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Anthologies
Interzone #296: We Are Only Ourselves ⁜ FORTHCOMING ⁜ You’re a fool; you love me. ⁜ Interzone is changing, as it always has.
Last Stanza Poetry Journal Vol. 14 ⁜ Particles will fall in empty rooms;/in Mendelbrots the dancers dance their cast/of waltz and wine; a beat; a boon/all measured out in coffee spoons. ⁜ Mysteries and revelations, secrets and clues. One hundred poets are included in this issue that examines the complexities of the unknown and things later realized. Included is an interview with Editor's Choice Award winner Alex Penland.
Hillfire Anthology, Volume I: Lipogram ⁜ pushcart-nominated 2023 ⁜ Darling, myself is just myself. It isn’t shared with greater pieces, isn’t part and parcel with my partner. Please, I beg, understand me. I need this. ⁜ Hillfire Press Edinburgh and the Hillfire Anthology have their roots in the creative writing MSc programme at the University of Edinburgh, 2019/20. This cohort was made up of amazing people, and we felt our time together had ended too soon, and too suddenly. What better way to keep the momentum going than to put all that talent to good use and publish an anthology together?
Strange Lands (Flame Tree Press): The Little Angler ⁜ Far, far in the ocean, beyond the reach of light and life, below the cornflower-blue brightness of the Shallows and the glinting cobalt of the Twilight, is the Kingdom of the Deeps. ⁜ Strange lands in fiction stretch from deep below the earth, to the outer reaches of space. This incredible new collection combines the talents of a new generation of writers with classic and ancient storytellers: from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe to Jules Verne. Find here too the Land of the Lotus Eaters from Homer’s Odyssey and the mad horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, the utopian fantasies of Samuel Butler and, from Hans Christian Andersen an early fantasy about visiting the moon.
From Arthur’s Seat, Volume V: Ordinary Death ⁜ Welcome, and do not be afraid. You have died an ordinary death under extraordinary circumstances. We at the Unfulfilled Promises Research Trust understand your alarm at the situation and are working to ensure your transition is as painless as possible. ⁜ In times of difficulty and uncertainty, the arts can create meaning and bring people together in ways that little else can. This is tangible in the fifth volume of From Arthur’s Seat, an annual anthology of short prose and poetry written, edited, and produced entirely by students in the Creative Writing MSc at the University of Edinburgh.
Together Free: The Wanderers ⁜ My writing desk of black and white/Beneath the windows, in the sun/For forty days and forty nights/Is where I’ve battled off the glum;/I sit here now: at work, at ease,/I cannot see the cherry trees. ⁜ This book is a collection of global human experiences, realisations and stories from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Midwest Review: Character Development ⁜ The memory catches in infinity: two of us pushing a third and failing to let go, spiraling into the air, clinging tightly to each other and pretending, afterwards, that we were not afraid of falling. ⁜ Midwest Review is an annual literary magazine founded in 2013 to showcase work by artists who live in, have lived in, or have spent time in the Midwest.
Art in the Time of Covid-19: The Tidal Basin ⁜ All year we have waited/for spring; for the cherry blossoms. ⁜ "Art in the Time of COVID-19" is derived, inspired and animated by the global pandemic of 2020. The works created by writers and artists all over the world are sad, funny, profound, serious, and intensely human. A portion of the profits from this e-book will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
Story Cities: The Second Car from the Front ⁜ It begins as a ritual: each arriving at the platform to catch the 7:15 in a state of slight agitation. Tapped toes on octagonal brick. Checked watches. ⁜ Story Cities explores the ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.
