- compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock, and many others;
- the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films, and Science;
- humor from our cartoonists and writers.
- “Festival” by Christine Hanolsy (fiction)
- “Seducing the Supervillain” by H. V. Patterson (poem)
- “So You Want to Eat an Omnalik Starfish” by Brian Hugenbruch (fiction)
- “Shears” by Devan Barlow (poem)
- “Once In As Many Lifetimes” by Luc Diamant (fiction)
- “A Gardener Teaches His Son to Enrich the Soil and Plan for the Future” by Jennifer Hudak (fiction)
- “How My Sister Talked Me Into Necromancy During Quarantine” by Rachael K. Jones (fiction)
- “Let Us Dream” by Myna Chang (poem)
- “To Persist, However Changed” by Aimee Ogden (fiction)
Uncanny Magazine Issue 54
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September/October 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Grace P. Fong, Kristina Ten, Sarah Monette, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Jeannette Ng, AnaMaria Curtis, and Jenn Reese. Essays by Una McCormack, Christopher J. Garcia, Marissa Lingen, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Ali Trotta, Tiffany Morris, Ai Jiang, and Emily Jiang, interviews with Sarah Monette and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Grace P. Fong, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Weird Horror 7
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 95 (September 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales, and anything and everything in between. FANTASY is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader-we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Welcome to Issue #95 of FANTASY! In this issue we’re proud to bring you short stories by Lowry Poletti (“Dread of the White Dog”) and Sam Kyung Yoo (“Set Yourself on Fire”); flash fiction by Angela Liu (“The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye”) and Alex V. Cruz (“Baca”); poetry by Zynab Iliyasu Bobi (“Brief History of Monsterification”) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (“A Mortal’s Guide to Attaining Godhood in the Era of Chaos”); and an interview with a few of the many anthologists doing interesting work in the field. Enjoy!
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 160 (September 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 160 of LIGHTSPEED! If you’re ready for a little fun, don’t miss “Money in the Bank,” an adventure-packed story of aliens and cryptobros from SF giants John Kessel and Bruce Sterling. In “The Hole in the Garden,” Gene Doucette has written a heart-tugging piece that anyone parenting in the era of climate change will appreciate. We’re rounding out the SF side of the literary equation with two flash pieces: “Eve’s Prayer” by Victor Forna and “Death by Water” by Maria Haskins. Jo Miles brings us a tale of dragons and knights in new fantasy story “Simmered in Their Wealth Like the Richest of Sauces.” Yvette Lisa Ndlovu writes about magic and a very difficult marriage in “His Thing.” If you want to cook up a cure for your broken heart, Jordan Kurella has penned just the recipe-or maybe it’s a flash story!-in his piece “Instructions for the Broken Hearted.” We wrap up our fantasy flash with “Remains” by N.R. Lambert. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with book reviews from our terrific review team. Our ebook readers will also enjoy a book excerpt from Tlotlo Tsamaase’s WOMB CITY.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 132 (September 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to Issue #132 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Pedro Iniguez (“Nightmare of a Million Faces”) and Donyae Coles (“The Ascension of Magdalene”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Student Living”) from Ashley Deng and a poem (“A Trick of The Night’s Hunger”) from Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a media review from Adam-Troy Castro.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site.
Novelets
Short Stories
Poems
Departments
CARTOONS: Lynn Hsu, S. Harris, Mark Heath, Arthur Masear, Nick Downes.
COVER: MOON PATROL BY MARIANNE PLUMRIDGE
Locus September 2023 (#752)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Wole Talabi and John Wiswell. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2024. News covers the 2023 World Fantasy Awards Ballot, the sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR, Ned Beauman’s Clarke win, the closure of Fantasy Magazine, the Seiun Awards winners, the Dragon Awards ballot, and much more. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled Plausible Sentence Generators. Event coverage includes reports on Readercon and Pemmi-Con and photos from summer workshops. John R. Douglas, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, and Ira M. Thornhill are remembered with obituaries. Reviews include new titles by Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Hand, Alix E. Harrow, Garth Nix, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Aliette de Bodard, Keith Rosson, Babak Lakghomi, Ehigbor Okosun, Alechia Dow, Sona Charaipotra & Samira Ahmed (eds.), Vajra Chandrasekera, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald, Courtney Gould, Garth Nix, William Ritter, Victor LaValle, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Craig Clevenger, Josh Rountree, Adrian Tchaikovsky, A.Y. Chao, C.L. Clark, Octavia Cade, Ryan Britt, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #120 September 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2023 Issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
Fiction in fewer words.
In this month’s issue:
Editorial: The Complexity of Connection by Anna Yeatts
Name of a Storm by Anastasia Jill
Quantum Love by Sylvia Heike
Button Mashing by Josh Pearce
Grandma’s Sex Robot by William Hawkins
Tips for Surviving the Slush Pile by Jawziya F. Zaman
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
The Dark – Issue 100
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:
“House” by TJ Cimfel
“Big Dead Clown Things” by Adam Callaway
“When the Wiliwili Blossoms, the Shark Bites” by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
“Chop! Chop! Chop!” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 055
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected“It is a sad and beautiful world!” It was true long ago, in that back alley in New Orleans, where the Radio DJ told the Good Egg to BUZZ OFF, and it’s still true now, as this dark and delicious issue of LSQ illustrates.
We’ve got vampires and Venice, post-apocalyptic Canada (?!?) haunted woods and stolen names, and more darkness on the edge of town than you’d care to admit, especially if it was your town. There might even be a happy story or two in here as well, but I won’t tell if you won’t.
Just as we wait impatiently for Autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, these tall tales and melancholy monsters are waiting for you, to let your guard down and be pulled under by their velvety subterranean goodness. Best not to keep them waiting.
This issue features:
• “Good News, Bad News” by Rhonda Parrish
• “Lips Like Sugar” by Cynthia Gómez
• “The Very Hand of God” by Ellen Morris Prewitt
• “Built for Her” by Camden Rose
• “Forest-sister” by Avril Mulligan
• “In The Field” by L.S. Johnson
• “Skip, Hop, Jump” by Amanda Bintz
• “Sleep Well, My Prince” by Lyndsey Croal
• “Technical Magic” by Samantha Carr
• “The Dreamweaver’s Name” by Megan Chee
• “Who Do We Become?” by Tannara Young
• “Captain Courageous in Venice” by Janna Layton
• “Fittonia” by Libby Feltis
• “Kryvoye Lake” by Oksana Marafioti
• “A Lullaby for Mattie Barker” by B. Zelkovich
• “Jovis” by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, Tali Arima
Forever Magazine Issue 104
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our September 2023 issue features “Fieldwork” by Shariann Lewitt, “Invisible Men” by Christopher Barzak, “The Man” by Paul McAuley, and “The One Who Isn’t” by Ted Kosmatka. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 204
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.
Our September 2023 issue (#204) contains:
* Original fiction by Nnedi Okorafor (“Stones”), D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“The Queen of Calligraphic Susurrations”), Nika Murphy (“A Guide to Matchmaking on Station 9”), Arula Ratnakar (“Axiom of Dreams”), Djuna (“The People from the Dead Whale”), R. L. Meza (“The Five Remembrances, According to STE-319”), and RJ Taylor (“Upgrade Day”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova, interviews with S.L. Huang and Jared Shurin, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 47
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLCRW 47 spins out into the world like a stone skipping over a river. Short stories, a cooking column, a moment of something else.
Fictions
Serafina Bersonsage, Radoret
Callum Angus, Red Work
Jennie Evenson, Those Who Struggle the Most
Meg Toth, The Reckoning
Randall Van Nostrand, The Fledgling
Maya Beck, Black Girl Liminal
Brandon Clippinger, New
Lena Valencia, Blood Pool
Nonfictions
Nicole Kimberling, So Personal
About These Authors
Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 47, September 2023. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732156. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed at Paradise Copies.
Subscriptions: $24/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press.
Library & institutional subscriptions available through EBSCO.
LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c.
Contents © 2023 the authors. All rights reserved.
Cover illustration “Leo Moon” © Holly Link.
Please send submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.
Thanks again, authors, artists, readers.
About these authors
Callum Angus is the author of the story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press). He lives in Portland, Oregon where he teaches trans writing workshops, edits the journal smoke and mold, and is at work on a novel with/about lichen.
Maya Beck is a broke blipster, lapsed Muslim, animanga oldhead, demipan demigirl, pastelcore bunnymom, socially-anxious social justice bard, and speculative fiction writer currently wrapping up a middle grade novel about marronage as part of the UCSD Literature MFA. Their work has been published by venues including Strange Horizons, PANK, Mizna, and NAT BRUT and they have participated in writing programs including the Clarion Workshop, Tin House, Kimbilio, and the VONA. Born on Kumeyaay land with a Motor City mom/Windy City dad Black lineage, Maya is a blended descendant of displaced Bantu, Hausa, and Fulani peoples. They can be found lurking under minimin@raru.re on Mastodon, a.Maybeing on Instagram, and their website mayabeck.com.
Serafina Bersonsage received a PhD in English from the University of Rochester, where she wrote several fantasy novels while avoiding her dissertation. Her first poetry collection (A Witch’s Education) is available from EMP Books.
Brandon Clippinger grew up in South Florida and now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he practices law. His fiction also appears in Shenandoah and the Carolina Quarterly.
Jennie Evenson has received support from Bread Loaf and Tin House and has work published in Ninth Letter, Brevity, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. She lives in California with her loved ones and a rescue Cairn terrier who looks like Toto. Her website can be found at jennieevenson.com.
Nicole Kimberling has cooked so much food in her lifetime that she’s developed a philosophy around nearly every aspect of it. When she’s not putting hot meals on the table she can be found either running Blind Eye Books or procrastinating until the last possible second to finish her most recent novel. You find her on IG @the_nicole_kimberling
Holly Link, based in Philadelphia, has been experimenting with collage art for several decades, drawing on texture and color to create dreamscapes from old photographs, and piles of National Geographic, mail order, and other magazines.
Meg Toth is a professor of film studies and literature at Manhattan College. While she is an emerging fiction writer, her non-fiction essays on cinema and literature have appeared in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Adaptation, and the Journal of Narrative Theory. She is currently revising To Be Real, a speculative satire set in near-future Hollywood. Toth has lived in New York for over a decade, but she was born and raised in Cleveland, and Ohio—and the Midwest more generally—appears frequently in her short fiction.
Lena Valencia’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Epiphany, Electric Literature, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from the New School. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.
Randall Van Nostrand’s stories have appeared in the Rappahannock Review, 96th of October, and East of the Web. She lives on the side of a mountain north of San Francisco with a naughty dog named Baxter.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 3 (September 2023) contains:
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Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #390
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Stephanie Burgis and Jonathan Louis Duckworth.