Clarion

Mon 23 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Clarion | Posted by: Gavin

Following Christopher Barzak, Holly Black, Mat Johnson, and Kij Johnson’s instructor weeks, Kelly and I are off to teach the final two weeks at the Clarion Writers Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in San Diego, CA. Clarion, like their lovely Seattle neighbor, Clarion West, is great fun and quite an intense amount of work between the critique workshops in the morning, the one-on-one conferences in the afternoon, and reading the stories for the next day’s workshops. See you in 2 weeks!

 


Abbey Mei Otis Tour Dates

Thu 19 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Abbey Mei Otis Tour Dates | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover There will be Minneapolis and more dates added later in autumn but for the moment here are the dates for Abbey Mei Otis’s tour next month behind her debut Alien Virus Love Disaster.

I saw Abbey read at our AWP reading with Juan Martinez and many others in Tampa earlier this year and she was a standout so I highly recommend putting on your jetpack and getting to one of these fab indie stores to see her:

Tue., 8/14, 7 p.m.
Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
216.321.2665

Wed. 8/15 7:30 p.m.
Two Dollar Radio HQ
1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus, OH 43206
614-725-1505

Thu 8/16/18, 7 p.m.
Literati Bookstore
124 E Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734.585.5567

Tues. 8/21/18, 7 p.m.
Scuppernong Books
304 S. Elm St.
Greensboro, NC 27401

Wed. 8/22/18 7 p.m.
Flyleaf Books
752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-942-7373


Claire G. Coleman on the Book Podcast

Tue 17 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Claire G. Coleman on the Book Podcast | Posted by: Gavin

Terra Nullius cover - click to view full sizeHere’s fascinating interview with Claire G. Coleman to whet your appetite for her forthcoming debut Terra Nullius:

Terra Nullius is a work of speculative fiction written by Claire Coleman, a writer from Western Australia who identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. It is a story exactly as we know it. No speculation required. A story so familiar, until it’s not.

Read more about Claire Coleman here and listen to the interview here.


In Other Lands in Teen Vogue

Thu 12 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on In Other Lands in Teen Vogue | Posted by: Gavin

In Other Lands coverTeen Vogue are such a strong voice for justice these days so it is a huge thrill to see In Other Lands on this list: “10 Queer Reads Perfect for Any Time of the Year:”

“Unbeknownst to the majority of mankind, a hidden magical realm populated by fairies, elves, and even mermaids touches the human world. In order to cross over into it, a human must be among the select few who can see the wall straddling both worlds. Snarky and friendless, Elliot unexpectedly discovers he is one of these lucky ones and once he passes over into the magical Borderlands, he kicks off on an adventure that ultimately changes the course of his life, and the world, forever. Told in irreverent, rolicking prose, readers follow Elliot as he enrolls in magical school, befriends humans and magical beings alike, explores his budding bisexuality, and comes of age, finally adding emotional maturity and poise to his considerable smarts. While Elliot’s character can be cluelessly obnoxious when he uses snark and sarcasm as a defense mechanism, he always reads as wholly authentic, a young man learning his place in a quickly changing landscape. Sarah Rees Brennan knows how to engage readers with her fresh prose style and a innovative new take on the fantasy novel.”


Upcoming

Sat 7 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Upcoming | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeCurious about Abbey Mei Otis’s debut collection, Alien Virus Love Disaster, coming next month?

Good news: you can read two of the stories right now and two more will be published online on storied sites we admire very much: one on Electric Lit and one on Guernica — Check out “Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation.”

Abbey’s work is the pure product and right of this very moment. Here are the stories that are available right now: Blood, Blood on Strange Horizons & Sweetheart on Tor.com. You can preorder Alien Virus Love Disaster here, it comes out August 14.

 


British Fantasy Awards

Fri 6 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on British Fantasy Awards | Posted by: Gavin

Tender coverI’m delighted to see Sofia Samatar’s collection Tender is one of five very strong finalists for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. It is always an honor to have a book in the running for an award, so yay, and thanks British Fantasy Awards for some good news!

Best Collection
· Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
· Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
· Tanith by Choice, by Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
· Tender: Stories, by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
· You Will Grow Into Them, by Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)


Get Free Advance Copies An Agent of Utopia on LibraryThing

Fri 6 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | 4 Comments | Posted by: Gavin

An Agent of Utopia cover - click to view full sizeYou, you, you and fourteen other lucky winners will be holding free advance uncorrected copies of Andy Duncan’s forthcoming An Agent of Utopia on LibraryThing.

US-only this time since these are print copies, sorry international readers, just can’t do the $20 per book mailing 🙁

Enter here!


Readercon 2018

Thu 5 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Readercon 2018 | Posted by: Gavin

ReaderconWe will be at Readercon in Quincy, MA, next weekend and hope to see you there. While neither Kelly nor I are on panels, we will have a couple of tables in the Dealers Room — nope, not at this time ready for that but by July 13th I expect I will be! — and many, many good people will be there. One of those people will be John Schoffstall, whose first novel, Half-Witch, comes out next week so we will find some way to celebrate that!


Indie Next & EWGC

Tue 3 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Indie Next & EWGC | Posted by: Gavin

Terra Nullius cover - click to view full sizeNext Tuesday I’m hoping to participate in the Early Words Galley Chat and talk to any librarians (and everyone else) on Twitter who have (or might) read Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius and nominate it for LibraryReads list. The nomination deadline for September titles is July 20. Librarians, please do consider this title!

Before that, though, comes the Indie Next deadline: which is July 9th for September titles. It’s been a while since we had an Indie Next title*, maybe too long! Indie booksellers, please consider this title for a nomination!

Here is it on Edelweiss.

* Book Sense Picks:

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
John Kessel

Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
A. DeNiro

Magic for Beginners
Kelly Link

* Book Sense Notable Books:

Mothers & Other Monsters
 Maureen F. McHugh

Perfect Circle
Sean Stewart


Abbey Mei Otis on the Weekly Reader & in Locus

Mon 2 Jul 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Abbey Mei Otis on the Weekly Reader & in Locus | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeIn the run up to the publication of Abbey Mei Otis’s debut Alien Virus Love Disaster Abbey is interviewed this week by Dakota VanLinden on KMSU’s Weekly Reader.

And the collection gets a lovely big review by Gary K. Wolfe in Locus:

‘‘Not an Alien Story’’ says, ‘‘Things aren’t going to change. We aren’t going to get jobs. Animals aren’t going to pad through our dreams and whisper the answers.’’ Sometimes Otis can toss off a classic Kelly Link-style sentence (‘‘She was so rich the stories came true as she spoke them’’), sometimes an almost pulp-like opening hook (‘‘Can’t remember if I was nine or ten when the sex robot fell from the sky’’), sometimes a sharp apothegm about the appeal of VR (‘‘It’s not that planet calling you. It’s this one pushing you away’’). If Otis’s overall vision seems pretty dark, it’s ameliorated by the colorful voices and deeply humane characters struggling in a world that offers them plenty of bizarre experiences, but little real hope. It’s a world far more like ours than we’d want to believe, but it also a world not quite like anyone else’s. At their best, the stories in Alien Virus Love Disaster can generate the same sort of excitement of first coming across writers as diverse as Kelly Link, M. Rickert, or Margo Lanagan: a striking new voice, both strangely familiar and yet disorienting, that takes us somewhere we haven’t been.


The Golden Compass as written by Roald Dahl

Tue 26 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on The Golden Compass as written by Roald Dahl | Posted by: Gavin

Here ahead of next month’s publication are pictures of the first edition of John Schoffstall’s debut novel, Half-Witch. The world is close but not quite this one. A young girl — who talks to god . . . and gets answers — and a witch are forced by circumstances into companionship. This is how Lauren at Elliott Bay described it

“In a Europe where goblins coexist with the literal (but unhelpful) Holy Trinity, Lizbet is sucked into a magical quest with only the surly witch-girl Strix as a companion. Like all great children’s books, Half-Witch is not afraid to put the big stuff on the page: they match wits with the Pope of Storms and corpse-eating earth-witches, and also with human violence and cruelty. An edge-of-your-seat adventure about friendship, trust, and what it means to be changed by someone, Half-Witch is like The Golden Compass as written by Roald Dahl.”


Half-Witch Events!

Mon 18 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Half-Witch Events! | Posted by: Gavin

Half-Witch cover - click to view full sizeI’m starting the week with some events to look forward to as we gear up to the publication of John Schoffstall’s debut novel Half-Witch. Someone asked me why we’re doing this book in hardcover and all I could do was mention that Kirkus gave it a starred review and it’s a Junior Library Guild selection. If you enjoyed The Golden Compass, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this (completely different, and yet . . . ) first novel.

And here’s where you can meet John & pick up the book:

July 12-15: Readercon, Quincy, MA — we have tables in the Dealers Room. Not going to Readercon? Preorder from our site and we can get the book signed for you.

July 21, 1 P.M. The Lahaska Bookshop, Peddler’s Village Store, 162 Carousel Ln & Rte 263 A, Lahaska, PA 18931 ·  First bookstore signing!

July 26, 7 p.m. Farley’s Bookshop, 44 S Main St, New Hope, PA 18938


Literary Arts Tribute

Fri 15 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Literary Arts Tribute | Posted by: Gavin

Just in case you missed it and would like to watch or listen, here is the video from Literary Arts Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin that was held on Wednesday evening at the beautiful Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. Kelly was one of the speakers and since I tagged along as husband I’d like to take a moment to thank Theodore Downs-Le Guin and the whole Le Guin family and everyone at Literary Arts whose grace in these circumstances was a model to aspire to.

It was a . . . lovely? evening. All through the hall people were catching up with one another and sometimes exchanging their favorite Le Guin stories — or stories about Le Guin. (Stories about Le Guin welcome in the comments!) She lived in Portland for fifty years or so and brought together so many disparate strands of the city it was a joy to see so many people there to remember her. I took one photo before they asked attendees not to take photos or films and I was happy to sit in the darkness and try and take in what I am still having trouble taking in: this world is missing a person I loved. Ursula K. Le Guin was generous and fierce and her emails and wordplay usually made me laugh — on not liking a blue variant of the Words Are My Matter cover, “Yes, textbooky, zackly. Anyhow blue is not my hue.” — as well as sit up straighter. I miss her more than I can say.

Ursula K. Le Guin – Broadcast from Henry V Live on Vimeo.


Incandescently Dark

Fri 15 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Incandescently Dark | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeElizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck & Other Stories emailed us on Tuesday with this note about Abbey Mei Otis’s upcoming debut Alien Virus Love Disaster:

“Abbey Mei Otis’s stories are incandescently dark, if you can imagine such a thing (but maybe only she can). Full of danger and strangeness, but written in carbonated and astounding prose that is all her own, these stories create worlds and will make you contemplate (and worry about) our own.”


The Invisible Valley Comes to You

Thu 14 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on The Invisible Valley Comes to You | Posted by: Gavin

Good news for Bostonians, Texans, New Yorkers, and Seattle-ites: Austin Woerner will be visiting the USA this summer from China and will be doing events to celebrate the publication of his translation of Su Wei’s first novel to be translated into English, The Invisible Valley.

And, for the event at the Brookline Booksmith Austin will be joined by the author himself, Su Wei.

Here are the dates:

June 28, 7 p.m. Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX

June 30, 7 p.m. Malvern Books, Austin, TX (Facebook)

July 12, 7 p.m. Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA (with Su Wei)

July 25, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, NYC

July 28 at 7 p.m. Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA

John Crowley, author of Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, said:

“Su Wei’s The Invisible Valley is a remarkable work, pungent, funny, and mind-widening. Austin Woerner’s translation is nearly invisible: it erases all barriers of strangeness and places the reader deep within a Chinese experience that comes to seem as familiar to us as our own daily round — if ours too had ghost brides and very big snakes.”

Amy Lantrip in World Literature Today: “The Invisible Valley takes the reader along a journey full of mystery, magic, and political intrigue. The characters are full of nuance and contradiction, each keeping their own secrets. As each secret is revealed, the reader comes closer to understanding the larger picture. Combined with the balance between the natural and supernatural, this makes the novel interesting for any reader.”

Rachel S. Cordasco in SF in Translation: “In The Invisible Valley, Su Wei asks us to broaden our definition of reality, as Lu does, in order to better understand the peoples and landscapes around us.”

There are so many books! Which one is this? Read an excerpt.


Read Abbey Mei Otis’s Rich People in the New Tin House

Tue 12 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Read Abbey Mei Otis’s Rich People in the New Tin House | Posted by: Gavin

Straight from the Tin House’s mouth:

Dive into Tin House #76 this summer and prepare for exploration of waters unknown. Start with one last short story by the late Ursula K. Le Guin, “Pity and Shame,” whose prose is, as ever, filled with her poignant intellect and humor. Plumb the mysteriously strange lives of “Rich People” with emerging writer Abbey Mei Otis, or find uneasy accommodation with Catherine Lacey’s “The Grand Claremont Hotel.” And Meghan O’Gieblyn’s essay “On Subtlety” will make you think twice about the stories you’ve been told and things better left half-said. All this and more in an issue as expansive as it is wild, mercurial, and tempting.

You can read the new Ursula K. Le Guin story here and pick up the new issue here:

Fiction from Ursula K. Le Guin, Abbey Mei Otis, J. Jezewska Stevens, Catherine Lacey and Leigh Newman, and New Voices by Ashley Whitaker and Carrie Grinstead

Poetry from Lia Purpura, Yusef Komunyakaa, Shane McCrae, Adam Clay, James Hoch, Philip Metres, Maggie Smith, Mildred Barya, Nomi Stone, Ira Sadoff, Teddy Macker, Sally Ball, Gerardo Pacheco Matus, and Rosebud Ben-Oni

Nonfiction from Ashleigh Young and Meghan O’Gieblyn

Books Lost & Found from Tabitha Blankenbiller, Jon Michaud, Joshua James Amberson, Cheston Knapp, and Ruby Brunton

And a Blithe Spirit from Elissa Schappell


Air Logic Publication Date

Mon 11 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Air Logic Publication Date | Posted by: Gavin

I am delighted to announce that Laurie J. Marks‘s fourth and final volume in her Elemental Logic series, Air Logic, will be published on July 9, 2019.

Laurie has handed in her final draft and we have already received it back from our gimlet-eyed (sorry Paul) proofreadr (sic), Paul Witcover.

From the other side of the world Kathleen Jennings sent us initial cover sketches and soon she will be working on the next stages. By the end of summer, there will be a cover and a final manuscript and so we have at last added the book to the forthcoming books page.

Every month we receive emails asking when Air Logic will be published. There will be many, many people delighted to read this book. Should you want to read or reread the series in preparation for this novel that we have waited such a long time for, the series order is:

Fire Logic — originally published by Tor in 2002. Available in ebook right now and in a new paperback edition in spring 2019.

Earth Logic — published in 2004 again by Tor. Available in ebook now and new paperback edition in spring 2019.

Water Logic — published by Small Beer Press in 2007. Available in trade paperback and ebook editions. The ebook will be updated with Kathleen Jennings’s new cover.

 


Lydia Millet: By the Book

Mon 11 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Lydia Millet: By the Book | Posted by: Gavin

It was lovely to read Lydia Millet’s intimate (but austere!) and conversational By the Book in this week’s New York Times Book Review and also lovely to see her through Jillian Tamaki’s eyes — see illustration on right.

I’m looking forward to her new collection, Fight No More, which comes out this month. To celebrate we have her middle grade Dissenters Series on sale again this week — click on the prices below (US only due to mailing costs):

Book 1: The Fires Beneath the Sea
Hardcover: $16.95 $9.95
Paperback: $12  $5.99

Book 2: The Shimmers in the Night
Hardcover: $16.95
Click here to save 40%: $9.95

Book 1 & 2: The Fires Beneath the Sea & The Shimmers in the Night
Hardcover, click here to save 50%: $16.95

Book 1, 2, & 3: The Fires Beneath the Sea, The Shimmers in the Night, & The Bodies of the Ancients
Hardcover, click here to save 50%: $24.95


Poppy Z. Brite / Billy Martin Fundraiser

Sun 10 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Poppy Z. Brite / Billy Martin Fundraiser | Posted by: Gavin

If you’ve enjoyed Poppy Z. Brite’s books (including Second Line [excerpt], but there are so many good ones) and can help out here it would be much appreciated:


Amazing, Electric Stories

Fri 1 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Amazing, Electric Stories | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeDan Chaon, author of Ill Will just sent us this after reading Abbey Mei Otis’s upcoming debut Alien Virus Love Disaster:

“These are amazing, electric stories—you can feel the live wire sizzling in them from the first sentence, and you know you’re about to take a wild, unforgettable trip. Abbey Mei Otis is my favorite kind of writer: her worlds are uniquely strange yet eerily relatable, and she knows how to make you laugh and weep at the same time.”


Tomorrow: Sofia Samatar AMA

Wed 23 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Tomorrow: Sofia Samatar AMA | Posted by: Gavin

Tomorrow, Thursday May 24th, Sofia Samatar will be doing an Ask Me Anything for Reddit Fantasy. If you have a Reddit account and drop by to say hi, that would be lovely. Also if you know somebody who might want to ask Sofia something, please let them know! Send along friends, students, random acquaintances, anybody!

Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Winner: Best Worst American by Juan Martinez

Wed 16 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Winner: Best Worst American by Juan Martinez | Posted by: Gavin

Best Worst American cover The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College has announced that Best Worst American by Juan Martinez has been named the recipient of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction.

The awards will is presented for a debut work in the genre of speculative fiction. Martinez will receive a $5,000 honorarium that will be presented during a Dartmouth-hosted panel to discuss the genre and their work.

The judging was spearheaded by New York Times-bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley, whose wide-ranging work includes speculative fiction for both adult and young readers. Her soon-to-be-released novel The Mere Wife (MCD × Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a contemporary retelling of the classic “Beowulf.”


Ohioana Award Finalist!

Thu 10 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Ohioana Award Finalist! | Posted by: Gavin

A Natural History of Hell cover Congratulations to Jeffrey Ford whose A Natural History of Hell is a finalist for the Ohioana Book Awards!

The awards, first given in 1942, honor outstanding Ohio authors and books in six categories. They are the second oldest state literary prizes in the nation. Past winners include Anthony Doerr, Toni Morrison, Paula McLain, Dan Chaon, and last year’s recipient, Marisa Silver.
In addition to the awards selected by judges, the Ohioana Readers’ Choice Award invites readers to vote online for their favorite book from among all 30 finalists (five in each award category).
Each Ohioana Book Award winner receives a $1,500 cash prize. The Readers’ Choice Award carries with it a $1,000 cash prize.
The winners will be announced in July, and the awards will be presented at a reception and ceremony in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Thursday, October 18.


Space Junk and Toxic Glitter

Fri 4 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Space Junk and Toxic Glitter | Posted by: Gavin

Alien Virus Love Disaster cover - click to view full sizeWe just heard from Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan, who read an advance copy of Abbey Mei Otis’s Alien Virus Love Disaster:

Abbey Mei Otis deposits the reader in bargain bin worlds remaindered from the near futures of the more fortunate, worlds filled with space junk and toxic glitter, gel candy and gutted elk. These are stories for the many, for lovers and mourners, for those who want to split their minds from their bodies and those who know how to merge their organs in a single skin. In Alien Virus Love Disaster, language itself is in phase change. This book is a volatile, dangerous gift.

 


Sarah Pinsker Cover Reveal Tomorrow

Wed 2 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Sarah Pinsker Cover Reveal Tomorrow | Posted by: Gavin

Tomorrow morning on Tor.com there will be a cover reveal of Sarah Pinsker’s forthcoming debut collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, at which point we will open up preorders for print and ebooks here and on Weightless.

Who is

Here’s a bio:

Sarah Pinsker‘s award winning fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, as well as numerous other magazines, anthologies, year’s bests, podcasts, and translation markets. She is also a singer/songwriter who toured nationally behind three albums on various independent labels. She has wrangled horses, taught advocacy and SATs to teens (two different jobs), and tended bar badly. She lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland. Find her online at sarahpinsker.com and on Twitter @sarahpinsker.

See you tomorrow!


Mary Rickert on Wired’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Wed 2 May 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Mary Rickert on Wired’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy | Posted by: Gavin

Delighted to listen to Mary Rickert talk about balloon animals, her collection You Have Never Been Here, and much more on the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast:


Best Worst Telling the American Map

Mon 9 Apr 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Best Worst Telling the American Map | Posted by: Gavin

Delightful news from the weekend, Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American and Christopher Rowe’s Telling the Map are both on the shortlist for the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards. Note that plural: there are two awards, both worth $5,000, one for a debut work and one for an established author in the genre of speculative fiction. The awards will be presented “during a Dartmouth-hosted panel to discuss the genre and their work.”

Here’s the full shortlist:

2018 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Shortlist of Books:
“After Atlas” by Emma Newman (Roc, 2016)
“Best Worst American” by Juan Martinez (Small Beer Press, 2017)
“Central Station” by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications, 2016)
“Children of the New World” by Alexander Weinstein (Picador, 2016)
“Made for Love” by Alissa Nutting (HarperCollins, 2017)
“New York 2140” by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, 2017)
“On the Edge of Gone” by Corrine Duyvis (Amulet/Abrams, 2016)
“Six Wakes” by Mur Lafferty (Orbit, 2017)
“Telling the Map” by Christopher Rowe (Small Beer Press, 2017)
“Using Life” by Ahmed Naji (UT Press, 2017)
“Void Star” by Zachary Mason (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)

and the press release is here.


LCRW: Always Seeking Work by Women of Color

Wed 4 Apr 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on LCRW: Always Seeking Work by Women of Color | Posted by: Gavin

Since we’re about to put out the prime and fantastic 37th issue of LCRW (the one with the dragon on the cover), it’s a good time to call for more submissions.

Last year we raised the LCRW pay rates to US$0.03/word ($25 minimum) for fiction and $10/poem. As stated in our guidelines, we are always especially seeking work by women and women of color and other historically underrepresented groups.

We only read submissions on paper so that Kelly and I can read everything. Writers who live outwith the USA can email submissions but please be forewarned: we are even slower to read email submissions than we are paper submissions. But we do read them all.

We would very much appreciate it if you could pass this call for submissions on to women writers, especially women of color.


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