I was gobsmacked (in the best possible way) to learn this morning that Barbara Krasnoff‘s story from Clockwork Phoenix 5, “Sabbath Wine,” is a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story! To celebrate, and to make the task easier for Nebula voters, we’ve made the story available online here for all to read. You can also watch Barbara read excerpts from her story during the February 2016 New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. I’m honored to

I’m thrilled to report that Suzanne J. Willis‘s surreal sorcery story “The Cartographer’s Price” from Mythic Delirium 3.1 (July–September 2016) is a finalist for the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Story. The Aurealis Awards recognize achievements in Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with the results decided by panels of judges. The winners will be announced April 14; we wish Suzanne the best of luck. “The Cartographer’s Price” was one of the most popular stories on our site during

The new month brings new features from the January–March issue. Our fiction feature for February, “The Famine King” by Darcie Little Badger, presents the legend of the wendigo from an ingeniously original angle. Beth Cato’s poem “Preventative Measures” suggests practical advice for battling monsters at an early age, while Jane Yolen’s “Feisty Girls” describes the sort of children Baba Yaga endorses. If you don’t want to wait to read the rest of the issue, and you don’t want to miss

So here’s a fun thing I realized I could do. Inspired by my colleagues over at Black Gate, where, in another geologic era, I was a quasi-occasional guest blogger, I’ve assembled a list of the most-read stories and poems on this website from the beginning of July through the end of December 2016. Why only half the year? I’ll try to keep it short and amusing. I’m not a luddite, but neither am I a technophile, so I don’t rush

Short fiction review site Tangent Online has released its 2016 Recommended Reading List, which includes eight of the twenty stories from Clockwork Phoenix 5. They are:   “The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe “The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw “Innumerable Glimmering

Mythic Delirium starts off 2017 with a new issue and new ways to subscribe. As of this month, we’ve joined Amazon Newsstand, which means that it’s now possible to purchase full-year subscriptions to Mythic Delirium through Kindle. My thanks to Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke, both for encouraging me to keep trying when initial corporate responses seemed unreceptive, and then for patiently talking me through the counter-intuitive setup process, heh, heh. So here’s a full directory for where you can subscribe

So this is the fun part of putting together these Clockwork Phoenix anthologies, or at least one of the most fun parts. Two of the stories from Clockwork Phoenix 5 have been picked to reappear in “Best of the Year” anthologies. Rich Larson‘s “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” has pulled a double whammy. His stunningly poetic tale of an octopoid alien society’s struggle with superstition will be reappearing in both Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 and Gardner

It’s that time — in fact, a bit past the time — to create a post that makes it easier for readers to peruse all the things we published in 2016, for purposes of consideration for awards, or simply for the fun of exploring and catching up on what you might have missed. In April, we produced Clockwork Phoenix 5, the newest installment in our anthology series showcasing “stories of beauty and strangeness” and our biggest yet. The book itself

So here we are, almost to the end of 2016, and our last pieces of featured fiction and poetry for the year are available now for everybody to read. In Chris Reinhardt’s first published story, “Fade to Glass,” we get a charming combination of the comical and mystical, as a hapless soul’s strange condition attracts cult worship and government experiments. Accomplished poets Sandi Leibowitz and Jeannine Hall Gailey, whose many contributions go back to our days as a print zine,

Looking for something to read that isn’t (overtly) about partisan politics? The November features from our October-December 2016 issue (click here to view) have gone live. Here’s what we’ve got for you: In the tradition of Robert W. Service, TJ Radcliffe offers a verse narrative about dark supernatural doings across the sands of Mars in “The Revenge of Hillier’s Belle.” In our first featured poem, “Champagne Ivy,” Gwynne Garfinkle explores the tragedy of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde from a