Fusion Fragment Monthly - July 2023
The Latest from Fusion Fragment HQ
FF#17 Released: Issue #17 went live on June 23rd! If you haven't yet gotten your (free!) copy, it's available at: https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-17/
Beulah Wins!: Christi Nogle's (FF#1, FF#6, FF#13) debut novel Beulah took home the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Shortly after, it was then nominated as Best Novel in the Shirley Jackson Awards! Find out more about the book here!
More Awards Season Nominations for FFers!: FFer Thomas Ha (FF#3, FF#14), scored a Best Novelette nomination in the Shirley Jackson Awards for "Sweetbaby", published in Clarkesworld. JL George (FF#11, FF#17) made the shortlist for the Rhys Davies short story competition, which recognizes the best unpublished stories by Welsh writers. The nominees for the 2023 Utopia Awards were recently announced and featured a number of FFers: In the Utopian short story category, Marisca Pichette (FF#11, FF#14) was nominated for "She Dreams of Moons and Moons", which appeared in Strange Horizons. Uchechukwu Nwaka (FF#12) was nominated in the same category for "The Sea Goddess' Bloom", which appeared on Escape Pod. Michael J. DeLuca (FF#18) was nominated in the nonfiction category for his essay "Solarpunk is a Hothouse Tomato", which appeared in Solarpunk Magazine. And if that's not enough, a half-dozen FFers have pieces in the various works nominated in the Utopia Anthology/Collection category. Check out all the nominees here!
June Published Works by FFers
FF staffer Zachary Rosenberg had his supernatural noir novella, The Long Shalom, released by Off Limits Press! Ask about it at your fave bookstore or find it here!
Volume 3, Issue 2 of khōréō was released at the end of June and contains three stories by FFers: "Come Back, Crocodile Bird" by M.S. Dean, "Memories of Memories Lost" by Mahmud El Sayed, and "Kwong's Bath" by Angela Liu!
"A Chronicle of the Mole-Year" by Christi Nogle in Strange Horizons
"A Prayer for the Surviving" by Marisca Pichette in Haven Speculative
"Besotted" by Melissa Ren in 50-Word Stories
"I Am A Mongolian Death Worm" by Lindz McLeod in Bulb Culture Collective
"Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon" by Angela Liu in Clarkesworld
"Mushroom: Three Meals by" by Avra Margariti in Emerge Literary
"Old Mother Gnome" by Avra Margariti in The Dread Machine
"Pegasus" by Danai Christopoulou in The Icarus Writing Collective
"The Definition of a Love Poem" by Lindz McLeod in HAD
"The Goth Girls' Gun Gang" by Marisca Pichette in The Dread Machine
Giveaway Time
FF#17 contains 16 great book recommendations from its contributors and now it's your chance to win your choice of one of those books! All you have to do is be the first person to email me at editor@fusionfragment.com and correctly answer the following question: In Cynthia Zhang's story "My Neighbor Mothman", what is the name of the bar where Mothman works?
Recommendations from FF HQ
Two great books to recommend from my reading list in June. First up was Mira Jacob's The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. This family saga, set in two intertwining stories from the early 80s and late 90s, is sad, endearing, and often laugh-out-loud funny.
Matt Bell's ambitious SF epic Appleseed, which was shortlisted for the Ursula K. LeGuin Award, weaves together the story of a faun and his brother at the dawn of the 19th century, a group of rebels fighting back against a megacorporation after climate change has decimated the world, and a solitary survivor during a far-future ice age. What Bell's managed to accomplish with this one is nothing short of staggering.
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