I recently came across Dr. Billy J. Stratton’s LA Review of Books article on Claire G. Coleman’s novel Terra Nullius, They [Do Not] Come in Peace: On Claire G. Coleman’s “Terra Nullius” LA Review of Books and I’m happy to say it references one of my...

Kathleen Jennings, along with Helen Marshall and Jo Anderton, received the Aurealis Convenors’ Award for Excellence for their article “Science fiction for hire? Notes towards an emerging practice of creative futurism”! (read here) The post Aurealis C...

Over at Weightless Michael has found a way — with help from our friends at Interzone — to make LCRW available as an ebook in both the EU and the UK using Payhip. I am very grateful to everyone that 1) there’s a solution and 2) it was implementable. I...

Brisbane Square Library has booked Kathleen Jennings for a local launch event for her debut collection, Kindling on Friday 14 June, 6 p.m.* AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time). * Flat Earthers please note the time is local, no matter where you li...

Delighted to see Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places is a finalist for the Locus Award for best short story collection — along with one of her stories and one novelette.* Small Beer is a finalist which I take it to mean that all of our 2023 titles were much...

This past weekend Kelly and I and our kid (cropped out of photo above) went to Mass MoCA. I think this might be the first museum I’ve been to since the start of the Covid pandemic and the first time I’ve been to a museum since I came down with Long C...

Anya Johanna DeNiro will be in New York next week for two readings from her novel OKPsyche, both of which are with top notch readers. John Wiswell will be reading from his debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, on Wednesday at the KGB Bar Fant...

LCRW 48 The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48 first appeared on Small Beer Press.

Every month is cruel yet April still tries to claim the mantle of cruelest. Why the big mood? Powell’s is digging into it with a Big Mood Sale: Feel the love, or the angst, or the joy, or all the feelings, as long as they’re BIG. Enjoy big savings on...

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...