My story “In the Land of the Blind” (which won the Chizine contest, like, a decade ago) is reprinted in volume one of Best New Zombie Tales edited by James Roy Daley. Really, it’s in there, as can be seen from the back of the book: Yes, that’s my name there, along with “Micro Award [...]
Last year the term “hint fiction” was born in the essay “Hint Fiction: When Flash Fiction Becomes Just Too Flashy” published at Flash Fiction Chronicles. To commemorate the occasion, a retrospective essay, “Hint Fiction: One Year Later” appears at FFC today. A lot has happened in the past 365 days, and I want to thank [...]
Let’s be honest here — a Penultimate Paragraph Contest is pretty absurd. But it’s one of those things that’s just so absurd it’s awesome (or so I’d like to think). I received fourteen entries to the contest. They were all so great, and it was really impossible to choose (just how does one go about [...]
Next week is Hint Fiction’s birthday, so it makes some weird sense that my most recent publications are hint pieces (well, one is a hint piece, the other is slightly longer). “Terms and Conditions” (25 words) appears in issue 7 of The Los Angeles Review, alongside work by Benjamin Percy, Rick Bass, and a slew [...]
For you VSF writers, here are two contests worth checking out. The first is presented by Ben White at Nanoism: A TWITTER-FICTION CONTEST FOR HAITI Nanoism just passed its first birthday, and to celebrate we’re doing a big contest. This time, we’re doing it to raise money for Partners in Health, a fantastic NGO that [...]
The Best of Every Day Fiction Two is now available, which features my story “Incomplete” along with 99 other fine stories published last year at Every Day Fiction. I’m honored to have been included. My thanks to Jordan Lapp, Camille Gooderham Campbell, and Steven Smethurst for not just putting together this collection of stories, but [...]
First off, this post has nothing to do with the no doubt godawful John Cusack film coming out this week. No, this is about the latest issue of Space and Time magazine, number 109, which features my story “End of Our World as We Know It.” This is a special story for me, namely because [...]
Thank you to everyone who participated in the “Name That Monster” mini-contest. There were a lot of great suggestions, but unfortunately there can be only one winner, and this time our random winner is … Ben White Ben’s suggestion was to name the monster Raev, the Hebrew word for “hungry.” Hey, works for me. Ben, [...]
… is now live at Fifty-Two Stitches, which publishes one horror flash fiction piece a week. My story “Dead Weight” can be found here. It can also be found in the annual anthology edited by Aaron Polson, along with fifty-one other stitches. Wanna win a free signed copy? Sure you do. First go read the [...]
The name Allen Koszowski is synonymous in the horror community with quality artwork. He’s done over 2,000 illustrations for countless magazines and anthologies. Most of his artwork has a pulp sensibility, so it would make sense that he would eventually start his own magazine — a monster magazine — where he would not just be [...]
