Archive for the 'Short Fiction' Category

Here they are, the last of the online short stories by women of 2007. If you’re looking for a fun, quick read, Hobgoblin Crush is a good place to start. And for anyone who is, or was, a NYC dweller, The You Train by N.K. Jemison will bring up a lot of those surreal memories [...]

Diet Soap

A shiny new ‘zine, Diet Soap, is offering up their first issue as a free PDF on the website. I’ve got my copy and I’ll be reviewing it soon, but send them an email for your own look at it.
 Anyone read a stunning new short story lately?
Jasmine

Rich Horton recently posted a summary of Analog magazine’s 2007 fiction. Of the 63 short pieces published (short stories, novella, novelettes):
7 of 62 stories for which I think I know the gender of the writer are by women. (I cannot make a guess as to the gender of C. W. Johnson.) That’s just over 11%. [...]

I hope everyone who attended WFC this weekend had a blast–got you all revved up to read some great short stories, didn’t it? 
There are some names where it is very difficult to tell the gender of the author–this is probably done on purpose fairly often. I do my best to track down author pages or biographies that will [...]