Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Our authors have included Nebula, Hugo, and Pushcart winners and nominees. In this issue, stories by Tyler Bourassa, Steve Coate, Bryan Hulse, Gerry Huntman, Malcolm Laughton, Julia Martins, Sean Turner McLeod, Stephen McQuiggan, and Connor & Sylvia Wrigley.
Celebrating our 9th year in publication! Each issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly is compiled to bring readers an eclectic and entertaining collection of works from both new and established voices in the speculative fiction genres. In this issue, stories by Mickie Bolling-Burke, David Cleden, Thom Clink, Calvin Demmer, Matthew Harrison, Malcolm Laughton, Shannon M Metcalf, Rob Munns, L.D. Oxford, Jay Requard, Rhema Sayers, Josh Schlossberg, Bill Suboski, Jeff Stehman, N. Immanuel Velez, Aaron Vlek, and J.M. Williams.
Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Our authors have included Nebula, Hugo, and Pushcart winners and nominees. In this issue, stories by Tim Chapman, Sarina Dorie, Sara Fardi, Jamie Lackey, Derek Muk, Fredrick Obermeyer, Susan Petressis, Jennifer R. Povey, H.R. Sinclair, Amanda K. Thompson, and Richard Walsh.
Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres. In this issue: Diane Arrelle, A. A. Azariah-Kribbs, Tyler Bourassa, Thomas Broderick, Deborah Cher, Rona Ji, Samuel H. Johnson, Tanya Nehmelman, Douglas J. Ogurek, and Danley Romero
Since 2009, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has brought fans of speculative fiction an amazing variety of short stories from both new and established authors. Each issue sets out to introduce readers to the wealth of talent found in the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. In this issue: Janie Brunson, Mark William Chase, Craig Comer, Milo James Fowler, Michelle Ann King, Jason Lairamore, Guy T Martland, George Nikolopoulos, Betty Rocksteady, Jeff Suwak, Ned Thimmayya, James Zahardis, and Richard Zwicker.
Now in our 14th year of publication, the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring fans of speculative fiction a variety of new and established voices to enjoy. Each issue features an eclectic range of styles and voices to delight audiences. This issue features work by Gregory Alan Burhoe, John Didday, Peter M. Floyd, Charlotte H. Lee, Susan Meyer, Carol Scheina, and KT Wagner. In this issue: A biological occultist needs to figure out a way to appease the moon after it moves out of orbit in search of its missing spider in The Moon Spider. A young woman inadvertently discovers the strange goings-on in her father’s funeral home in The Mortician’s Daughter. A child employs a new invisible friend to achieve revenge against those who bullied him in Hully.
Fairy Tale: a wonder tale or magic tale that typically features dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Myth: a sacred story of the gods; a religious account of the beginning of the world; the deeds of Gods and heroes; as a result of which the world, nature, and culture were created and given order. The Fox and the Rose combines the best of both of these traditions, literary and spiritual, magical and mystical. Most of the tales in this collection follow the recognizable fairy tale scheme: once, in such-and-such a land, there lived .... There are tests to pass and promises to keep and, if the hero proves worthy, a happily ever after is won. Sometimes, though, the endings are bittersweet or justly tragic, particularly when promises are broken, pride overrules compassion, and respect is denied.
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In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays. Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa. Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African history, African spirituality, Afrosurrealism, "becoming," black radical imagination, cultural identity, decolonizing queerness, myths, linguistic cosmologies, and more. Contributing authors – Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen – offer boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African fiction, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of Afro-centered futurisms. The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction feature in major genre and literary awards, including the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, Nommo, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson and Otherwise Awards, among others. They are also intrinsic partners in a vital conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice, charting poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in color zones of their own image.
