In our final 2025 session, we're covering winter holiday stories! Come join us to discuss three great pieces. Our slate: "Cold Wind" by Nicola Griffith "Dreidel of Dread: the Very Cthulhu Chanukah by Alex Shvartsman" "In the Late December" by Greg Van EekHout www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Today we're highlighting Carolyn Ives Gilman! Come join us to discuss "Exile's End" and "Touring with the Alien." The post also has a teaser for our Winter Holidays session in two weeks. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion early this time! Stop by to share your recent favorites, swap story samples, and chat about future themes. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Today we're discussing "The Lottery" and some more recent stories that are inspired by the original or share similar themes. Today's slate: "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson "Fishwife" by Carrie Vaughn "Willing" by Premee Mohamed "The Sin of America" by Catherynne M. Valente

Short Fiction Book Club is about to go Long Fiction Book Club on this occasion!!!!! Can't wait to read this undoubtedly fantastic novel. The original short story was a banger and you should all read it to build some anticipation: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_03_21/

Come join today's session! We have a strong slate about birds (and grief), and we love seeing new people in the discussions. Today's stories are: - "One for Sorrow" by RJ Aurand - "Bird Burning" by Spencer Nitkey - "Auspicium" by Diana Dima www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion! Stop by to share your recent favorites, swap story samples, suggest future sessions, and discuss your favorites of the year so far. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Come join today's session! We have a great slate and love seeing new people in the discussions. Today's stories are: - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke - The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead by E.M. Linden - If You Want to Erase Us, You Must Be Thorough by L. Tu

huge month for very normal short fiction fans

Short Fiction Book Club is starting October off right with fava beans and a nice Chianti. Come join us to discuss some great cannibalism stories: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion! Stop by to talk about your recent favorites, swap story samples, help us plan future sessions, and be so normal about short stories (or novelettes, an underappreciated story length). www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Today, Short Fiction Book Club is discussing baseball stories! Come join us for tales of this American (and occasionally Martian) sport. Our slate: "Diamond Girls" by Louise Marley "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson "The Star and the Rockets" by Harry Turtledove

Today, Short Fiction Book Club is discussing extra-short fiction: come join us for some flash fiction! These four pieces are a total of 4392 words, but they pack quite a punch, and we're having a great discussion so far. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

buy this guy's short stories (he's very smart and good at signing things)

Met several readers at Worldcon who were interested in shorter fiction but just didn’t know where to look for it and who/which stories they might like. It definitely feels like there is an audience, but there isn’t a bridge connecting them to the magazines + short fiction authors they’d love.

Our crossover session with the Hugo Readalong project is up! Today we're discussing (most of) the 2017 short story list. Come argue about awards from eight years ago like a person with normal hobbies. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Hi to our new followers! It was extremely cool to meet some of you at Worldcon. Short Fiction Book Club is a collection of nerds who love short fiction. Twice a month from fall to spring (outside of our Hugo Readalong project), we pick a few stories around a common theme and discuss them.

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Our monthly discussion is live! Join us to talk about the best short fiction you've read recently (online or in collections/anthologies), share story samples, and discuss our upcoming Hugo crossover session. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is spinning back up for Season 4! Stop by and say hello if you'd like to host or suggest a future session. And on Wednesday August 20th, join us as we discuss some Best Short Story nominees from the 2017 Hugo slate. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

slowly coming to realize that we picked our two big yearly spotlight authors so far based on both short fiction writing craft and raw shitposting talent (hi @isabel.kim, you are very funny also)

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion. We've got: - Detailed story recommendations - Anthology deep dives - Thieving bears Come join us to swap favorites! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is mostly on hiatus during the Hugos, but our monthly discussions are still running! Stop by and swap recommendations with us: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

The Short Fiction Book Club Season 3 awards are up! We've read some remarkable stories this year, and it's time to honor our very favorites. Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is back today with our Eleanor Arnason spotlight session! Come join us to discuss: - "The Lovers" - "Knapsack Poems: A Goxhat Travel Journal" - "The Grammarian’s Five Daughters" www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Our monthly discussion is up! Stop by to discuss recent favorites, backlist gems, and intriguing first lines. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Short Fiction Book Club is back today with our Living on Leviathans session! Come join us to discuss: A Compilation of Accounts Concerning the Distal Brook Flood by Thomas Ha Paper Suns by Kemi Ashing-Giwa The People from the Dead Whale by Djuna, translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar

Short Fiction Book Club is talking about Omelas, and the stories Le Guin's original has inspired. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N.K. Jemisin Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Today is our first session of the new year! For our "Oops! All Thomas Ha" slate, we're discussing a slate of four killer stories. Come join us to chat about the details and pick a favorite: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Our yearly Fireside Chat is up! Come join us to share story recommendations, swap promising first lines, and celebrate our next author spotlight session. In January, we're having a Thomas Ha showcase-- but first, let's end the year in style. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Quick little look at a few short stories and novelettes that popped out at me from Podcastle and Strange Horizons this year (including perhaps my new favorite novelette of the year…) www.tarvolon.com/2024/11/26/t...

Before the holiday week kicks into gear, we're having our monthly short fiction discussion a day early. Come join us for chat and recommendations! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Today's Short Fiction Book Club discussion is up, featuring: "Cretins" by Thomas Ha (4800 words) "Jinx" by Carlie St. George (6300 words) "Dreamer, Passenger, Partner" by Colin Alexander (1600 words) The discussion is great so far-- stop by if you're interested! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Yes, everyone is welcome to hang out! This is such a cool story, and we've paired it with two others based on things like: - You finish and then need to stare at the wall for a minute - Narrative voice and story structure feel delightfully slippery - Mostly they're just great

Short Fiction Book Club is having our Dark Waters session today! Come join us to discuss "The Incident at Veniaminov" by Mathilda Zeller and "A Lullaby of Anguish" by Marie Croke.

Today we're having a discussion about Sturgeon Award winners, featuring: - "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson - "The Edge of the World" by Michael Swanwick - "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" by Sarah Pinsker Join us for a chat! (Link follows)

Promised I’d do a thread of favorites when it wasn’t the weekend, let’s do that thread

Today we're having a Mini Mosaics discussion, featuring: - "Other Worlds and This One" by Cadwell Turnbull - "Still Life with Hammers, a Broom, and a Brick Stacker" by Tochi Onyebuchi - "Peristalsis" by Vajra Chandrasekera Come join us if you'd like to chat! (Link follows)

Short Fiction Book Club has our monthly discussion thread up. Come talk about whatever short fiction you’ve been reading. Also includes the slate for our Mini Mosaics discussion on September 4 www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/...

August magazine review, ready to go! www.tarvolon.com/2024/08/19/t...

We're back for season three! Today features three near-flash pieces centered around themes of family-- come hang out. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

For season 3 of Short Fiction Book Club, we're getting on social media! Our first session on Wednesday August 21 will be (Not Quite) Flash and Family, covering the following stories.