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19/07/2024

In a word ... magic ...

17/07/2024

New Fabulist Mag Patreon update ...

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16/07/2024

It's the latest "Short Reviews of Short Books" by the inimitable Nick Mamatas!

The most powerful stories complicate the supernatural and confront power in Cynthia Gómez's debut collection of short horror fiction, "The Nightmare Box."

https://fabulistmagazine.com/opening-the-nightmare-box-review/

16/07/2024

Fabulist frenz, take note! We just rebuilt our website on the latest WordPress platform: Please forgive the splintery bits and rough edges, which will be sanded down in the coming weeks. We are now rolling into a complete visual and UX redesign, which will last through August. Please let us know if you see anything grievously busted ... !

15/07/2024

We met the most excellent Intergalactic Gaysians krewe at the Bay Area Book Festival — great folks! They have a Kickstarter for their long-planned anthology that is worthy of your support!

Support Intergalactic Gaysians on

An Anthology of Speculative Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art

14/07/2024

Congratulations to all the Shirley Jackson Award winners, and to in the short fiction category. What a pleasure to see such great work get the recognition it deserves. This is a special award that reaches far beyond the usual suspects of speculative fiction. Kudos!

https://buff.ly/4bKAzKJ

13/07/2024

The Shirley Jackson Awards stream live from Readercon starting at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific! Best of luck to all nominees, and crossing our finders for Sciascia DeKay's "Kazti Girls"!

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. has been established ...

12/07/2024

Absolutely thrilled to learn that no less than is developing an animated feature based on the great Susanna Clarke's wonderful novel PIRANESI!

https://buff.ly/4cUc6nc

A 'Piranesi' animated feature from director Travis Knight and his renowned Oregon studio Laika is in the works, the company announced Thursday.

11/07/2024

New policy on AI/LLM-generated text from the Science & Fantasy Poetry Association: https://buff.ly/4cYP66K

Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.

09/07/2024

Writers take note!

Have you heard the news? Elizabeth Gonzalez James will be teaching two One-Day Writing Classes at the Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop! https://buff.ly/4cDo0S8

Treat yourself to MONA AT SEA here: https://buff.ly/45LDcuk
IPG: Independent Publishers Group

09/07/2024

LeVar Burton.

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02/07/2024

New gallery on The Fabulist: Photographer Dan Hintz uses a simple point-and-shoot camera to reveal New York City as a place of deep black silhouettes, luminous shadows, and hidden details.

https://fabulistmagazine.com/dark-city-lights-photographs/

20/06/2024

New book review! Nick Mamatas excavates the small town eco-horrors of Michael Shea's 'Momma Durtt.' https://fabulistmagazine.com/poisonous-spirits-michael-sheas-momma-durtt-review/

18/06/2024

Virtual memberships available for those not in the SF Bay Area!

https://locusmag.com/2023-locus-awards-weekend/

18/06/2024

We have a new, limited-edition chapbook — signed by the author! Jen Burke Anderson's wild 'n' weird bit of "Dostoevsky fan fiction," set in San Francisco during the 2008 financial crisis, is an atmospheric, vivid, darkly comic and deeply engrossing work of imagination, social context, character development and crafted prose. Get yours while you can ...

https://fabulistmagazine.com/product/the-constantly-unfolding-horrors-of-vasily-nikoleyevich-by-jen-burke-anderson/

18/06/2024

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR • There lived in San Francisco a certain Vasily Nikoleyevich, whose horror regarding the state of the world was well known and much discussed in the bars, cafés and music halls of Mission Prospekt. Now, on the brink of the 2008 financial crisis, we find the young man unwashed, unemployed, alone except for the company of his increasingly unhinged father—and the visitations of an archangel of apocalyptic beauty. Is it salvation, the End of Days, or just another degenerate s*x fantasy? Jen Burke Anderson applies a layer of hallucinatory strangeness to modern despair and anomie in this darkly comic work of "Dostoevsky fan fiction."...

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR • There lived in San Francisco a certain Vasily Nikoleyevich, whose horror regarding the state of the state of the world was well known and much discussed in the bars, cafés and music halls of Mission Prospekt. Now, on the brink of the 2008 financial crisis, we find the young...

17/06/2024

We're thrilled to share that Sciascia DeKay's Kazti Girls, first published online in our pages on June 9. 2023, and then as a Fabulist Editions print chapbook last November, has been chosen as a finalist in the short fiction category by the jurors of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards. Per the awards press release: Boston, MA (June 2024) — …...

We’re thrilled to share that Sciascia DeKay’s Kazti Girls, first published online in our pages on June 9. 2023, and then as a Fabulist Editions print chapbook last November, has been chosen as a finalist in the short fiction category by the jurors of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards. Per the awar...

17/06/2024

The Old World charm of the City masks an urban labyrinth with no exits, and shadows with strange, shivering depths. It's a place where museum visits and walking tours provide cover for a clandestine mission that's more like a waking dream — rife with unsigned letters, surreptitious communiques, disquieting glimpses, and the elusive hope of escape. This unique, limited-edition chapbook features lush, deep-noir urban photography by Daniel Hintz, and was translated from the Bulgarian by Peter Bachev....

The Old World charm of the City masks an urban labyrinth with no exits, and shadows with strange, shivering depths. It’s a place where museum visits and walking tours provide cover for a clandestine mission that’s more like a waking dream — rife with unsigned letters, surreptitious communiques...

11/06/2024

So um, there's going to be a writing residence in the Le Guin household ...

https://apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd

08/06/2024

We are *thrilled* to share that Sciascia DeKay's dark fantasy "Kazti Girls" has been nominated by the jurors of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards in their Short Fiction category! CONGRATULATIONS, Sciascia!

"They have a tradition in the City of Azturaj of inviting Kazti girls into their homes to celebrate the year’s end ..."

There are no easy answers in Dutch author Sciascia DeKay’s strange parable of ritualized injustice in a prosperous fantasy city. Recalling Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” DeKay’s unusual narrative explores the tension between cherished traditions, institutionalized abuse, and the earnest, impotent gestures of those who would try to make amends for wounds that strike too deep.

06/06/2024

Super rad tee for the Out of Season cassette label worn by the most excellent husband of at the Bay Area Book Fest. (Check out her story “The Ice House at the End of the World” on www.fabulistmagazine.com)

05/06/2024

Lovely day at the Bay Area Book Festival with of and !!!!

31/05/2024

Hello Fabulist fen and family! We're thrilled to share some literary news amidst the hurlyburly and high stakes of this moment in human history ... On June 2! This Sunday! Come find us at the Bay Area Book Festival, where we will be selling chapbooks old and new from 11am-5pm in MLK Jr. Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley. We'll be sharing a booth with our excellent pals from Tachyon Publications, who will have an abundance of high-quality speculative reads available for all seekers....

Hello Fabulist fen and family! We’re thrilled to share some literary news amidst the hurlyburly and high stakes of this moment in human history … On June 2! This Sunday! Come find us at the Bay Area Book Festival, where we will be selling chapbooks old and new from 11am-5pm in MLK Jr. Civic Cent...

22/05/2024

Some great tales in here, including a few gems from The Fabulist.

For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of May, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Asian American and Pacific Islander American writers they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry Collections   The Voice o...

20/05/2024

I mean, a pickle car.

17/05/2024

Hello, Fabulist frenz! We just launched a new book-review column by Nick Mamatas — "Short Reviews of Short Books" ... 500 word reviews of books 300 pages or less. We've got an interview with Nick about the column on our Patreon, worth a read!

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