KGB Fantastic Fiction is a monthly reading series held on the third Wednesday of every month at the famous KGB Bar in Manhattan. The reading series features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction. Admission is always free.

Some of our past readers:
Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Stewart O.Nan, James Patrick Kelly, Barry N. Marlzberg, Samuel (Chip) Delany, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Andy Duncan, Richard Bowes, Catherynne Valente, Ellen Kushner, Jeff VanderMeer, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Bear and a smorgasbord of other talented authors. read more »

January 25, 2010

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

A Dark Matter Peter Straub, the multi award winning writer of such novels as Ghost Story, Koko, Mr X, and In the Night Room. His most recent novel is A Dark Matter, published by Doubleday this month. He is also the editor the recent Library of America American Fantastic Tales
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The Devil's Alphabet Daryl Gregory, whose first novel, Pandemonium, won the 2009 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, was recently named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He’s currently working on a contemporary fantasy novel unrelated to either of the first two books.

Wednesday February 17th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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January 25, 2010
David Anthony Durham Lev Grossman

This month’s reading was a double-whammy of fun.  David Anthony Durham read two poignant excerpts from his Acacia trilogy, and Lev Grossman read an engrossing piece from the Magicians universe.  Tiaras were worn.

Ellen’s photos of the evening can be seen here.


December 18, 2009

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

The Other Lands David Anthony Durham, winner of the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, is the author of Acacia: The War With The Mein and its  sequel, The Other Lands. He’s currently at work on the concluding third volume.
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The Magicians Lev Grossman is the author of the novels Codex and the N.Y. Times bestselling The Magicians. He’s currently working on a sequel to The Magicians.

Wednesday January 20thth, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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December 18, 2009
Christopher Rowe Andy Duncan

Ellen has posted her photos from the December 16th reading with Christopher Rowe and Andy Duncan.


December 1, 2009

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

The Dragon Book Andy Duncan, whose new novelette “The Night Cache” will appear from PS Publishing just in time for Christmas, as befits a ghost story, while his revisionist Appalachian folktale “The Dragaman’s Bride” concludes the new Jack Dann-Gardner Dozois anthology The Dragon Book. Duncan is the winner of two World Fantasy Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science-fiction story of the year.
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The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Christopher Rowe’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. A Forgotten Realms novel for Wizards of the Coast is scheduled for Spring 2011, and he is hard at work on a fantasy about maps and megafauna, Sarah Across America.

Wednesday December 16th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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November 23, 2009
Sarah Micklem Alisa Kwitney

Ellen has posted her photos from the November 18th reading with Sarah Micklem and Alisa Kwitney.


October 22, 2009

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

Wildfire Sarah Micklem, whose second novel, Wildfire, the sequel to Firethorn has recently been published by Scribner. She is working on the third book in the series.
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Moonburn Alisa Kwitney, whose most recent novels include, writing as Alisa Sheckley, The Better to Hold You and Moonburn, a two-part series about a young woman who contracts lycanthropy from her cheating husband. Her next project is a Vertigo graphic novel about a little old Jewish lady and the angel of death.

Wednesday October 18th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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October 22, 2009
Michael Cisco John Langan

Last night both Michael Cisco’s and John Langan’s stories creeped us out in an especially pleasing way. John read a selection from his forthcoming novel, House of Windows, and Michael read an excerpt from his story in Ellen Datlow’s Lovecraft Unbound.

You can see Ellen’s photos from the night here.


October 1, 2009

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

The Divinity Student Michael Cisco, author of International Horror Writers Guild awardwinning The Divinity Student,  as well as author of The San Veneficio Canon, The Traitor, and The Tyrant.
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House of Windows

John Langan, whose first novel, House of Windows, was recently published.  His collection, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award.  His novella, “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” appears in John Joseph Adams’s By Blood We Live.

Wednesday October 21st, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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September 22, 2009

Chris Genoa and Andrew Fox

Chris Genoa told an amusing story about a strung up turkey, and Andrew Fox told a tale of Elvis-like inebriation at Disneyland.  Ellen’s photos of the night can be seen here.