From the Asylum closing; Poems of the Dead

The online speculative magazine From the Asylum is shutting its doors. FTA has always provided strong, funny stories and poems, and it will be a shame to see it go by the wayside. Per the editor Kate Sanger's announcement, the magazine will continue through July, and two planned print anthologies will still be published.

Where one door closes, another opens. Coscom Entertainment, the company that brought you the zombie anthology Bits of the Dead, is now planning a new anthology: Poems of the Dead. The editors want unpublished zombie poems, up to three at a time. Payment will be 1 cent per word plus a paperback copy of the book, and there is no deadline as of yet.

Thanks to Ralan for both of these notices.

New Issues, Submission Deadlines

For your reading pleasure, the latest issues of these magazines are now online:

- Tales from the Moonlit Path - Their annual Halloween issue.
- From the Asylum - The first new issue since April, filled with goodies.
- Chrysanthemum - All the haiku you can eat.

Submission deadlines for many magazines are fast approaching. Make sure you get your story/poem/review/whatever in on time:

- Frogpond - November 15th
- Tales of the Unanticipated - November 15th (postmark deadline)
- Sybil's Garage - November 30th
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - November 30th
- Vestal Review - November 30th
- Goblin Fruit - December 1st

Some new poems

Hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday. December has been a good month. Two more poems have been published online -- "Gift Horse" in the new issue of Niteblade and "Safety Scissors" in Down in the Cellar -- and I have some acceptances from Tales of the Talisman, Dreams & Nightmares, From the Asylum, and Scifaikuest.

Also, for haiku lovers, the new issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal is up, and it is FULL of good haiku and senryu, including a couple of exceptional poems by Marie Summers and Robert Lucky. (One of mine is buried in there somewhere, too.)