News

My poem “Hero” has been republished in Lothlorien Poetry Journal! It is a truly wonderful publication! Please check it out at the following link: https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-poem-by-sean-ferrier-watson.html.

Great year at ASAT!

I just finished a great weekend reading at the 2025 ASAT Conference at Baylor University. I was excited to read with such accomplished writers (Sid Balman, Jr., Naomi Shihab Nye, Hector Weir, and John Schulze)!

My poem “Hero” was accepted at Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine for their summer issue out in August. Check them out!

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Just got back from StokerCon 2025! It was held in Stanford, CT, not far from Sleepy Hollow.

I had a great reading with authors Khimen Cooper and JD Isip at East Texas A&M on April 24th! I got to read my story “Tender: Notes on Dating” from The Avalon Review! Fun readings and great times with old friends! See our books below.

I would like to thank all of the wonderful poets making National Poetry Month great at my college this year!

Spring 2025

Great news! You can now buy my story “Tender: Notes on Dating” in The Avalon Literary Review: $10.00 for print and $6.00 for digital. Click image to link.

“Snake Hunting” is now available at Pictura Journal! (click image)

Great news! My short story “Tender: Notes on Dating” is now forthcoming with The Avalon Literary Review for Winter 2025. Check them out below!

I have another publication on the horizon. I just learned my poem Snake Hunting is forthcoming with Pictura Journal. More on this later!

Big news! I can’t talk much about it now, but I can share a little. I will be interviewing Gregory Maguire later this year for the upcoming cinematic adaptation of Wicked. I am floored by the chance to get to interview one of my idols. I can’t wait!

Great News! My poem Just Another Box has been published by Discretionary Love!

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Special thanks to Cliff for coming to read at my college this last week! I’ll cherish these books he signed for me!

Clifford Brooks is headed to my college this week to give a reading! The event is free and open to the community.

I had a chance to have a great reading with some of my students and fellow colleagues on campus yesterday for Poetry Month. I got to read my new poems “Snake Hunting” and “North Padre Island”!

Ten years as a full professor!

Check out my first audio book! Read by Joseph Shepard! You can purchase it on Amazon/Audible by clicking the cover image below.

Wonderful news! I just learned my short story “Colored Blankets” is forthcoming with Havok Magazine, an award-winning publication!

Yay! Dr. LaToya Watkins, my friend and colleague at Collin College, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for her brilliant collection Holler, Child! Go LaToya! Everyone should read this book. Click to link.

My interview with Cliff Brooks, III, in The Blue Mountain Review is now available. Check it out!

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Congrats to JD Isip! JD, my dear friend and colleague of many years, has just published his second poetry collection to outstanding reviews. He is currently being featured on the Poetry Foundation website. Click Image!

Yay, LaToya! My friend and colleague LaToya Watkins has just released her second book in two years! Her first, Perish, was long listed for the Mark Twain Award. It’s an excellent novel. I encourage everyone to check out her new short story collection Holler Child! She also had a wonderful review of her novel in Texas Monthly. Click Image!

It’s official! I’m now a member of the Southern Collective Experience, a group of writers, poets and publishers with connections to the southern United States. See my page with them below.

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8/4/2023

I’ve been invited to conduct an interview of author David DeGrand at the Denton Comic Art Expo on Aug. 5th. Check it out!

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I had a great time at StokerCon 2023 last week! Good writing and good fun!

Wonderful news! I just completed an interview about my writing with Clifford Brooks, III, for The Blue Mountain Review. It should appear in the August issue of the magazine. Cliff is an incredible poet, and it was an honor to have someone considered for a Pulitzer take an interest in my writing. Thank you, Cliff! This has been truly Amazing!

Thanks to Richard Blanco for hosting an awesome reading event at my college for Poetry Month!

I just tried out one of the new image generating AIs to illustrate a few of the characters from my forthcoming or published stories. I used Bing. They came out pretty awesome. While I know graphic designers are probably not loving the generators, I do have to say they are pretty cool tech.

My poem “A Silent Poet” is now available in The Evening Street Review, issue 37!

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I have a new chapter out in a McFarland book! It is over Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

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Check out my poem in this new collection from Mind’s Eye Publications!

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2/12/23

I am happy to report that my story “The Archway” has found a home in Black Ink Fiction!

More info coming soon!

2/8/23

I just want to give a shout out to Nathan Brown, LaToya Watkins, and Scott Yarbrough for their wonderful readings at ASAT 2022. Thank you so much for reading your excellent pieces to us! JD, we missed you at the event but are glad you are on the mend!

10/12/22

I am looking forward to presenting at TYCA-SW on Oct. 13. If you are near Oklahoma City this week, check my panel.

https://sites.google.com/view/tycasw2022okc/schedule

10/9/22

Here is a really great photo from our library display of cakes during banned book week! It was awesome to be part of that committee this year!

9/30/22

“Bend in the River” is finally out! You can buy my story by clicking the image below

9/30/22

Awesome news! My chapter “Goatman’s Bridge” was shortlisted for Button Eye Review‘s Novel Excerpt Prize!

9/16/22

My story Black Box is being published by On the Run in December 2022! Check them out!

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9/1/22

Here is the new cover for JASAT! It is scheduled for release in November.

New flyer for my friend Levi! He will be the keynote speaker at our ASAT event this year. Don’t miss it!

7/18/22

I just found out my story “Bend in the River” is set to be published by HellBound Books in their upcoming Kids Are Hell! anthology. I will post again when it hits the market. They are also the publisher of Darce Stoker, great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, and best selling author, and New Apple Award Winner Craig Stewart. I am happy and humbled to be among such great authors.

7/5/2022

I just found out that I was shortlisted in Red Ogre Review’s Short Genre Fiction Contest!

7/3/2022

Check this discount on my next book chapter!

I am hosting a reading at The Wild Detectives in November.

New Bio Pic! Thought it was time to update.

Encouraging news! Children’s Literature in Education, a leading publisher of children’s literature scholarship, has accepted my abstract for the their next special issue. I now just need to write the article : )

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My story “Stargazer” is out in Lovecraftiana. Check it out! Click to link.

I have a great workshop planned for Poetry Month at Collin College-Frisco. Check it out!

I am thrilled! I just found out my story “Bend in the River” is a finalist for Crystal Lake Publishing’s flash-fiction contest. Crystal Lake Publishing is one of the biggest names in the indie-horror scene. They have numerous Bram Stoker Awards and were recently given the Special Press Award by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). If you are a member of their Patreon account, you can vote for my story and others for the top award.

I have two book chapters due out in 2022. Check them out!

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1/19/22

Exciting news! I was just elected ASAT president after our annual conference. I am proud to carry the president’s gavel, a tradition past down over decades, and I look forward to a great term over the next year. 

11/14/21

Great news! I just found out my poem “Ghosts” from Down in Dirt Magazine was selected to appear in the annual Editor’s Choice Collection for Scars Publications. The collection is titled Regarding Utopia and is now for sale on Amazon.

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11/13/21

I am pleased to announce that my poem “Cosmic Dexterity” is set to appear in the Dec. 2021 issue of Down in the Dirt. You can read it now by clicking the image. My poem was inspired by their cover illustration from a cool NASA photo. I was invited to submit a haiku based on it, and my poem might even lend the issue its name. We’ll just have to see.

10/17/21

You can now purchase my poem “Ghosts” in latest issue of Down in the Dirt Magazine!

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10/14/21

Great news! My poem “A Silent Poet” is forthcoming with Evening Street Review for 2022.

9/27/22

I am excited to announce that my story “Stargazer” is forthcoming in Walpurgisnacht / Spring 2022 edition of Lovecraftiana. Click below to link.

You can find my micro-fiction story Changeling published in A Story in 100 Words: Literature in Tiny Bursts.

My poem “Ghosts” will appear in the October 2021 issue of Down in the Dirt (vol. 188)!

7/4/21

My poem “Caprock Canyon” is now available in H&W!

Congrats to Dr. Anurima Chanda on her chapter on friendly ghosts in Horror Fiction in the Global South!

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4/2/21

We have a new website at ASAT!

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4/1/21

I just heard Hawk & Whippoorwill has accepted my poem Caprock Canyon for publication in their Winter 2020 issue!

Click here to link to the publication: https://penandanvil.com/hw/.

9/12/2020

Illumn just accept my poem Zombies for Winter 2021 issue!

Link to their homepage here: https://www.hiraethsffh.com/illumen-magazine.

8/18/20

Better Than Starbucks Acceptance!

I just recently learned my poem “White Lies” is slated for publication in the May issue of Better Than Starbucks. Please check them out: https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/. They are a beautiful journal.

4/5/2020

Before the new year begins, I will announce some new positions for 2020. I have recently assumed the mantle of vice president of ASAT and assistant editor for JASAT. I am excited to work in these new roles and look forward to working with my fellow officers and editors.

12/23/2019

Thank you, Bryan Kelly Draws! He recently drew these wonderful pieces for my classes.

7/28/2019

I have some book review publications coming down the pipeline for the journals Extrapolation, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. I reviewed Peanuts and American Culture, Oz Behind the Iron Curtain, and Subversive Spirits. Please find more details below:

6/27/2019

Great news! I was interviewed for an article on online ghost stories published by Mashable.com this week. Click on the image to link to the article:

“How Internet Ghost Stories Take on a Life of Their Own,” Mashable, by Gina Rich

6/7/2019

Exciting news! The Children’s Ghost Story in America—my book! —just got a positive review in The Lion and Unicorn (Johns Hopkins University Press), one of the bigger scholarly journals focused on children’s literature, reviewed by Anne W. Anderson. She called my book “delightfully written” and said it “could be the impetus for ghost-hunting scholars to explore children’s literature through broader cultural lenses and from deeper philosophical and spiritual perspectives” (381). I couldn’t be happier.

5/20/2019

Forthcoming book review in Extrapolation Fall 2019:

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9/18/2018

Please come and see me talk at MSU:

9/18/2018

I will be presenting at ASAT this year:

9/18/2018

I had a great time at ChLA 2018 with Mary Henderson, Susan Stewart, and the rest of the gang from TAMUC! Below is a picture of my book right before it sold.

7/1/18

I will be presenting my paper “Myth, Time, and Water in Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” at the 45th Annual International Conference of the Children’s Literature Association in San Antonio, Texas, in June.

3/21/18

My abstract ‘The Power of Literary Fandom: The Journey to Save America in Ready Player One” was just accepted into 61st Annual American Studies Association of Texas Conference!

10/25/2017

My article “The Quips of a Desperate Knight: Sir John Falstaff’s Financial Woes” has been republished by Layman Poupard in their Shakespeare Criticism series, Vol. 175.

9/28/2017

I just returned from the Children’s Literature Association’s Annual Conference last week, where I presented my paper “Haunting the Future of Children’s Literature: Creepypasta and the Changing Face of Online Folklore.” I also got a chance to see my book on sale for the first time. It sold on the first day!

6/28/17