Welcome, readers and happy new year! For our November/December 2023 bundle we’ve got stories about a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a Canadian Recovery worker, deconstructed fairy tales, and a family with a seriously some seriously messed up holiday traditions! Plus an Everfair story and a new Mkalis Cycle story!
In our next issue, we’ll have stories from C. L. Polk, Rachel Swirsky, Maureen McHugh, Jordan Kurella, Karen Heuler, Chris Willrich, Kemi Ashing-Giwa and more!
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Our Nov/Dec 2023 Short Fiction bundle includes:
“On the Fox Roads” by Nghi Vo
“The Canadian Miracle” by Cory Doctorow
“Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale” by Kathleen Jennings
“A Heart Between Teeth” by Kerstin Hall
“Sun River” by Nisi Shawl
“The Sound of Reindeer” by Lyndsie Manusos
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About the Authors
Nghi Vo is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas Into the Riverlands, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include RED TEAM BLUES, a science fiction crime thriller; CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the LITTLE BROTHER series for young adults; IN REAL LIFE, a graphic novel; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her Australian Gothic debut, Flyaway, was published by Tordotcom (Pan Macmillan, USA) and Picador (Australia) in 2020, and has been published in French (by les Moutons électriques) in 2023. Her short fiction has been published in Tor.com, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other markets. Her debut poetry collection Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion was published by Brain Jar Press in 2020. Her writing has won the British Fantasy and Ditmar Awards, and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and The Courier Mail People’s Choice Book of the Year Award (Queensland Literary Awards). She is also a World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated illustrator. Her short story collection Kindling is to be published by Small Beer Press in January 2024, and she is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Queensland.
Kerstin Hall is the author of The Border Keeper, Second Spear, and Star Eater. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Look for her new standalone fantasy novel, ASUNDER, coming August 2024 from Tordotcom!
Nisi Shawl (they/them) is a multiple award-winning writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They’re the author of Everfair and co-author of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Other recent titles include Speculation, a middle-grade historical fantasy; a new volume of the acclaimed New Suns anthologies; and the story collection Our Fruiting Bodies. Look for Kinning, the much-anticipated sequel to Shawl’s acclaimed Everfair, available everywhere on January 23, 2024.
Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Deadlands, and other publications. Her work has appeared on the Locus Recommended Reading List, been nominated for a Pushcart, and mentioned in one of Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Fiction roundups. She’s the associate flash fiction editor for jmww, writes for Book Riot and Publishers Weekly, all while trying to keep up with her two young children. You can read more about Lyndsie at lyndsiemanusos.com.
