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I Grew Up in a Haunted House

By: Tylor James

My family and I / lived and dined / and enjoyed sunny picnics / and celebrated Christmas / with the bones inside us / silently howling

By: Yee Heng Yeh

Would the rightful owners of these 17 bodies please turn up to claim them?

Columns, Non-Fiction

Writing While Disabled

By: Petra Kuppers
By: Kristy Anne Cox

"When I can't move, I write, and those two things are deeply connected."

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories from the Radio

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

Upstairs, the prime minister is meeting with all the party members because they are worried about how to save themselves. As in, just themselves and no one else. Because they are selfish fucks.

Columns, Non-Fiction

The Myriad Drumbeats of Afrofuturism: Decolonizing Stargate (Part Two)

By: Mame Bougouma Diene

Let’s strive to make the best art we can, but never from the starting point of fear, but of personal honesty.

Monday: Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance edited by Jonathan Strahan

By: William Shaw

Wednesday: The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

By: Nicole Berland

Friday: To Climates Unknown: An Alternate History of a World Without America by Arturo Serrano

By: Andy Sawyer

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Black Gate » Articles » Adventure in the Final Days of Civilization in the British Isles: The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey on The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey
BSFA Award Shortlist – Wondrous Writing on These Constellations Will Be Yours
Eligibility in 2020 – Aphotic Ink on Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Short Fiction Round Up
Paul Jessup’s October Short Story Roundup – Vernacular Books on A Layer of Catherines
Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist | The Public Medievalist on The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RESULTS: The 2020 Ignyte Awards – FIYAH on A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century
“The Present Only Toucheth Thee” reviews | Kathleen Jennings on Podcast: The Present Only Toucheth Thee
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Sestu Hunts the Last Deer in Heaven
I Grew Up in a Haunted House
Heavy Possessions

I Grew Up in a Haunted House

By: Tylor James

My family and I / lived and dined / and enjoyed sunny picnics / and celebrated Christmas / with the bones inside us / silently howling

By: Yee Heng Yeh

Would the rightful owners of these 17 bodies please turn up to claim them?

Columns, Non-Fiction

Writing While Disabled

By: Petra Kuppers
By: Kristy Anne Cox

"When I can't move, I write, and those two things are deeply connected."

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories from the Radio

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

Upstairs, the prime minister is meeting with all the party members because they are worried about how to save themselves. As in, just themselves and no one else. Because they are selfish fucks.

Columns, Non-Fiction

The Myriad Drumbeats of Afrofuturism: Decolonizing Stargate (Part Two)

By: Mame Bougouma Diene

Let’s strive to make the best art we can, but never from the starting point of fear, but of personal honesty.

Monday: Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance edited by Jonathan Strahan

By: William Shaw

Wednesday: The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

By: Nicole Berland

Friday: To Climates Unknown: An Alternate History of a World Without America by Arturo Serrano

By: Andy Sawyer

Recent Comments

Award Eligibility (2020) - S. Qiouyi Lu on Mazes of Power by Juliette Wade
Black Gate » Articles » Adventure in the Final Days of Civilization in the British Isles: The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey on The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey
BSFA Award Shortlist – Wondrous Writing on These Constellations Will Be Yours
Eligibility in 2020 – Aphotic Ink on Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Short Fiction Round Up
Paul Jessup’s October Short Story Roundup – Vernacular Books on A Layer of Catherines
Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist | The Public Medievalist on The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RESULTS: The 2020 Ignyte Awards – FIYAH on A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century
“The Present Only Toucheth Thee” reviews | Kathleen Jennings on Podcast: The Present Only Toucheth Thee
“The Present Only Toucheth Thee” review | Kathleen Jennings on The Present Only Toucheth Thee
Paul Jessup’s September Short Story Roundup! – Vernacular Books on Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo

Issue 16 May 2022

The broken hill and the breath

By: R.B. Lemberg

i am scabs, one and legion

By: Tahnia Barrie

Sestu Hunts the Last Deer in Heaven

By: M. H. Cheung
Art by: Mateus Roberts

Monday: Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

By: Catherine Rockwood

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Wednesday: The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture by Mark Bould

By: Octavia Cade

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Friday: Spear by Nicola Griffith

By: T. S. Miller

Issue 9 May 2022

The Destination Star

By: Gregory Marlow

Half-Quarter-Life Crisis

Ave, Verum Corpus

By: Candice M. Kelsey

Podcast: 9 May Poetry

By: Candice M. Kelsey
By: Tania Chen
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza

Monday: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod

By: Redfern Jon Barrett

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Wednesday: Redder Days by Sue Rainsford

By: Zachary Gillan

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Friday: Those Fantastic Lives by Bradley Sides

Issue 2 May 2022

Heavy Possessions

i roll up to the club in a gundam

your subcutaneous mermaid

By: Sara S. Messenger

Podcast: 2 May Poetry

By: Eric Wang
By: Sara S. Messenger
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Podcast read by: Sara S. Messenger

Monday: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

By: Abigail Nussbaum

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Wednesday: […] by Ava Hofmann

By: Tristan Beiter

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Friday: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

By: Ian J. Simpson

Issue 18 Apr 2022

Podcast: 18 April Poetry

By: Blaize Kelly Strothers
By: Ken Haponek
Podcast read by: Blaize Kelly Strothers
Podcast read by: Ken Haponek
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza

the West is dead

By: Blaize Kelly Strothers

Responding to Poetry and Prose Poems (pg 36 of Practice of Creative Writing)

By: Ken Haponek

We, The Enchanted Castle

By: Mae Juniper Stokes
Art by: Amelia Leonards

Monday: Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

By: Gautam Bhatia

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Wednesday: The Villa and the Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924 by Elinor Mordaunt, edited by Melissa Edmundson

By: Duncan Lawie

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Friday: Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide

By: Maya C. James

Issue 11 Apr 2022

Coming Through in Waves

By: Samantha Murray

Dow Jones Dream

American Giants

By: Emmy Newman

Monday: Ten Low by Stark Holborn

By: Matt Holder

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Monday: Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May

By: Catherine Baker

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Friday: The Bone Shard Daughter and The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

By: Electra Pritchett

Issue 4 Apr 2022

The Elysian Job

By: Margaret Ronald

Nothing More to Say

By: Elizabeth Shvarts

By: Sonya Taaffe

Monday: The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

By: Safia H. Senhaji

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Wednesday: A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy

By: Luke Beirne

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Friday: Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

By: Christina Ladd

Issue 28 Mar 2022

Things Allergic to Sleep

By: Nora Weston

The Truth About Doppelgängers

By: Crystal Sidell

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Podcast: Critical Friends Episode 2

By: Aishwarya Subramanian, Dan Hartland, and Maureen Kincaid Speller

Articles, Non-Fiction

Wages for Dreamwork

By: Jo Lindsay Walton

Monday: Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders

By: Mark Granger

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Wednesday: A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

By: Archita Mittra

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Friday: Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction edited and translated by Xueting Christine Ni

By: Shannon Fay

Issue 21 Mar 2022

Azimuth, Editorials

March 2022 Fiction Submission Update

By: Aigner Loren Wilson

What Anger Breaks and Builds

By: Devin Miller
Art by: Alex Pernau
Podcast read by: Courtney Floyd

Curry-leaf dragon

By: Ryan Naamdhew

Datasonnet for Prince Giolo

By: Ng Yi-Sheng

Monday: Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures by Andrew Dana Hudson

By: Matt Holder

,

Wednesday: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang

By: Iori Kusano

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Friday: Undiscovered Territories by Robert Freeman Wexler

By: Jonathan Crowe

Issue 14 Mar 2022

Embroidery of a Bird’s Heart

By: Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas

By: Samuel A. Adeyemi

By: Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Podcast: 14 March Poetry

By: Samuel A. Adeyemi
By: Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Podcast read by: Samuel A. Adeyemi
Podcast read by: Lalini Shanela Ranaraja

Azimuth, Editorials

Strange Horizons 2021: Round-Up

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By: Prashanth Gopalan

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Wednesday: Breakpoint by Betsy Aoki

By: Octavia Cade

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Friday: Goddess of Limbo by Lea Falls

By: Jenny Hamilton

Issue 7 Mar 2022

By: Kay Billie Oakes

Final Resting Place

Podcast: Poetry of the 7 March Issue

By: Kay Billie Oakes
By: Gerri Leen
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza

The Pigeon Keeper|'s Daughter

Monday: The Blue-Spangled Blue by David Bowles

By: Eric Hendel

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Wednesday: Composite Creatures by Caroline Hardaker

By: David Hebblethwaite

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Friday: The Agents by Grégoire Courtois, translated by Rhonda Mullins

By: Rachel Cordasco

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