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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill)

@gothicquill.bsky.social
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🩸 Writing about my family’s rural true crime 📕MFA Brown University | PhD Denver 📍From a gravel road, nowhere

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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Are there any other former tech workers who are so vehemently against AI that they can’t bring themselves to apply for another tech job?
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Many thanks to @gothicquill.bsky.social for interviewing me about The Cellar Below the Cellar and such! I love her newsletter, full of blunt and tough observations about the writing world. gothicquill.substack.com/p/the-cellar...
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The Cellar Below the Cellar: Meet Ivy Grimes
Ivy's folk horror novella has been in the spotlight since its release in March, receiving plaudits from Mother Horror herself, Sadie Hartmann.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Somebody needs to produce this movie stat 👀
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I don’t want to be TikTok famous. I want to be able to afford rent and healthcare.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Wrote about some pretty heavy shit from childhood so now I have to sip coffee and stare at the wall.
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Daniel Gene Barlekamp @dgbarlekamp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice reflection from Julia Madsen of @gothicquill.bsky.social on the preciousness of time, why #writers do what we do, and the hunt for meaning and connection in the age of AI and vapid-content overload. #writingcommunity shorturl.at/3hlG8
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Tired of all the hyperreality? Me too.
Our lives are inundated with artificiality and fake shit. Thankfully, we have our writing.
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Mr. Bear @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“I did homework amidst the smell of gasoline and chemicals, the constant whirr of machinery and cans of Mountain Dew cracking open with calloused hands.” @gothicquill.bsky.social @republicofletters.bsky.social therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/how-many-w...
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How Many Working-Class Writers Have You Read?
On Resurrection and Grind and Courage
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling Editing then shoveling
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
POV: You grew up in a haunted farmhouse and are beginning to think that the ghosts never left.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One time I was stuck in customs because they were flipping through my poetry notebook and none of it made any goddamn sense to them and I tried to explain that I was a poet but all they saw were the mad scribblings of a dumbass.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Have I abandoned all that is holy or did I simply write a draft over pints of Coors at the dive bar?
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Make ghosts your target audience. Follow for more practical writing advice.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife. Follow for more practical writing advice.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not to brag but one of my eyebrow hairs grows very long, very fast and won't listen to reason.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife. Follow for more practical writing advice.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Make ghosts your target audience. Follow for more practical writing advice.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
night hooks: the plot turns that can only occur in the fog after dark (with whiskey)
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
saw a hawk with a snake in its mouth
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
out with the bugs today
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
One of my long-standing hobbies is going to estate sales, where I found this folk horror fairy chair. I keep it in my writing room.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I’ve always been the type of writer who has to fight by the skin of my teeth to help get my story out there. Have see too many failed attempts to count. If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Matthew Schnirman @gaywithroughmoss.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
To thine own self be truant
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The American Dream has disadvantaged the imagination of possibility
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
baby’s first meme xo
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 23/04/2025
Dominic Sessa is officially set to star as Anthony Bourdain in the biopic, Tony, from director Matt Johnson 🤍 The film will be released by A24 Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/OJaa
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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
When a publisher gets ready to go on submission
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a man in a suit is singing into a microphone .
ALT: a man in a suit is singing into a microphone .
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Amish think that taking a photograph captures your soul, at least they do where I grew up. If that’s true, then, I can say that this one captures my soul and sure makes me wish that I was at a dive bar. My soul is a dive bar? I’m fine with that.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I talk about growing up in a small Amish town in Iowa (with a touch of folk horror thrown in for good measure) in my new Substack. Link below!
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Anybody else here grow up in a haunted house, legit?
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
give me a top of a line camera and I will document working class life with the poetry they speak about their lives
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🕯️ a spell in a cabin 👻 a phone call from beyond the grave ❤️ true love 🏡 small town setting 🎃 hallowe’en time 🌄 second chances 🔦 friends solving a mystery 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/Lnobp 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57... [ 📚🌶️ ] [ 💙📚🪐 ]
cover for haze by rebecca crunden; shows a girl with long brown hair, eyes closed, trees line the bottom and background.
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Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
👋 Wonder if any writers from the twitter days remember me? I was the gal working on a folk horror...but it's real (still writing a true crime memoir rooted in a family tragedy, btw). Let's catch up and talk all things gothic/horror/macabre, ya'll! 🦇🦇🦇
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our April webinar is "Summoning Unspoken Spaces in Flash Fiction" with @hillaryleftwich.bsky.social on April 12th at noon NYC. Join us! If you're in SmokeLong Fitness, this one's included! www.smokelong.com/product/summ...
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Summoning Unspoken Spaces in Flash Fiction with Hillary Leftwich - SmokeLong Quarterly
We are often told that every word counts in flash fiction, but what about the spaces that vibrate between the words? One of the most compelling aspects of flash fiction is what remains unspoken, those...
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Joe Pan @joepan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My debut novel, FLORIDA PALMS, is due out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025. Pre-order wherever books are sold.
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