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Anybody needs me next summer roundabout the end of June, I’m up in Seattle, teaching at Clarion West for the . . . let me see, let me see: third time : Announcing the Clarion West Summer Workshop instructors for 2019

Wow, Mapping the Interior‘s a finalist. So cool: https://www.tor.com/2018/07/25/2018-world-fantasy-award-finalists/

The hard copies arrive. Very cool. “Love is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching” is in here. Cute little story about teenage love, and all that comes after.

Cool pack of books and writers to be running with: Fear Not – LJ Genre Spotlight on Horror    

A story of mine that ran on Gamut a while back. It’s in here now: Change forces us into the light or the dark. Dusk is in between. It defends the light from the dark. Where things go well. Or where they go very, very bad… SUSPENDED IN DUSK II, edited by @herodfel, with @SGJ72

Which is what Mongrels would be, I imagine. All werewolf stories walk through blood. Cool write-up from Paul Downey: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones review  

It’s of a world without Harlan Ellison, yes. It’s all different because of him. And, no, I never met the guy, or, I only knew him on the page, but, too, I kind feel that that’s where you can know someone the best. Anyway, here’s my favorite two Ellison write-ups, one from before yesterday, one

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/621953925/summer-horror-poll-meet-our-expert-panelists?platform=hootsuite  

Kind Mongrels words from Kristen Burns: https://blog.kristenburns.com/book-review-mongrels-by-stephen-graham-jones/

over at the cool new Automata. Wrote it after reading Donald Barthelme’s old story about the Joker. Also, shhh. Nobody tell DC. https://automatareview.com/bats-stephen-graham-jones

I’m helping judge it: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/12/617208292/its-aliiiiiive-this-year-our-summer-reader-poll-is-all-about-horror  

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Wrote this for a Grateful Dead antho years back, then it was in The Ones that Got Away, and now it’s at the coolest of all places: Nightmare Magazine. Till the Morning Comes

Want to know more about #ShirleyJacksonAwards nominee Stephen Graham Jones? Check out my review in Transmotion of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of SGJ by Theo Van Alst & The Critical Companion to SJG from @BillyJStratton https://t.co/o5MDhQZFMA @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/UfVAuHsab8 — Nadhia Grewal (@GrewalNadhia) May 15, 2018

You will be very happy you did, because THEN you get to read it. This blurb from @SGJ72…thanks, man. pic.twitter.com/luQ2Qoz8X5 — TVAyyyy (@TVAyyyy) May 14, 2018

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/   https://entropymag.org/on-junot-diaz-and-the-literati/

Wow, so cool—great ballot to be a finalist on. Luck to all: https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/  

Is now in The Dark, their April issue: The Darkest Part  

Billy Stratton on Mapping, for LA Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-habitations-of-specters-on-stephen-graham-joness-mapping-the-interior 

Wow, too cool—Mapping the Interior lucks into a This is Horror Award: This Is Horror Awards 2017: The Winners

Three books I have stories in (Devil got kind of damaged en route, but, I mean: shipwreck, right?).

by Eric Gary Anderson, at / from Western American Literature: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685945

I was sitting in a hotel room in Santa Fe, there for . . . I think I was doing a Percival Everett thing, along with Gerald Vizenor and I forget who-all. Been a year or two, or five or six. Anyway, Ellen Datlow got hold of me last-minute, said she needed a story yesterday

Cool S.T Cartledge write-up on Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth: Book Review: Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones  

Kind words from Eddie Generous, over at Unnerving: https://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/03/06/Review-of-Mongrels-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones