As of this morning, all 12 of the original stories we published in the digital pages of Mythic Delirium in 2014 are free to read online. This seems the best and fairest time for our official awards eligibility post, as award consideration season is just getting underway.   All of these works are short stories by the standard of just about every award out there. Only Ken Schneyer’s story, I think, could be categorized as science fiction; all the rest

We’re pleased to present our featured content for December, the final story and pair of poems from Mythic Delirium 1.2 and the last of our regular features for 2014. In this month’s offerings:   • In what we’re calling, with tongue-in-cheek, our “holiday story,” (heh, heh) Nathaniel Lee offers a unique perspective on the sighting of angels in “All the Tribes of the Earth Shall Mourn.” • In our first poem, Rose Lemberg provides us with an “Earth map,” an

As of this morning, everyone who sent in poems and stories for the Aug. 1-Oct. 1 reading window should have received a response of some kind. If you haven’t heard from me at all you should query ASAP.   Our next submission window for Mythic Delirium will be Aug. 1-Oct. 1, 2015.   #SFWApro  

The November featured content from Mythic Delirium 1.2 is live on our site, with a new story and two new poems offered free to all:   • Sonya Taaffe reveals the truth about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe in the wry “Anonymity.” Her story has already drawn praise from reviewer Charlotte Ashley in her newest “Clavis Aurea” column at Apex Magazine:   The premises is cute, but the execution is clever: in elaborate, Elizabethan-influenced English, our contemporary reality is barely

At this point I have read every poem and story that was submitted during the Aug. 1-Oct. 1 reading window. I haven’t made final decisions on every piece; I will be sending a number of responses tonight. If you haven’t heard from me by tomorrow morning (Nov. 4) you are more than welcome to query.   #SFWApro  

I’m proud to report that two stories from Clockwork Phoenix 4 were chosen to be showcased in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, edited by Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall and due out from Chizine Publications at the end of the year.   Congralulations to Gemma Files, author of “Trap-weed,” and A.C. Wise, author of “Lesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Story.” It’s wonderful to see these stories keep making waves.   In terms of award-nominated and “best

Anita and I are gonna be at the World Fantasy Convention in D.C. in two weeks, and I have my schedule in hand. Both of my scheduled events are Friday, Nov. 7:   Poetry in Fantasy: Yesterday and Today Time: 11am-12pm, Nov. 7, Regency F Panelists:Mike Allen (M), Maria Alexander, Rain Graves, David Lunde, Laurel Winter Description: Including poetry in fantasy, both by the author and quoted from other sources, used to be more common, such as Alice in Wonderland,

I’m so thrilled to announce that the first ever Mythic Delirium trade paperback anthology, with its beautiful cover from Galen Dara, is available, if not quite everywhere yet, then enough places that there’s certainly no point in keeping it a secret! (It’s basically gone live a month earlier than planned, which we had to do to have copies available for launch at the World Fantasy Convention in D.C.) I am so proud of this book and all it represents —

The newest issue of Mythic Delirium is absolutely and completely alive, stepping out from behind the Veil as Halloween approaches…   This is how I tried to explain this “eclectic even by our standards” issue in my editorial:   We’re bringing 2014 to a close with a cornucopia of offerings that don’t have a theme, per se, unless a cornucopia full of diverse offerings can itself be a theme.   To mix together some metaphors, within this patchwork quilt you’ll

I’m proud to report that the Mythic Delirium anthology, a collection that reorders the first four issues of Mythic Delirium in its new digital incarnation, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. “Proud” is kind of an understatement, actually. Read on:   Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry from well-known editor Mike Allen (Clockwork Phoenix) and his wife and copublisher, Anita Allen. Imaginative ideas abound, include