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July 2026

  1. Release day for The Dragon Has Some Complaints!

June 2026

  1. Book Tour Dates for The Dragon Has Some Complaints!

April 2026

  1. New Story Day: Welcome To Heroism

October 2025

  1. New Story Day: "Phantom View" at Reactor!

February 2025

  1. Announcing: Wearing The Lion

January 2025

  1. Interviewed at Polygon!

September 2024

  1. Flights of Foundry Schedule 2024

April 2024

  1. John Wiswell's Tour Schedule for 2024

February 2024

  1. Someone You Can Build A Nest In launches on April 2nd!

November 2023

  1. All the Short Stories John Wiswell Published in 2023

August 2023

  1. New story day: The Three O'clock Dragon at Tordotcom

July 2023

  1. New Story: So You Want to Kiss Your Nemesis

February 2023

  1. New Fiction: "Bad Doors" at Uncanny Magazine

December 2022

  1. All the Short Stories That I Published in 2022

October 2022

  1. Announcing My Debut Novel: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

August 2022

  1. New Fiction: "D.I.Y." at Tor.com
  2. New Fiction: "Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect?" at Sunday Morning Transport

June 2022

  1. New Fiction: "The Coward Who Stole God's Name" at Uncanny Magazine

May 2022

  1. Balticon 2022 Schedule

April 2022

  1. "Too Little, Too Little, Too Much" published at Cossmass Infinities
  2. "The Tentacle and You" at Pseudopod

February 2022

  1. LeVar Burton Reads "Open House on Haunted Hill"!

December 2021

  1. Worldcon Schedule, December 15-19th

November 2021

  1. Awards Eligibility Post 2021
  2. New Fiction: "That Story Isn't The Story" in Uncanny Magazine

August 2021

  1. New Fiction: “The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)” at is live at Drabblecast

July 2021

  1. "Open House on Haunted Hill" is a World Fantasy Award Finalist!

June 2021

  1. New Story in Fireside Magazine!

May 2021

  1. Streaming Panel Schedule for Balticon
  2. I'm a Hugo Finalist!

March 2021

  1. "Open House on Haunted Hill" is a Nebula and Locus Awards Finalist!
  2. "We Are Not Phoenixes" - New Story live at Fireside Fiction!

February 2021

  1. Live Reading this Wednesday, and Lots of Good News!

December 2020

  1. Short Story Recommended Reading List for 2020

November 2020

  1. 2020 Awards Eligibility Post
  2. "8-Bit Free Will" is live at PodCastle!
  3. Personal Canons: Dragon Ball

August 2020

  1. NASFiC 2020 Schedule - This Weekend!

June 2020

  1. "Open House on Haunted Hill" is live at Diabolical Plots!

May 2020

  1. Digital Balticon Schedule for This Weekend!

April 2020

  1. "Gender and Other Faulty Software" is live at Fireside Magazine

March 2020

  1. A Kaiju Story in Nature Magazine?

February 2020

  1. Two Sales to Announce!
  2. Bathrooom Monologues Movie Awards, 2019 Edition

January 2020

  1. My Schedule for ConFusion 2020

December 2019

  1. My Favorite Books of the Year, 2019 Edition
  2. My Top Ten Videogames of the Year for 2019 (and Honorable Mentions)

November 2019

  1. "The Lie Misses You" is live at Cast of Wonders!

September 2019

  1. The R.A.Q. 2019!

August 2019

  1. Gathering Rarely Asked Questions for my Birthday

July 2019

  1. Bathroom Monologue: Every Argument About Racism in the Last Week, Abridged
  2. Readercon Schedule

June 2019

  1. 4th Street Fantasy - Schedule
  2. Bathroom Monologue: He Totally Watched X
  3. Godzilla: King of the Monsters Review - Finally, a good American Godzilla

May 2019

  1. Sekiro essay live at Able Gamers!
  2. A Guide to Asexual Reproduction

April 2019

  1. Essay on Bloodborne is live at AbleGamers

March 2019

  1. "The Tentacle and You" is up at Nature Futures!

February 2019

  1. Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards for 2018

January 2019

  1. My Schedule for ConFusion in Detroit, January 18-20th!

December 2018

  1. My Favorite Books That I Read in 2018
  2. Recommended Reading List of Short Stories 2018

November 2018

  1. My 2018 Publications
  2. At the World Fantasy Convention in Maryland This Weekend

October 2018

  1. Reviewing The Mummy, The Mummy, The Mummy, and The Mummy
  2. The Halloween List: Veronica and... Veronica?
  3. The Halloween List: The Haunting (1963) and Kwaidan (1964)
  4. Mental Illness in Horror: My Friend Dahmer & Suicide Club
  5. The Halloween List: Blumhouse's Halloween (2018), the Best Since John Carpenter's Original
  6. The Halloween List: Prom Night
  7. The Halloween List: Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Upgrade (2018)
  8. Horror's History with Violence Against Women, feat. Tragedy Girls, Evil Eye, & What Have You Done to Solange?
  9. The Halloween List: The Lobster and The Killing of the Sacred Deer
  10. The Halloween List: Office (Korean), Calibre, & Unfriended: Dark Web
  11. The Halloween List: Ghoul & Erased
  12. The Halloween List: Thelma, Annihilation, and The Endless
  13. The Halloween List: Pyewacket, The Meg, & Hold the Dark
  14. The Halloween List: Mandy & Slice & Summer of '84
  15. The Halloween List: A Quiet Place, Emelie, and Hereditary
  16. The Halloween List for 2018

September 2018

  1. Never Drown Alone: A Story of The Ring, Friday the 13th, and True Love
  2. The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel's Infinity War, live at Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction

August 2018

  1. New Story: "Fascism and Facsimiles" live at Fireside Magazine

July 2018

  1. My Readercon Schedule

June 2018

  1. My 4th Street Fantasy Schedule
  2. New Story: "Tank!" is live at Diabolical Plots!

May 2018

  1. New Story Live at Robot Dinosaurs!
  2. Eight Tips for Better Conventions

March 2018

  1. Convention Schedule for 2018
  2. Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards 2017

January 2018

  1. Bathroom Monologue: The Do's and Don't's of Being a Host
  2. The Stories Our Games Tell Us at Uncanny Magazine Today!

December 2017

  1. My Best Reads of 2017
  2. John's Publications in 2017
  3. "The First Stop Is Always the Last" is live at Flash Fiction Online!

November 2017

  1. Superman Movie Outline - Written in 30 minutes

October 2017

  1. The Halloween List: Stranger Things 2!
  2. The Halloween List: Stephen King's 1922 and Creep 2
  3. The Halloween List: Sadako Vs. Kayako (AKA: The Ring Vs. The Grudge)
  4. The Halloween List: Dog Soldiers and Area 51
  5. The Halloween List: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Bay of Blood, and Blood and Black Lace
  6. The Halloween List: Final Destination and "Death Note"
  7. The Halloween List: The Devil's Candy, The Disappointments Room, and Lake Mungo
  8. The Halloween List: Raw and The Void
  9. The Halloween List: It Comes at Night and The Autopsy of Jane Doe
  10. The Halloween List: A Trip to the 70s with Duel, Frenzy, and Picnic at Hanging Rock
  11. The Halloween List: Killer Dolls! Annabelle: Creation and The Cult of Chucky
  12. The Halloween List: The Transfiguration and A Dark Song
  13. The Halloween List: Get Out and Gerald's Game
  14. The Halloween List Returns

September 2017

  1. "You Can Adapt to Anything" at Daily Science Fiction
  2. The Rarely Asked Questions 2017

August 2017

  1. Great Things I Read in July and August, 2017 Edition
  2. Two Story Sales! And more questions for my big RAQ
  3. Gathering the Rarely Asked Questions of 2017
  4. Two Publications!

July 2017

  1. Great Things I've Been Reading, June 2017 Edition

June 2017

  1. Evil Isn't a Disability - An Essay on Ableism in Horror, live at Fireside Magazine

May 2017

  1. Great Things I've Been Reading, May 2017 Edition
  2. "Under the Rubble" is live at Pseudopod!
  3. My True Convention Story That I Wish Was Fiction
  4. Interviewed about Writing and Disability
  5. Bathroom Monologue: Magicians and Hacks
  6. Great Things I've Been Reading, April 2017 Edition

April 2017

  1. Story Sale: "A Silhouette Against Armageddon" sold to Fireside!
  2. "The Terrible" Published at Flash Fiction Online

March 2017

  1. Seven Pieces of Good News!
  2. Great Things I Read in February, 2017 Edition
  3. Review: Logan is to Wolverine what the Deadpool movie was to Wade Wilson

February 2017

  1. Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards 2016
  2. So Your Protagonist Is An Asshole. You Still Owe Me A Plot.

January 2017

  1. Great Things I've Been Reading, January 2017
  2. It's "Women's March," Not "Women's January"

December 2016

  1. Top Ten Videogames of the Year, 2016
  2. Bathroom Monologue: Reconsider the Lobster
  3. My Favorite Things in Books, 2016

November 2016

  1. I Was Reading a Classic Last Night, And...
  2. "Where I'm From, We Eat Our Parents" is live at Daily Science Fiction!

October 2016

  1. The Halloween List: We Are Still Here
  2. The Halloween List: The Green Room (AKA Patrick Stewart?!)
  3. Under the Skin Vs. It Follows (Vs. Sexuality)
  4. The Halloween List: The Guest
  5. The Halloween List: Train to Busan and Flu
  6. The Halloween List: Creep and The Good Neighbor
  7. The Halloween List: Shin Godzilla is a Return to the Soul of Kaiju Film
  8. The Halloween List: Tremors and Bone Tomahawk
  9. The Halloween List: Pontypool and Southbound
  10. The Halloween List: Attack of The The
  11. The Halloween List

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