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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:


Richard Bowes winner of two World Fantasy Awards, an International Horror Guild, and a Million Writer Award. Recent and forthcoming short story appearances include: F&SF, Icarus, Lightspeed and the anthologies, Ghost's: Recent Hauntings, Handsome Devil, Hauntings, Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, and Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations. His new novel Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
will be published July 2n by Lethe Press which also just reissued his Lambda Award winning novel Minions of the Moon. Also out this year will be two short story collections: The Queen, the Cambion and Seven Others and If Angels Fight.


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Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of the Spirit Binders series (Racing the Dark and The Burning City) and the Zephyr Hollis novels (Moonshine and Wicked City). The Summer Prince is her official YA debut, which Kirkus has called "luminous" in a starred review. She is currently working on her follow-up YA novel, set in
an elite DC private school during a flu pandemic.
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Wednesday April 17th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
New York, NY
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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Brian Keene is the author of over thirty novels, most recently Entombed and An Occurrence In Crazy Bear Valley. He also writes comic books for DC and Marvel, and continues work on his ongoing comic book series The Last Zombie.
Several of his novels and stories have been developed for film including Ghoul, Dark Hollow, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck.

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Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Damned Highway co-authored with Brian Keene, and several dozen short stories. He also co-edited the anthologies The Future is Japanese with Masumi Washington and Haunted Legends with Ellen Datlow. His noir novel, Love is The Law, will be released in 2013.
Wednesday January 16, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
New York, NY

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

John Kessel, who in the last nine months has co-edited three anthologies with James Patrick Kelly, Kafkaesque, the Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, and Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology. Kessel is currently at work on a novel set in the Society of Cousins, the setting for his Tiptree Award-winning novella "Stories for Men."


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S.G. Browne is the author of the novels Breathers, Fated, and Lucky Bastard, as well as the eBook short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel. His novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus: A Breathers Christmas Carol will be released this November. He is currently at work on his fourth novel, Big Egos.


Wednesday October 17th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
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Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear (who subbed for Caitlin R. Kiernan at the last minute) was spectacular. The bar was packed, the drink flowed, and we all ate very good Chinese food afterward.
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Liva Llewellyn read a harrowing story from a demon's point of view and N.K. Jemisin read a wonderful excerpt from her most recent novel: Fantastic Fiction at KGB, February

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

(because of a scheduling difficulty Lauren Beukes will not
be reading). Instead we 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.
Pan Morigan is 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 Blue came 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.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

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Carolyn Turgeon and Genevieve Valentine read at KGB Bar’s Fantastic Fiction reading Wednesday March 16th to an appreciative crowd. Here are the photos:
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A rare appearance on the east coast by Laird


FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts


Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Laird Barron is the author of The Imago Sequence, and Occultation, two horror collections published by Night Shade Books. The Imago Sequence won The Shirley Jackson Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

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Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of General Slocum's Gold, Walk In Shadows, Hunt at World's End, and Chasing the Dragon, as well as monthly columns on the horror genre that appeared in Fear Zone and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. His story "Under the Skin" will be reprinted later this year in All American Horror Stories of the 21st Century: The Best of the First Decade.



Wednesday February 16th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:
Gregory Frost’s Shadowbridge duology (Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet) was named one of the top four fantasy novels by the American Library Association in 2009 and was a finalist for the James Tiptree Award. He's currently at work on two other novel-length projects.
He recently recorded his story "The Seals of New R'lyeh" for the StarShipSofa podcast site, and a series of "Darger & Surplus" podcasts with and for Michael Swanwick.

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Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of Being Full of Light,
Insubstantial is the first African-American to receive the HWA’s Bram
Stoker Award. Her latest work can be found in Genesis: An Anthology of
Black Science Fiction, Dark Faith, and New Blood anthologies.


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Wednesday January 19th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
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Paul Witcover and Adam Golaski read last night.
Paul read from his forthcoming novel. Adam read some of his poetry and several vignettes, the latter from his new collection, Color Plates<.i>. We all went out to dinner and a good time was had by all.