Forget Valentine's Day - in October we're talking about monsters and the people who love them. From the works of Chuck Tingle to the many faces of Ganondorf, get ready for our hottest monster lineup ever. We’ve got a killer panel lined up for you, so don't miss out! Join Managing Editor Rowan Beckett Grigsby along with some of our favorite monster, er, lovers and horror fanatics for a discussion that's bound to get a little wild! About our guests: Shannon Barber is a horror writer and poet from the Pacific Northwest. They live with one partner, several elderly computers and a lot of creepy knickknacks. Their fiction and poetry has been seen in Shotgun Honey, Gorgon Poetics and Flash Fiction Magazine, and their nonfiction has been published in The Establishment and Nailed Magazine, among others. You can support their work at: www.patreon.com/shannonwrites A speculative southern goth/soft horrorist, Marianne Kirby writes about bodies both real and imagined. She plays with the liminal space between vanishing and visibility. She authored Dust Bath Revival and its sequel Hogtown Market; she co-authored Lessons from the Fatosphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. A long-time writer, editor, and activist, Marianne has also contributed to women’s interest publications, news outlets, and tv shows that require people to have opinions. You can find her at: mariannekirby.com This month's session took place on Monday, October 16 at 5pm US Eastern time. Don't forget to read October's post, which dropped on October 1, the first day of Official Spooky Season, and which contains a nontrivial number of F-bombs unless the boss makes Rowan take them out. (Nah, we'll leave them in, but consider yourselves warned. --The Boss) You can read it here: yeahwrite.me/2023-october To participate in future live meetings, please sign up for a Pen membership, or sign up for live sessions as you go ($5 per session). Pen members will also have access to the private Scarlet Quill Society channel on Discord. For more information about the Scarlet Quill Society, including upcoming events, visit: yeahwrite.me/scarlet-quill-society