Holly Lyn Walrath's Blog: Stories, page 5
September 12, 2023
Can a Poem Scare You?
September 5, 2023
How to Teach Writing Your Way
August 25, 2023
The Best Speculative Poetry of the Year is Explosive

This is my fifth (!) year reviewing selections from the SFPA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association) Elgin Award for best speculative poetry book. A full list of nominated books is available on the SFPA website. This year’s award chair is Morgan L. Ventura, who I would like to thank for diligently tracking nominations. Here are my previous reviews:
The Best Speculative Poetry of the Year is EpicSpeculative Poets Renegotiate Femininity & the ...August 7, 2023
Book Launch for anOther Mythology by Maxwell I. Gold

“Maxwell I. Gold’s poetry pulls from the heart and bleeds truth onto the page.” — Michael Bailey, multi-award-winning author and editor.
Join us online to celebrate the publication of anOther Mythology by Maxwell I. Gold, a chapbook of poems that recast classic myths from across the globe in a queer light.
Date:
September 4, 2023
6:00 pm ...
August 4, 2023
Introducing THE LONG FALL UP and Other Stories by William Ledbetter

“William Ledbetter’s stories exists at the crossroads between hard and soft: they’re full of hard space, hard choices, and hard lives, but also the soft hearts of the people who work there, make them, and live them. Bill can do more in two pages than some authors do in twenty; he’ll make you love a sweater, fear for a ship, and more. So whatever your preference, hard or soft: if Bill Ledbetter has writt...
August 1, 2023
Journaling for Nature Poets
July 28, 2023
Nature Is Diverse, so Poetry Should Be Too
Acquisitions from the 2022 Horror Novella Submissions Call

Interstellar Flight Press is delighted to announce the acquisitions from our 2022 Horror Novellas Submissions call. As the Managing Editor, I would like to thank everyone who submitted to us. This was a particularly complex call, as I came down with Covid in the midst of the submission call.
There are so many fantastic voices in horror right now, and I am delighted to be publishin...
July 26, 2023
The Horror of Women’s Pain
Photographs by Erik Tanner for The New York Times“The women interviewed are part of around 200 women who were supposed to receive the drug Fentanyl as part of the egg retrieval process but instead received inactive saline. The result was a horrific, sometimes ongoing, experience of pain at the hands of one drug-addicted nurse.”
Hospitals, Doctor’s offices, and medical procedures are some of my most intimate places of fea...
July 24, 2023
Writing Nature Poetry in a Modern World
How Do We Reconcile Our Technological Existence and Nature’s Survival?
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