R.B. Lemberg's Blog, page 39
January 6, 2012
Queer issue - Outer Alliance interview
Sadly,
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Blogging this from conference, so running away now.
January 4, 2012
I guess this is an obligatory nominating post for your no...
I guess this is an obligatory nominating post for your nominating considerations.
Short Fiction of 2011:
"Held Close in Syllables of Light," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, novelette. (If you know me, you know how important this one is to me!)
"A Mother Goes Between," Jabberwocky, short story.
"Giant," Not One of Us, flash.
Also, I am nominating for the Nebulas this year. Please recommend works to me in the following categories: novella; novelette; short story. My novel ballot is more or less finalized. If you're reading this, you probably know what I like to read!
Poetry of 2011:
Short:
"If I had reb Yoel's violin," inkscrawl #1
"Three Bone Masks", Goblin Fruit Winter 2011
"The tenured faculty meets to discuss the moon's campus visit," Mythic Delirium 25 (this is the only one not online, but I made it available on my website). Give it a try - it's kind of hilarious!
Long:
"Reap the Whirlwind," Jabberwocky 5
"Strong as Salt," Goblin Fruit Winter 2011
"Kytgy and Kunlelo," Cabinet des Fees 2011
"Thirteen Principles of Faith," Apex April 2011. Apex took this poem down, I have no idea why. It now lives on my website.
"In the Third Cycle," Strange Horizons, the poem that won of the Rannu competition
Now, it's not hard to guess what I am most proud of, but here:
1. "In the Third Cycle," I keep repeating it because it is true.
2. "Thirteen Principles of Faith." it's Jewish magic realism. It's my life. I love it.
3. "If I had reb Yoel's violin." It just happened, and it is only six lines, but I think there is something in it that is important to me.
I have no idea who of you is nominating poetry this year, if any, but hey, this is a chance for me to say - these works happened, and I am very proud of them. This has been my strongest year in poetry so far, and in fact, I am a little unsure as to how to grow from here - but I hope I will! This will be an adventure!
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2. A box of boox arrived from shweta_narayan!!!!
3. Sent out my first submission of 2012!!
4. !!!
January 3, 2012
January 3rd :)
Sent a few inquiries out about things.
Writing: I think I am going to visit a faraway place.
December 26, 2011
Queer issue - call for submissions
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We're now open to submissions, and reading for the Queer issue. We want poems with the queer content explicit, rather than implicit; we want to see queer identities or relationships. A few examples from past issues of Stone Telling:
Persephone in Hel, Sonya Taaffe
A Masquerade in Four Voices, Alexandra Seidel
The Changeling's Lament, Shira Lipkin
Terrunform, Tori Truslow
The queer issue is here because we want to see more queer poetry. Since the inception of ST, we've published some amazing queer poems, but we keep taking about queer poetry because a) it matters to us, b) it's cool, c) there's not enough of it. What is "enough"? Well, when I was putting together the Moment of Change, for example, I had to look really, really hard for queer poems. I asked editors, who pointed me at some poems with G and L identities, some of which I reprinted, but I never felt like there was a whole lot of it. Bi, trans*, genderqueer and genderfluid poems proved really, really elusive. Lately, people have been sending excellent LGBTQ stuff to us because we are a queer-friendly market and we constantly talk about it, and we publish it, but now we want more, we want to put together a whole issue of it.
We want to see your LGBTQ stuff. In fact, for this issue, we will consider any treatment of sexuality and gender that does not fall under the heteronormative paradigm. When in doubt, please just send it along. (also when in doubt, please comment and ask!)
We want poetry in any speculative genre. If you have a literary (nonspec) poem that you feel will fit the magazine, please just send it along.
In case you wondered: we are not interested in homophobic poetry. Yes, it is nominally about queer issues, but we are not interested. This should go without saying, but people *have* sent us such material in the past. Please desist.
You do not have to identify as queer, in a queer relationship, or out of the closet, to write or read queer poetry.
December 21, 2011
Stone Telling HOW ARE WE DOING?
So. I made a poll about ST, and posted it over at the community. Please take a moment to play - we would love to see your answers!
Stone Telling 6 (S/SF) is HERE!
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And... the issue is alive!! And it contains some truly outstanding poetry and non-fiction.
Many thanks to the heroic
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December 20, 2011
ST6
1am. Sotired, flopping. See you tomorrow.
Also,
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Stone Telling 6 (S/SF) Table of Contents
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Finally, here is the lineup for Issue 5. We had a lot of collective health problems this time around, which accounts for delays. Sorry about that! The issue will go live tomorrow.

POETRY
"Girl Hours," by Sofia Samatar
"The Chute," by Lyn Coffin
"Gas Giants," by Maria Velazquez
"Three Movements on Anatomy," by Alyza Taguilaso
"How to eat gourmet crow on a low-fare airplane," by Jazz Sexton
"Postcards from Mars," by C.S.E. Cooney (
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"Lovelace Nocturnes," by Mary Alexandra Agner
"The exposure of William H Mumler," by J.C. Runolfson (
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"In Memory of Dreamt Clockwork," by Na'amen Tilahun
"Mirror Twin," by Athena Andreadis (
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Sung Around Alsar-Scented Fires, by Alex Dally MacFarlane (
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Terrunform, by Tori Truslow (
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NON-FICTION
"The Poetry of Joanna Russ: an Introduction", by Brit Mandelo (
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Review of Mary Alexandra Agner's The Scientific Method, by Lisa Bradley (
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Roundtable: Women and Science, with Julia Rios (
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Writer's Block: Festival of Lights
What do you love about Hanukkah?
What I used to like most about Hanukkah is that I didn't have to celebrate it if I didn't want to, because it is such a minor holiday. What I would really, really like is for people stop talking about Hanukkah (because it is reactive to Christmas), and start talking about the High Holidays and Passover at appropriate times. Honestly, my Yom Kippur traditions and Passover are much more important to me than Hanukkah. My zeide's Yom Kippur traditions survived even the Soviet times!
However, what I most like about Hanukkah now is that my kid gets to count the candles every day.
We gave him Hanukkah gelt in 2009 (when he was 3), and he ended up biting each and every coin he could get his hands on in hopes of finding chocolate inside, so we no longer do that.