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 »

Archive for the ‘Monthly Readings’ Category

February 21, 2010

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

The Extra Michael Shea is the multi-award-winning author of such books as A Quest For Simbilis, Nifft The Lean, and Polyphemus. His most recent publications are The Extra from Tor, Copping Squid from Perilous Press, and The Autopsy And Other Tales from Centipede Press.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin, whose first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — first of the Inheritance Trilogy — is out now from Orbit Books. A local writer with the “Altered Fluid” writing group, her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Postscripts (forthcoming), and Strange Horizons among other print, online, and audio markets. Her short story, “Non-Zero Probability,” was recently nominated for a Nebula Award.

Wednesday March 17th, 7pm at

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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September 1, 2009

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

The Good Humor Man 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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Foop!

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

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July 17, 2009

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

Sleights 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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The Painting and the City 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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June 19, 2009

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.

Dark Reflections 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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Going, Going, Gone 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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The Surgeon's Tale 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

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May 22, 2009

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

Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America Brian Francis Slattery, author of Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation. He has a story coming out in Interfictions 2, which is due out near the end of the year.
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Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has sold short fiction to Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov’s. Her short story “Evil Robot Monkey” has been nominated for a Hugo. Shades of Milk and Honey, her first novel, will be out in the spring of 2010.

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Wednesday June 17th, 7pm at

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