Mythic Delirium greets Spring 2017 with a heady mix that blends shades of grief and loss, yet has many rays of light to offer. Damien Angelica Walters digs to expose undercurrents of magic that guide a family through a funeral in “On Grief and the Language of Flowers: Selected Arrangements.” In Shveta Thakrar’s “Ghost Notes,” a hunger to steal the stories of others drives a sinister seduction. Barbara Krasnoff details a moving encounter between the living and the dead in

Three poems from the 2016 issues of Mythic Delirium are contenders for this year’s Rhysling Awards, given by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association to honor the best speculative poems of the year. Voting is underway as I write this. The nominated poems from Mythic Delirium are: Short Poem Category “Rusalka” by Jane Yolen   Long Poem Category “When the Gunman Comes” by Edith Hope Bishop “Im Wald” by Sandi Leibowitz Congratulations and good luck to Jane, Edie

  This sale serves as a dual celebration for Mythic Delirium Books.   We’re combining a celebration of Clockwork Phoenix 5 contributor Barbara Krasnoff’s Nebula Award nomination for her short story “Sabbath Wine” with a too-long-delayed celebration of C.S.E. Cooney’s World Fantasy Award win for her story collection Bone Swans.   We’ve reduced the prices of both ebooks to 99¢ (a $5 discount) and they’ll stay that way through March 19.   Here’s all the places you can snatch them

I dig the Outer Dark podcast and the fact it focuses on “the Weird” in a way that doesn’t limit the term to a mere synonym for horror with literary ambition, so when organizers Anya Martin and Scott Nicolay announced the first Outer Dark Symposium in Decatur, Georgia, I couldn’t resist the pull of temptation. The event takes place March 25, and I plan to be there, joining in with a very cool roster of guest speakers. You can read

The first day of March unlocks new fiction and poetry here at the home of Mythic Delirium magazine, and it unlocks a chance for more poets and fictioneers to join in this venture going forward. • In “Observations on the Trees of Peace, the Chirping Lizards, and the Sea at the End of the World,” Patricia Russo takes us on a strange anthropological journey that involves trees that may be sentient and lizards that may be emissaries from the afterlife.

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