Fantastic Fiction at KGB

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on April 10, 2024, with guests Robert Levy & Jennifer Marie Brissett. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​ ​   Robert Levy Robert Levy’s novel  The Glittering World  was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Lambda Literary Award. His collection  No One Dies from Love: Dark Tales...

Here’s the audio from the March 13, 2024 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests Richard Butner & Moses Ose Utomi. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​ ​   Richard Butner Richard Butner’s short fiction has appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, been shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation&#8...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on February 14, 2024, with guests Isabel Yap & Randee Dawn. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​     Isabel Yap Isabel Yap is the author of Never Have I Ever: Stories , which was published by Small Beer Press in 2021, and was named one of the 2021 Best Books for Adults by the New York...

Here’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests P. Djéli Clark & Eric Schaller. A full house with great readings from both authors and some nice words for recently passed authors Richard Bowes and Terry Bisson (Terry was the co-founder of the Fantastic Fiction reading series in the late 90s).​​​   P. Djéli Clark Phenderson Djéli Clark is...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on December 13, 2023, with guests Holly Black & S.L. Coney. Only S.L. Coney’s audio is included in this recording. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​ ​   Holly Black Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of fantasy novels, short stories, and comic...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on November 8th, 2023, with guests Cadwell Turnbull & Victor Manibo. Hosted by Matthew Kressel and Mercurio D. Rivera, who was subbing for Ellen Datlow. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​   Cadwell Turnbull Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson and No Gods, No Monster...

Here’s the audio from the October 11th, 2023 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, with guests David D. Levine & Matthew Kressel. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​   David D. Levine David D. Levine is the author of Andre Norton Nebula Award winning novel Arabella of Mars , sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus and Arabella the Traitor...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on September 13, 2023, with guests Benjamin Percy & Josh Rountree. Hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel.​​ We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​ ​   Benjamin Percy Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels — including The Sky Vault , published this fall by William Morrow &#8212...

The following audio was recorded August 9th, 2023, with guests C. S. E. Cooney & Steve Berman, like at the KGB Bar. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​ ​   C.S.E. Cooney C. S. E. Cooney is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Bone Swans: Stories . Other books include The Twice-Drowned Saint , Saint Death’s Daughter, Dark Breakers , and D...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on July 12th, 2023, with guests Michael Cisco & Farah Rose Smith. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​   Michael Cisco Michael Cisco is the author of several novels, including The Divinity Student , The Great Lover, The Narrator , and Pest , as well as the Stoker-nominated nonfiction book We...

The following audio was recorded live on June 14, 2023 at the KGB Bar with guests Nathan Ballingrud & Dale Bailey.​​   Nathan Ballingrud Nathan Ballingrud is the author of  The Strange ,  Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell , and  North American Lake Monsters , which won the Shirley Jackson Award. A novella,  Crypt of the Moon Spider , will appear in 2024. He has been shortlisted...

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on May 10th, 2023, with guests Paul Tremblay & John Langan. A super crowded night reminiscent of pre-Covid times!​ ​   Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Pallbearers Club , Growing Things, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock , A Head Full of Ghosts , and...

Here’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with guests Peng Shepherd & Paul Park. Rajan Khanna guest co-hosted for Matt Kressel, who was traveling.​   Peng Shepherd Peng Shepherd is the nationally bestselling, award-winning author of The Book of M and The Cartographers . Her novels have been named Best Book of 2022 by The Washington Post , Amazon , Ell...

Here’s the audio from the March 8, 2023 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with guests Scott Lynch & Elizabeth Bear.​​ We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​ ​   Scott Lynch Scott Lynch’s debut novel The Lies of Locke Lamora was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and is now in its 36th US printing, sixteen years later. His shorter wo...

Here’s the audio from the February 8, 2023 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, with guests Jeffrey Ford & Marie Vibbert. ​​​   Jeffrey Ford Jeffrey Ford is a New York Times Notable author for his novel The Physiognomy . In addition, his eleven novels and eight collections of stories have garnered multiple genre awards. His short stories have appeared in a myriad of venues within the S...

Here’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Christopher M. Cevasco & A. T. Greenblatt, recorded live at the KGB Bar on Jan 11th, 2023.​ We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here!​ ​​​   Christopher M. Cevasco Christopher M. Cevasco’s debut novel Beheld: Godiva’s Story (Lethe) was released in April 202...

Here’s the audio from the Dec 14, 2022 Fantastic Fiction at KGB with guests Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw.​​ We need your help! We’re running out of money. Can you donate?​ ​​ Richard Kadrey Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in...

Here’s the audio from November 9th, 2022, with guests Eileen Gunn & Stephanie Feldman, recorded live at the KGB Bar. ​​   Eileen Gunn Eileen Gunn writes short stories. Her fiction has received the Nebula Award in the US and the Sense of Gender Award in Japan, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Philip K. Dick, World Fantasy and James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She will be reading from ne...

Here’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with Meg Elison & Clay McLeod Chapman, recorded live on October 12th, 2022, 7pm ET.​​ If you’d like to support our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, you can do so here . ​ ​​   Meg Elison Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author , as well as a Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, an...

Here’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction with Nicholas Kaufmann & Naseem Jamnia, Sept 14, 2022​. ​ Nicholas Kaufmann Nicholas Kaufmann is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated, Thriller Award-nominated, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated, and Dragon Award-nominated author. He’s written numerous works of horror and fantasy, including the bestsellers 100 Fathoms Below (written...

Here’s the audio from the August 17, 2022 Fantastic Fiction reading series with guests Richard Butner & Veronica Schanoes.​ ​   Richard Butner Richard Butner’s short fiction has appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror , been shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Fountain Award, and nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. His collection The A...

Here’s the audio from the July 20, 2022 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with guests Gregory Frost & Daniel Braum, and guest co-host Mercurio D. Rivera.​​ If you’d like to support our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, you can do so here . ​ ​ Gregory Frost Gregory Frost writes across the fantasy spectrum . He’s currently at work on a fantasy set in 12th Century Scotland, a s...

Here’s the audio from the June 15th, 2022 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with guests Karen Heuler & Sam J. Miller.​​ If you’d like to support our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, you can do so here . ​ ​   Karen Heuler Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in over 120 literary and speculative magazines and anthologies, from Conjunctions to The Magazine of Fanta...

Here’s the audio from the May 18th Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests Grady Hendrix & Alex Irvine, and guest host Rajan Khanna.​   Grady Hendrix Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter who makes up lies and is mean to babies. He has written terrible books like My Best Friend’s Exorcism , The Final Girl Support Group , The South...

Here’s the audio from the April 20, 2022 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with guests Victor LaValle & Robert Freeman Wexler, and guest host Theresa DeLucci, recorded live at the KGB Bar.​​ If you’d like to support our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, you can do so here . ​   Victor LaValle Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction and three comic b...