
Part of Series
Stories from: Helen Jackson – Do Not Pass GO Robert Gordon – Aeaea Anton Rose – Jammers J S Richardson – Paradise Bird W G White – Sand and Rust Elva Hills – Sleeping Fire Duncan Lunan – The Square Fella SF Poetry: Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth Dulemba Chris Kelso – SF Caledonia: Crossing the Starfield plus – The Beachcomber Presents by Mark Toner Cover: Siobhan McDonald Artwork by: Jackie Duckworth Art, Tsu, Jessica Good, Mark Toner And the annual flash fiction competition Ada Palmer – interviewed by Eris Young Ruth EJ Booth – Noise and Sparks: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Genre Book Reviews Ada Palmer, Seven Surrenders, & The Will to Battle Eric Brown, Binary System M John Harrison, You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts Sarah Maria Griffin, Spare and Found Parts Malka Older,Null States Sarah Lotz, Body in the Woods Hal Duncan, A Scruffian Survival Guide
Authors




Ken Poyner is a writer of flash fiction and speculative poetry. As of December 2019, his books are “Cordwood”, poetry, 1985; “Sciences, Social”, poetry, 1995; “Constant Animals”, fictions, 2011; “The Book of Robot”, poetry, 2016; “Victims of a Failed Civics”, poetry, 2016; “Avenging Cartography”, fictions, 2017; “The Revenge of the House Hurlers”, fictions, 2018; “Engaging Cattle”, fictions, 2019. “Cordwood” and “Sciences, Social” are out of print, but all the others are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites, both as paperback and e-books. Individual poems and stories have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Poet Lore”, “The Alaska Quarterly Review”, “The Indiana Review”, “Café Irreal”, “Rune Bear”, “Menda City Review”, and hundreds of other places. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize many times, as well as a Sidewise Award, multiple Rhysling Awards, and sundry other awards and honors. He has read at Bucknell University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and other venues. His work veers toward the speculative, the surreal, sometimes science fiction, generally the ironic and the unusual.

W. G. White (known to friends, family, colleagues, strangers, monsters, and other non-human entities as ‘Will’) is arguably a human with ten fingers and just as many toes. He uses these limbs to craft odd fables concerning monster-catering hairdressers, magic mushy peas, puppet-hating puppeteers, and other such enjoyable nonsense. He lives on Earth (for now) with his human fiancée and non-human dog. He is not an alien.

Elizabeth Dulemba, a.k.a. "e", has been an author, illustrator, teacher and speaker (including TED) for most of her career. She has over two-dozen books to her credit, including her debut novel, A Bird on Water Street, winner of 13 literary awards, including Georgia Author of the Year. She taught Illustration at the University of Georgia, and writing and illustration courses at various locations around the country. She spent several years as Illustrator Coordinator for the southern region of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and as a Board Member for the Georgia Center for the Book. Through these roles she created annual Illustrator's Day conferences, gallery shows, regional and state-wide awards, and scholarship programs, connecting the local community and helping hundreds of up-and-coming creatives. Before going freelance, e was a corporate Art Director and in-house illustrator for several industries, packaging, and communication firms. Elizabeth grew up in the American south where she received a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia. She also holds an MFA with Distinction in Illustration from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). In the summers she travels to Roanoke, Virginia where she is Visiting Associate Professor at Hollins University in the MFA in Writing and Illustrating Children's Books low-residency program. There, she teaches Picture Book Design and Beginning and Advanced Photoshop™.