A huge thanks to John Siddique and the WritersMosaic team for including me as a featured writer.
I wrote three pieces for them, which are included in audio and text version: Medicine, Literature and Writing, My Favourite Book, and What Do You Value in the Natural World?
There’s also a conversation with John.
WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, is an online magazine and developmental resource focused on UK writers of the global majority, reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future.
Thanks to the Carina Bissett, a very talented writer, who has included me in her series of interviews for Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Women in Horror Month celebration.
Sono molto orgogliosa che TUTTE LE FAVOLOSE BESTIE sia disponibile in Italia.
Ringrazio di cuore il team di Moscabianca Edizioni per il loro impegno, in particolare Lucrezia Pei (traduttrice), Silvia La Posta (editore) e Diletta Crudeli (responsabile editoriale), Alan Bassi (editor) e Francesca Ditoma (correttrice di bozze). La copertina è di Kotaro Chiba.
Questo libro è stato originariamente pubblicato in inglese da Mike Kelly della Undertow Publications nel 2018. Ha vinto un British Fantasy Award, lo Shirley Jackson Award ed è stato finalista al Locus Award.
Ringrazio anche il mio agente, Alex Cochran, per aver reso tutto questo possibile.
Ho avuto la fortuna di essere ospite a Stranimondi a Milano nel 2022 in occasione della pubblicazione della mia novella, ORMESHADOW (Hypnos Edizioni). È stata un’esperienza emozionante: sono rimasta colpita dal loro amore per la narrativa di genere e da quanto tutti siano stati calorosi e accoglienti. Che persone fantastiche. Ed è stato un piacere incontrare Silvia La Posta di Moscabianca Edizioni, che mi ha donato una copia di MONSTRORUM HISTORIA, che è semplicemente stupendo.
I am very proud that TUTTE LE FAVOLOSE BESTIE is now available in Italy.
Massive thanks to the team at Moscabianca Edizioni for their hard work on this, specifically Lucrezia Pei (translator), Silvia La Posta (publisher) and Diletta Crudeli (editorial director), Alan Bassi (editor), and Francesca Ditoma (copy editor). The cover art is by Kotaro Chiba.
This book was originally published in English by Mike Kelly of Undertow Publications in 2018. It won a British Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and was a Locus Award finalist.
My thanks also go to my agent, Alex Cochran, for making this happen.
I was very fortunate to attend Stranimondi in Milan as a guest in 2022 for the publication of my novella, ORMESHADOW by Hypnos Edizioni. It was a thrilling experience- I was struck by their love for genre fiction and how warm and welcoming everyone was. What a wonderful bunch of people. It was also a pleasure meeting Moscabianca Edizioni’s Silvia La Poste who gave me a copy of MONSTRUM HISTORIA which is just beautiful.
Hardback out in September 2024 in hardback from Titan. Preorder here.
Edited by Johnny Mains.
Storied by CHARLIE HIGSON, AK BENEDICT, ALISON MOORE, ERIC LaROCCA, NADIA BULKIN, LUCIE McKNIGHT HARDY, PRIYA SHARMA, ISY SUTTIE, KIM NEWMAN, ZIN ROCKLYN, AG SLATTER, AMANDA DeBORD, JEREMY DYSON, RAMSEY CAMPBELL, ROBERT SHEARMAN, GUY ADAMS, ELIZABETH HAND and ADAM CESARE.
Anthologist Paula Guran has announced the contents of Volume 5 of The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror.
Paula Guran has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than fifty novels and collections featuring the same. She’s reviewed and written articles for dozens of publications.
Table of Contents
“The Crease”, Simon Avery (Black Static 82/83)
“Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny #50)
“All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10”, Isabel Cañas (The Deadlands #30)
“Resurrection Highway”, A. R. Capetta (The Sunday Morning Transport 9/3/2023)
“Return to Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror, ed. E. Datlow)
“The Demon Lord of Broken Concrete”, Alex Irvine (Bourbon Penn #30)
“The Witch Is Not the Monster”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (The Book of Witches, ed. J. Strahan)
Fantasycon is the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society. Fantasycon is attended by members and non-members, including authors, agents, publishers, bloggers, reviewers, and podcasters.
This year it will be held on 11th-13th October at The Queen at Chester Hotel, City Road, Chester.
I was surprised and delighted to be asked to be a Guest of Honour this year, alongside Stephen Aryan, and a third guest who is yet to be announced.
Thanks to fellow writer Oilver Arditi who has included me in a series of irregular interviews he is doing over on his website
If anything has become clear to me in the time I’ve been taking an interest in writing, it’s that writers are an exceedingly diverse bunch of people, and that the ways in which they approach their craft are equally various. The focus of this blog is not intended to be a creative or critical approach to writing so much as a practical one, one which should be of use to both aspiring and practising writers—and who could tell us about the nitty-gritty of the writing life with greater authority than writers themselves? Bearing in mind the great diversity of writing, writers, and their lifestyles, I intend to speak to writers whose working and writing lives are as heterogeneous as possible. Hopefully, somewhere in all that variety, you will find an account that seems relevant to your own circumstances, or a description of a life-/workstyle that you can imagine yourself inhabiting.
Thanks to Jamie Mollart for reviewing “Pomegranates” for the British Science Fiction Association.
Pomegranates reimagines the classic Greek myth of Demeter, Persephone and Hades, but it’s much more than that. It’s an expansion of the myth, which at the same time feels intimate, bringing the Gods to a level of a (very) dysfunctional family operating in a modern world firmly in the thrall of climate change. A climate change caused by the squabbling Gods stopping doing their jobs and instead live amongst human society, it being the implication of them exacting revenge for the ills done against them by each other and humanity.
What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?
This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon, and Cat Rambo. The interviews clarify how the junction of genre and gender is a key element to understanding this literary field, while simultaneously contextualizing and theorizing the interview itself, as a literary genre and a research tool.
From Bloomsbury Publishing
I am hugely indebted to Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona for including me in the line-up, which includes Eugen Bacon, Francesca Barbini, J. S. Breukelaar, V. Castro, Ellen Datlow, Gemma Files, Elizabeth Hand, Marie Howalt, Ai Jiang, Penny Jones, Margaret Killjoy, Kathe Koja, Anya Martin, Angela Mi Young Hur, Jane Mondrup, Lisa Morton, Malka Older, Nuzo Onoh, Cat Rambo, Tricia Reeks, Angela Slatter, Ann VanderMeer, and Kaaron Warren.
Whiskey and the Weird is a podcast by Damien Smith, Jessica Berg, and Ryan Whitley, in which they explore The Tales of the Weird series published by the British Library.
They’ve made an exception for their Halloween special, featuring my story “The Ghost a Flea”, which was included in Ellen Datlow’s anthology Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous.
The story is based on William Blake’s wonderful painting The Ghost of a Flea.
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