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Mithila Review Issue 10

[image error]Thanks to Isha Karki and the team at Mithila Review for including an extensive review of “All the Fabulous Beasts” in Issue 10. (WARNING: SPOILERS)

This issue features:

Alexandra Seidel, Indrapramit Das, Damien Krsteski, Dennis Mombauer, Sarah M. Prindle, Bhushita Vasistha, Rahad Abir, Rajendra Shepherd, Alexandria Baisden, Yuan Changming, F.J. Bergmann, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Sarah Ang, Julie Novakova

Interview at Fiction Unbound

Thanks to the lovely Gemma Webster for interviewing me for Fiction Unbound. I particularly love her inclusion of a photo of a milk float.

We Can’t Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma

Review of All the Fabulous Beasts on Teleread

Thanks to Paul StJohn Mackintosh for taking the time to read my collection and review it.

British weird fiction writer Priya Sharma has been appearing in numerous year’s best anthologies for some time, and her story, “Fabulous Beasts” (included in this volume of course) was a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Now a first full collection of her short fiction has appeared, from the very wonderful Undertow Publications, with striking cov...

The Aeon Award

I’ve been very fortunate to have work published by Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror, so I am delighted to join the Grand Judges Panel of Juliet E. McKenna, Ian Watson and Michael Carroll. The panel decides on the top three stories of the six finalists.

Ireland’s Magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror proudly announces the 13th International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest: The Aeon Award 2018
Grand Prize: €1000
Second Prize: €200
Third Priz...

It’s Sunday

A Golden Moment for Short Stories by Farhana Shaikh

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The short story has traditionally been an American love affair. Hemingway, Carver and Vonnegut are often cited among the ‘greatest’ of all time. Across the Atlantic, hundreds of new short stories are published each week through independent small presses, the New Yorker publishes one each issue, which is unpicked and put back together again during their hour-long podcast, and many more are written by nervous MFA students.

In the UK, the form has at worst been ignored, but recent liter...

Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018

 

Paula Guran has announced the table of contents for Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018.

I am absolutely delighted to be included with “The Crow Palace”, which originally appeared in “Black Feathers” (edited by Ellen Datlow).

 

ToC

“Sunflower Junction,” Simon Avery (Black Static #57)
“Swift to Chase,” Laird Barron (Adam’s Ladder: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction)
“Fallow,” Ashley Blooms (Shimmer #37)
“Children of Thorns, Children of Water,” Aliette de Bodard (Exclusive for The House...

It’s Friday

Five Weird Books for Strange Times by Paul Di Filippo

Thanks to Paul Di Filippo for featuring “All the Fabulous Beasts”  as one of his five weird books for strange times, in his essay for Barnes & Noble Review.

“Having published her first story only in 2005, Priya Sharma has taken until now to amass a volume’s worth of her tales, but the wait has been amply repaid. The sixteen items in her debut collection, All the Fabulous Beasts, show her to be a young adept at stories that specialize in eerie transformations and dead-end lives broken b...

Something to look forward to…

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Out in March 2019. More information is on The Spider’s House, Nina Allan’s blog.