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

	Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation.   He has received a Hugo Award for fiction in an unprecedented five out of six years and has been honored with the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. Michael’s latest novel is Dancing With Bears, a post-Utopian adventure featuring confidence artists Darger and Surplus, published recently by Night Shade Books.
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	Andy Duncan, whose new collection, The Pottawatomie Giant And Other Stories, will be out this fall from PS Publishing.  His “Slow as a Bullet” leads Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse Four anthology, and his “On 20468 Petercook” is upcoming at Tor.com.  Duncan is a winner of two World Fantasy Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science-fiction story of the year. Andy will be joining us on his birthday.

Wednesday September 21st, 7pm at

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

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N.K. Jemisin	Andrea Hairston & Pan Morigan

On Wednesday, we had an amazing night with N.K. Jemisin and Andrea Hairston & Pan Morigan.  You can see the photos of the evening here.

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

	N.K. Jemisin‘s fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, Gemmell, World Fantasy, and Crawford awards, and has won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s choice and Locus Award (for Best First Novel). Her short stories have most recently appeared in Clarkesworld, Postscripts, and Weird Tales, and forthcoming in the dystopian YA anthology After. Her first two novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms are currently out from Orbit Books.
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	Andrea Hairston is author of Redwood and Wildfire and Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Tiptree Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. She is a performer and award-winning playwright, and her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, the Kennedy Center, and on Public Radio & Television.Performing with her will be Pan Morigan, a composer, songwriter, and vocalist. She toured with Bobby McFerrin & Voicestra and has composed and performed for thirty productions including Castles of Gold, produced for Public Radio. Her CD, Wild Bluecame out December. Hairston and Morigan do a performance/reading.

Wednesday August 17th, 7pm at

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

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* Due to a scheduling conflict we regret to announce that Lauren Beukes cannot attend.

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Geoff Ryman	Katherine Vaz

Last night we were entertained by two talented storytellers.  Katherine Vaz read a moving and haunting tale about a sick child and Geoff Ryman read an imaginative tale about a series of mysterious and anachronistic films.  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

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

	Geoff Ryman‘s new collection of short stories Paradise Tales has recently been published by Small Beer. A new long short story ‘What We Found’ is due out soon in Fantasy and Science Fiction.  His stories, novels and anthologies have won 14 awards including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the Tiptree and the Dick awards. His novels include The Child Garden and Was both to be re-issued in new editions by Small Beer Press.
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	Katherine Vaz has been a Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and has published two novels, Saudade and Mariana, translated into six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and Our Lady of the Artichokes won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.  She’s a Radcliffe Fellow and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and has published short fiction in numerous magazines.

Wednesday July 20th, 7pm at

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

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Glen Hirshberg	Sarah Langan

Check out Ellen’s fantabulous photos from the June 15th reading with Sarah Langan & Glen Hirshberg here.

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

	Sarah Langan, three-time Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novels The Keeper and The Missing, and Audrey’s Door, which was optioned by The Weinstein Company for film. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming from F&SF, Lightspeed, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and Brave New Worlds. She’s currently working on a post-apocalyptic young adult series called Kids and two adult novels: Empty Houses, and My Father’s Ghost.
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	Glen Hirshberg, whose new collection, The Janus Tree and Other Stories, will be published by Subterranean this fall. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Book of Bunk and The Snowman’s Children. Both of his earlier story collections, American Morons and The Two Sams won the International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he won a Shirley Jackson Award for his novella, “The Janus Tree.” With Dennis Etchison and Peter Atkins, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, a traveling ghost story performance troupe that tours the west coast of the United States and elsewhere each October.

Wednesday June 15th, 7pm at

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

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Elizabeth Bear	Felix Gilman

Check out Ellen’s fabulous photos from the May 18th reading with Elizabeth Bear & Felix Gilman here.

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

	Elizabeth Bear, whose most recent publications include The White City, a story of forensic sorcery and the price of love set in an alternate 19th century Moscow, Grail, the final book in the Jacob’s Ladder science fiction trilogy, and post-apocalyptic Norse techno-fantasy The Sea Thy Mistress.
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	Felix Gilman, the author of three novels, the Big Weird City duology Thunderer and Gears of the City, and the steampunkish kind-of-western-epic The Half-Made World.

Wednesday May 18th, 7pm at

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

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Kit Reed	Kris Saknussemm with musical accompaniment

Photos from the reading with Kit Reed & Kris Saknussemm can be found here.