Brittany Terwilliger

I finally get to announce my second novel will come out next spring! 🎉

We are in full fall mode

Don’t forget to send us your stories! Deadline October 31

It’s our October issue! Art: Cate Petty Fiction: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Arden Shostak @jeremymauser.bsky.social Mathieu Parsy Nonfiction: Sharon Goldberg Melissa Fraterrigo Leath Tonino Poetry: @leeh70.bsky.social Cal Freeman pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

There’s a nor’easter raging outside but inside we’ve got a log on the fire and an apple crumble in the oven

Congratulations and best of luck to our Best of the Net nominees!

Turns out some of the loudest AI detection software skeptics are people who are using AI to write and don’t want to get caught 🤣🔥 www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-core-a...

Sex is great but have you ever read Edgar Allan Poe whilst enjoying dark chocolate mousse and a vintage bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in front of a crackling fire in an ominous Victorian mansion under a full moon with the sound of owls in the distance on a cool October night?

“There is no one torch - there are many torches - and I’m using my torch to light other torches.” RIP Gloria Steinem

New issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Tip of the cap to editors @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, et al, for another fine-looking issue!

Our September issue is live! Art: Trevor Cunnington Fiction: @erinvachon.bsky.social @mpershan.bsky.social Lisa Beech Hartz @skoeplin.bsky.social Nonfiction: Shara Sinor Alexa Loftus Marin Smith Poetry: @Ediemeade.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

I feel insane

Just a friendly reminder that supporting your local library also means supporting your local library ghost.

Delighted to announce our Best Small Fictions nominees for this year! @jaimegill.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social

Thinking about fun things I can add on to my book for pre-orders is giving me life

Finally got to watch Hokum. Genuinely terrifying and so well done

Our garden is going gangbusters and it is such a joy

Have a good day, Charlie loves you

We want your stories! The 2026 Larry Brown Short Story Award is officially open for submissions 1st prize: $500 Guest judge: Deesha Philyaw More info: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Our annual short story contest opens in 1 week! See what guest judge Deesha Philyaw has to say about writing that has surprised her lately and what she is looking for in contest submissions.

I took over the Pithead Chapel socials a few weeks ago and yep that’s me replying to my own posts as if someone else wrote them

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Short Stories feat. @necessaryfiction.com @pitheadchapel.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

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Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @stateofkate.bsky.social, and everyone at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for another new issue!

Strange Is the Meat by Brittany Terwillger xraylitmag.com/strange-is-t... Here Lies by Nikki Barnhart xraylitmag.com/here-lies-by... Appraisal by Sam Corradetti xraylitmag.com/appraisal-by...

It’s me! 🥰

Our July issue is here! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover art: CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Words: DEIRDRE DANKLIN @grnpointer.bsky.social JAMES KEITH SMITH @kplumhoff.bsky.social GARTH ROBINSON SAMANTHA VARGAS

Finally living my dream of having a garden I can go out and cut fresh flowers from

Congratulations @olangela.bsky.social and @francesorrok.bsky.social, as well as all of our contributors, staff, and friends who made the top 50 and long list!

I’m so honored to have a story in this year’s top 50! I see a lot of friends and Pithead Chapel peeps on the list as well - big congrats to all of you! ❤️

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Also, love seeing so many writer friends on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 and Longlist. Yay @brttnyblm.bsky.social! Yay @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social! Yay all of you! Special hoorays for the two @pitheadchapel.bsky.social writers on the Longlist, @olangela.bsky.social and Frances Orrok.

I’m in that weird in-between place where I’m working on a new manuscript but getting ready for the publication of the old one, so I’m constantly flipping the switch like I’m cheating on one with the other one.

This is so funny because the book I was writing that didn’t start out as horror turned out to be horror

I love Ray Bradbury’s description of a library

If you start today and write just 2 double-spaced pages a day, by the end of the year you’ll have a book

I joined a horror book club at my local bookstore and we just read Diavola. Very fun summer “vacation gothic” novel

I love it when people come to visit, and I also love it when they leave (and I can get my clean orderly life back) 😂

New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and @karenkay.bsky.social for another fantastic issue! pitheadchapel.com/2026/06/01/v...

If there are authors you want to support but you can’t afford to buy their books, request them from your local library!

Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.

Have you seen the June issue of Pithead Chapel? It’s a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Death hangs over every room in Brittany Terwilliger’s THE HOUSE OF BUG MAN. Small-town Indiana grief, disappearances, suspicion, and the slow realization that something is deeply wrong inside the family home. Coming Spring 2027 from Maudlin House.