Nico Harlakenden (any/all)

ME >> MI, USA

✍️ Writer | 🎨 Artist | 🕯️ Alchemist
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.

Kickstarter's LIVE!!!

Forbidden Fruit LUXE Special Edition!

+ Black Pages, White Ink
+ 20+ Interior Illustrations
+ Dark, creepy, weird fantasy/sci-fi/horror
+ Audiobooks, prints, & more to unlock!

Art Commissions

🚩 Art is resistance. You’re invited.
Sketches, Color Portraits, Illustration Projects and Book Covers, etc.

2025 STORY 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, LLC

Founder, indie publisher

+ Accepting general submissions for 2026
+ TCP "Thresholds" short story submissions open June-July

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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.