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Calgary Writing Workshop: The Shape of Drama
What is the shape of genre? How do the conventions of science fiction differ from horror, from mystery, from romance? What misconceptions might you have about what it takes to write in a particular style or tradition? Join four sessions on crafting genre across short fiction, including a seminar discussion, as well as three following…
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Tales for Spooky Season
Something that Bites & The Church of the Hot Pink Jesus: two new tales for Halloween!
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What We See at Word on the Street 2022!
Join me at Word on the Street 2022!
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Untangling the Cassette (At Audible.com)
When I was tiny, I still read before I could read. In the dark and under blankets, voices whispered from foamy, tinny speakers, telling me of other worlds, pirates, monsters, and talking mice. Then everything would go “ssshhhhhwipwip,” and I’d have to spend ten minutes or so reaching into the bowels of the sony walkman, desperate…
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The New Gods of The House
To celebrate the beginning of Halloween season, I am happy to share my ever so slightly spooky poem The New Gods of the House in Abyss and Apex issue 80! You can read or listen to my narration of this poetic homage to the works of Jack Kirby right here, alongside the other great works…
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The Visitation Seeds have landed! (Novella links)
Tonight, the 2020 chapbooks of 845 Press, Rose Garden Press, and Baseline Press were set loose! and along with them, my novella Visitation Seeds has been officially unleashed onto the world! You can buy 3 different digital formats right here from from the 845 Press Catalogue as well as picking it up as a kindle…
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Prepare for a visitor: Novella landing!
The Visitation Seeds have come! A new novella coming from me to you
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That Ghostly Voyage Beyond in Cypress Poetry Journal
That Ghostly Voyage Beyond For you, I would relinquish My precious solitary signified being and embrace a gaseous dizzying Consciousness of nebulae … Ben Berman Ghan