I’m so excited to launch The Night Parade at Main Point Books, which graciously hosted my first two book launches. And let me tell you: those were really amazing events! So if you’re in driving distance, join us in Wayne, PA, for a Halloween book party with me, a parade of partying ghosts, and special guest AC Wise.
The Night Parade Book Launch!
w/ special guest AC Wise
Halloween games, give-aways, cake, ghosts, fun!
Tues., Oct. 27
6:30pm
Main Point Books (Wayne, PA)
I’m lucky to have another story in a Halloween season issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. “The Invisible Bone” draws on folklore to tell the story of a young girl trying to protect her sister from winter’s monsters, and their own past choices. Read an excerpt over at Asimov’s.
“Aren’t you afraid of mylings?” he asked. The angry souls of unbaptized babies who climbed on backs and begged for Christian burial. If the hapless bearer was too slow reaching hallowed ground, the myling drilled them into the dirt, burying them alive.
When Kee didn’t answer, he shook his head. “I guess you don’t believe in all that.”
“I do,” she said. The orange sun was just above the trees now, soon to be pricked by clawed branches, soon to melt away, like blood into quilt scraps. “But I’m not afraid.”
The latest issue of Weird Horror is here, with my story “Cosmic Passage,” about a museum attendant assigned to stand watch over a mysterious painting; the strange sights she she finds in it; and what finds her.
“It felt like entering a void — passing through the burgundy curtains, into the temporary alcove housing the new exhibit’s final painting, “Cosmic Passage.” Like a pocket of night in the ivory marble palace of the museum. But darker than night. The darkest place the Attendant had ever been in her city life.
The Attendant assumed her place in the far corner, where she could observe the visitors who would come and go, or perhaps sit on the single bench before the painting. She blinked rapidly, as if her eyes could bite through the blackness, soft and resistant as skin. Soon, though, they adjusted to the low lighting, which coaxed a dark rectangle from the wall: “Cosmic Passage.”
As her vision adapted, purple-black shapes rose from the black-purple canvas: trunks and fronds, leaves and blossoms, stalks and stalks and stalks. A violet curl, a lavender-gray curve, a berry-shine; a jungle blooming from the indigo night. “
Order print and digital copies here.
Join me and a ton of amazing horror authors for Doylestown Bookshop’s second annual DARK INK three-day festival. On August 22, I’ll participate on a panel on Literary Horror and the Unreliable Self,” followed by a books signing from 3-4 pm. Check out the event site for a list of participating authors, schedule of panels and signings, and details on the Saturday night film screening.
This fall, I’m joining four brilliant short story writers and teachers for “5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar” from the Writing Co-Lab. You can take all five sessions (and the final panel discussion), or choose classes a la carte.
In this series of classes, five accomplished and accoladed short story authors join forces to demystify how to write the short story, from beginning to end. With readings, discussion, as well as in-class writing time, you will learn how to closely read stories, decode the author’s craft, and use their techniques to inspire and improve your own creative work. Though designed to be taken sequentially, each class also functions as a stand alone session; enroll in the whole package for a reduced price and to have access to a final panel with all of the teachers answering your questions about writing and publishing, or simply take the session(s) that you need.
Stephanie Feldman on The Art and Craft of Launching a Story, September 9th, 7-9pm
Anca Szilágyi on Character and Mystery, September 16, 7-9pm
Lena Valencia with It’s a Mood: Using Setting to Define Interiority, September 23rd, 7-9pm
Danielle Lazarin on Time and Perspective, September 30th, 7-9pm Eastern
Rachel Lyon on Pacing, Exposition, and Scene (Getting To Your Best Ending), October 7th, 7-9pm Eastern
Authors in Conversation, a panel, October 14th, 7-8pm Eastern
Learn more and register via the Writing Co-Lab.
I’m thrilled to announce that my next novel, In Summer She Turns Cruel, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in 2028.
Get ready for feminist folk horror, in which three women–one newly pregnant, one fleeing a disastrous affair, and one on the verge of a depressive breakdown–find themselves making bargains with malevolent forces while compiling a guide to local legends in a small college town during a summer heat wave,
Get ready to find out what’s leaving those little gifts from the woods, and whatever you do, don’t knock over the stone cairn, and don’t go toward the green light.
On June 27, join the Schuylkill Center’s Fairy Fest to explore my choose-your-own adventure experience “An Invitation to the Otherworld.” Accept your invitation and choose your path to create your own story and explore the Schuylkill Center’s trails and landmarks.
“When a crow delivers an invitation to join a celebration in the Other World, you know you must go–but what happens after you cross the threshold to fairy land is up to you. Step inside the story to explore Schuylkill Center landmarks, both familiar and hidden, and fairy folklore from around the world. Written by Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia and the forthcoming The Night Parade and Other Stories, and presented by Buried Creek Collective, a new initiative to support informed storytelling about the changing Philadelphia environment.”
Join my new class, a one-session summer seminar on story structure, offered via the Writing Co-Lab on Sun., June 28, 7-8:30pm.
People are natural storytellers—so why are plot and pace so hard to figure out? Join me for one session on character, conflict, and plot to discuss:
the qualities that make characters compelling;
generating and structuring action;
hinge and crisis points, and where to place them;
satisfying and meaningful endings; and
dramatic models, and how to find your story’s organic shape.
Along the way, we’ll talk about practical strategies and techniques for brainstorming, analyzing, and revising. We’ll also address how to employ these fundamental elements in stories of different lengths, from flash fiction all the way up to novel series.
This class is suited to new fiction writers searching for a foundation in narrative; experienced fiction writers looking for a new grip on plot; and anyone who finds themselves stuck and in need of a plan to invigorate their draft.
I’m excited to see my story “The Genius and the Devil” in the anthology The Elements of Dark Academia, publishing in the UK in August 2026 and now available for preorder. Get free shipping to the US from Blackstones!
Don your best tweed and sharpen your daggers: school is in session.
In this revelatory collection of over two dozen stories, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin guides us through the hallowed halls of Dark Academia, from its Gothic roots to its boundary-pushing present. Ranging from the mysterious to the fantastic, the romantic and the horrific, these stories explore the hidden secrets of elite institutions, probe our relationship with power, and examine the darkest corners of human nature.
Within these pages, you’ll meet obsessed professors and the students who will do anything to impress them. Artists and musicians who make deals with the devil. Academic rivalries that turn personal, and even deadly. Students who come to study, but learn that ivory towers often contain dark secrets.
On the syllabus, you’ll find:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Evelyn Waugh
- Dorothy Sayers
- Carmen Maria Machado
- M.L. Rio
- Lev Grossman
- And many more.
Join Sami Ellis, Christina Rosso, Nicole M. Wolverton, and me to celebrate Women in Horror Month with a panel and book signing at A Novel Idea, here in Philly, on Sunday, March 15, 3-5pm. Tickets are $5, with a portion of proceeds to be donated to WOAR, Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence.
