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

I’m lagging behind in reporting this, but better than never reporting it at all, as they say. Audio website Podcastle has posted an adaptation of Patricia Russo’s humorous and touching “The Old Woman With No Teeth” from Clockwork Phoenix 4. Wilson Fowlie and M.K. Hobson read the parts of the scribe and the Old Woman, respectively.   This is the third Podcastle adapation of a Clockwork Phoenix 4 story story. Listen to Kenneth Schneyer’s “Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective

Okay, so we haven’t quite kept this a secret. (How could we sit on a treasure this pretty? Seriously?)   Nonetheless, consider this the official cover reveal for the first Mythic Delirium paperback anthology. We’re proud to have Hugo Award winner Galen Dara on board as our cover artist for this first venture into not-quite-charted territory.   I add the caveat because obviously it’s not our first venture into paperback anthologies. Once upon the time there were the two MYTHIC

I’m delighted to unveil the cover art and table of contents for our next issue and final issue of this year, Mythic Delirium 1.2, October-December 2014. It’s a cornucopia of curious themes, uncertain faith and Shakespearian fraud, explorations of outer space and inner self, lost souls and archeological mysteries. Fiction is by Brady Golden, Sonya Taaffe and Nathaniel Lee; poetry by Michele Bannister, Rose Lemberg, Alicia Cole, Alex Dally MacFarlane and Lynette Mejía.   Featured in October “Behind Glass” by

So it appears the remarkable run for the stories in Clockwork Phoenix 4 isn’t over yet.   Congratulations to Gemma Files, whose dark fantasy tale “Trap-weed” is a finalist for the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. The winner, chosen by the Washington Science Fiction Association, gets announced next month at Capclave in Maryland.   This is actually Gemma’s second Clockwork Phoenix contribution to take a shot at the WSFA. Her novelette co-written with her husband Stephen J.