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Carter Sickels

Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press) and The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury). His writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, Guernica, and elsewhere. He is a MacDowell fellow and the 2025 recipient of Lambda Literary’s Duggins Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career LGBTQ Novelists.

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Carter Sickels

Mar 16, 2026

Satire as Anxiety Release and Reclaiming Narrative: A Conversation with Jordy Rosenberg

“Horror and satire are incredibly proximate genres. They both nourish the over-excitement of the reader—either through terror or laughter, or both—which I was hoping to do. Sometimes these are the only genres that are allowed to tell the truth about…

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Carter Sickels

Satire as Anxiety Release and Reclaiming Narrative: A Conversation with Jordy Rosenberg