A little weekend reading for those of you not at LoneStarCon 3, with our monthly round-up of SH contributor news.
Here are some new stories. Unlikely Story (co-edited by AC Wise) has published its latest issue, including a new story by Rose Lemberg. The August Clarkesworld includes Vandana Singh's "Cry of the Kharchal" and Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Found", among others. Ken Liu has two stories out, detective story "The Ligatrix" at GigaNotoSaurus and historical fantasy "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" in Lightspeed. (Congrats also to Ken for his WSFA small press award nomination for "Good Hunting", which we published here last year.) Tracy Canfield has a story in issue two of Crowded Magazine: “House Cats”, in which a pride of elderly lady werepanthers must deal with a young, irresponsible, and very male werepanther who’s turned up on their territory. At AE, you'll find Ada Hoffman's entertainingly titled "An Operatic Tour of New Jersey, With Raptors". Connie Wilkins' "Ten Thousand Miles" appears in Shades of Blue and Gray: Civil War Ghost Stories, edited by Steve Berman for Prime Books. The latest Apex includes Charlie Jane Anders' "Victimless Crimes" and Christopher Barzak's "Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster". Andrew Kozma's "Breach of Contract" is in Lost Worlds, Retraced, from Third Flatiron Publishing. James S Dorr's humerous sword-and-sorcery tale "All Swords Melt" appears in Gaia's Misfits, a young adult fantasy anthology. Tom Doyle's "AI Oh! is in Perihelion. Multiple SH alums can be found in Glitter and Mayhem, from Apex Books: stories by Jennifer Pelland, Alan DeNiro, David J Schwartz, Damien Walters Grintalis, Amal El-Mohtar, and Tim Pratt, among others.
On the poetry front, Elizabeth Barrette's latest fishbowl tackled "nomads". There's work by a number of SH alums in the free-to-download anthology Flying High: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry, including Gwynne Garfinkle, AC Wise, Lisa Nohealani Morton, Erik Amundsen, and Julia Rios. Similarly the latest Inkscrawl has a number of names you'll recognise, including Michele Bannister, Alexandra Seidel (twice), AJ Odasso, Romie Stott, Sonya Taaffe, Peg Duthie (also twice!) and Mari Ness. Sara Norja's "The Understanding" appears in issue 2 of Plunge, and David Kopaska-Merkel has a poem in Dark Mountain 4. And Lawrence Schimel's translation of Care Santos' "Forgetfulness" appears in the fall issue of So To Speak.
A couple of books: Joel Best's Little Fictions, a new collection of flash, is out now, as is Heiresses of Russ: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, edited by Tenea D Johnson and Steve Berman.
For non-fiction, Parabolas of Science Fiction, edited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger for Wesleyan, includes chapters by Graham Sleight, L Timmel Duchamp, Gary K Wolfe and John Rieder, among others. Paul Kincaid has been reprinting various reviews and essays at Through the Dark Labyrinth. Hal Duncan published the test of his talk from the Nine Worlds convention, "Building New Sodom". At Tor.com, Liz Bourke reviews Rae Carson's The Bitter Kingdom while Brit Mandelo discusses the first issue of Interfictions Online. And Matthew Cheney has been looking back at ten years of The Mumpsimus.
Finally, a couple of podcasts for you. Sofia Samatar chatted to Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe on the Coode Street podcast #156; while Renay guested on Skiffy and Fanty #159 talking about her Hugo votes. And in the latest Outer Alliance podcast, Julia Rios talks to Michael Damian Thomas and Shira Lipkin about the superhero poetry anthology mentioned earlier.