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World Fantasy Award-winning author Natalia Theodoridou is a UK-based media and cultural studies scholar, fiction editor at sub-Q interactive fiction magazine, and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. “Poems Written While” is Theodoridou’s first appearance in Uncanny. Uncanny Magazine: “Poems Written While” focuses not just on poetry, but also on the context in […]
Reader, do you remember the book you loved most as a child? The one with illustrations that fascinated and haunted you in the best of ways. The one with words you spoke under your breath so your parents would not know you didn’t need to be read to anymore. The one you stole from the […]
One does not simply walk into Mordor. We all know this, everyone knows this. The road to Mount Doom is treacherous. Every step brings confusion and terror. And yet we pretend it is so, that one can walk in, and can then walk out again, unchanged. It starts so simply, so small. You find a […]
Monica Valentinelli writes stories, games, essays, and comics for her original works and media/tie-in properties. She is known for creating the Make Art Not War Challenge and for her publications set in Whedon’s Firefly universe. Valentinelli previously appeared in Uncanny with “We Have Always Been Here, Motherfucker,” a powerful essay which touches on some of […]
When people ask for advice toward developing editorial skills, I have a dirty little secret to editorial greatness.* Usually, I give tips that have been repeated elsewhere. Read widely. Keep a curious mind. Decipher the technical tricks of your favorite authors. Or follow their blogs. There is one strategy I’ve not admitted to. Fact is, […]
Sheldon Teitelbaum and Eli Herstein note in the Encyclopedia Judaica that traditionally Jewish literature has avoided the purely imaginative, often framing stories that would seem on their face to be fantastic as true accounts or using the less realistic elements to make a point about the true nature of the world. Despite this, Jewish folklore […]
Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she currently lives in Boston, where she is completing an MBA at Harvard. Her writing has appeared in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Tor.com, Interfictions Online, and other publications. “How to Swallow […]
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HI I AM HUGO THE NEW UNCANNY KITTEN AND I WRITE EDITORIAL THIS MONTH ALL OF THE STORIES ARE ABOUT SLEEPING AND EATING AND CLIMBING ONTO THINGS I SHOULDN’T CLIMB ONTO AND OH IT IS A SQUIRREL IN THE WINDOW! Now that we have Hugo off of the laptop… As we write this, the temperatures […]
Making good life choices is hard. Making good life choices when you’re neurodivergent is damn hard. Perhaps the most relatable and engaging such struggle I’ve read is that of Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga. Miles and his “excellent life choices” entertain, astound, and horrify me even as they dig at something deep […]
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