Good news for short story readers: Elwin Cotman’s new collection Weird Black Girls comes out tomorrow from Scribner. WBG has seven stories, including the long title story, which go deep and wide into weird and, to keep you on your toes, not-so-weird...

I just came across Vandana Singh’s recently published textbook Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice. You can read the introductory chapter and part of chapter two on the Routledge page and I’ve pasted in their description of the book be...

There’s a new review of Kij Johnson’s collection The Privilege of the Happy Ending in Strange Horizons by M. L. Clark — the kind of review I’d love to just paste the whole thing in instead of excerpting a strong line. Anyway, if you’ve not read the b...

Naomi Mitchison is this year’s Memorial Guest of Honor at Readercon so I’ve been trying to find a way to write a little about her. I never met her and didn’t read her until I was in my 20s. I’m not sure where I first picked up a Virago paperback copy...

Ayize Jama-Everett is coming over from Oakland to Boston on Wednesday March 27 for a showing of his documentary, A Table of Our Own: A Documentary About Black People and Psychedelics. I’ll put the trailer below. Since we don’t do events at Book Moon,...

The trailer for The Ugly Chickens, the third of three half-hour films based on Howard Waldrop’s short stories has gone up. According to George R.R. Martin, the film will be touring film festivals and so on. I am glad Howard got to see a rough cut of...

Anya Johanna DeNiro has some new readings lined up this spring for her book OKPsyche. We also found recently that it is a finalist in the Blurred Boundaries (how great!) category of  The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. Here are the readings and one...

Richard Butner has stepped in to read next Wednesday evening with Moses Ose Utomi at KGB Bar in New York City. The post Richard Butner @ KGB Bar first appeared on Small Beer Press.

We have a unique intercontinental event coming up tomorrow at 5 p.m. Central Time with Kathleen Jennings and Kelly Link talking about their first collection, Kindling: Stories (Kathleen), and first novel, The Book of Love (Kelly). We’ve worked with K...

Kelly is off to the west coast for 3 quick readings then one in Atlanta. If you go, please mask up! Info below or here. The post West Coast Link first appeared on Small Beer Press.