posted on here much but I recently reconnected with someone I haven't seen in thirty years and I didn't know I could feel emotions like these!

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

a story about finding acceptance in the dark so happy it has a home here in the excellent Plott Hound Magazine

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...

A blog post titled "full list of BH #17 recommendations part 1" on the blog of Ellen Datlow, Fiction Editor

A list of stories with one highlighted in a pink square. The highlighted item reads "Giuseffi, Nicoletta "The Eating Doll," The Fabulist, October 11

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️

An awards eligibility post for author Nicoletta Giuseffi. Works listed are "He Came Starving to the Altar" in Plott Hound Magazine, September 2025, "The Unicorn is Dead" in Summer of Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Volume Four, July 2025, and "Daughter of the Dynasties" in Bourbon Penn 37, October 2025.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

You can read (or listen to me read) my weird Christmas horror story, "The Sadly Beautiful Life Cycle of the Mrs. Claus," for free!

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

lost my dog last Wednesday. 14 and a half years old. I don't know who I am without her, but I have support and am celebrating her life in the ways I can. I wrote a little memoir of her life and got to read it to her. her last weeks were very comfortable and peaceful and she went without pain.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Her health has improved a bit so I called it off. Taking it day by day right now. Writing a little memoir of her life to serve as a diary of my feelings. I wish everyone could know her as I do.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

likely going to say goodbye to my dog this week. she was an enormous part of my life. not sure how I can go on without her but I'll figure it out.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

check it out!!! bsky.app/profile/midn...

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️

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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. @lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social

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Bourbon Penn 37

Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My contributor copies of @bourbonpenn.bsky.social have arrived! Can't wait to devour the stories inside!

A wolf skull with a crown chomps down on the new issue of Bourbon Penn.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Halloween thing at work so of course I'm the only one currently dressed up in the office 😭

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you wanna read my favorite published story ever, find it here!

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 21/10/2025

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Bourbon Penn 37 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I have a story that has just gone free to read! A repentant cannibal's doomed journey through the desert: plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...

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“He Came Starving to the Altar” by Nicoletta Giuseffi – Plott Hound Magazine

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

one of my ESL students who I've been encouraging to read and write stories brought her first fictional short story to me today and I'm so excited!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I have a story that has just gone free to read! A repentant cannibal's doomed journey through the desert: plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...

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“He Came Starving to the Altar” by Nicoletta Giuseffi – Plott Hound Magazine

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I may or may not have a new story coming out soon~ 💀💋

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

there are two constants death and form rejections

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Catching up on some Takashi Miike films I missed and why is Gozu like that

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Your favorite goblin just got a starred review in Publisher's Weekly because my book is good, yo!!! 😉 www.publishersweekly.com/9780316581936

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Plott Hound Issue 1 is out in the wild! You need to register as a member, pay $5/issue or $20/year to access the entire inaugural menagerie at once. Pieces will be made available to read online by weekly release. Stay tuned! plotthoundmag.com/issues/

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy pride!! I was a lesbian until my boyfriend came out as trans, now I'm pansexual 💖

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A magazine telling me "this one was pretty close" is useless information Thanks, I'll write another one just like it but better

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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

More than merely writing about sexy unicorns, I played one on stage last weekend Live your truth

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