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Short
Kerrigan Orchard writes dark fiction where the natural world watches and remembers. Her novel Nerys arrives July 13, 2027.
Medium
Kerrigan Orchard writes spooky, sentient fantasy fiction: stories where the forest judges, the shadow remembers, and the land is never just scenery. She writes The Sentient Orchard on Substack. Her novel Nerys arrives July 13, 2027.
Long
Kerrigan Orchard writes spooky, sentient fantasy fiction — stories where the forest judges, the shadow remembers, and the magic system has its own ethics.
Her work lives at the intersection of macabre and warm: gothic, but accessible, and more interested in why unsettling stories pull at us than in shock. She writes The Sentient Orchard on Substack, with longform essays, fiction excerpts and micro-fiction.
Her novel Nerys arrives July 13, 2027.
Fact sheet
| Genre | Dark gothic fantasy |
|---|---|
| Novel | Nerys |
| Release | July 13, 2027 |
| Newsletter | The Sentient Orchard (Substack) |
Interview topics
- Writing landscapes that judge
- Why unsettling stories pull at us
- Gothic without gatekeeping
- Non-human moral agency in fantasy
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Nerys: coming soon