Announcing the Spookstack Blogathon!
Celebrate Halloween & Samhain all month & share your creativity!
It’s a bit last minute as it’s the evening of the 1st of October where I am, but I just got the idea- welcome to the 2025 Halloween & Samhain Blogathon! Or for short, Spookstack! Write about whatever you want that is related to Halloween, Samhain or other holidays that honor the dead this time of year, celebrate tricksters, darkness and so on. It can be prose, poetry or fiction. Every day is encouraged, but no pressure this is for fun, so write as little or as much as you want. Art is welcome too!
To join in- make a master-post that will have links to all of your Spookstack posts. That way anyone who just discovered your stack or blog can go and look thru your whole list of posts. Obviously this will all need to be public. Add the tag #spookstack to any of your posts and entries. More official hashtags may be added. I will be posting additional news/business on my Substack.
This will continue until the 11th of November, Martinmas. (What is that & why? Read & find out!) Then I will finish adding any last entries. Each person will be given a badge image for participating, that they can display on their social media accounts. Other specific badge types may also be shared.
You are welcome to submit entries in any language, heck write it in Klingon if you want! I will make an additional post for languages other than English if I receive many such entries. Otherwise, they will be listed alphabetically.
Netiquette: If you like a post, click like, if you want to re-stack it, try to make a comment to add to the conversation. A re-stack/reblog with some comments does not count as a Spookstack entry. Referencing one like “Jane wrote about Frankenstein’s monster, and that reminded me of golems, so here’s my post about golems.” is totally fine. Linking and building connections is what blogs & the Internet is all about!
Commercial content: if your blog is integrated as part of an online business, that is fine, just keep the Spookstack posts noncommercial. Writing about a craft or a recipe that requires buying/acquiring certain items, cool. That said, promoting small artists & others is fantastic, we can make other posts and lists for participants who have spooky-relevant businesses, and posts folks make talking about their friends/collegues/covenmates’ businesses.
Abusive & hateful content will be rejected, whether its in the Spookstack posts themselves, or elsewhere on a blog or affiliated sites. Play well with others, build each other up. Being conversant in Spanish, I can understand enough of other Romance languages to figure out if there is bigoted or abusive content. Beyond that, I’ll rely on readers who know other languages to tell me if there is offensive content in other languages. But enough seriousness! Have fun, make good e-quaintances & don’t eat goblin fruit!
How do I promote this without it being seen as “self-promotion”? It’s supposed to be a community event, not just about my own substack. Heck, I haven’t monetized mine yet because I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing with it!