Flocks of red birds haunt a school where girls are shaped by the desires of others. Clare Beams examines the creeping horror of growing up female.
Read more"Homesick" by Nino Cipri: The Thing With Feathers
Nino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.
Read more"The Mere Wife" by Maria Dahvana Headley
Headley’s retelling of Beowulf through the eyes of Grendel’s mother and Hrothgar’s wife takes on epic heroes, American veterans with PTSD, gentrification, the monstrosity of racism, and Edward Scissorhands.
Read moreGhosts in the House & the Machine: A Love Story, Hill House, & Two-Tongued Jeremy
Samantha Hunt, Haunting of Hill House promotional poster, Theodore McCombs
Parenting is risky business, more so when ghosts take an uninvited co-parenting role.
Read moreMid-Summer Speculative Short Story Round Up
To mark summer’s midpoint, here are a few of the best speculative short stories Amanda has read since summer’s inauguration back in June.
Read moreBinti is back! Celebrating the new hardcover editions
We love Binti! We’re celebrating the re-release of Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning trilogy in beautiful hardcover editions with an appreciation of the difficulties involved in coming of age, intergalactic exploration, and saving the world, all at the same time.
Read more2017 Tuesday Craft Talks at College Hill Library, Westminster
Join Fiction Unbound writers at the Westminster Public Library on the second Tuesday of each month for writing and craft talks.
Each month we'll write for 45 minutes and then participate in a themed discussion on writing-related topics. All short story writers and novelists are welcome.
2017 Dates:
January 10 — Time and scene with Theodore McCombs
February 21 — “How to Write an Argument” with C.S. Peterson
March 14 — Craft talk with Mark Springer
April 11 — “Getting to Know Your Characters” with Lisa Kreutz Mahoney
May 9 — Craft talk with Jon Horwitz-White
Details:
6-7:30 p.m., Rm L107 College Hill Library
3705 W 112th Ave
Westminster, CO 80031
www.westminsterlibrary.org
Matrilineal Moon Cults & Creepy Orphans
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Charles Lambert's The Children's Home both want to know, "Are you my mummy?" (and if you're not, then please tell me where you've stashed her and DON'T mention poison).
Read moreTime Travel & Fractured Selves: Kindred and The River of No Return
Time travel novels Kindred and The River of No Return question how the evolving ethics of society shape our sense of self.
Read moreCorruption & Control: Naomi Novik's Uprooted
Naomi Novik's Uprooted
Questions of corruption and its ability to change and control us take center stage in Naomi Novik's latest, Uprooted, which reminds us how easy it can be to forget to see the (evil) forest for the (evil) trees.
Read more“Eat Me”: An Odyssey Through Consumable Womanhood
Penelope and the Suitors, painting by John William Waterhouse.
Margaret Atwood takes on consumer culture, gender roles, and cannibalism in The Penelopiad and The Edible Woman
Read moreArmada: Ernest Cline, Puzzle Master, Writes Again
Ernest Cline's newest release gives gamers everywhere something to fight for: bragging rights for saving the Earth from total annihalation.
Read moreMan Booker Prize Nominees Writing in Speculative Fiction
The list for the 2015 Man Booker Prize in Fiction was announced today, and we've rounded up the nominees writing in the realms of speculative fiction.
Read moreAll My Friends are Dead: Finding Home in a Post-Pandemic World
FUN examines the search for home through stories in the post-pandemic worlds of Station Eleven, Year of Wonders, and The Dog Stars.
Read moreFrog Princesses & Other Oddities in New Fairy Tale Collection
A new collection of recently re-discovered fairy tales compiled by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth has been translated by Maria Tatar and published by Penguin. Prepare to have the evil step-mother trope trampled on with an iron dancing shoe, worn by a man with golden locks.
Read moreNew Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books to Watch for by Month
io9 has released a month-by-month guide to new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out in 2015.
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