Marisca Pichette (she/they)

🔥OUT NOW 🔥 A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster. Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤

Absolutely amazing!!!!

Unbelievable!!! I just won the World Fantasy Award for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Congratulations to my fellow nominees and all the other winners! (I’ve included a thread—actually my speech—explaining the fuel that drove this project.)

"Those who choose to live in Orchid are often newcomers, exiles freshly born of dying stars. Their dreams are hazy, unfocused and dim. They spend more time awake, touching familiar surfaces to assure themselves that our station will last. Our station will endure the dark." 🪐🪡🌙🛰️

"Clouds look just the same as they did a decade, a century, a millennium ago. We find the same patterns our foremothers did and craft new ones of our own. We hold hands and roll down the hill on our way home." Part memoir, part magic, "The Witches of Western Mass" invite you to join them 🫐

"Those who choose to live in Orchid are often newcomers, exiles freshly born of dying stars. Their dreams are hazy, unfocused and dim. They spend more time awake, touching familiar surfaces to assure themselves that our station will last. Our station will endure the dark." 🪐🪡🌙🛰️

"Clouds look just the same as they did a decade, a century, a millennium ago. We find the same patterns our foremothers did and craft new ones of our own. We hold hands and roll down the hill on our way home." Part memoir, part magic, "The Witches of Western Mass" invite you to join them 🫐

Name a spec fic mag (and many non-genre ones, too) and Marisca's probably had work published there!

flowers and stories and space and time await you, at the end of the

flowers and stories and space and time await you, at the end of the

"Magic endures all ages. It seeps into peach blossoms in spring. It falls with sycamore leaves in autumn. It clutters up dirt roads as slush in winter, and bakes into mud-cracks in the middle of June." ICYMI, "The Witches of Western Mass" in O&B 🍊

Our last Saros #6 preview! The issue's final story is "All Our History Begins at the End" by @marisca.bsky.social. Please enjoy your time on board the space station Orchid. Answers its questions and dream it into being. sarossf.com/issue-6/

"Magic endures all ages. It seeps into peach blossoms in spring. It falls with sycamore leaves in autumn. It clutters up dirt roads as slush in winter, and bakes into mud-cracks in the middle of June." ICYMI, "The Witches of Western Mass" in O&B 🍊

You can also find a short interview with me about this piece below 🧹

New flash out today just in time for Halloween! Check out "The Witches of Western Mass" in The Orange & Bee 🐝 "We know all about Mary Lyon and Emily Dickinson—women who wandered and wondered, wrote and raged."

V hype for this one, can't wait for the solarpunk horror issue 🌑 I hope y'all like, uh, post-industrial Arctic mining horror cuz that's what I contributed to the TOC 😅

Super stoked to have @sbfeldman.bsky.social's THE NIGHT PARADE in my hands just in time to read before Halloween 🎃 fairwoodpress.com/store/p201/T...

You can pre-order next month's issue of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social now, including my solarpunk horror story "Bottles, Bones, Skein" 🍄💎🛰️ solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...

You can pre-order next month's issue of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social now, including my solarpunk horror story "Bottles, Bones, Skein" 🍄💎🛰️ solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's August's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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FFer Read of the Day: "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" by @marisca.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/twel...

I've got 2 new poems out in Star*Line 49.4 @sfpoetry.bsky.social "Weaver Woman" 🕷️🏛️🕸️🧹 "petal to the medal" 🧚🏻🔔🏭⚖️ sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

"This club’ll take anyone insubstantial enough to pass through its walls." ICYMI: "The Old Vagabond Club" in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

I've got 2 new poems out in Star*Line 49.4 @sfpoetry.bsky.social "Weaver Woman" 🕷️🏛️🕸️🧹 "petal to the medal" 🧚🏻🔔🏭⚖️ sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

"This club’ll take anyone insubstantial enough to pass through its walls." ICYMI: "The Old Vagabond Club" in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

My September sub stats are here 🥧 poems accepted: 1 poems published: 1 stories accepted: 2 stories published: 0 Excerpts & more goodies on my Patreon 🔪

ICYMI!!

"Take a glass Raise it high & remember— Some of us don’t have homes to return to. Houses burn, continents drift. Forests fall under city sprawl & where once there was memory pavement cracks." Check out my latest poem in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🦢

"Take a glass Raise it high & remember— Some of us don’t have homes to return to. Houses burn, continents drift. Forests fall under city sprawl & where once there was memory pavement cracks." Check out my latest poem in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🦢

Including my poem, “The Old Vagabond Club” 👻 Check it out @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

My September sub stats are here 🥧 poems accepted: 1 poems published: 1 stories accepted: 2 stories published: 0 Excerpts & more goodies on my Patreon 🔪

Including my poem, “The Old Vagabond Club” 👻 Check it out @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today!

New stories by @mariness.bsky.social, @robgillham.bsky.social, Emily O’Malley Liu, @doc12345.bsky.social, @jenniferskogen.bsky.social, @damianstockli.bsky.social, @jennyrae.bsky.social, @jelliclejay.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @jakeiswriting.bsky.social, and @chrisbarnham.bsky.social!

New poems by @kittrick.bsky.social, @faithallington.bsky.social, Robert Borski, @marisca.bsky.social, David Anson Lee, @kmpraschak.bsky.social, and @neile.bsky.social! And fantastic art by @codyvrosh.bsky.social!

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 10 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social @tinaconnolly.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

I am honored to contribute two book bundles to this fundraiser: EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com & RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR @press-android.bsky.social + stickers, bookmarks, & assorted goodies 🦇 Support below & spread the word!

I am honored to contribute two book bundles to this fundraiser: EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com & RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR @press-android.bsky.social + stickers, bookmarks, & assorted goodies 🦇 Support below & spread the word!

HELP US RAISE $5,000: Whether you want to stock up on gifts for the holiday season, grab the chance to have a chat with your fave author, or get advice about your writing, why not get 'em all while donating to support our anti-VAW work : tinyurl.com/R4PRallyUp2026 #Read4Pixels #ThePixelProject #VAW

HAPPENING NOW: The Pixel Project proudly presents our live "Read For Pixels" YouTube Livestream session with Sarah Read, award-winning Horror author, about her books, the Horror genre, and stopping violence against women: tinyurl.com/SReadR4P #Read4Pixels #ThePixelProject #VAW #Activism

Announcing our nominees for this year’s Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay #MonarchQueerLiteraryAwards @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @romymorreo.bsky.social @nehas.bsky.social @angelvleal.bsky.social @lyfaulk.bsky.social

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

"insomnia is time travel— an hour lasts an age lives used up discarded into soon forgotten half-dreams." I have a new poem up @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social 🦟

"insomnia is time travel— an hour lasts an age lives used up discarded into soon forgotten half-dreams." I have a new poem up @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social 🦟

A new poem is online! By @marisca.bsky.social www.justkeepupmagazine.com/apotheosis-a...

"kiln-fired wyvern molded of coastal clay salty and riddled with sea-side bones." Check out SpecPoVerse Vol 2 Issue 2 to read my poem, "ceramic serpent" 🐉