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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theoffingmag.com | Emma B.N.J. Janssen |Mia Ayumi Malhotra |Shannan Mann |Noelani Piters
I lose the language to speak to my bodyso I pick up math for its new notation. I wear out fingernails & nights on graphpaper & learn matrices, determinants, sets. The best part is that I’m no good at math,never have been. I tire professors & scrap paper,exhausting notebooks with errors & paperingmargins with graphite. Tattooing the clean bodyof a proof with eraser scrubs & messy math. To improve my reasoning, I bring notationinto my routines.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
onlypoems.substack.com | Shannan Mann
Literary magazines and contests got married a long time ago. I’m not sure what the courting process was like back then, but I can imagine a meet-cute might have gone something like this:Lit mag: I need money. Contest: I give money to other people. Lit mag: You are irrelevant to me. Contest: But people will give you money in the hopes of me giving them money. Lit mag: You are very relevant to me. Let’s get married and make infinite babies. Okay, I’m not a romcom writer and now you know why.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
litmagnews.substack.com | Shannan Mann
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
litmagnews.substack.com | Shannan Mann
Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. Okay, first, jokes. “Non-profit,” in the non-legal sense, literally means something that doesn’t net profit. So, by that definition, ONLY POEMS is most definitely a “non-profit,” or perhaps even “anti-profit,” because, well, I crunched the numbers today and our profit is negative $3,264.22.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Jenny Hamilton |Shannan Mann |Leah Bobet |Aishwarya Subramanian
For your pleasure and consideration, I have brought you a review that is also a drinking game. We will be taking a drink every time we spot a reference to a play or musical; we will be taking two drinks if we spot a reference specifically to The Phantom of the Opera (1986); and we will be finishing our glass if we are sufficiently off-book on Into the Woods (1987) that we can finish a lyric quoted in the book at a crucial moment. That last bit will be the final exam of this book review.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Shannan Mann |Leah Bobet
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss what happens when books make you work. How does a reader know whether to persevere with a book when at first they're not sure of it? How can we decide if a book really isn't working on its own terms—or whether we're missing something and need to pay closer attention? And how can a critical reader check their own expectations to assess a text fairly?
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Shannan Mann |Simo Srinivas |Leah Bobet |Aishwarya Subramanian
Content warning:This page contains: Death/dying Murder Pregnancy Violence/combatWho conjured dreams for the devil when he fell in hell? He slept well because he knew there is no hell in hell. I do not know how I am cold around your burningviolin—a song is but fire for those who dwell in hell. You are glowing like an angel lit by a red-light district. Beg, borrow, bribe, or steal—prayers do not sell in hell. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Leah Bobet |Simo Srinivas |Shannan Mann |Aishwarya Subramanian
Content warning:This page contains: Ableism Disregard for personal autonomy Violence/combati also want to challenge police forcesto keep me contained: jails handcuffschains ropes straitjackets. magicians knewspectacle was struggle reframed: the chanceof a man drowned in a milk can, like a kitten,spilled past the footlights. the papers called himself-assured, imperious: short sharp bowlegged man,Rabbi’s son, thrice renamed, a boy trapeze flyer,cross-country runner, with lockpicks hid in his hand.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Simo Srinivas |Shannan Mann |Leah Bobet |Aishwarya Subramanian
Cassiopeia Fung’s sitting services are in demand. Who conjured dreams for the devil when he fell in hell? He slept well because he knew there is no hell in hell. i also want to challenge police forces / to keep me contained: What are the tools that we apply to figure out why the glaciers are melting in this novel? Wednesday: Apollo Weeps by Xian Mao Friday: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
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Jun 17, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Simo Srinivas |Shannan Mann |Leah Bobet |Aishwarya Subramanian
Who conjured dreams for the devil when he fell in hell? He slept well because he knew there is no hell in hell. i also want to challenge police forces / to keep me contained:
