@MrJoshuaWilson

Publisher, @FabulistTales. Ask me about #frailing. #MTB lately? Bonus rounds: Art, music, comics, culture, politics, journalism.

 SF, CA
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Joined March 2009
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NEW STORY: An empath must navigate between vengeance, justice, and the long echoes of a brutal dictatorship. THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS, by Heather Bourbeau @hfbourbeau @heather.bourbeau.5 buff.ly/4hC2m4a #dictatorship #justice #vengeance #fiction #thefabulistflash
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My latest Short Review of a Short Book for @FabulistTales looks at THE DAY & NIGHT BOOKS OF MARDOU FOX by Nisi Shawl: fabulistmagazine.com/beat-re…

Beat Re-Generation: 'The Day & Night Books of Mardou Fox' (review) | The Fabulist Magazine

A neglected Beat poet better known for her relationship with Jack Kerouac acquires an expansively magical life of her own.

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Don’t be fooled by the trappings of conventional fantasy — this is a weird tale through and through, with a big dollop of existential dread to bring it home. THIRSTY WORK, by Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon fabulistmagazine.com/thirsty… #weirdtale #fantasy #thefabulistflash
A waterfall splashing down into a pool, surrounded by high rocky walls and topped with trees and vegetation.

ALT A waterfall splashing down into a pool, surrounded by high rocky walls and topped with trees and vegetation.

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NEW STORY: Set in the Central African Republic, this savage satire uses the folkloric “rule of three” to tell a frankly brutal allegory of exploitation and innocence. HOW 'BOUT A COSTLY JOKE (FEATURING DIAMONDS), by Abhishek Sengupta @AbhishekSWrites fabulistmagazine.com/how-bou…
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We're pleased to share that Michael Stewart's "Wolf in the Kitchen," published by THE FABULIST in Oct. 2023, was included in Ellen Datlow's 2023 "Best Horror of the Year" recommendations. Re-posted here for your enjoyment ... fabulistmagazine.com/wolf-in…
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NEW ART! Our December gallery is a rapturous plunge into a wildly colorful world of phantasmagorical animal characters and visual vignettes. MOONWRECKED: A GALLERY OF MEMORY — Artworks by Camellia Paul. fabulistmagazine.com/moonwre… #fantasy #psychedelic #magicrealism #mythic #art
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NEW STORY! “Charlotte’s Web” meets “Gravity” in this delightful disruption of space-disaster tropes. LEARNING, WAITING, by Steen Comer @mediapathic [email protected] fabulistmagazine.com/learnin… #sciencefiction #shortstory #fiction #spiders #spacestation
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New book review! "YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THE DARK: A Non-Fiction Anthology of Personal Accounts Benefitting Mental Health & Creative Inspiration," reviewed by @NMamatas Nick Mamatas. fabulistmagazine.com/consola… #bookreview #mentalhealth #horrorfiction
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NEW GALLERY: Using cast-off car parts, and an evolving process of metalwork, painting and mask-making, Jeff Mann conjures a world full of organic, dreamlike presences. buff.ly/4eoZCoX #art #fantastical #sculpture #mixedmedia #ghosts #machineart #fantasyart
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New chapbook! Limited edition, signed by the author: Jen Burke Anderson's "THE CONSTANTLY UNFOLDING HORRORS OF VASILY NIKOLEYEVICH" is a wild, atmospheric, darkly comic weird tale set in San Francisco during the 2008 financial crisis. Get yours today. buff.ly/4c8d1Ak
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Over at @FabulistTales we just launched a new book-review column by Nick Mamatas — "Short Reviews of Short Books" ... 500 word reviews of books 300 pages or less. We've got an interview with Nick about the column on our Patreon, worth a read! patreon.com/posts/meet-nick-…

Meet Nick Mamatas, our new book reviewer | The Fabulist Magazine

We're very pleased to announce a new Free Reads feature on our website — "Short Reviews of Short Books," a monthly book review column by tha

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Faced with the impossibility of memoir, the collapse of character, and the commodification of the author, what’s a writer to do? "WISH I WAS HERE," @mjohnharrison's "challenging, intriguing, often frustratingly gnomic text," reviewed by @NMamatas. fabulistmagazine.com/and-whe…

And Where is There? ‘Wish I Was Here,’ by M. John Harrison (review) | The Fabulist Magazine

Faced with the impossibility of memoir, the collapse of character, and the commodification of the author, what’s a writer to do?

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Journey with us to a San Francisco of smoke and neon, apocalyptic visions, and a dream flight come true: "ZAZU FLIES," by Alpheus Williams #FreeRead #urbanfantasy #Apocalypse fabulistmagazine.com/zazu-fl…

ZaZu Flies | The Fabulist Magazine

Journey with us to a bohemian San Francisco of smoke and neon, apocalyptic visions, and a dream of flight come true.

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The latest from The Fabulist! patreon.com/posts/hands-chap…

'The Hands' chapbook has SHIPPED + fantastical free reading | The Fabulist Magazine

Hello, beloved Patrons! Much has been happening at The Fabulist, not all of it visible at present, which this correspondence attempts to cor

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We've completed review for our first open call for The Fabulist Flash via @FabulistTales. The stats: — 446 submissions — 130 longlisted — 34 acceptances That's a 7% acceptance rate — nice! We're now preparing contracts, and reviewing a number of referred submissions. PHEW
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#AWP24 "Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature" #ecofiction about trees + women from @FabulistTales chapbook awpwriter.org/awp_conference……Room 3501AB, KC Convention Center, Level 3 Friday, February 9, 2024 10:35 am to 11:50 am @OSUCWA @FCtwo #WritingCommmunity
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We just shipped our latest Fabulist Editions chapbook — fabulous fantastical fiction in snappy, archival-print editions, no batteries or internet connection required. Subscribe via our Patreon to get your copy shipped monthly to your domicile ... patreon.com/posts/full-of-ey…

'Full of Eyes Within' HAS SHIPPED | The Fabulist Magazine

Jaye Nasir's strange tale of contemporary social injustice and hallucinatory Old Testament mysticism has been printed, sorted, folded, stapl

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Fabulist Magazine news and updates for 2024! Print, digital subscriptions, free reads, live events ... yum! patreon.com/posts/future-of-…

The future of The Fabulist in 4 bulletpoints | The Fabulist Magazine

It's 2024, and change is afoot!  Some background: 2023 was a whirlwind year for us. We published 39 new stories for free online, received 44

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Please enjoy this truly absurd riff on capitalism's clueless cultural amnesia and exploitation of the surplus value of labor. "I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas," by @ElizabethEvKing. fabulistmagazine.com/im-drea… #fiction #satire #Christmas #chairmanmao #cheguevara #marx #hilarious

I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas | The Fabulist Magazine

Please enjoy this absurd riff on capitalism's clueless cultural amnesia and the exploitation of the surplus value of labor.

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The latest Fabulist Magazine chapbooks HAVE SHIPPED! Get your copy of "The Last Days of Bester & Alma," by James Owens, while supplies last. Subscribe via Patreon.com/FabulistTales, or order direct from our website bookstore: fabulistmagazine.com/product…
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