Poet. Artist. Horror Reviews.
I had so much
fun co-judging the Piney Dark Horror Contest this year! Always happy to return to the haunted back roads of East Texas, especially in October. Well done, writers, and thank you especially Dr. Steve Marsden for reaching out to me. Can’t wait to congratulate the winners!
(Photo taken by me on a full moon in Nacogdoches)
I love what Capsule Books does and even more now that they have a literary journal, Capsule Stories! You can read more about their story here. I just received my copy of their Fall 2019 edition, Autumn Gloom, which features two of my horror poems, “She Waits Outside Your House” and “Lost in a Hell Dimension.” It’s a beautiful issue and just in time for the spooky season. I’m so ready to snuggle up with some apple cider and read.
I am so thrilled to see my poem, “Woodshop Scene” in the pages of South Dakota Review. It’s based on two lovely people I worked with at the Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Thank you to Avery M. Guess to recommending the publication and Lee Ann Roripaugh for giving this bloody poem a good home.
My poem “Butterly Girl” (originally published by Glint) appears in this wonderful anthology of domestic fabulist poetry edited by Stacey Balkun and Catherine Moore: Fiolet & Wing. Thrilled to be featured alongside such great writers as Erin Elizabeth Smith, Emily Rose Cole, and many more. You can pick up a copy here.
My poem “The Night of Brett Kavanaugh’s Hearing” is featured in the Poets Resist series from Glass Poetry Press. Thanks to guest editor Samantha Duncan for the publication.
So proud to announce my first published film review (Outside of my blog No Outlet)!
You can find it in Moonchild Magazine‘s Silent Hill issue, Otherworld portal. Or you can just click here.
Big thanks to Moonchild editor Nadia Gerassimenko for this opportunity.
Big thanks to whoever nominated my Porkbelly Press chapbook, Feeding the Dead, for an Elgin Award! I’m honored.
Here is a list of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association nominees so far!
So pleased to see my long poem “Night Tour of Waverly Hills Sanatorium,” in print! Thank you Tahoma Literary Review and Kelly Davio for the publication.
The photo is of the “body chute” at Waverly Hills, courtesy of Avery M. Guess.
My poetry chapbook is now available from Porkbelly Press! Big thanks to Nicci Mechler and Ashley Blake for helping to make this a reality.
And I’m on Goodreads too!
Big thank you to Bianca Spriggs and the editors at Apex Magazine for publishing my poem, “How to Know If Your House is Haunted and What to Do”. This poem has seen a lot of rejection, so I’m especially thrilled it has found such a wonderful home.
M. Brett Gaffney 