New Scifaikuest, some fiction markets

The August issue of Scifaikuest is available now. It's their 6th anniversary issue, and it's packed with great poems by too many well-known poets to name here. Well, okay, I'll name a few -- John J. Dunphy, Michael Dylan Welch, Kurt MacPhearson, and Kendall Evans. There's also an informative article about modifying haiku into scifaiku by Joshua Gage, and a couple of funny cartoons. Also, check out the online issue, which has unique content not found in the print version.

Here are a few speculative fiction markets to submit to:

- Flash Fiction Online: Stories between 500 and 1000 words, genre fiction welcome. Pays $50/story.
- Day of the Dead: Pays $25 and 1 contributor's copy, welcomes "subtle horror." Deadline Oct. 31st.
- Dark Jesters: Looking for humorous horror stories, 1500 to 2000 words. Pays $40 and 1 copy. Deadline Nov. 30th.

And last but not least, congratulations to Pete Tennant and the rest of the Whispers of Wickedness review team, who won this year's British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction. I'm proud to have been a very small part of that team (though I'm sure they still would've won without me!). Read some of the award-winning reviews here.

New issue of Twisted Tongue out

The new issue of Twisted Tongue is out now, available for free download from Lulu.com (or, if you're like me and you get most of your reading done in the bathroom, you can buy the paper copy instead). It's got stories by Michael A. Kechula, Peter Tennant, and P.S. Gifford. If that's not enough, there's a whole slew of poems by Paul Weightman (and a few scifaiku by yours truly).

Twisted Tongue will be reopening to subs soon, and editor Claire Nixon is especially looking for Christmas-themed items. Check the website for updates.

Also reopening soon is Star*Line... can you believe it's July already?