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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

I’m proud to say my short story “Small Burdens” just went up on the wonderful speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons.  You can read it here. This piece began as my first Clarion story, written during the week our workshop was led by Kelly Link. A bit of spoiler — It’s a fairy story, and I [...]

The 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List is out, and my Interzone short story “Home Again” is included in it! I’m a little stunned to see my name appear with so many people I’m in awe of.  There are several with whom I never would have expected to share a list any more specific than “Beings [...]