A few reviews and mentions of Sybil’s Garage No. 7 are starting to trickle in from the interwebs. The bold emphasis below is mine.

Hugo-nominated fantasy author N.K. Jemisin, over at the Whatever Blog, says, “It’s been awhile since an anthology had this kind of emotional impact on me…this one is highly recommended.” ; link

Multiple World Fantasy Award winner Richard Bowes says, “Beautifully designed and printed as always, Sybil’s Garage which has been one of the best small press speculative fiction journals, graduates to anthology status….[The] fiction and poetry are getting attention and deserve more.” ; link

Hugo Award-winning editor of Electric Velocipede, John Klima, says Sybil’s Garage is “One of my favorite magazines.” ; link

And blogger and writer Kristin Janz says, “I think #7 is the best issue yet.” ; link

Some of the editors and authors of Sybil’s Garage will be on the radio this Saturday for Jim Freund’s Hour of the Wolf. Guests include editors Matthew Kressel (me!), Paul Berger, Devin Poore and Mercurio D. Rivera. We will be joined by authors Kathryn E. Baker (known in the podcasting world as Kate Baker), Barbara Krasnoff, and E.C. Myers.

The show airs in the New York region from 5 – 7 a.m., Saturday, August 28th, on WBAI 99.5 FM. If you miss the show, or aren’t in the NY region, the show will be available as a podcast immediately after at archive.wbai.org.

Hope you can tune in!

Over at Clarkesworld Magazine, the members of Altered Fluid are interviewed.  We discuss how the group was formed, the critiquing process, the craft of writing, and some, er, interesting events that happened at one of our meetings.  You can read the interview here.

From the Pleased as Punch category: Fantasy Magazine published my story “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” this week.  There’s also an interview in which I discuss the inspiration of the story and attempt to describe what makes a successful writing group.

Altered Fluid members N.K. Jemisin, Eugene Myers, and Devin Poore will be reading at the NYRSF reading series this coming Tuesday, June 1st, held at the SOHO Gallery for Digital Art at 6:30pm.  Full information, directions, and bios are available at here.

The 2009 Interzone Readers’ Poll has been announced with a strong showing from Altered Fluid.  My story “Saving Deigo” was voted #5.  Paul Berger’s “Home Again” tied for sixth place, and Alaya Dawn Johnson’s “Far and Deep” tied for tenth.  Jason Sanford came in with the win for his excellent story “Sublimation Angels.”  Interzone is one of the best-looking and has some of the best content of any genre magazine publishing today, and I’m super proud to be on that list with several of my fellow Altered Fluidians.  Congratulations to them!

Ellen Datlow has posted her list of honorable mentions (page 1, page 2) for Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2.  Included among the many names are Altered Fluid’s own Alaya Dawn Johnson for her story “Far and Deep,” (Interzone #221) as well as yours truly for my stories “Saving Diego” (Interzone #221) and “The Spaces Between Things.” (Electric Velocipede 17/18)

In addition, three stories from Sybil’s Garage No. 6 received honorable mentions:

Toiya Kristen Finley’s  “Eating Ritual,” James B. Pepe’s  “I Am Enkidu, His Wild Brother,” and Genevieve Valentine’s “The Drink of Fine Gentlemen Everywhere.”

Congrats to all!

Altered Fluid members are well represented in this year’s Hugo & Campbell nominations.  Not one, but two names appear.  N.K. Jemisin has been nominated for a Hugo for her short story “Non-Zero Probabilities,” which appeared originally in Clarkesworld Magazine.  While Saladin Ahmed has been nominated for the Campbell Award for best new writer.  We wish them many congratulations and the best of luck!

This month, my story “The History Within Us” was posted at Clarkesworld Magazine.  A few days ago, they also released a podcast read by the amazing Kate Baker.  In this post on my blog I describe how the story came to be.  You can read the story here.  And you can listen to the podcast here.  I hope you enjoy it.  And feedback is always welcome.

The annual Altered Fluid writing retreat went swimmingly, not the least of which was because we spent a good bit of time in the hot tub. But we also got a lot of good writing done, which is, after all, why we do it. This year’s retreat photo:

Alas, missing a few members since not everybody could go this year.

Editor John Klima of Electric Velocipede picks two Altered Fluidians for his Hugo & Campbell nominations.

John gives my story “The Spaces Between Things” his Hugo vote, and he suggests Fluidian Saladin Ahmed for the Campbell Award.

Thanks, John!

Link: http://blog.electricvelocipede.com/2010/03/2010-hugo-nominations.html