HOZ First Issue Makes New Year’s Day Debut
We are very excited to announce that we rang in this new decade with the launch of our very first release — The HOUSE OF ZOLO’S JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE LITERATURE, VOLUME 1. We’ve been working for many months with twenty-eight talented writers and poets and are so proud to share this incredible volume of short stories and poetry with the world.
So I’m a day late, but The House of Zolo has made good its promise to publish the premiere issue of the HOZ JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE LITERATURE (see November 21, October 7, et al.) on the first [image error]day of 2020. My story in this one is a reprint, “Golden Age,” going all the way back to MINDSPARKS for Spring 1994 (more recently republished in Smart Rhino Publications’s ZIPPERED FLESH 3, cf. February 3 2017, et al.). But for the volume as a whole, let us let the publishers themselves tell us.
In this exciting new collection, writers and poets from around the world conjure fractured dimensions, cast dark nightmares, and offer alternatives to the apocalypse as they navigate to the very edges of time and back. Delving into themes of post-humanity, future-shock, and the consequences of climate change, these short stories and poems fearlessly explore what it means to be human. Alternately dark and hopeful, heartbreaking and humorous, this volume contains stories and poems to spark the imagination and inspire new perspectives on the future.
Curated and edited by Nihls Andersen and Erika Steeves with guest poetry editor, Jon Parsons, HOZ’s Journal of Speculative Literature is an international collection of short stories and poems by some of today’s most compelling writers: Jessica Barksdale, Joe Baumann, L. X. Beckett, Melanie Bell, Jenny Blackford, Robert Borski, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, M. S. Chari, Deborah L. Davitt, Joe DiCicco, Steve Dillon, James Dorr, Kevin Freeman, Amelia Gorman, Vince Gotera, Russell Hemmel, Richard Leis, E. H. Lupton, JBMulligan, Jennifer Loring, Sally McBride, Stephen McQuiggan, Laurel Radzieski, Samannaz Rohanimanesh, George Salis, Lucy Stone, Ojo Taiye, Cohl Warren-Howles.
To see for yourself, in Kindle press here (with a print edition due as well January 7), or for EPUB the House of Zolo’s own site here.
