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Apex Magazine Issue 140
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 140 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Whisper Songs by Lyndsie Manusos Quietus by Zohair Life Wager by Lucy Zhang Kɛrozin Lamp Kurfi by Victor Forna Junebug by Sarah Hollowell Spitting Image by Rich Larson FLASH FICTION Brainpink Umber by Chelsea Sutton From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind by Elisabeth Ring CLASSIC FICTION Memories of the Old Sun by Eugen Bacon Through Dreams She Moves by Tonya Liburd NONFICTION Experiences: On Not Being Creative Enough to Be Creative by Dana Cameron The Spanish Scene by Mariano Villarreal INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Lyndsie Manusos by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Victor Forna by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Aaron Nakahara by Bradley Powers
Apex Magazine Issue 146
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 146 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Kizimbani by Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden And Someone Has to Do It by Koji A Dae A Tapestry of Dreams by Victor Forna What Good Daughters Do by Tia Tashiro The Price of Moss by Akis Linardos FLASH FICTION The Eight Things You'll Never Be Now That You're Slowly Tur...
Feast, Famine and Potluck
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
The Gilded Ones
The must-read new bold and immersive West African-inspired fantasy series, as featured on Cosmo, Bustle and Book Riot. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice, perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. "Namina Forna Could Be The Toni Morrison Of YA Fantasy." Refinery 29 Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in Otera, a deeply patriarchal ancient kingdom, where a woman's worth is tied to her purity, and she must bleed to prove it. But when Deka bleeds gold - the colour of impurity, of a demon - she faces a consequence worse than death. She is saved by a mysterious woman who tells Deka of her true nature: she is an Alaki, a near-immortal with exceptional...
Happiness
'Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary ... A thing of lasting beauty' OBSERVER SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2019 A breathtaking novel from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on...
Först på bollen
Drömmen har gått i uppfyllelse! Alex har blivit uttagen till Hammarbys akademilag, där bara de allra bästa får spela. Plötsligt är han omgiven av spelare som lever och andas fotboll, precis som han själv alltid gjort. Men allt ställs på sin spets när laget åker på en cup i Italien. Alex är först överlycklig, de ska möta lag som Milan och Liverpool, men sakta kommer tvivlet. I det gamla laget var han överlägset bäst, här bara en i mängden. Har Alex vad som krävs? Kan han hänga med i tempot? När Hammarby startar ett akademilag för tjejer får Alex oväntad hjälp från forwarden Olga ... Först på bollen är framför allt en bok om fotboll, men också en berättelse om att kämpa för sina drömmar, även när det är svårt.
Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
These stories by new and emerging writers from the continent of Africa all tackle the theme of 'Disruption' in ingenious ways and represent a range of genres, from Innocent Ilo's imaginative exploration of a post-apocalyptic African village, to Victor Forna's stylistic take on the destruction of humanity. Masiyaleti Mbewe's brutal tale of Apartheid and climate change through the eyes of a time-traveling cyborg sits alongside Genna Gardini's diverting allegory of companionship and an escaped exotic pet. The 2021 anthology features stories from across the continent, from Libya to Sierra Leone to Zambia to South Africa, and also includes a translated story, 'Armando's Virtuous Crime' by Najwa Bin Shatwan, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain.
Making Black History
This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism. Discursively, this moment is ver...
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Rejection of Victimhood in Literature
Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.
