Celia Winter
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Two Victories
February 2026 Celia Winter This one's gonna be a longer one; I have a few items with big feelings attached to them to share! + “Come.” She gently pushed Nissa off her and got to her feet again. Laughter would sail for hours. Thank goodness Ani had remembered to refuel earlier that week. They had a month, maybe, before they’d need more gas. And the money for it. “Candles.” I hope you’ll consider purchasing a copy of the Hope is Not Passive anthology, which is available for pre-order today. All...
The Making and Unmaking of a Witch
June 2026 Celia Winter Hi Friends, Thank you for all of you who pointed out to me, following my last email update, that you signed up for the updates, on purpose. And that I should not worry about sending them to you. You want to see them. This should be obvious, and yet my mind cannot comprehend it sometimes. That someone would actually want to keep up with my writing, and that I wouldn't be annoying them to press the next story at them. So thank you for the resounding "do it." I will. +...
Three-in-One (oops)
June 2026 Celia Winter I'm late, dear readers, with some updates. Those updates are specifically: On May 28, Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast released a recording of my sad tooth fairy flash piece "A Million Pennies for Hope." You can find it on Spotify, or your favorite podcasting platform. My friend Rebecca drew me this sad art inspired by my sad story isn't it pretty? As of June 1, Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity, featuring "The Worst Stardrive in Paradise", is out in the world!...
The body horror of plants
May 2026 Celia Winter Sometime last summer, I dropped this into a writing chat: Have you ever thought about how plants intend for their children to be eaten as part of their lifecycle? Is this story fodder? Turns out it was, in fact, story fodder. My flash piece "Clementine grows into a tree" is available today in the fifth issue of Plott Hound magazine! The whole issue is available to purchase today; the story will be free to read online at a later date. I love this piece. It's one of my...
If I could just turn back time...
April 2026 Celia Winter Amandine finding Will in Time. Art commissioned from Robyn. Last summer, Flame Tree Press put out a call for a time themed Romantasy anthology. Two weeks later, this story had poured itself out of me—the tale of a wind witch who travels through time to determine what happened to the man she has fallen in love with. It was a dream to write, my characters unfurling the path ahead as they took each step. No forcing or wrestling, or struggling to figure out what I wanted...
Do you ever just think about dragons?
March 2026 Celia Winter Do you ever just think about dragons? How many different ways we've dreamed them into realities over the years? A few years ago, my friend Katie started feeding a feral cat who would bring her kittens into Katie's back yard. The next year, mama cat was back with her latest batch of kittens. Same with the following year. Sometimes, I think about dragons. So on a whim, I thought, "what happens if humans are to the dragon what these feral cats are to Katie?" Thus was born...
Meet Marya in the River
February 2026 Celia Winter When the river’s bubbling echoes off the poplar trees, she chooses to breathe so she can fill the woods with a descant. When the river cracks and melts, she gasps with joy. Her dark hair is a wet crown she weaves with rotting birch leaves.Wool weighs her down, so she sheds it like a frog’s skin and eats it. Art commissioned from Beelz. Last year, there was a call for an erotic horror anthology. As I mulled over what to write, I remembered listening to Kitka's...