"Qualia Nous" by Michael Bailey, Usman T. Malik, Rena Mason, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lucy A. Snyder, Emily B. Cataneo, Patrick Freivald, Elizabeth Massie, Gene O'Neill, William F. Nolan.
Start reading it for free: https://a.co/aJH0O3K
0 notes
Weird Dream Society: An Anthology of the Possible & Unsubstantiated in Support of RAICES, edited by Julie C. Day, Reckoning Press, 2020. Cover art by Gregory Norman Bossert, info: weirddreamsociety.com.
Playful, whimsical, or dark, but always thoughtful and tinged with the inexplicably weird,the Weird Dream Society brings together twenty-three stories from the most innovative creators in speculative fiction. Nathan Ballingrud, Carina Bissett, Gregory Norman Bossert, Karen Bovenmyer, Christopher Brown, Emily Cataneo, Julie C. Day, Michael J Deluca, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt, Nin Harris, Chip Houser, James Patrick Kelly, Marianne Kirby, Kathrin KöhlerMatthew Kressel, Jordan Kurella, Premee Mohamed, Sarah Read, Sofia Samatar, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Steve Toase, A.C. Wise All proceeds from the Weird Dream Society anthology will go to RAICES. RAICES envisions a compassionate society where all people have the right to migrate, and human rights are guaranteed. Some dreams can change the world.
Contents:
Introduction – Julie C. Day
The Ghost Who Loved Mannequin – Marianne Kirby
Skin Like Carapace – Steve Toase
Crossing – A.C. Wise
Application for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B – Kathrin Köhler
Butter-Daughters – Nin Harris
Glasswort, Ice – Emily B. Cataneo
Flyover Country – Julie C. Day
Thin Places – Gemma Files
Jewel of the Vashwa – Jordan Kurella
HigherWorks – Gregory Norman Bossert
And Sneer of Cold Command – Premee Mohamed
Snow as White as Skin as White as Snow – Karen Bovenmyer
The Hoof Situation – Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
The Bricks of Gelecek – Matthew Kressel
The Landscape of Lacrimation – Carina Bissett
They Said the Desert – A.T. Greenblatt
Meat for Skritches – Chip Houser
Amanda Invades the Museum – Michael J. Deluca
A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals – Sofia Samatar
Into the Wood – Sarah Read
You Go Where It Takes You – Nathan Ballingrud
The Pyramid of Amirah – James Patrick Kelly
Festival – Christopher Brown
Contributers
15 notes
·
View notes
writing roundup
Poetry:
there is no separate survival by Shabnam Piryaei
Cutting by Brionne Janae
And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When the Rapture Comes by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
On PrEP or on Prayer by sam sax
Apology; Sweet Talk by Derrick Austin
No is a Complete Sentence; Portrait of the Alcoholic Three Weeks Sober; the Straw is Too Long, the Axe is Too Dull by Kaveh Akbar
Without Conferring, We Both Ask For a Smoke & Dagger by Emily O’Neill
When Lucille Bogan Sings “Shave ‘Em Dry” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Where the Fired Body is Porous by Tiana Clark
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Social Death, An Address by Xandria Phillips
A Bell Still Unrung by Safiya Sinclair
Recurring Dream Wherein I’m Watching an Episode of Star Trek by Colette Arrand
Manhattan is a Lenape Word by Natalie Diaz
This City by Eugenia Leigh
Barbershop by Phillip B. Williams
Poet’s Sampler: b: william bearhart
American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes
When the Therapist Asks You to Recount, You Have to Say It by Aricka Foreman
Apologies from a Muslim Orphan by Tarfia Faizullah
Fiction:
The Enchantment by Emily B. Cataneo
When an Artist and a Novelist Let Their Creative Powers Loose on a Fabulous Apartment Filled With Art by Hanya Yanagihara
The Mark of Cain by Roxane Gay
Carry Me Home, Sisters of St. Joseph by Marie-Helene Bertino
No Type of Good by Gabrielle Rucker
Churches We’ve Broken Into by Julia Evans
Essays:
When It Is Not Our World Anymore What Will We Hear: On Empathy by Rosebud Ben-Oni
The Effects of White Supremacy are Non-Transferable by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Aqiqah by Kima Jones
A Chorus of Hands by Mahogany Browne
Women in the Fracklands: On Water, Land, Bodies, and Standing Rock by Toni Jensen
What If: On Black Lives and Mental Health by Jodi Savage
A Map of Lost Things: On Family, Grief, and the Meaning of Home by Jamila Osman
Criticism/Interviews/Hybrid:
Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Being a Woman by Gabrielle Bellot
Fine Dining by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Frank Ocean is Finally Free, Mystery Intact by Jon Caramanica
What Makes a Celebrity Take Off His Shirt by Anne Helen Peterson
I Hated Britney Spears Until I Saw Myself in Her by B. Pietras
Robin Coste Lewis: Black Joy is My Primary Aesthetic
Divedapper: Conversation with Jericho Brown by Kaveh Akbar
VIDA’s Report from the Field: Getting Along Shouldn’t Be An Ambition by Jean Ho
A Story about Discovery by Rachel Monroe (about detransitioning)
Disability and Poetry: An Exchange
He Lived by Syreeta McFadden (cw: lynching)
The Problem with “Pussy” by Josephine Livingstone
This Hair of Mine by Cynthia Harvey
10 notes
·
View notes
The Dark Magazine, Issue 59, edited by Sean Wallace, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Michael Kelly, Prime Books, April 2020. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin, info: thedarkmagazine.com.
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead” by Octavia Cade
“Thin Cold Hands” by Gemma Files (reprint)
“Some Sketches of County Life” by Peter Gutierrez
“The Longest Night” by Emily B. Cataneo (reprint)
11 notes
·
View notes
Black Static #72, edited by Andy Cox, TTA Press, November-December 2019. Cover art by Joachim Luetke, info: ttapress.com.
The November-December issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Matt Thompson, Emily B. Cataneo, Sarah Read, Jack Westlake, S. Qiouyi Lu, and Tim Lees. The cover art is by Joachim Luetke, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Ben Baldwin and others. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by Laura Mauro, Andy Hedgecock, Daniel Carpenter, Sadie Hartmann, Mike O'Driscoll, Gary Couzens, and David Surface; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.
Fiction
The String People by Matt Thompson, illustrated by Ben Baldwin
The Longest Night by Emily B. Cataneo, illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Hope Chest by Sarah Read
Don't Come Looking by Jack Westlake
As Dark as Hunger by S. Qiouyi Lu, illustrated by Richard Wagner
Watching by Tim Lees
Columns
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
Reviews
Case Notes: Book Reviews
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
13 notes
·
View notes