Nico Harlakenden (any/all)
ME >> MI, USA
✍️ Writer | 🎨 Artist | 🕯️ Alchemist
Nonbinary. Queer. Neurodivergent.
Literary mystic & systems disruptor.
✍️ Books, zines, and serialized fiction
🖋️ Illustrator, editor, and radical collaborator
💌 Dispatches, ARGs, and alt-publishing via Newton Press
🎙️ Co-host of BAM! Now You Know Everything🔗 Dive in: stories, spells, & services below.
2025 SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
Anthology Theme: "Thresholds/Liminal"
+ The Curious Post #2 accepting short stories
+ Accepting June 1st-July31st, 2025
+ Dark, creepy, weird fantasy/sci-fi/horror
+ Paying up to $150!
Newton Press (Est. 2020)
Founder, indie publisher
+ Accepting general submissions for 2026
+ TCP "Thresholds" short story/poetry submissions open June
Art Commissions
🚩 Art is resistance. You’re invited.
Sketches, Color Portraits, Illustration Projects and Book Covers, etc.
The Curious Post (ARG)
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(Forbidden Fruit, September 30, 2025)
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Essays, rants, and dispatches from the writing life—unfiltered, unglamorous, and occasionally unhinged.Published semi-regularly, like a haunting.