Two years ago today I was listening to an NPR report about the anniversary ceremony that happens every year down at Ground Zero. It was very similar, though more polished, to the first such anniversary memorial which I listened to live on the radio. In 2002 I felt that everything was appropriate. The reading of [...]
The Society would like me to inform/remind you that nominations for their 2008 awards will be open until September 1st. CBS administers two awards, the Parallax Award is for an outstanding speculative fiction work by a self-identified writer of color and the Kindred Award is for an oustanding speculative fiction work dealing with race and [...]
So here’s my thing: RaceFail is… tiresome and anger-making and I’m just as much ready to be done with it as you are. Instead, let’s try for some RaceWin (yes, Sharyn, I’m looking at you). Today we’re going to celebrate the creative efforts of Fen of Color. Fen being the plural of fan (specifically fan [...]
Had a lovely birthday gift on Sunday when I found out that Until Forgiveness Comes is on the Million Writers Award list of 2008’s notable fiction. As previously stated, this award seeks to highlight and celebrate online fiction in all genres, not just SF/F. I join 3 of my fellow Altered Fluidians on the list [...]
The storySouth 2009 Million Writers Award for Fiction is now accepting nominations!
The purpose of the storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2008. …this year there will be three cash prizes: $500 for the overall winner, $200 for the runner-up, and $100 [...]
The Fix finally reviewed November’s Strange Horizons, yay! But the reviewer did not dig my story that much, boo.
K. Tempest Bradford offers an interesting look at the effects of continually reflecting on national tragedy in “Until Forgiveness Comes,” but the story is a little too ambitious for its length. Set in a fictional world with [...]
“Perhaps I’m a little weird in that the facts of the story—a terrorist attack and the discourse over how it should be remembered—pale in comparison to my interest in the form of the story. Bradford has an excellent grasp of the rhythm of an NPR segment (down to the reporter, with a name suspiciously and [...]
Because of several factors, I did not mention that I was going to be on Hour of the Wolf this morning. For those of you who don’t know, HotW is a local radio talk show dealing with all things SF/F/H hosted by the fabulous Jim Freund. Thing is, it airs at 5am on Saturdays. So [...]
First, the sale: some time ago Matt Kressel of Sybil’s Garage informed me that he would like to buy my story Elan Vital, which I affectionately refer to as my Dead Mother story. I wrote the beginning of that story when I was last in England (in Penzance to be exact). England and Penzance are [...]
IROSF had this to say about the story:
If you want to posit a distinction between a fiction and a story, this one is a fiction. The events of the story, or the several stories, that lie in the background of this scene must be inferred by the reader. Nor is it clear even to the [...]
Until Forgiveness Comes — go read! Comment! Tell other people! Happy Snoopy Dance!
A bit of most excellent news — yesterday I found out that Strange Horizons will publish my story Until Forgiveness Comes! Yay! SH is one of my favorite magazines and a market I really, really wanted to crack. And that story is, I believe, one of the best I’ve ever written.
Apparently SH sent out a [...]
I was busy all morning doing IAF stuff and missed out on the beginning of this “debate” going on in the comments to Lisa’s story on Fantasy. It’s kind of ironic that this came up today because yesterday I had a long conversation about a similar issue surrounding one of my stories. I wonder, actually, [...]
You can call me Tempest.
I'm a writer, most often committing acts of Fantasy and Science Fiction, though I have been known to slip in and out of genres. I'm famous on the internet, an editor of some repute, and hopeless convention addict.
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