The Avatar and Great Men by Maya Beck
When Avatar: The Last Airbender first aired, I was 17. By that time, I’d seen…
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Category: Nonfiction
Afrofuturism, Utopia, and the Prospect of a Better Now by Woody Dismukes
Recently, I was approached by an editor friend of mine to assist with founding a creative writing program…
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Review: The Haunting of Tram Car 015
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, a 2019 novella by American writer P. Djèlí Clark, became a finalist for three awards this year…
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The Thrill of Discovery: Writing Alternate History with Ginn Hale
Ginn Hale is an author with many talents, one of which includes crafting sharp, witty stories in captivating universes…
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Witch-in-Residence: Weird
Witch-in-Residence Issue 8: Weird | 1,036 words With Witch-in-Residence, Speculative City imagines...
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Save Yourself: John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness and the Cinema of the Weird by Victor H. Rodriguez
John Carpenter’s horror movie Prince of Darkness opened in 1987 to mixed reviews, barely breaking even its opening weekend…
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The recent back-to-back murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and countless other Black individuals bring grief and rage.
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Witch-in-Residence: Horror
Dear Witch-in-Residence, I am at a loss and really need some advice…
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Blurring the Boundaries, Writing Horror
To continue our exploration of the horror genre, we speak with writer Lindsay King-Miller, a fellow horror enthusiast.
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Witch in Residence: Industry
Dear Witch-in-Residence, a.k.a. the past, I am from the future. It is a post-nuclear holocaust time…
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Review: The Murderbot Diaries
Stupid humans, right? Always coming up with bad ideas and then doing them…
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The Business of Words
From the first texts read aloud to us as children to the new Hugo winners we now itch to download…
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