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Jenn Appreciation Post!

What Shweta said! Thank you, dormouse_in_tea :D

Originally posted by shweta_narayan at Jenn Appreciation Post!You know, what with all the spoonfail, I don't think we said this out loud this time round - without heroic work from dormouse_in_tea , the issue of Stone Telling would not be digitized and up at all. So here's to all of Jenn's work - crucial, painstaking, and all the more frustrating because Rose and I have been off schedule.

So Jenn -

Stone Telling 10 is here!

Originally posted by rose_lemberg at Stone Telling 10 is here!Well, that took about forever, but we hope it was worth the wait.

It's a double issue with 23 poems, and they are all incredible.



Let us know how we did, please.

We are now reading for ST11, so if we've never published you before, please send us your work. If we have published you before, please nudge other poets our way!

Stone Telling 11 is now open to submissions!

Originally posted by rose_lemberg at Stone Telling 11 is now open to submissions!As of today, Stone Telling is open to submissions! We are looking for work by poets we have not published before.

From the guidelines:

We are especially interested in diversity of voice and theme. While we are open to all speculative poetry, we love to see work that is multi-cultural and boundary-crossing, work that deals with othering and Others, work that considers race, gender, sexuality, identity, and disability issues in nontrivial and evocative ways. We’d love to see multilingual poetry, though that can sometimes be tricky. Try us!
There are no style limitations, but rhymed poetry will be a hard sell. Please try us with visual poetry, prose poetry, and other genre-bending forms. We will consider experimental poetry, but please remember that not all experimental poems are easy to represent in an e-zine format.

We pay 5$ per poem, and 20$ per poem of epic length (over 120 lines). Please check out our full guidelines!

Looking forward to reading your submissions :)

A short post

…to report two poetry acceptances. My poem “Landwork” will appear in Goblin Fruit (spring 2014), and my poem “The Three Immigrations” will be reprinted in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens.

Happy new 2014, everyone!

 

Originally published at RoseLemberg.net. You can comment here or there.

Stone Telling 10 cover and lineup!

Originally posted by rose_lemberg at Stone Telling 10 cover and lineup!Better late than never! After many delays, we are ready to post the cover and announce the lineup for Stone Telling 10. It is a double issue and a thing of great power.



Order of poems is subject to change!

Song - JT Stewart
Rep/ercussions (Carmina): Reflections on Obsession and Compulsion - Brittany Warman ( briarspell )
Turning to Stone - Ada Hoffmann ( ada_hoffmann )
His scent - Cindy Velasquez
For T. - Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
The Honey Times - Cathy Bryant
Long-Ear - Sofia Samatar
The Nerve Harp - Mat Joiner ( ashlyme )
Good Enough - Emily Jiang ( emily_jiang )
The City Inside Her - Sandi Leibowitz

Trance for Insomniacs - JC Runolfson ( seajules )
Trepanation - Alyza Taguilaso
A Bulgakov Headache - Sonya Taaffe ( sovay )
Teratoma Lullaby - Lisa M. Bradley ( cafenowhere )

Train in my veins - Dominik Parisien ( domparisien )
That Thief, Melancholy - Kathrin Köhler
Brother - Jaymee Goh ( fantasyecho )
Twin Sorrows - Vincen Gregory Y. Yu
Outside-in / Catalytic Exteriorization - Bogi Takács ( prezzey )
Bowl - Alex Dally MacFarlane ( alankria )
#003 - Hilda Weaver, Kristin Koester, Nicci Mechler, & Wendy Creekmore
Misery Is Not a Virtue - Malisha Dewalt
And I'll Dance With You Yet, My Darling - C.S.E Cooney ( csecooney )

Fall-Winter 2013 review in meals

This is a summary of Fall-Winter 2013 in food microblogging. Those of you who follow me on twitter have already seen this, but I thought it'd be fun to recap.

In short, simple meals on white plates, inspired by the presence of friends.

ETA: forgot to mention that all meals depicted here are gluten, yeast, and dairy free, and friendly to people with multiple additional allergies.



Duck egg scramble with kosher bacon, sausage, zuccini, and mint; with cucumber-radish salad.



Herbed ruby red trout with creamy polenta and stir-fried veggies.




Tilapia with mango salsa and an incoherent stir fry





Acorn squash stuffed with millet and veggies, chicken, salad cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, pumpkin cupcakes, pecan pie





Somewhat Niçoise salad, pumpkin-apple-spice cake, tossed salad, ginger molasses cookies briefly saved from predation



Lamb stew with sweet potatoes and mung bean noodles, Brussels sprouts with Eve's meyer lemons, bell peppers stuffed with millet, garbanzo and veggies, duck eggs, mung bean vegetarian stir fry.

2013 in review

This was a very difficult year for me. I got divorced, started single-parenting my kid after the ex left town, and went up for tenure. My health has been frustrating and often outright scary. While my personal life was in upheaval, some SFF things happened; here they are.

 

Stories published:

“Teffeu: A Book from the Library at Taarona,” in Strange Horizons. Locus recommended review.

“Theories of Pain,” in Daily Science Fiction.

 

Stories reprinted and translated:

“Held Close in Syllables of Light (reprint), in Best of BCS, Year 4.

“Geddarien” (reprint), Journal of Unlikely Architecture.

Las siete pérdidas de Na Re (Spanish Translation of Seven Losses of Na Re) at Cuentos Para Algernon. Also collected in Antología Cuentos para Algernon: Año I.

 

Stories sold to appear in 2014:

“A City on its Tentacles,” to Lackington’s Magazine.

 

Poems published in 2013:

“The Journeymaker, Climbing,” Goblin Fruit, Winter 2013 (short)

“The Journeymaker to Keddar,” Goblin Fruit, Winter 2013 (short)

“לכבוד אַ סטרונע (Lekoved a Strune)“, Through the Gate 2 (short)

“Bone Shadows,” Interfictions Online, issue 1. (long) – this is not really a poem, but an unclassifiable.

“I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz,” Goblin Fruit, Summer 2013. (long)

“Resh,” Through the Gate, 5 (short)

“Where the ocean falls into itself,” Apex Magazine. (short)

 

Poems sold in 2013 to appear in 2014:

“Earth Map,” to appear in Mythic Delirium

“Dualities,” to appear in Mythic Delirium

“The Rotten Leaf Cantata,” to appear in Strange Horizons (this was scheduled for late 2013 release, but got delayed).

“Landwork,” to appear in Goblin Fruit

 

Editorial projects:

Stone Telling 9: Menagerie, featuring JT Stewart (who is amazing).

Stone Telling 10 got very delayed due to combined health issues and my personal issues, but we are hoping to get it out in the next two weeks.

Originally published at RoseLemberg.net. You can comment here or there.

Apex, Lackington’s, and other news

I am not around much these days. Life’s been happening.

My short story “A City on its Tentacles” will appear in the inaugural issue of Lackington’s. I might have finally gotten this one right; very happy it found a good home.

My prose poem “Earth Map” will appear in Mythic Delirium.

Apex Magazine 54 is out, with my poem “When the ocean falls into itself“. It is the first love poem I’ve written in over a decade. It is apparently the first poem in a triptych, but the second and third installments in the triptych are private.

Also in this issue of Apex are two much awaited (at least by me) short stories: Bogi Takács’s “Recordings of a more personal nature” (with notes at eir website) and Keffy Kehrli’s “This is a Ghost Story.” I am looking forward to the rest of the issue as well!

Finally, Cuentos Para Algernon published a virtual anthology of their first year, including the Spanish translation of my story “Seven Losses of Na Re.”

Originally published at RoseLemberg.net. You can comment here or there.

poetry sale, reviews, remembrance

My mythic SF poem “Dualities” has been accepted to appear in Mythic Delirium.

Lois Tilton at Locus gave my Strange Horizons story Teffeu: A Book from the Library at Taarona a “recommended” rating:

A beautiful little meditation on the love of books and languages and words, and the narrator’s attempt to hold fast to that love when the mundania of life intervene.

Finally, a new review by K.E. Bergdoll of the Journal of Unlikely Architecture highlights my story Geddarien:

Geddarien by Rose Lemberg is a surreal Holocaust story about music, the power to move past tragedy, and the ultimate deliverance of the dead into the future by those they leave to struggle on. MC Zelig’s progression from student at his grandfather’s knee to survivor is beautiful and elegantly offered within a poignant theme often mishandled. This story is by far my favorite

I think this might be my favorite review of this story so far. It is just so gratifying for me to see that this story is still being meaningful for people.

a page of sheet music hand-copied by my alter zeide for one of his friends

When my great-grandfather, a survivor of three wars, could no longer hold the violin bow, he earned money by copying scores for his friends. Not one of them younger than sixty, these musicians had once played in the Jewish Theatre before it was closed by the Soviets. I used to sit under the desk while zeide worked, and listened to many conversations in Yiddish. This single score page, Paganini’s Perpetuum Mobile, must have had some copying error, since it remained with us and was not given away; it is one of the very few things I brought with me from the Soviet Union. I carried it around through my immigrations and wanderings until at last I had a chance to frame it and hang it up in my home.

Originally published at RoseLemberg.net. You can comment here or there.

While the red bells rang like thunder

Originally posted by sovay at While the red bells rang like thunder
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Rabbit, rabbit. The month is October, so I am now reading submissions for Strange Horizons . Send me all your autumnal things! And your winter-turning poems, too; I'm on active duty through the month of November, which is the end of our reading year. We will be closing to submissions again this December and reopening in January 2014, after which we plan to stay open the full year.

In the meantime, please check out this excellent, spiky, shifting poem and interview with shweta_narayan , featured poet of this week's issue of Indian speculative fiction. Our fund drive is still running, having just paid off Bryan Thao Worra's "Full Metal Hanuman" and a poetry podcast roundtable, but there's still an interview, fiction, and stretch incentives to go. io9 thought we were September's worthiest cause, but October's a good month to be generous too, right? A soul, a soul, a soul cake . . .

This is also the month of my birthday, moving house with derspatchel , and performing again as part of Music to Cure MS. And there is a Humphrey Bogart retrospective starting on Friday at the Brattle. Hey, autumn.