Tessa Swackhammer (t.e.) has made the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Bogs, Bodies and Belt Buckles. cbc.ca/1.6414270

In anticipation for our launch, we'll do a quick look inside of each one of our stories! #TheLastFiveMinutesofaStorm

@ChrisABogle 2. Tin Can Elegy, by Tessa Swackhammer. A compelling story on finding the places where true power lies, and fighting for the unique greatness of yourself. TLFMOAS is available for pre-order! Ireland: buff.ly/32IxwFm | Worldwide: books2read.com/tlfmoas/

💓💓 I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude for the readers for this contest for seeing value in my work. Can’t wait to see it all come together.

congratulations and best of luck @SandraDParsons, Daniel Ray, Tessa Swackhammer, @diebooth, Chris Fitzpatrick and @arankelly!

so grateful and wowed by this ❤️

been thinking a lot about guillermo del toro's words to people in their 20s

CW: suicide A poem from my first chap, which attempts to honor the life of my mother’s father, whom I never met and who died by suicide 63 years ago today.

Announcing the finalists of the New Voices Award: 📕 Hajera Khaja (The Rupture) 📒 Monica Nathan (Between Spaces) 📗 Georgio Russell (Saltborne) 📘 Tessa Swackhammer (A Man Called Evergreen) The finalists, along with @NancyHuggett, were selected from 560 entrants...

Last week, we announced our #NewVoicesAward winner and finalists. Get to know them better: meet Tessa Swackhammer 👋 t.e. is a queer writer based in #Hamilton. She's been published in a myriad of literary magazines including Grain Magazine, Ocotillo Review, and Sans. PRESS.

So incredibly beautiful and moving ❤️

"I am not hungry, I say. I am not hungry. I have said it so many times that my mouth is compost and the words are larvae, getting stuck in a craw, spinning wheels in the snow, spewing on the lawn." —from t.e.'s new short story, "A Fragile Hunger" plenitudemagazine.ca/a-fragile-hung…

“The car appears in the forest in the short month before winter, not ten feet from where I am wrist-deep in the soil, choking the nettle.” 🌲🦌The Only Good Indians x Mexican Gothic 🗝️ #1stLinePit #A #H #LIT #amquerying

I am thrilled to announce that I am now represented by Dany Gonzalez Landero of Ladderbird Agency, for my gothic horror/surrealist-slipstream folktale, Hunting Season. Her passion for and relationship to HS is everything I could have hoped for (and more!) 🌝🌲🦌

Think: A forest that gives birth. The paper-thin layer of skin between life and death. The sacrifices we make to ensure our lineage. Pairs well with: sandalwood, cedar, bonfire, freshly laid mulch, and pinot noir. #HuntingSeason #PosterPit #PosterPitA #AG #H #LIT #SPF

A film {see: book} about endings, but also beginnings happening at the same time. Dead flesh & nectarines. Things taken & inexplicably returned, by things without hands. For fans of: Monstrilio, Our Wives Under the Sea, Tender is the Flesh, etc. #PosterPit #PosterPitA #AG #H #SPF

Not your grandma’s haunting story. Deep in the mountains, fear makes monster of man & bestows him two heads. One eats while the other hides his mouth. He faces away— toward the trees. [The forest is watching. The forest is displeased.] #PosterPit #PosterPitA #AG #H #LIT #SPF

a little weird one