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

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

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 —

Our featured content for September has gone live, which means the last remaining story and poems from Mythic Delirium 1.1 are available now for all to read.   They include:   • “Hold Back the Waters” by Virginia M. Mohlere: a story of a family’s astonishing and sometimes tragic secret. (Enthusiastic review from Charlotte Ashley of Apex Magazine here.) • “An Eyewitness Guide to the Sea Shore” by Margo Lanagan, a playful, eerie bit of mystery (written at one of

Our reveal of the contents of Mythic Delirium 1.1 continues with the release of our August featured content.   In our featured story by Saira Ali, “The Djinn” explains the terms of his banishment.   This month happens to feature three poems instead of the usual two: • Hugo, Nebula and Rhysling winner Geoffrey A. Landis revisits the myth of “Orpheus” to tell a harsh truth; • Gwynne Garfinkle draws whimsy and sorrow from old monster movies in “It’s a

Over at Apex Magazine, Charlotte Ashley’s “Clavis Aurea” column spotlights Virginia M. Mohlere‘s “Hold Back the Waters” from Mythic Delirium 1.1, at present only available to subscribers (ahem!). Charlotte writes:   The strength of this story is in the world building. St. Bran’s is Annabeth’s home, a place real enough that it might be right outside your door, but where everyday life is conducted with a little mystery – a little magic. … With a great mix of epic-scale powers

The newest issue of Mythic Delirium, the July-Sept. 2014 issue, ie. Issue 1.1, is out in all the ways that we present it.   You can take a gander at the table of contents here, and read our featured content for June, which happens to be:   • “Keeper of the Wave,” a surreal and twisted tale of magic and guilt from Jamie Killen • “Main Sequence,” a poem of astronomy and identity from Saira Ali • “Bearing Witness,” another

I’m thrilled to be able to share the table of contents of the next issue of Mythic Delirium, which has already gone out to subscribers and reviewers. (If you’re not a subscriber and you’d like a copy, click this link.)   This issue features several plunges into treacherous deeps. Jamie Killen and Virginia M. Mohlere share tales of grim prices paid to stave off surging waters, and Saira Ali tells a tale of island banishment. Poems in this issue exploring

Today we get to brag about Kenneth Schneyer’s short story from Clockwork Phoenix 4 yet again. Not only did “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” land Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon award nominations … the story was chosen by editors Melissa Scott and Steve Berman for inclusion in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, coming in August from Lethe Press, with a charmingly retro cover. (Clockwork Phoenix contributors Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Cat Rambo