This is one of the courses that makes me love teaching as much as writing. My students routinely go on to publish stories workshopped here, which makes me happy.Magic realism, Gothic weird, bizarro, slipstream… let’s face it, what fiction, at…
April 4. Always a good time mixing things up at LitReactor.
Best books of 2018? I read very few books last year. I don’t know why I read so little. The ones I did were mainly for work. I read a lot of student work, edited manuscripts for clients and my…
The walls are coming down: sign up here. Thanks to authors like George Saunders (weird ghosts), Jeff Ford (fantastical horror), Jeremy Robert Johnson (biznoirro), Angela Slatter (fairy tales with bite) and Kelly Link, whose stunning fantasy, “Stone Animals,” was included…
Over at LitReactor, I talk about the short, sharp fiction I’ll be taking with me to the end of the world.
It’s the post 2016 world. You’ve got nothing left to give. How will you survive? How will any of us survive? Write till you puke. And stay weird.
Weird horror instilsl a kind of terror in the reader, but the kind of terror where the fever dream is not so much to defeat It, as to see It, touch It. Make It stick. Because without It, what are we?
in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called…
Bring me your dreams and your nightmares, your broken bunnies and inflatable friends, your pocket universes and hero’s gurneys and sentence fragments and eldritch ellipses. I promise to make you uncomfortable. Still time to sign up.
My article dropped at LitReactor. This was fun to write. In his introduction to Best American Sci-fi and Fantasy, Joe Hill writes: My awe, though, was not merely a reaction to Bradbury’s thrilling ideas. It was just as much a…