Getting in just under the wire (at least in UK terms) with this month’s round-up of SH contributor news. First of all, a congratulations to everyone who placed in this year’s Readers’ Poll — and to Sofia Samatar, Liz Bourke, Kameron Hurley, Ann Leckie, Nina Allan and Tori Truslow, who are all on the just-relased BSFA Awards ballot. A number of SH contributors are also on the Stoker preliminary ballot, including Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, and Bryan Thao Worra — whose Demonstra includes his Readers’ Poll-topping "Full Metal Hanuman". See how neatly it all ties together.

Now then. Some new books. Dean Francis Alfar has edited Outpouring: Typhoon Yolanda Relief Anthology, which includes stories by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Jason Erik Lundberg and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (and on the non-SH-alum front, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Scholes, and many others). Proceeds will go to the Philippine Red Cross. O.J. Cade’s novella Trading Rosemary is out from Masque Books. In the UK, Adam Roberts’ latest, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea, is out from Gollancz. Margaret L. Carter’s short erotic vampire romance Heat in the Night appeared from Ellora’s Cave. Jenny Blackford’s first book of poetry, The Duties of a Cat, is out from Pitt Street Poetry. Lucy A. Snyder and Elizabeth Bear will be among those contributing stories if the Dark Trails Weird West Kickstarter hits its goals. (Also on Kickstarter, the Women Destroy SF (and all other genres) Lightspeed special extravaganza, but you knew about that one, right?) And I should also note that Sigrid Ellis’s first issue of Apex went up this month.

New stories. Ken Liu’s "The Clockwork Soldier" appeared in this month’s Clarkesworld; Anaea Lay’s "Salamander Patterns" was in Lightspeed; and the Winter Subterranean includes "The Scrivener", a new story by Eleanor Arnason. The March Asimov’s includes Genevieve Williams’ "The Redemption of Kip Banjeree", a loose sequel to her SH story "Kip, Running". Paul Jessup’s "Summer Cannibals" is at The Big Click. Andrew Kozma’s "The Trouble-Men" has been featured by Albedo One. The Crossed Genres anthology Fierce Family — "15 exhilarating stories of QUILTBAG families experiencing adventure, disaster and triumph" — includes Sarah Pinsker’s "Monsters, Beneath the Bed and Otherwise". Jessy Randall’s story "The Night Butterflies" is in Theaker’s Quarterly 46; A.C. Wise’s "Her Last Breath Before Waking" is in the latest Three-Lobed Burning Eye; Lisa Nohealani Morton’s "And Silver Fountains, Mud" appeared in Daily Science Fiction; and Rachael Ack’s "Black Smoker Hero" is in SQ mag. Lakeside Circus has featured Rich Larson’s "Nobody Bets Against the Vat Dog" (and Bryan Thao Worra’s poem "No Such Phi"), with work by Dean Francis Alfar, Rachael Acks, F.J. Bergmann and C.S.E. Cooney upcoming. "Flash Bang Remember", by Tina Connolly and Caroline M. Yoachim, is featured in StarShipSofa 320. James S. Dorr’s "Seeds" — a tale of garden shops, flowers, and the Chicago Cubs — is in the eco-horror anthology Growing Concerns. And not new, but nice to note: F.J. Bergmann’s story "Ascending" was one of the five most popular at Black Treacle last year.

Poetry. Stone Telling has, as ever, a feast of material in its latest issue, including work by Ada Hoffmann ("Turning to Stone"), Sofia Samatar ("Long-ear"), Mat Joiner ("The Nerve Harp"), Sonya Taffe ("A Bulgakov Headache"), Alex Dally MacFarlane ("Bowl"), and Bogi Takács ("Outside-In / Catalytic Exteriorization"). Lawrence Schimel has three translations of pieces from Sofía Rhei’s Calvino homage Reversible Cities in Talisman. Peg Duthie recorded three poems for The Poetry Storehouse. The SFPA’s 2013 contest winners have been podcast by StarShip Sofa, including work by Lorraine Schein ("Dorothy’s Poem", Dwarf Form winner), Megan Arkenberg, and Jenny Blackford, among others. David Lund and Mary M. Y. Fung translated Lingche’s poem "At Dong Lin Monastery: In Answer to Governor Wei Dan" for Poetry East. Natalia Theodoridou’s "Pretty Half-Breeds, For Free" appeared at Eye to the Telescope. Star*Line 37.1 has work by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Mary A. Turzillo, Jessey Randall, Alicia Cole, and others. And Elizabeth Barrette has posted a number of new poems in her Walking the Beat series.

And as ever, we finish with some non-fiction. The latest Cascadia Subduction Zone is out, and includes essays by L. Timmel Duchamp and Nisi Shawl, and reviews by Karen Burnham and Cat Rambo, among others. Daniel José Older’s essay "12 Fundamentals of Writing ‘The Other’ (And The Self)" appeared at Buzzfeed. Carmen Maria Machado, meanwhile, had an essay on the New Yorker blog: "Salad Days at Chuck E. Cheese." At the LARB, Dan Hartland has reviewed David Hartwell’s latest Year’s Best SF. Hunter Liguore’s in-depth interview with David Anthony Durham appears in the February/March issue of The Writer’s Chronicle.

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