@cbarzak
🏳️🌈 Author: One for Sorrow, The Love We Share Without Knowing, Wonders of the Invisible World, Before & Afterlives, The Gone Away Place, Monstrous Alterations, and A Voice Calling. Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single Author Collection. Stonewall Honor.
The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.
Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.
High drama and high CAMP!
Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops!
BACK THE BOOK TODAY!
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Happy to announce I wrote a new short story at the beginning of the year, which was recently accepted. "The Last Season of Your Life" will appear in Lightspeed Magazine, probably sometime this summer. Excited to be in their pages again with a new story!
the deadlands ISSUE 41
with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved
IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD
check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle
It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
Stories from: Christopher Barzak, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Maguire, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Catherynne M. Valente, Marly Youmans, Greer Gilman, Lavie Tidhar, David Prill, Gavin Grant, Peter S. Beagle
On sale for $2.99 in Canada and the US. For the whole month.
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I’m so excited for my former student, Mary Carroll Leoson, whose short story collection, Devil’s Oak has finally released! I wrote the introduction to this gorgeous volume of supernatural and fantastical stories, and I’m happy to encourage others to pick up her book and love them as much as I do!
The Coyote Road edited by Terri Windling and me is on sale now $1.99 in Canada, GB, and US via open road-spread the news please: openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-co...
ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED
2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com
3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November
go see! 👇
🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈
@bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors.
💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color)
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Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives
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Jenny Magazine's 2026 submission portal for issue number 24 (!) is open! Please send us your best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It's an open themed issue. And featured visual artists, please send us your work too!
jennymag.submittable.com/submit
Thank you, Charles!
Thanks, Paul!
I’m honored to share that I’ve been named Graduate Alumni of the Year by Chatham University. This recognition means a lot to me and the work I’ve done as a writer since graduating with my MFA. Photo of me back when I was a student at Chatham below. It’s been a while, but I’m still smiling.
when the cold steps well into your morning
and the days are noticeably shorter
WE shall come into our FULL POWER
and we will be
raising funds
not raising the dead
but selling the coins that take you THERE
⏳💀🎃🪙
october 1st - october 31st
<New Story Day>
My latest flash piece is now live at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social !
A dash of surrealism, a sprinkle of meta, and a cup of those swirling bubbles that transport you between scenes.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elad...
It's really book birthday month, right?
seriously, this one is a DELIGHT and we really think you're gonna love it 🖤
buy at the link below ⬇️
Christopher said: "Chloe Clark is a master of blending the everyday with the strange, the supernatural, and the sublime. In Every Galaxy A Circle, she takes us far, far away, and brings us home again, whole yet changed.” —Christopher Barzak
I have looked up to Christopher Barzak's writing since I read One for Sorrow when it first came out. Monstrous Alterations might be my fave though, such dazzling work:
So happy to have blurbed Chloe's amazing new book!
"Summer in the House of the Departed is a luminous journey into the delicate boundary between life and death. With prose that sings." @cbarzak.bsky.social author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated A Voice Calling
this one is weird and wise and ORDER HERE
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Today was my 50th (!?!) birthday. Now for something sweet—orange olive oil cake—made by my sweet man. (Thank you, Connor, you made today so special💗). Looking forward to as many more years and sweets as I’m allowed.
Back from the Jackson Awards w/ a nomination stone. I won a Jackson for Best Collection in 2013, but you still get a stone even if you win. A few more and I’ll build a black box that no one in the village can remember where it came from, just that it’s always been part of the annual tradition.
Cover of the World Outside with the following text: “A cabinet of marvels and curiosities await you in Elad Haber’s debut, The World Outside. From fairy tales to fabulism, and scifi to dark fantasy, you’ll encounter a spectrum of the strange and delightful here. Haber’s vision gazes toward the world outside, but there are many worlds to explore inside these pages. You won’t regret the trip.” —Christopher Barzak, author of Before and Afterlives.
To continue my "Posting Party" to celebrate the one year anniversary of my book's release, how about some nice comments from fellow writers?
Here is my friend @cbarzak.bsky.social with some lovely praise.
Thank you so much!
My first novel, One for Sorrow, is being released in translation in Poland on July 29th by Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo. Here’s the cover and description. I’m always surprised and grateful that my work, even my earliest writing, is still out there wending its way through the world.
Unknown bucket list item: boyfriend winning me a teddy bear at a Pride festival. #pride2025
