Marie Croke

Marie Croke

@mariecroke.bsky.social

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(She/her) Words in BCS, Apex, Diabolical Plots, Fireside, Cast of Wonders, etc | Acq Editor Dark Matter INK | Odyssey '20 | Codex | SFWA | Rep: Kaitlyn Katsoupis

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An essay of mine, “Whoops, I Wrote a Story: How to Make App Addictions Work for Your Writing,” will be published on the SFWA blog on July 23rd. My debut with them! Plus, I'm super proud of that title 😉

I have a story in this Year's Best! "To Meld Flesh with Gown and Gown to Flesh" about beautiful, dangerous gowns and the seamstress who designs them! 🪡🧵

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 1 is coming June 24th! Subscribe to Hexagon today to get the anthology directly in your inbox Monday. 🐝🐞🦂🦋🐜🪰🕷️🦀

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Introducing Issue 4.2! Check our table of contents to see the stories we have in store for you and read the excerpts! If you haven’t subscribed already, head over to our website or Weightless Books to buy a copy: khoreomag.com/shop/ This incredible cover is by @broci.bsky.social

Just discovered that my story, "Aunt Taveaj's Wolf-Friendly Sweet Shoppe" was added in this list of mouthwatering sff shorts!! 😀 Story originally published in Uncharted Magazine. Thanks to Ratika Deshpande for the inclusion!! reactormag.com/seven-mouthw...

Seven Mouthwatering SFF Short Stories - Reactorreactormag.com Fiction that's sweet, spicy, savory, and irresistible.

The singular iris that bloomed this year for us. Im just happy we got one!

Happy to announce that I've sold a story to Luna Station Quarterly! "Secrets Locked in Metal Scrap" is coming in June! Set on a far-future planet with a little girl raised by a herd of pachycephalosauruses (my fav dino fyi 😊)

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Marie Croke casts an eerie spell with her story of robotic infection at the kickoff for another Charm City Spec! #AmReading #SpecFiction #RobotVirus

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It's that time of year again! I've started gathering award eligibility and recommendation links for my annual round up post. If you have a link to share, please send it my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

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It's time for my Awards Eligibility post for 2023! Featuring: - 4 stories - 2 translations - 3 editing projects - 1 poem - 1 essay! If you're reading for the Hugo, Locus, Nebula, Rhysling, Stoker, Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and/or any other awards, please consider voting for my works!🙇

2023 Awards Eligibility Postmolo-writes.com Good morning! Since we're approaching the end of the year, I thought I'd throw together my Awards Eligibility post for 2023 a bit earlier than usual. This will be a living post, so I'll update it if I...

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Finished reading the anthology 'The Dérive' (from @aanpress.bsky.social, 2023)! This anthology celebrates the joys of meandering through a city, & I loved @mariecroke.bsky.social 's story "Dates Around a Driftcity Where We Used to Roam" in particular! Available here --> aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

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Every tool is a weapon, or every weapon a tool, if you hold it right, in @mariecroke.bsky.social’s fantastic new story “Bone-Wood-Metal.” kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2023/...

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Just heard @mariecroke.bsky.social read the first half of “Your Space Between” at World Fantasy, and I’m deeply worried about the psychological implications of trapping your sibling in a spatial distortion closet. Check it out from APEX at apex-magazine.com/short-fictio...!

Your Space Between - Apex Magazineapex-magazine.com The part where our jackets and gloves and hats and umbrellas and sweaters and boots and gray storage bins all written on neatly with Papa's handwriting disappeared. Along with you.

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Welcome to the in-between! Our first story today is from @mariecroke.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

This industry can burn you out so fast and keep you there indefinitely. You can't let it. Figuring out how to rest is just as important as figuring out how to tell a story

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My story "Bone-Wood-Metal" is in this Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope 🦴🪵🗡️ Features two last-of-their-kinds (including a manticore!) and a unique method of creating weapons! Make sure to check out the other authors' stories in this issue as well! Some *very* familiar, wonderful names in here 😊

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope this morning!

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Thanks to @horrortree.bsky.social and Angelique Fawns for the opportunity to talk about @crepuscularmag.bsky.social! 9 days to the in-between! horrortree.com/rebecca-trea...

This is a lovely story by @aleksandrahill.bsky.social in the most recent Analog issue. Packed with beautiful prose, a relatable character, and sooo much emotion. This story is like the memory of a song you're not quite sure is yours 🎶

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Check out my latest short-short story - "Football on Mars" - guess what it's about? :) factorfourmag.com/football-on-...

About "Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots in Your Mailbox" in DP! 😭🥰 #Endorsement 📬🐞

I love reading stories by @mariecroke.bsky.social because I trust her to lift me up, make me smile and feel. This story is so lovely and bittersweet. 🐞 🐞 🐞 www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

My kid just hit me with the worst burn 😭 "You're someone else's side character, Mom 🙄" So, I guess if I'm a side character in your life, I hope I'm a force for good and not for evil

My very helpful baby today. Much lap. Enjoys trying to make my arm go numb. 10/10

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If you want there to be F&SF fiction mags, we need to do something now, while Amazon is removing their support. Check out one mag's website today and support them, if you have the means. Or just RT this if you can't, because the situation is pretty dire.

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FRIENDS! MY FIRST NOVELETTE IS OUT IN @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! There's a rumor that the Devil lives under an old bridge and teenage Olga makes a deal with him to keep her family together. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

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Damn strai... HEY!

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My poem "Undertow" is out in this season's Kaleidotrope! I am beyond thrilled to share space with unbelievably good writers such as @aijiang.bsky.social , @bethcato.bsky.social , @mariecroke.bsky.social and more! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2023/...

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My new short fiction roundup features stories by Benjamin DeHaan, @penprince.bsky.social Zohar Jacobs, James Patrick Kelly, @soniasulaiman.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social & more. maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2023/10/my-s...

My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup for September, 2023maria-is-reading.blogspot.com The art for this roundup features a detail of the cover art for F antasy Magazine #93 , made by lumitar / Adobe Stock Image. More about th...

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New Story Day!! "Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots in Your Mailbox" has gone live at @diabolicalplots.com!! A story about the power of small hopes, featuring ✉️📬📫💌 and witchcraft! Would love if you gave it a read!

New fiction! "Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots in Your Mailbox" by Marie Croke ( @mariecroke.bsky.social ) A story from the point of view of a "witchery watcher" who watches for signs of witchcraft in news articles and online forums. diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

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Put down that pumpkin spice latte! There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope waiting to be read!

New Story Day!! "Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots in Your Mailbox" has gone live at @diabolicalplots.com!! A story about the power of small hopes, featuring ✉️📬📫💌 and witchcraft! Would love if you gave it a read!

New fiction! "Like Ladybugs, Bright Spots in Your Mailbox" by Marie Croke ( @mariecroke.bsky.social ) A story from the point of view of a "witchery watcher" who watches for signs of witchcraft in news articles and online forums. diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

My story "Bone-Wood-Metal" is in this Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope 🦴🪵🗡️ Features two last-of-their-kinds (including a manticore!) and a unique method of creating weapons! Make sure to check out the other authors' stories in this issue as well! Some *very* familiar, wonderful names in here 😊

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope this morning!