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.

* Mobile Libris will be there selling books

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.

* Mobile Libris will be there selling books

Wednesday July 15th, 7pm at

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

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Mary Robinette Kowal & lonely dinosaur

Brian Francis Slattery & his folk band

It was a truly unique night at KGB on Wednesday.* With a full house, Mary Robinette Kowal began with a puppet show tribute to Ray Harryhausen about a mournful latex dinosaur who has fallen into desuetude. (Though the dinosaur was more than happy to pose for the camera a la Kermit.) Then Mary read a section from her forthcoming novel, SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY. Brian Francis Slattery, accompanied by a violinist, bassist, and his own slick banjo playing sung selections from his novel LIBERATION in folksy, Appalachian style. (Yes, you read that right: “sung.”) Everyone was enthralled with the night, including myself.  I caught a brief video of each reader.  The lighting is bad, but you can get a taste of what the night was like.

Photos & videos of the evening can be seen here.

*Ellen could not attend, but we missed her!

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

	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.

* Mobile Libris will be there selling books

Wednesday June 17th, 7pm at

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

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