"Authoritarian Kitsch," a new short essay by Sean Gill, is available to read online at ZYZZYVA, as a part of their ongoing "Obsessions" series. ZYZZYVA is a San Francisco literary journal, founded in 1985, that has published work by Haruki Murakami, Laurie Anderson, Amy Tan, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Sean Gill's latest short story, a science-fiction satire called "Forbidden Melodies from a Diminishing Octave," has just been published in the "Indiana Bicentennial" issue (Issue No. 5) of So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library and it is available for purchase in print.
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and is a leading champion in preserving Vonnegut's legacy, fighting censorship, and giving a voice to veteran artists and writers. So It Goes has previously featured work by Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried), Etheridge Knight (Poems from Prison), Marge Piercy (He, She, and It), and comedian Lewis Black.
Sean Gill's short story "Beyond the Terminus, Beyond" [which was chosen earlier this year as the winner of the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize by judge Molly Antopol (The UnAmericans)] is now available for purchase in Sonora Review #70. Of the story, Antopol wrote: "I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I admire the story for so many reasons: the characters are complicated and nuanced, the prose is tight and lyrical, and the author explores complicated moral questions in a way that feels fresh, intelligent and never didactic. This is a gorgeous story by a writer with talent in spades."
An abridged version of Sean Gill's 2010 play Dreams of the Clockmaker (adapted and directed by Grace Connolly) debuts this week as a radio drama, and it can be listened to and read online at Cleaver Magazine. Cleaver has also conducted a new interview with playwright Sean Gill.
Sean Gill's short story "The Lakes and the Falls" was named a top twenty-five finalist for the Summer 2016 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award. You may read the full list of winners and finalists here.
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