Better late than never, as they say. I’m kicking off a week of blog entries devoted to Clockwork Phoenix 4 with sights and sounds from the launch reading for the anthology. It took place Friday, July 12, 2013 at ReaderCon in Burlington, Mass. Contributors A.C. Wise, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Barbara Krasnoff, Shira Lipkin, Yves Meynard and Kenneth Schneyer all read excerpts from their stories. And we’ve got audio of the entire reading, courtesy of Barbara’s husband, Hour of

It’s amazing to think that the longest project of my editorial career — or at least a major phase of it — is almost over.   Contributor and subscriber copies of Mythic Delirium 29, the penultimate print issue of my quirkly little ‘zine’s decade-and-a-half long run, went out in the mail earlier this week. If you’re not getting a copy yourself, and you’d like to, here’s where you can make that possible.   I have all the print issues of

November’s featured content from Mythic Delirium 0.2 went live on Nov. 1, including a melancholy yet cheerfully twisted short story by Patty Templeton and poetry from Brittany Warman and Yoon Ha Lee. Enjoy!   The Two Annies of Windale Road • Patty Templeton   WereMoonMother • Brittany Warman   Foxfeast • Yoon Ha Lee   #SFWApro

As of today, everyone who submitted stories and poems to Mythic Delirium through Oct. 1 should have received a response from me, either “Yes,” “No,” or “Would you consider a few changes?”   If you haven’t heard anything, you should definitely query. #SFWApro  

Clockwork Phoenix 4 is the subject of Brit Mandelo’s latest “Short Fiction Spotlight” at Tor.com. Brit writes:   Overall, these are good pieces and the anthology is even in quality—amusingly enough, I wouldn’t call most of them experimental or slipstream etc., though a few certainly are. On the other hand, “bold in the style of their telling” applies more or less across the board: all of the authors go in full-speed on the tone and artifice of their stories, which

The biggest single prize we offered for the Kickstarter to fund our anthology Clockwork Phoenix 4 was a special edition signed by all the contributors. One backer pledged for this…   …And we made it happen! That special edition has returned home from its journey around the world. The pictures (by Anita) say it all.      

The folks at Podcastle have adapted a second story from Clockwork Phoenix 4 to audio — this time it’s “The Wanderer King” by Alisa Alering. Click here to have a listen.   A sample from the text:     We steer clear of the mines–that’s Fixer territory. The Wanderers are dangerous, too, ever since they came fighting back around Day 30. But there’s always been less of them–less in all, and less because they scatter through the woods on their

The reading window for the next few issues of Mythic Delirium — from Issue 0.3, Jan.-March 2014, through however many more issues can be filled with what we decide to keep — closed October 2.   I’ve finished my first read of all the submissions we received (about 250.) At this point if you sent something in and haven’t heard from me either your work is being held for further review or (unlikely, but not impossible) you’ve slipped through the

I’m proud to announce that Mythic Delirium 0.2 is live and kicking.   Our second issue in our new format explores the fantastic in contemporary settings, with Georgina Bruce’s beautifully-written tale of a truck driver’s troubled life and holy visions, Patty Templeton’s funny and bittersweet take on a legendary figure from the American West, and David Sklar’s saucy venture among urban angels; poems include Jennifer Crow’s heartfelt look at a grim injustice, Yoon Ha Lee’s genre-bending examination of creatures from

The adventures of the special signed-by-all-the-authors edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4 continues.   Corinne Duyvis, who contributed “Lilo Is” to the book, sends this picture from Amsterdam. In documenting the books travels, she writes, “My Dutch thing of choice was a poffertjes stand, which is very, very Dutch indeed (and also very delicious).”   She’s the first contributor to pose with the book, perhaps because she made the mistake of asking me if I’d like her to do so, hee.