Let's see what SH contributors got up to elsewhere this month:

New books: Two excellent debuts make it Stateside: Nina Allan's The Race (Dan Hartland was enthusiastic about the UK edition for us in 2014) and Indra Das's The Devourers (Salik Shah praised the Indian edition for us last year). Rose Lemberg's An Alphabet of Embers is "an anthology of unclassifiables" that Karen Burnham said "leaves a lasting impression of weight, survival, and beauty"; it includes work by Sara Norja, Sonya Taaffe, Sofia Samatar, Kari Sperring, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Shweta Narayan and many others. Joanne Merriam's anthology The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom includes stories by Aidan Doyle, Leonard Richardson, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and others. (And see the poetry section below for Rose's other book this month!) Stefon Mears's new novel is The House on Cedar Street, a supernatural thriller. Karen Myers's latest novel is Broken Devices, third in her The Chained Adept series. And Michael R. Underwood's The Substitute Sleuth is the fourth in his Genrenauts series.

A busy month for new stories: Charlie Jane Anders, Nalo Hopkinson, Ken Liu, Lavie Tidhar and others have stories in Jonathan Strahan's latest anthology, Drowned Worlds (I particularly liked the Anders, personally). Lawrence Schimel translated "Havana Hemicrania" by Cuban writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, for Litro. The latest Lightspeed included Genevieve Valentine's "Small Medicine" and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz's "Magnifica Angelica Superable, among others. Nina Allan also had a fresh story at Tor.com: "The Art of Space Travel." Guardbridge Books' Myriad Lands anthologies include stories by Daniel Ausema, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and others. Rich Larson, A. C. Wise, Ursula Pflug and others have stories in Strangers Among Us, "Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts." José Pablo Iriarte has a new one at Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: "Of Unions, Intersections, and Empty Sets." Laura E. Price is in Betwixt with "File 29520: Notes from Immediate Aftermath of Attack by New Villain,'The Daemon'." Alison Wilgus's latest is at Daily SF: "A Wrinkle Ironed Out." Margaret Killjoy can be found at Fireside, with "Imagine a World So Forgiving." L. S. Johnson's "We Are Sirens" is in the World Weaver Press anthology Sirens. At Beneath Ceaseless Skies this month, you could find Rachael K. Jones's The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles" and E. Catherine Tobler's "Ebb Stung by the Flow." Interzone 265 includes Andrew Kozma's "The Inside-Out." And the latest Shimmer includes Natalia Theodoridou's "The Singing Soldier", Nicasio Andreas Reed's "Painted Grassy Mire", and more. James Dorr's "Gold" and Linda Addison's "Finding Water to Catch Fire" can be found in The Beauty of Death: The Gargantuan Book of Horror Tales. Orrin Grey has a choose-your-own adventure story in Swords vs Cthulhu. In audioland, Benjamin C. Kinney's "Sweeter Than Lead" is a Podcastle original, while Michelle Ann King's flash "There You Are, My Love" appeared at Manawaker Studio. And Susannah Mandel's "Three Ladies of the Evening", an ekphrastic story under the byline of Z. Finch, will be in the debut issue of Big Echo, a magazine of "Critical SF" launching this coming week (6 August, to be precise).

New poetry: Rose Lemberg's new poetry anthology Spelling the Hours is a collection "celebrating the forgotten others of Science and Technology", and includes Lisa Bradley's "A Personal History of the Universal History of the Things of New Spain", about the creation of the Florentine Codex, Sonya Taaffe's "The Clock House" and "Philasian Investigations", A. J. Odasso's "The Augr Effect" and plenty more. Neil Graham has three poems in the latest Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (and Molly Gloss has one, and there's lots else as well). Deborah P. Kolodji's Highway of Sleeping Towns is a collection of haiku and senryu, and her first full-length collection. Star*Line 39.3 includes Davian Aw's "sacrificial virgin", Salik Shah's "Channel Earth", and plenty more. The latest Mythic Delirium includes Ada Hoffmann's poem "Million-Year Elegie: Edmontonia" and Lynette Mejía's "Half in Love with Easeful Death." Jessy Randall has two poems at Eclectica. Akua Lezli Hope is in Rattle ("Endangered"), Yellow Chair Review ("Domesstick"), and New Verse News. And Elizabeth Barrette's poetry fishbowl this month had themes of "is there a word for that feeling? and anything goes.

Not so busy on the non-fiction: front this month, but Carmen Maria Machado's hyperlink essay "The Morals of the Stories" appeared at Tiny Donkey; Peg Duthie wrote about Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" for Vary the Line; Tom Speelman's pieces at Comics Alliance this month include histories of Tarzan and Star Trek comics, his continuing Screen & Page column, and a review of the volleyball manga Haikyu!!; and David C. Kopaska-Merkel's Footprints in Stone, co-authored with Ron Buta, chronicles the discovery, study, and preservation of a 300 million-year-old trace fossil site in northern Alabama.