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Carlos Ximenez

Carlos Ximenez’s ethnographic photography is focused on winter masquerades of Iberian Peninsula.

“ I photograph historical relics “

Carlos Ximenez

Carlos González Ximénez (@carlos_ximenez) • Instagram photos

Molotov Issue 4

Kush led me into the bathroom on our wedding night. The white tiles and mirrors made me nervous.

Then I saw he’d already laid out a steel tray on the marble counter containing syringes, needles, ampoules and packs of dressings. The scalpel looked small and innocuous. My lip curled, revealing my teeth.

“Feral”

Kush mi ha condotto in bagno la prima notte di nozze. Le piastrelle bianche e gli specchi mi rendevano nervosa.
Poi ho visto che aveva già posato sul lavandino di marmo un vassoio d’acciai...

Grand Prix de I’Imaginaire

The shortlist for the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honouring the best SF/F work published in France in 2021, has been announced. Winners will be announced during the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo, France to be held June 4-6 2022. For more information, see the official website.

Finalists:

I am absolutely thrilled to make this list in Foreign Short Fiction group with “Ormeshadow” (Le Belial Editions).

https://www.belial.fr/priya-sharma/ormeshadow

French Novel

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Revelations

22nd April is Earth Day, when EARTHDAY.ORG, together with their partners, present the Earth Day Climate Action Summit. Their aim is to find solutions to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep the global temperature below 1,5°C. You can watch a livestream of their discussions which includes ‘Environment in a Time f War’ and ‘Regenerative Agriculture’s Role in Restoring Our Earth’. Find out more here.

EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate, and activat...

Egg

Thanks to Kristin Holland of Nocturnal Transmissions for featuring my short story on his latest episode.

Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair

Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair by Rosalind Lyons

Rosalind Lyons is an illustrator and a lecturer in art and design. Her influences include the Renaissance art of Italy and Northern Europe, Elizabethan and Jacobean protraiture, and Shakespeare’s plays.

Weird Tales

Issue 365, cover art by Lynne Hansen

I am extremely excited to be in the latest edition of Weird Tales alongside a fantastic line up. Thanks to editor Jonathan Maeberry for including my story, ‘Tales From Alexandria’.

Jonathan took over as editor of the latest incarnation of the iconic magazine in 2019. As a teen I was a huge fan of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, so to a footnote in the pages of a magazine that published his work is a big thrill.

Issue 365 is available for pre-order now...

Auction for the Ukraine

Johnny Mains, well known author, editor, and genre historian, has arranged an online auction to raised proceeds for the Red Cross Ukraine appeal.

Bidders will donate directly to the Red Cross and most of the lots will be sent out directly from the donors.

There are some fantastic things on sale- art, books, bluerays, and scripts. For example there are signed novels from Lucie McKnight Hardy, Laura Purcell, Alison Moore, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, and Andrew Michael Hurley, to name a few...

2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations

I am honoured to make the longlist for 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations | File 770 in the Short Foreign Fiction category for ‘Ormeshadow’. It’s terrific to make it this far, alongside some fantastic authors – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Egan, Livia Llewellyn, Yûsuke Miyauchi, Anjali Sachdeva, Lucius Shepard , Hirotaka Tobi, and William T. Vollmann.

Je suis honorée de faire partie de la première sélection du Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire...

Pomegranates

I am delighted to become part of the Absinthe Book family with ‘Pomegranates’, out later this year.

Absinthe Books is a novella imprint of PS Publishing, edited by Marie O’Regan.

Their current titles includes work by Laura Mauro, SJI Holliday, and George Mann. Other writers slated for 2022 are Angela Slatter, Cavan Scott, Jen Williams, M.R. Carey and Louise Carey.