BFS Journal #11: out now!

Sorry that things have been so quiet on the TQF blog this year – paying work has been keeping me very busy (can’t and won’t complain!) but work is progressing on the next issue of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction – and about 25 reviews I have at various stages of unreadiness.

One distraction has been that I was asked to help out on the BFS Journal for a couple of issues after it had stalled, to give the new managing editor time to train up. You can only get this 184pp paperback if you’re a BFS member, but we’ve ordered a handful of extra copies, so if you join today there’s still a chance of getting it.

Sarah Newton is the editor of this issue’s fiction:

• The Switch, Mark Lewis
• Electricity, Gary Couzens
• Pawnarchy, Mark Huntley-James
• The Eden Paradigm, Allen Ashley and Madeleine Beresford
• A Barrow on the Border, Rima Devereaux
• The Need to Create, Emma Newman
• The Lost Name, Sandra Unerman
• Baby 17, Jonathan Oliver
• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, M.E. Lerman

Stuart Douglas edits the non-fiction:

• Jennie Gyllblad, interviewed by Max Edwards
• Freda Warrington, interviewed by Alex Bardy
• The Adventures of Brak, Mike Barrett
• Tim Powers, interviewed by Stuart Douglas
• Nick Campbell on The Child Garden
• Forbidden Fruits, Ray Cluley

And Ian Hunter edits the poetry:

• Cybernetic Mary, Deborah Walker
• Protecting Veil, Megan Kerr
• A Paranormal Romance, Allen Ashley

There’s also a controversial editorial by Max Edwards, a controversial chairman’s chat by Mark Barrowcliffe, and a BFS news section that has not yet attracted any controversy (but maybe no one has read it yet). Cover art by Jennie Gyllblad.