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

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

	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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	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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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.

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

	Michael Cisco, author of International Horror Writers Guild award–winning The Divinity Student,  as well as author of The San Veneficio Canon, The Traitor, and The Tyrant.
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	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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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.

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

	Andrew Fox’s most recently published novel is The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501, published in April, 2009.  Upcoming novels include a Hurricane Katrina-inspired fantasy, The Bad Luck Spirits’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club, and a Civil War steampunk dark fantasy, Fire on Iron.
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	Chris Genoa is the author of Foop! and the forthcoming novel Lick Your Neighbor, which will appear in 2010. He recently finished his third novel, The Monkey & the Barrel: A Novel of Kung Fu and Twisted Love, and is at work on a children’s book, Tony Spumoni…Has Lost His Evil Hamster.

Wednesday September 16th, 7pm at

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

Kaaron Warren

On this balmy evening of August 19th, we were entertained by Robert Freeman Wexler, who read selections from his The Painting and the City, and Karron Warren, who read her creepy short story called “The Drawback.”  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be viewed here.

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

	Kaaron Warren whose multi award-winning short fiction has been published in Australia, Europe, and the US and is collected in The Grinding House, published in the United States as The Glass Woman. Her first novel, Slights, was launched at Worldcon in Montreal, by Angry Robot, followed by Mistification and Walking the Tree.
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	Robert Freeman Wexler’s most recent fiction publication is the novel, The Painting and the City, from PS Publishing. He is currently working as-yet untitled maybe- novella set the locale he first visited in his critically praised novella In Springdale Town.

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Wednesday August 19th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
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Kris Dikeman & Cat Rambo	Jack Womack	Samuel R. Delany

Another fab night at KGB in celebration of Clarion West and the Amazon Challenge Grant.  Rajan Khanna guest hosted the evening, reading testimonials of former Clarion students between readings by Kris Dikeman, Cat Rambo, Jack Womack and Samuel R. Delany. The bar was filled to the brim.  People were sitting on the stairs outside the hallway, eager to hear.  The energy was palpable in the air.  An electric night, by far.

Here’s Ellen’s pics.

And here’s a link to mine.

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

A Clarion West Special Event

With Samuel R. Delany, Jack Womack, Cat Rambo, Kris Dikeman and guest-hosted by Rajan Khanna, July 15, 2009

In honor of 25 consecutive years of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Amazon.com’s challenge grant, the KGB Fantastic Fiction series will be featuring a special Clarion West reading on July 15, 2009.

Clarion West is a non-profit literary organization that administers the Clarion West Writers Workshop, an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Amazon.com has pledged to donate one dollar to Clarion West for every dollar the workshop receives from individuals, corporations, government offices, charitable foundations, and special events.

	Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City a teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. His books include Nova, Dhalgren, Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories, Atlantis: Three Tales, and his most recent novel, Dark Reflections, won the 2008 Stonewall Book Award and was a runner-up for that years Lambda Literary Award. His forthcoming novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders will appear from Alyson Books in 2010.
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	Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. He was in 1994 a co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and has twice taught writing at Clarion West.  He is Publicity Manager for Orbit Books US, and is presently working on his next novel, Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad.
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	Cat Rambo attended Clarion West in 2005 and since then has published dozens of short stories in such markets as Weird Tales, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld. Her collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007 and her first solo collection, Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight, is forthcoming from Paper Golem Press. She is also the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine.
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Kris Dikeman is a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2005. Her work has appeared in Sybil’s Garage, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and the forthcoming Year’s Best Fantasy #9. She was a finalist for this year’s Story South Million Writer’s Award.
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Rajan Khanna is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop.His work has appeared in Shimmer Magazine. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.

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Wednesday July 15th, 7pm at

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