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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

in which i talk about the psychological architecture of liminal spaces. figured out how to use substack and uploaded my essay on liminal space, existentialism, and depression there! (originally published in nightmare magazine)

On liminal space, existentialism, and depression. What is the psychological architecture of liminal spaces?

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Saw Backrooms last night and I loved it! Tight script, gorgeous sets, and so fun. It's a beautiful direction for the genre and I'm already itching to see it again—it was such a visual feast! I can't wait to hear what others think.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Just finished reading Yesteryear and fuck. Sometimes funny, but often incredibly dark story. Finishing it feels like when I first read Conner Habib’s Hawk Mountain. Both very good works worth reading.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Peddling my wares in honour of Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m the first trans man to ever win a Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for work mentioned here (Coup de Grâce). I’d love if you’d give it a read.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A precise picture of what it felt like to grow up in the early 2000s & be enmeshed in a codependent friendship, using it as a conduit into queerness, and a perfect render of how it felt to be a gay trans man in the 00s w/o the language to express it Recommend if I Saw the TV Glow resonated with you

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Today is my birthday! Big year for me, a scary year but a joyous one, too! You have my permission to eat sweet treats and dabble in HRT today (hey, trans rights readathon starts tomorrow, it’s only fair!)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Found this spectacular interactive exhibit called Thresholds by Michel de Broin at the Arsenal Contemporary Museum this weekend. Utterly giddy to walk through it again and again in what felt like a theatre set of Coup de Grâce.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The audiobook of Coup de Grâce is out today! I got to speak with the production team about how to tackle the last act’s format (no spoilers—IYKYK!) but I haven’t listened to it yet. I think I understand actors who won’t rewatch their work in a movie now.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

always thinking about…her (tower of terror ride architecture in japan)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Back at urgent care (second time this week!) cause of post-op bleeding from hysterectomy. Got to go in a CT scan for the first time. Big xray donut—neat!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Finally home from hysto surgery after 13 hours at the hospital 🥲 I feel like dogshit but the surgery went well and I’m excited to be pain-free sooooon!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New author pic! 😘 my last one was 3 years old so it felt like time for a refresh.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Grinning quite proudly (and joyfully!) at this CBC Books recent mention! A feature that thrilled my parents but not as much as meeee!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

self-portraits on 35mm. It’s been fun getting back into old hobbies.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In London for a couple days. Got to see HADESTOWN with Len this evening and it was fun! I love an Underground Railroad setting.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It’s at the Musée des arts forains in Bercy (Paris)!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Very sad I couldn’t be at Readercon this weekend *but* am consoled by the fact that Len and I got to visit the most delightful museum of Gilded Age fairgrounds in Paris & we got to ride the last Velocipede carousel in the world (human powered bike carousel) from 1897!!!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

When my name was called for a Stoker Award I felt like my heart was going to burst. I wanted so badly to share the moment with Len but for anxieties on crossing the border as a trans couple, I travelled alone. The next best thing to being at the ceremony together was coming home to this surprise 🥹

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

When I tell you I am so in love with this man—

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I WON A BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR COUP DE GRÂCE!!! TRULY OVERJOYED!!! Thank you so much to the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social and to @titanbooks.bsky.social for championing this dark experimental book about a man who finds hope and choice in the depths of despair. I’m so honoured.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

At the airport on my way to StokerCon! 😈

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I’m about to become unshutuppable about this, so before a vaudeville hooked cane drags me off stage, I wanted to say that I’m so proud of our anthology contributors. Huge congrats to us all and my fellow nominees. Honoured to have work on these lists and alongside Shirley Jackson’s name.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I first read The Haunting of Hill House when I was 27, a richly complex blessing of a book that moved me on a soul level so sincerely that I made a necklace (Her Cup of Stars) inspired by it. It’s a beautiful feeling to have things come full circle—I am now a Shirley Jackson Award nominee.

Her Cup of Stars necklace by Sofia Zakia, a pendant inspired by Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House".

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One of my writing dreams has come true. Coup de Grâce and Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror are nominated for 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My StokerCon 2025 Schedule! 😎 I'll be at 3 panels this year, an author reading, the mass author signing, aaaand the Stoker award ceremony rooting for everyone like a pageant mum. Are you attending? If you see me, PLEASE COME SAY HI!! I'm friendly and I love chatting with fellow horror fans!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Was watching a beautiful short film earlier (with seriously the most exceptional soundtrack) and spotted some friends in a shot!! @rachelharrison.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social

Still shot from Every Living Breathing Moment by Angelo Visser (available on youtube)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Snatched these up for Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (I will, of course, use any free excuse to buy books from local bookstores)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Found him! I think he was a bee, not a wasp? In any case, I caught him in a cup and freed him outside!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Imagine John Cena's entrance theme playing so you don't /actually/ have to hear it attached to this post. CSFFA members—voting is open!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Proud to share BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR is a finalist in the 2025 Aurora Awards! Writing is a complicated labor of love—particularly for queer writers in this time—& it’s been marvellous to be a part of articulating this anthology. Congratulations to our contributors <3

Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, ed. Sofia Ajram is a finalist for the 2025 Aurora Awards in the "Best Related Work" Category!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

LET'S GO BOYYYSSSS 🔥 Coup de Grâce is a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Literary Fiction category! Congratulations to all my fellow nominees!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

17 hours later and we are back home and recovering 💓🏳️‍⚧️ thank you all for the sweet messages of support 🙇

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Reading Detransition, Baby at the hospital while waiting for my boyfriend’s hysto. We’ve reached peak trans experience.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My partner Len is going in for his hysterectomy today! If you wanna grab a copy of his zine Deadname (or donate anything), I’m putting his kofi link up cause I know he wouldn’t want to ask for any recovery fund but he’d immensely appreciate any support 🙇🏳️‍⚧️ ko-fi.com/s/2f747ac9ad

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Getting increasingly worried about traveling from Canada to StokerCon this year.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Alllllmost 2k ratings on Goodreads! Wild wild wild!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Fuck META, fuck AI, fuck the horses they rode in on.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy book birthday to BURY YOUR GAYS antho! It’s gotten a Publishers Weekly starred review, won a Cummie award for Best Anthology, and is a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Anthology! If you need something to read during Trans Rights Readathon, look no further! 🥸

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My partner made me the sweetest award for my birthday in case I don’t go home with a Stoker this year 😭💗

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It’s my birthday today! 🎊 I’m 35! In honour, you have my permission to buy a book, plot a heist, or do a little bitta HRT

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If you’re an Active or Lifetime Member of the HWA tomorrow’s the last day to vote on the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards. And then the Recommended Reading List goes live for 2025 (aeeee, time marches ever forward!)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️ and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Salman Toor finally has a new art book out and since I missed the last one, I snatched this one up as soon as I saw. So, so, so divine.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some eligible works that were published last year! A year I’m so proud of!

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m gonna annotate the shit outta this 🤎 @danielkraus.com

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Fabulous, fabulous mail day!! The post has finally unleashed the issue of @locusmag.bsky.social with Gabino Iglesias’ review of COUP DE GRÂCE in it unto me.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

been round these parts since you was a baby 🚬

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

By colourrrr (and the ones not shown are by genre)

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