Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Four
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Four! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on September 5, 2023. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on September 5 and half on October 3.
Featuring all-new short fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Grace P. Fong, Kristina Ten, Sarah Monette, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Jeannette Ng, AnaMaria Curtis, and Jenn Reese; nonfiction by Una McCormack, Christopher J Garcia, Marissa Lingen, and Riley Silverman; poetry by Ali Trotta, Tiffany Morris, Ai Jiang, and Emily Jiang; interviews with Sarah Monette and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Grace P. Fong’s For Woman Wild as the cover.
All that plus two podcasts!
Episode 54A (September 5): Editors’ Introduction, “Can You Hear Me Now?” by Catherynne M. Valente, as read by Erika Ensign, “Knight of Wands, Six of Swords” by Ali Trotta, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Catherynne M. Valente.
Episode 54B (October 3): Editors’ Introduction, “The Coffin Maker” by AnaMaria Curtis, as read by Matt Peters, “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream” by Ai Jiang, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing AnaMaria Curtis.
About Our Cover Artist: Grace P. Fong
Grace P. Fong is a Chinese-American author-illustrator whose writing and artwork have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and others. Her writing has won an award from FIYAH x Levar Burton Reads’s short fiction contest, and her art has been nominated four times for the Best Fan Artist Hugo Award, and won the inaugural Ignyte Award in 2020. In addition, she has worked as a narrative designer in tabletop/trading card games (Magic: the Gathering) and video gaming (Palia).