Angie Smibert

Evidently I received a Letter of Merit in SCBWI’s 2009 Work-in-Progress Grant competition.  Thanks to Kathryn Gaglione–the other Virginia winner–for pointing it out to me.

My story, “The Catalog,” is in this month’s issue of Odyssey.

Here’s a pdf of my latest Odyssey story, “Janissary Games.”  Published in ODYSSEY magazine,  July / August 2009, © 2009 Carus Publishing. Used with permission.

Several people have asked me put my stories that appeared in past issues of Odyssey on my blog.  So, I got permission from the magazine to post them.  Here are stories (pdf) up to, but not including, the present one:

• “The Option Package,” published in ODYSSEY magazine,  January 2009, © 2009 Carus Publishing. Used with permission.
• “The BEARs of Syria Planum,” published in ODYSSEY magazine, October 2008, © 2008 Carus Publishing. Used with permission.
• “Memento Nora,” published in ODYSSEY magazine, May/June 2008, © 2008 Carus Publishing. Used with permission.
• “The Boy who Spoke in Colors,” published in ODYSSEY magazine, December 2007, © 2007 Carus Publishing. Used with permission.

I’ll post the ones from July 2009 and September 2009 when I get my copies.

My story “Hollow Woman” is in this quarter’s issue of Farrago’s Wainscot .  (And, no, before anybody asks, it’s not autobiographical.)

And, my story, “Janissary Games,” is in this month’s Odyssey Magazine.  Sorry, no online content.  It’s purely a print mag.

This story will be in the September 2009 (Techno-Travel) issue of Odyssey.

This story will be in the July issue of Farrago’s Wainscot. The Wainscot, btw, won the Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine.

Odyssey just accepted this story for their July/August 2009 issue. My story is a rather dark take on the issue’s theme: the biology of play.

Darin Bradley, fiction editor of Farrago’s Wainscot, let me know that Crawlspace, the first FW anthology, is officially dead. Drollerie Press canceled the book “because of the impact of worsening sales.”   In other words, the economy sucks. My story “Living Inside the Box” was going to be in Crawlspace, alongside stories by Forrest Aguirre and Hal Duncan. Dangit. That’s the second anthology my work was supposed to be in that got canned.

I’m doing a series for Suite101.com on learning the craft of science fiction and fantasy writing:

• Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy 101: Where to Learn the Craft (or at Least Get Started)
• Online Science Fiction Writing Classes: Web and Email-based Classes for Genre Writers
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Boot Camps: Workshops That Can Launch Your Writing Career
• MFA / MA’s for Speculative Fiction Writers: Low-residency Master’s Degree Programs in Popular Fiction
• Online Workshops for Speculative Fiction Writers: Critique Groups That Can Help to Improve Your Writing