General Call: If you have nominating rights for the Hugos, please consider Dirty Magick Magazine. Just getting into the conversation would help boost us to the next level and hopefully increase subscriptions so we can continue to publish great stories unabated.

Very New Orleans question: why did Cleopatra and Femme Fatales not only have the same floats but the exact same theme? Are they connected somehow? Is this me or is this weird? #mardigras #neworleansquestion

Dirty Magick's February book reviews by @ninjafingers.bsky.social include @millieabecassis.com "A Legacy of Blood and Bone" and Anbara Salam's "The Salvage." Read for free on Substack. Subscribe if you can.

Available on Dirty Magick: Our film column "Naked Steel" reviews the groundbreaking but flawed animated film "Fire and Ice," the collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta. Read on Substack. Subscribe if you can. #filmreviews #fantasyfilms

Available now on Dirty Magick, amidst the many coloful supernatural being in Lagos, Nigeria, a winged iwin woman contemplates sacrificing her wing for money in Anoualuwa Ngozi's "Those Who Dream of Flight in the City of Warriors." #afrofantasy #nigeria #magicalrealism Buy now/subscribe on Patreon.

Available now from Dirty Magick: a country conjure woman struggles to keep her son in line while serving the needs of her town in "Loose The Darkness" by Suzanne Paul. #afrofantasy #southernlit #witchcraft Buy now on Patreon. Subscribe if you can.

Now available from Dirty Magick, "Red Calabash" by Makeda Braithwaitem follows a young woman as she decides her fate: will she become a witch? Why is her grandmother pushing her so hard? Buy now on Patreon. #afrofantasy #guyana #indiepublishing Subscribe if you can.

From Dirty Magick's AfroFantasy Issue: Just in time for Carnival, Khalifaziz explores a dreamlike New Orleans and Congo Square as a young man quests for love and redemption in "The Big Bamboula." #NOLA #afrofantasy #urbanfantasy Buy now on Patreon. Subscribe if you can.

Now available on Patreon: Dirty Magick Eighteen: The AfroFantasy Issue. Explore African, South American, and Afro-American versions of fantasy and witchcraft. #indiepublishing #fantasyfiction #afrofantasy Please subscribe if you can.

Now available on Weightless Books, Dirty Magick Eighteen: The AfroFantasy Issue. Explore African, South American, and Afro-American versions of fantasy and witchcraft. #indiepublishing #fantasyfiction #afrofantasy Please subscribe if you can.

Just in time for Black History Month and Carnival, Dirty Magick presents its AfroFantasy Issue featuring Khalifaziz, Makeda Braithwaite, Suzanne Paul, and Anoualuwa Ngozi. Naked Steel features Fire and Ice plus book reviews by @ninjafingers.bsky.social Jennifer R. Povey. Please subscribe if you can.

Oh, that wonderful time of day when the middle school band practicing for Mardi Gras marches by your house yet again playing a clunky and off key version of "Rock and Roll Part Two," the only hit of a convicted pedophile. #NOLA #CarnivalTime

I review Al Green's new EP featuring covers of The Bee Gees, R.E.M., and, very delightfully, Lou Reed. Read on my Substack Yat's That. Subscribe if you can. #NOLASky #recordreviews

I'm always up for a muffaletta or a roast beef po-boy, but I found a few variations on theme that push the traditional to a new level: Porgy's muffalettu with tuna conserva and Dough Ngyuner's pho debris po-boy. Read on my Substack Yat's That. #NOLAsky #foodreviews #poboys Subscribe if you can.

Carnival is coming, so I reviewed the latest album from Monk Boudreaux and his grandson Jwan "Slip Don't Fall" on my Substack Yat's That. Subscribe if you can. #neworleansmusic #NOLAsky #mardigrasindians

Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 18: The Afro-Fantasy Issue. If you are a reviewer and want a preview, my DMs are open.

Read Jennifer R. Povey's @ninjafingers.bsky.social January book reviews for Dirty Magick Magazine 17. Read for free on Substack. dirtymagickmagazine.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Dirty Magick's film column Naked Steel covers the sorcery epic Dragonslayer. Read for free on Patreon.

Maria D'Antonio-Reich gets witchy with her urban fantasy heist among the New Orleans elite in "The Witch's Mark" in Dirty Magick 17. Buy now on Patreon.

Songborto Biswas goes into the Indian tattoo underground in his police procedural urban fantasy "Bloody Inklings" in Dirty Magick Magazine 17. Buy now on Patreon.

Andrew Marinus mergers gangsters, drug dealers, and cosmic horror in his trippy "Bullets Won't Help You Here" in Dirty Magick 17. Buy now on Patreon.

Robert Guffey creates an X-Files/David Lynch hybrid in his cryptid urban fantasy "The Black Ambulance" in Dirty Magick 17. Buy now on Patreon.

Lena Ng goes into the darkest shadows of a forgotten cinema in her cosmic horror story "Through A Film Darkly" in Dirty Magick 17. Buy now on Patreon.

Patreon users: Dirty Magick Magazine 17 is now available. Buy individual stories or the whole issue. Please subscribe to help support #fantasyfiction and #indiepublishing

Dirty Magick Magazine 17 is now available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social Stories by Lena Ng, Robert Guffey, Andrew Marinus, Songborto Biswas, and Maria D’Antonio-Reich. Naked Steel covers Dragonslayer. Book reviews by @ninjafingers.bsky.social

Read Jennifer R. Povey's @ninjafingers.bsky.social book reviews of "Psychopomp and Circumstance" and "Queen of the Dead" for free on Substack. From Dirty magick Magazine Issue 16.

Our film column Naked Steel covers the very classy fantasy film Ladyhawke in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 16. Read for free on Patreon.

Dei Walker gives us some chilly sword and sorcery in "The Exile's Pyre" in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 16. Buy now on Patreon.

Take a deep dive into sea shanties and their magic with Marie-Hélène Lebeault in "The Siren's Cypher" from Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 16. Buy now on Patreon.

Enjoy an African mythological tale from Angola, Meireles de Andre's "The Boy Who Carried Time On HIs Back" in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 16. Buy now on Patreon.

Christopher Welch shows us the demon's pov of a summoning in "The Earthbound Demon" in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 16. Buy a copy on Patreon.

I reminisce about the Sears catalogue and other Christmas memories in Dirty Magick Magazine 16. Read for free on Patreon.

Make your holidays a little spicy. Buy Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Sixteen on Weightless Books. Stories by Christopher Welch, Meireles de Andre, Marie-Helene Lebeault, Dei Walker Film Column: Naked Steel: Ladyhawke Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey

Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Seventeen Stories by Lena Ng, Robert Guffey, Andrew marinus, Songberto Biswas, and Maria D'Antonio-Reich

Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Sixteen Stories: Christopher Welch, Meireles de Andre, Marie-Helene Lebeault, Dei Walker. Naked Steel covers Ladyhawke. Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey @ninjafingers.bsky.social Available 12/1/2025

If you're in New Orleans on Nov 15, I'm having a book release party for Midnight Brew, an urban fantasy novel of vampires and witches. Parleaux Brewery 6-7:30 pm.

I wrote about the my late, great friend Carlo Nuccio and his last album on my Substack. Subscribe if you can. #neworleans #nola #neworleansmusic

For those of you in the New Orleans area, I will be having a book release party at Parleaux Beer Labs Saturday Nov 15. Readings and a game of loteria for a free book.

Substack users: Get your monthly fantasy/urban fantasy fix in your e-mail. Dirty Magick Issue 15 is now online. dirtymagickmagazine.substack.com

Need to add something to the TBR list? Read Jennifer Povey's book reviews in Dirty Magick 15. Free on Patreon.

Dirty Magick's film column "Naked Steel" reviews John Boorman's "Excalibur," the messy but classy take on Arthurian legends. Read for free on Patreon.

Quests and intrigue abound in Keith Roysdon's "The Sword and The Crossbow" available in Dirty Magick 15. Buy the story, the issue, or subscribe on Patreon. @keithroysdon.bsky.social

Justice and tradition come first in JT Beatty's "Headtaker Knight" in Dirty Magick 15. Buy the story, the issue, or subscribe on Patreon.

A serial killer and a spell gone wrong=weird revenge in @rae-patterson.bsky.social Rae Patterson's "Blood Golem" in Dirty Magick 15. Buy the single story or the whole issue on Patreon.

Seedy adventurers help a female wizard in ... trouble? Buy G.C. Collins' "Iridium" from Dirty Magick 15 on Patreon.

Patreon users: Get Dirty Magick 15 and subscribe if you can. #fantasyfiction #indiepublishing #dirtymagick

Now available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social Dirty Magick Issue 15. Stories: G.C. Collins, Rae Patterson, JT Beatty, Keith Roysdon Film Column: Naked Steel: Excalibur Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey Please subscribe if you can. You can still get extra issues with 6- and 12-month subs.

Twenty years ago, Paula and I were refugees in San Francisco, staying with Aunt Elyse. We went to the Day of the Dead parade that night and I wasn't expecting to be so moved. He's what I wrote then, reprinted with pictures from that night on my Substack, Yat's That. Subscribe if you can.

I was very pleased to talk Halloween and horror/urban fantasy with author Craig DiLouie and our great host Aki Liao on the NoName Podcast

You can spend your afternoon getting spooky with Dirty Magick Magazine before trick or treating tonight.