Shane Hawk

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🪶 Cheyenne & Arapaho 📥 Editor at Counterpoint Press 📚 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series 👤 Rep: Rachel Letofsky shanehawk.com

The Sorceress of Sky Serpents a literary fantasy by Eden Robinson AN INDIGO MOST ANTICIPATED FANTASY BOOK OF 2026 “With The Sorceress of Sky Serpents, Eden Robinson looks at a faraway world scarred by the folly of man through the eyes of a heroine who reflects the fierce spirit of our Indigenous youth. She brilliantly weaves dark magic, humor, and vivid body horror into a relentless reclamation of the epic fantasy canvas. This book proves our voices possess the gravity to anchor entire monster-filled planets. I absolutely couldn’t put it down.”— SHANE HAWK, coeditor of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night anthology series
Screenshot of Indigenous actor Jimmy Herman from The X-Files, S01E19. Captioned with his line to Mulder: “What I learned fighting the FBI is you don’t believe in us, and we don’t believe in you.”
Screenshot of NetGalley landing page for “Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood” showing its read now status. It publishes Aug 18, 2026
Mirror selfie of a black tee with a screen print of the new book cover for Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood
First America is hosting two creative writing workshop series for emerging Indigenous writers ages 16–25—one in person in Tulsa and one online. Through guided sessions and revision support, participants will develop short fiction (1,000–2,000 words) imagining Indigenous nations 250 years in the future. The workshops extend the themes of the First America podcast, which explores Indigenous history 250 years in the past. Selected pieces will be published online, with one featured on the podcast and awarded a $500 prize. A culminating public reading in Tulsa will follow (date TBD). Free to attend. Open to Native writers. Application deadline: March 31, 2026 (or until the first 70 applications are received) In-Person Sessions April 20, 22, and 24 5–7 PM CST Tulsa Artist Fellowship Studios Online Sessions April 21, 23, and 28 5–7 PM CST Zoom Enrollment or descendant verification is required as part of the application process. Workshop Leader Kashona Notah (Iñupiaq) Questions? Email kashona@umich.edu
Logo made to celebrate 10 years of StokerCon. This year it will be held in Pittsburgh. Logo has the haunted house-shaped Stoker award in the center, two zombie hands coming out of either side, a ring emblem that says STOKERCON TEN YEARS PITTSBURGH along with a banner that says 2016 - 2026 And in the background, blood drips down from the back of the logo
Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace deal report: Dec 2, 2025 Imprint: Counterpoint Press Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets Kimberly M. Blaeser's RED ANTS, a short story collection which centers Anishinaabe characters who bring traditional tribal stories into new spaces and contemporary experiences, with genre elements ranging from magical realism, humor, SFF, horror, futurism, and speculative literary fiction, to Shane Hawk in his first acquisition for Counterpoint, in a nice deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026, by Rachel Letofsky at Transatlantic Literary Agency (NA). Rights: Rachel@transatlanticagency.com
Flyer for Shane Hawk’s virtual visit to Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis’s Indigenous Horror class at Mount Saint Vincent University. Includes a portrait of Shane and the book cover of NWAN. The title is: A talk with Cheyenne & Arapaho Storyteller Shane Hawk
Most of the lyrics for Death Cab for Cutie's 2022 song, "Foxglove Through the Clearcut" Lyrics in full, which include a reference to Shane Hawk's 3x great grandpa: There was a man who used to live by the ocean But he never set foot in the sea It made him nervous that the water was always in motion And he feared the creatures who swam beneath And when I asked him how he'd ended up there Above a world he would never know He said he'd driven all the way across America And when he got to thе edge, therе was nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go He said that nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains As he quoted Black Kettle's death song The words drifting off into the emptiness Of this great land where we've never belonged And while the frontiers are ever-expanding Our living rooms fall into disarray And no one seems interested in fixing what they've broken They just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away Slowly slip away Slowly slip away Slowly slip away Slowly slip away And now, he and I watch the foxglove grow through the clearcut Where a forest once grew high and wild For what is a funeral without flowers? And ten thousand tombstones reaching for the sky Reaching for the sky Reaching for the sky Reaching for the sky Reaching for the sky
B&W portrait of Black Hawk (Hidatsa). He sits for a formal portrait in an open area of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He wears a beaded shirt, fringed leggings, and one eagle feather in his hair. Photo from the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Taken between 1910 and 1915.
Screenshot of Shane Hawk’s profile page on the UpScrolled app. Banner photo featuring Paul Tremblay and Brian Evenson. Bio: Cheyenne and Arapaho horror writer. Editor at Counterpoint Press. Co-editor of the Never Whistle at Night anthology series. Rep: Rachel Letofsky, Joe Veltre Link: shanehawk.com / NativeHorror.com
Screenshot of two listings on eBay, both for leather-bound editions of Shane Hawk's Indigenous horror collection, ANOKA, originally published in October 2020, but now out of print. ANOKA was self-published by Shane, and he never approved of any silly leather edition.
Playbill for THE LAND HAS SPOKEN, a Native horror play written by Shane Hawk & Andrea L. Rogers, featuring the creative team and the cast. Orange background, yellow lettering for the title, a mirrored image of an Indigenously woman with whitened eyes and long, unfurling hair
Screenshot of the Goodreads book listing for “Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood” - No cover image available yet. Editors Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Expected to publish 22 Sep 2026.
Blood red background. Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood in black font. On the left, a long list of all the contributors to this sequel anthology in alphabetical order: JAKE ARROWTOP SONIA MARIE BARRY BILLY-RAY BELCOURT KIMBERLY BLAESER JESSICA DOE DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING ALICIA ELLIOTT RAMONA EMERSON A.J. EVERSOLE SHANE HAWK JESSICA JOHNS STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES SHAAWAN FRANCIS KEAHNA TOMMY ORANGE ALINA PETE MAT RUDEWALKER JIM TERRY ERICA TREMBLAY THEODORE C. VAN ALST JR. P.C. VERRONE JOSHUA WHITEHEAD
Poster for THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER short film (2025) written and directed by Tai Leclaire, starring him and Kaniehtiio Horn.
A large white plate with HAPPY BIRTHDAY written in chocolate with a piece of tiramisu to the side