I remember many years ago, I subscribed to a monthly publication of science fiction short stories. Some of the stories were from well known authors, while others where obscure but still very ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Neal Shusterman’s more than 50-book literary resume is filled with accolades, among them a National Book Award (Challenger Deep), a Printz Honor (Scythe), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (The Schwa Was ...

Writers around the world can enter a short story contest and compete for cash prizes. Grist is accepting submissions for its annual climate fiction short story contest, “Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction ...