The September issue of Locus Magazine contains some nice words about Clockwork Phoenix 4 from short fiction reviewer Rich Horton:   Clockwork Phoenix 4 is a continuation of a first rate series of anthologies … The book is stylistically of a piece with its predecessors – a set of well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously.   One of the strangest stories is from Thai writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew, who has been attracting notice with some

The last triad of featured content from our first online issue, Mythic Delirium 0.1, has gone live.   We’re proud to present a new short story from Ken Liu, “Echoes in the Dark.” It just so happens that Ken won his second Hugo Award for short fiction this past Sunday at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, Texas. (Congratulations, Ken!)   Our featured poems this month come from Amal El-Mohtar, who contributes the wry and moving “This Talk

The special edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4 that’s being signed by all the contributors has made its stop in Hong Kong. Benjanun Sriduangkaew (who contributed “The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly”) shared this photo before sending it on to its next stop (which, by the way, is in Australia.)     You can see previous stops at my homepage, here, here and here. I plan to do a big wrap-up post once we’re all done.   #SFWApro

We at Mythic Delirium Books (meaning Anita and I) were delighted yesterday to learn that Tanith Lee will receive a much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK this Novemeber.   Tanith is one of only two authors (the other being Marie Brennan) to contribute stories to all four volumes of Clockwork Phoenix. The complete list: “The Woman” in Clockwork Phoenix “The Pain of Glass” in Clockwork Phoenix 2 “Fold” in Clockwork Phoenix 3 “A Little

Our August featured story and featured poems from Mythic Delirium 0.1 are now live! Click the links to check them out: Hexagon • Alexandra Seidel Voyage to a Distant Star • C.S.E. Cooney Rhythm of Hoof and Cry • S. Brackett Robertson Subscribers to our e-book edition have already had a chance to read these works and those upcoming in September, so if that piques your interest, we hope you’ll consider supporting us. Subscriptions allow us to keep buying more

Congratulations to Jake Maraia of California and Colleen Anderson of British Columbia, who each get a copy of the trade paperback edition of Clockwork Phoenix 4. Thanks again to SF Signal for hosting the giveaway!   Want your own copy of Clockwork Phoenix 4? This page lists all the ways. #SFWApro  

1) As of today, the rebooted version of Mythic Delirum is open to submissions. We’re looking for short stories of up to 4,000 words, as well as poems. The reading window closes Oct. 1. Click here to read the full guidelines. #SFWApro 2) As of today, SF Signal is hosting a giveaway of Clockwork Phoenix 4. There’s two trade paperback copies to be had, and anyone in the world can take part. The giveaway ends Aug. 9. Click here to

Today, Weightless Books made the e-book editions of Clockwork Phoenix 4 ($4.99) and Mythic Delirium 0.1 ($2.99) available on their website, as well as subscriptions to the new electronic version of Mythic Delirium (One year/4 issues for $9.95.) Unlike Kindle, Weightless offers the full range of possible e-books: PDF, EPUB or MOBI. #SFWApro     Also, for those few and proud of you who subscribed to the old version of Mythic Delirium via Weightless — because I am phasing out

I was too buried in Kickstarter promotion and website building to signal boost this when it happened, so apologies for the lateness. Podcastle has posted an audio adaption of Kennenth Schneyer‘s much-praised short story “Selected Program Notes From the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” from the pages of Clockwork Phoenix 4. Here’s the teaser they offered up: 34. Magda #4 (1989) Oil on poplar wood, 30 x 21″ Private collection Sometimes called “Devotion” by critics, this nude the earliest

(Click here to see the complete table of contents for Mythic Delirium 0.1.) Welcome, friends, to the new Mythic Delirium. It’s been a short time in the making, but a long time coming. I founded Mythic Delirium in 1998 as a do-it-ourselves poetry-only print magazine, and it’s since gone through a couple incarnations—at one time it was a sister magazine to Weird Tales. Over fifteen years this little ’zine did far better for itself than I ever imagined it would: