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Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's mini-interview for BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU anthology ( @titanbooks.bsky.social 9/22) is with award-winning author LEE MURRAY. Here's the link: bit.ly/3V3V2aC Scroll for OTHER interviews. #Kaiju #bigbadbookofkaiju #anthology @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social

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Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels @ledaniels.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just recorded virtual panel, Necronomicon presents ANTIPODEAN WEIRD & HORROR FICTION: VOICES OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social , @aarondries.bsky.social , @geneveflynn.bsky.social , @kaaronwarren.bsky.social & @genni.bsky.social Links in comments!

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We celebrate SILK & SINEW contributors with a look at the inspiration behind @leemurraywriter.bsky.social Lee Murray’s story, “The Poppy Cloud” and Australasian Shadows Award nominated poem, “Charcoal Skies”! #badhandbooks #silkandsinewantho #folkhorror #authors #bramstokeraward

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Michael Bailey @nettirw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

THE LIBRARY OF THE UNDEAD is quickly taking shape, so more announcements soon. Today I have the pleasure of revealing the anthology will include @leemurraywriter.bsky.social with a story called "The Fantail's Tale."

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Thylacine-rescue, Samhain enthusiast 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thylacine-rescue.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Starting book #53 of 2026: Into the Ashes by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social A cataclysmic series of quakes and eruptions in In New Zealand's Tongariro National Park are not what they seem: behind these are ancestral Māori mountain warriors, the legendary Kāhui Tupua. The Māori background is terrific!

The book’s cover. A burned out bus has an erupting volcano behind it

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Jennifer Cröw @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New prose poem up for #WomenInHorrorMonth: this one’s for @leemurraywriter.bsky.social. I’m still thinking about Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. Read it for free here: www.patreon.com/posts/women-in-horror-153542368

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Thylacine-rescue, Samhain enthusiast 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thylacine-rescue.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Reading book #50 of 2026, Into the Mist by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & I’m feeling the mist of Te Urewera as a group of scientists and NZDF enter the bush; the scientists for research, the soldiers because 14 people have recently gone missing. Why? Seems something mythic, a taniwha, is real…

The book’s cover. A soldier pushes through the bush as a very large lizard looks him over

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#WiHM Found poem is for @carolgyzander.bsky.social, someone I was delighted to meet in the flesh (along with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social) at Brighton last year! #booksky #horrowriting #fiction #horror #specfic

Found poem against starry night backdrop. Two book covers at bottom - Discontinue if Death Ensues and Forget Me Not.

Existence

Women, lurking,
swim worlds of changes,
hunting the unlucky.
They reach past stories,
soar empowering skies
with the strength of myth.
This is existence.

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

😍 🔥🔥🔥 CONGRATULATIONS @geneveflynn.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Ecstatic to see TWO of SILK & SINEW's contributors nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Poetry, Short Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories! ♥️AND congrats to wonderful friend & cheerleader @ledaniels.bsky.social♥️

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Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Also delighted to share the @australasianhorror.bsky.social 2025 Shadows poetry shortlist with Katya de Becerra & dear friends, @ledaniels.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! "A Pocket of Soil," from SILK & SINEW, ed. @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, pub. @badhandbooks.bsky.social.

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

For #WiHM I'll be creating some of these, something a little different to lists and things. First up is this as a thank you to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for all her support and her genuine friendship. #foundpoetry #booksky #poetry

A found poem created from the blurbs of three books: Despatches, Grotesque: Monster Stories, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud.

Beloved

The cleaver of skulls tell
of an ancient diaspora,
breathes newborn war
in serpent shadowlands,
stitching bone and mists
to silence the truth.
Beloved are the dead
who inhabit the trenches
of history.

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Elizabeth Broadbent @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out the one and only @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, ONZM, whose OVERSIGHT: ERASURE POETRY, coauthored with @carinabissett.bsky.social, is out today! See what she has to say about it … open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

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Women in Horror: Lee Murray, ONZM

Writing horror and speculative fiction from New Zealand

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Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

On my website, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social talks in her guest article about erasure of women in history to even now, and her new poetry collection with @carinabissett.bsky.social, Oversight: Women’s Erasure. Join us for women’s appreciation and celebration on Hook of Book. 🫶🏼 Link below!

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So thrilled to appear on Hook of a Book’s Women in History series! hookofabook.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/o...

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Super excited to appear in aL Washington's Mystical Loft horror podcast talking about This Way Lies Madness -- and other things. Free to listen. Available on YouTube and Spotify. 30 mins so perfect for a weekend coffee pause. open.spotify.com/episode/7J9b....

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Best Books of the Year Author Talk: Join Silk & Sinew Editor Kristy Park Kulski and Author @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for an insightful discussion on the anthology Register here: www.nypl.org/events/progr... #nypl #silkandsinewantho #leemurray #kristyparkkulski #besthorror #bestbook

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mogadooooooom @mogadontrenchcoat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#nowreading this way lies madness, a really beautiful little anthology of horror tales centering mental health issues, curated by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social via flame tree publishing. as a lifelong sufferer, i'm really looking forward to this.

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Matt Tighe @mktighewrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My debut collection includes stories that have garnered 13 awards and shortlistings as well as new stuff. @leemurraywriter.bsky.social said lovely things about it and it’s out now - order here! books2read.com/drowninginth...

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Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories by Matt Tighe

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Ahead of tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davejeffery.bsky.social, editors of Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to chat about stigmas & how horror can actually help us. britishfantasysociety.org/this-way-lie...

A graphic representing mental health: a human head with green plant growth emerging from the brain

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Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Delighted to be joint winner of the Shadows Award for Poetry with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! My poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue," (BESTIARY OF BLOOD: MODERN FABLES & DARK TALES, @crystallake.bsky.social, ed. Jamal Hodge) was honoured alongside Lee's collection, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD.

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Emily Ruth Verona @emilyrverona.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My contributor copy for THIS WAY LIES MADNESS arrived. I could cry! It's beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Thank you so much to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social. "Bangs" is perhaps the most personal short story I've ever written. Honored to have it featured in this anthology.

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Featuring a historic tale which blends seamlessly into the contemporary narrative like a traditional zhiguai, Yu’s white bone spirit beguiles and terrifies.” Thank you @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for your lovely blurb of DEMON SONG!! 🥰🖤 Out in 13 days from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Fantastic discussion on horror and mental health by the kind folks at HNaC and contributors to This Way Lies Madness. Make this your weekend listening. Free to listen. linktr.ee/HNACPod

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Ping @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - and #newzealand -sky! You might be interested in this essay... #nz

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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@emilyrverona.bsky.social talks about BANGS, her powerful story in This Way Lies Madness! Read the full blog, including a story excerpt, here: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic @flametreepress @flametreepublishing @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @gregchapman.bsky.social

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a wonderful, personal essay for the July collection of essays, about her journey to being the multiple award-winning author she is today (including ONZM!). She frames it around the idea of the fox spirit...

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a beautiful biographical essay about being a fox girl for the Jan-June collection of SI essays. You can read it by subscribing to the journal (getting the ebook for free), or just by buying the book (e- or paper). www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections

Purple background, white text, which says I am a fox spirit of sorts, although it has only recently been revealed to me in my latest iteration as an Asian diaspora writer of speculative fiction living in the urban wilds of Aotearoa New Zealand. "Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey" -- Lee Murray ONZM

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Breathless with gratitude at this stunning review of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud from Otago University Press's Robyn Maree Pickens in the latest edition of Landfall. landfallreview.com/villages-of-...

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Villages of Grandmothers

Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Many thanks to Jamal Hodge for these kind words for SILK & SINEW, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social. Available NOW, this acclaimed anthology features @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more--plus a foreword by Monika Kim.

“Silk & Sinew is a transcendent collection of horror and identity that engages all the primal emotions rooted in our shared humanity. Many times you will be brought to the verge of tears, many times you will learn the cost of survival, many times you will be made to experience the deepest scars, folklore, and beauty of the Asian diaspora. I learned and felt so much.”

—-Jamal Hodge, Bram Stoker Award Nominee
The Dark Between The Twilight

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

TODAY. Happy launch day to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of our SILK & SINEW authors. This fantastic anthology is available NOW wherever books are sold. Contributions by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and more, plus a foreword by Monika Kim!

Blurb text reads: "Visceral, poignant, unforgettable. The stories in this haunting collection made me weep. This book is eternal; a classic addition to every self-respecting library." --Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A Taine McKenna short story was released into the wild today from my friends at Squabbling Sparrows Press. You can get your copy here. books2read.com/intotheboney...

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Into the Boneyard by Lee Murray

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This little book that could. So thrilled to see FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD nominated for the Australian Shadows Awards in Poetry. Congrats to all my colleagues who appear on the shortlist, and especially poets Monica Carroll, Geneve Flynn, Deborah Sheldon, Eugen Bacon, and Pauline Yates.

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I've just deleted 9000 folks from my newsletter list. If you were one of those, and I’ve deleted you by mistake, you can read the latest missive and sign up again here. [Not spammy -- I never send more than 5 emails a year.] leemurray.info/so/03PP6F404...

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Tales from the Underworld

Hey everyone, Welcome to Lee Murray’s second writerly newsletter of 2025, and a special welcome to my new subscribers. Today's episode includes all the usual book news, community updates, appearances,...

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Achievement unlocked! Not only did I get a story in the latest volume (17) of Ellen Datlow's fabulous Best Horror of the Year, I MADE THE COVER! Art by Asya Yordanova.

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HOWL Society @howlsociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In honor of National Poetry Month, we interviewed the prolific @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Read on for a glimpse into her journey through the dark poetry space. HOWLS will be featuring all of the 2024 Bram Stoker Poetry Finalists so stay tuned! howlsociety.com/2025/04/12/l... #horrorlit

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Lee Murray’s Lessons in Poetry

13 Questions with Lee Murray Lee Murray is an accomplished poet, author, editor, and essayist. HOWL Society is honored to feature her in celebration of National Poetry Month. She is one of five 202…

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Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thrilled to make Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Vol 17, with 'Summer Bonus' from Folk Horror: Beyond & Within. Many thanks to Flame Tree and editors Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan. Congrats to co-contributor Stephen Volk who also made the line up.

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