dawn.vogel | April 16, 2025
If you like anthologies featuring stories by marginalized authors, check out Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals, which is currently on Kickstarter! The anthology will feature horror, fantasy, and sci-fi stories about doors opening. Four of the stories have already been selected, but there’s an open call to fill the remaining spots in the anthology! You […]
dawn.vogel | March 26, 2025
Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore, edited by Leanbh Pearson (IFWG Publishing International, 2024), is an anthology with ten stories that each contain a shard of a broken mirror at the core of their premise. Some stories touch on well-known folklore, while others use more obscure myths and legends as their core. The stories are […]
dawn.vogel | October 23, 2024
I’ve gotten a ton of anthologies and novellas from Neon Hemlock, and now they’re running a Kickstarter for a new anthology, Shatter the Sun! The anthology will collect stories, a poem, a game, and a comic (and possibly more) in the queer sword and sorcery genre. You can back the Kickstarter for just this anthology or […]
dawn.vogel | September 25, 2024
Microcosm Publishing and Elly Blue’s upcoming installment in the Bikes in Space series is This is Your Bike on Plants, and it’s on Kickstarter right now! If you’ve never read one of the Bikes in Space series, you can read my review of one of the earlier volumes, Bikes Not Rockets, here! I’ve also had a […]
dawn.vogel | September 11, 2024
The Strange Locations anthology, edited by Marissa Van Uden (Apex Book Company, 2024), is a limited release collection of dark speculative travel guides told in microfiction format. Tiny and beautifully crafted, each of these thirty brief tales hints at a larger story of an unusual place. There were a few pieces that really stood out […]
dawn.vogel | June 19, 2024
During the 2024 WriteHive online conference, they announced the table of contents for the upcoming Rescuing Curiosity anthology, and I’m pleased to say that TWO of my stories made the list! “It Can’t Be Sunday Everywhere at Once” is a sci-fi story involving refugees on a long-term space voyage and how one young woman came up […]
dawn.vogel | May 1, 2024
If you’re interested in stories told by and about neurodiverse people, check out The Neurodiversiverse anthology Kickstarter! It’s got an amazing list of included authors, and in addition to the anthology, there are all kinds of cool rewards for backers at various levels!
dawn.vogel | March 27, 2024
Horns & Rattles Press is currently funding their Bitter Become the Fields anthology, which is a horror anthology filled with stories featuring flora and fungi! The list of authors is pretty exciting, including some recent names in the horror genre and other names who are sure to hold that status in the future! The Kickstarter for Bitter […]
dawn.vogel | February 28, 2024
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), is a speculative fiction anthology that blends historical fact about Marie Curie’s life as a young woman and fantastical, science fiction, and horror elements to present new and intriguing experiments a young Marie might have undertaken. Most […]
dawn.vogel | February 14, 2024
The Kickstarter for volume 11 of Bikes in Space has launched. I’m a fan of this series from Microcosm Publishing, and I’m pleased to announce that my story, “The Storyteller,” will appear in Bikes, the Universe, and Everything! The theme for this volume is bikes and books, so I wrote a post-apocalyptic story in which bikes […]
