The Seventh Terrace

07/31/2025

Wondering about Noir at the Bar at WWC? It's happening! Join Sarah Pratt and Rob Bose on the Seventh Terrace (Cavalier Room) for some smoky readings. We're talking crime, horror, dark fantasy, and anything likely to make us laugh while sucking some light out of the room.

No specific guardrails for content, but please, be cool.

Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar.

Many Prizes! Including, but not limited to, the following categories:

Most disturbing

Reader most likely to commit an actual crime

Shortest reading!

Did not understand the assignment

Actually noir!!!

Best over all (determined by audience)

If you want to read, please sign up at [email protected] and include a short bio to secure your spot. Limited to 13 readers.

Five (5) minute MAXIMUM reading time. This will be enforced by owl.

06/12/2025

With last week's stellar launch (thank you all for filling the Nest) we're proud to see Desert Artemisia hitting #2, only a shade behind our very own Sarah L. Pratt's new release!

05/08/2025

Join Prairie Soul Press and The Seventh Terrace for the double super fabulous launch of Desert Artemisia: Badlands Bits & Bones and They're all Named Poppy, a novel by Sarah Pratt.

04/23/2025

The road to perdition is paved with feral hogs. And other monsters. But mostly hogs.

12/06/2024

Support some cool writers and a weird little press this season!

11/01/2024

We're not saying we smell like genre, but we totally smell like genre. Join us on Thursday night for some noir'sh shenanigans.

10/11/2024

When revolution is not possible, we have involution. Searching our innards for that seed of confidence and providing what it needs to sprout and flourish. So, what’s going on inside you? Creatively speaking. The muse is a capricious tart. When they shine on you, it is glorious indeed, but they’re not reliable enough to fuel our creative output. So what then?...

When revolution is not possible, we have involution. Searching our innards for that seed of confidence and providing what it needs to sprout and flourish. So, what’s going on inside you? Creatively…

10/03/2024

It's been a while since we detonated anything.

Greetings from the hinterlands of Purgatory! Noggy and I have been on sabbatical, but slowly making our way back to the suburban hellscape of the Tower with its many amenities, including Nihilist A…

09/17/2024

We're not willing to give up on slacker summer just yet, but...

08/16/2024

We’re scuttling about at WWC When World's Collide this weekend and selling our wares at Owl's Nest Books! Lots of wicked local authors between these covers.

08/05/2024

Hey local hivemind, does anyone have any suggestions for prairie gothic/cosmic horror set in Alberta (or Western Canada)? Trying to see what's out there exactly.

I already know about these books: Drowning in Darkness (Peter Olivia) and Prairie Gothic/Prairie Witch (Stacey Kondla). But there has to be more.

Thanks!

06/28/2024

The Seventh Terrace (Sarah and Rob) will be at When Words Collide in August, and we will be taking pitches, so if you are going and have something dark and/or weird make sure you sign up to be in the session!

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