Carina Bissett is pleased to share the news that the themed anthology WILD: Uncivilized Tales from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers is a finalist for the 2021 Colorado Book Awards in the Anthology category. Her story “An Authentic Experience” opens the collected works. AnthologyStories That Need to Be Told 2020: A Tulip Tree Anthology edited by Jennifer … More Award Finalist & Author Appearance
Carina Bissett‘s story “Serpents and Toads” is included in Gluttony: An inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires (Seven Deadly Sins Book 6), which was published by Black Hare Press. This is her first Australian publication credit. “Serpents and Toads” is a contemporary retelling of the fairy tale “Diamonds and Toads.” In this version, the … More “Gluttony”–Seven Deadly Sins Series
Carina Bissett is pleased to announce that her story “The Certainty of Silence” was released yesterday in the Sci-Fi & Scary charity anthology Twisted Anatomy: A Body Horror Anthology. This story has roots in her own experiences as a domestic violence victim. Only she wanted to write a story that flipped the familiar script. This … More New Release & Stoker News
February is Women in Horror Month (WIHM), something Carina Bissett looks forward to each year. It is a celebration of women and female-identifying authors in a genre that is often misunderstood and overlooked. Although there is a negative preconception that often follows the mention of “horror,” the genre is actually diverse and multi-faceted. It’s true … More Women in Horror Month
With a writing career that spans two decades, Carina Bissett is familiar with rejection. “There is one thing all writers have in common,” she writes. ” At some point in every writer’s career, rejection hits. It’s just part of the game.” One story in particular, a modern “Snow White” retelling, was rejected fourteen times over … More From Rejection to Realization
Carina Bissett is thrilled to announce the appearance of her story “An Embrace of Poisonous Intent” in the anthology Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, edited by Mark Beech. Bitter Distillations is a collection of disquieting, disorientating and otherwise uncategorizable tales for which poison provides the inspiration. Poisons conspicuously sinister or quietly innocuous; deliberately distilled or unknowingly … More An Embrace of Poisonous Intent
In 2018, Carina Bissett had the extinction of animals on her mind. Inspired by the severe hail storm in Colorado Springs and the quiet news that giraffes had slipped on the Critically Endangered list, she wrote the short story “An Authentic Experience”—a story about a zookeeper and the animals he cares for after Earth had … More On Themed Fiction
The Nearby Universe 