Apex Magazine has today announced the launch of their Holiday Horrors Flash Fiction Competition. With a hard limit of only 250 words in which to craft your horrifying holiday tale, flash fiction is a challenge for all writers! There’s a $25 prize for the winner, as well as getting their work published in Issue #121 of Apex Magazine. The competition
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that C.L. Clark will be the new SFWA Blog Editor. She takes over from the previous incumbent Todd Vandermark, who stepped down earlier this year. C.L. Clark has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing from Indiana University and is currently best know as one of the co-editors
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The Sunburst Award Society has announced that The Sunburst Awards For Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic will be going on Hiatus. The incredible global impact of the Covid-19 virus has taken another victim, although it seems that this one will not be a permanent closure. The Sunburst Award Society announced the hiatus on their website, full quote below,
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Dark Moon Digest, a quarterly magazine from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, have launched Night Frights magazine, an annual release aimed at Young Adults. In this inaugural edition of our annual young adult magazine, monsters take revenge on a school board who cancels Halloween; a kid and some teens try to get a balloon out of a tree; witches recruit a
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Celebrated author of the Legacy of Orïsha fantasy series, Tomi Adeyemi, has received an unexpected accolade in the form of making Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2020. At only 27 years of age, Tomi Adeyemi is already no stranger to success, having already taken home an Andre Norton award and a Hugo Lodestar award for
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This year’s Arthur C Clarke award was announced in unusual style with last year’s winner, Tade Thompson, having the honour of tweeting the news. That’s right, the announcement was tweeted. 2020, right? The honour of this year’s award goes to Namwali Serpell for her novel The Old Drift. In a series of tweets announcing the win, Tade Thompson had this
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With the previously announced launch of the Ad Astra Imprint from House of Zeus, today we’re bringing you a very special Out This Week! feature on all of their launch titles! 1st October 2020 – Hold Up the Sky – Cixin Liu A collection of award-winning short stories – a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Liu’s writing takes the
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29th September – Battle Ground – Jim Butcher Things are about to get serious for Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional Wizard, in the next entry in the No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Dresden Files. Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red
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22nd September 2020 – The Immortal Words – Jeff Wheeler To defeat an immortal evil, a young warrior must enter the land of the dead in the spellbinding conclusion to Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s epic Grave Kingdom trilogy. As kingdoms fall, brave young warrior Bingmei fights to fulfill a prophecy and save what’s left of the world from the
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15th September 2020 – The Trouble With Peace – Joe Abercrombie Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the next instalment of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . . Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune
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