• Stonecoast Stories

    As some of you already know, mainly because I mentioned it in my last review, mid-July I graduated from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. Come next January, when it’s time for yet another Stonecoast residency up in Freeport, Maine, I won’t be there, and neither will the rest of my class,…

  • Novella Review: "The Ugly Tin Orrery" by Rachael Acks

    On July 20th, I graduated with my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program, one of the few MFA programs with a Popular Fiction focus. Being out of school is new for me; graduation has thus far been accompanied by a strange bittersweetness interspersed with a wash of relief with…

  • SF Signal Guest Post: Top 10 Fairy Tale Short Stories

    I’ve got a guest post up today over at SF Signal: my picks for the Top 10 Fairy Tale Short Stories. Includes stories by Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Neil Gaiman, Rachael Acks, Kelly Link, and more! http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/07/guest-post-bonnie-jo-stufflebeams-top-10-fairy-tale-short-stories/

  • SSR Extra: An Interview with Aliette de Bodard

    In honor of this year’s Hugos — and my excitement at attending WorldCon for the first time — I am publishing interviews with the three writers nominated for Best Short Story; a few weeks ago I featured a brief interview with Ken Liu. Today I’m featuring my interview with Aliette de Bodard, author of “Immersion”…

  • Five Favorite Faerie Stories

    At the end of May, my story “An Exodus of Wings” was published in Daily Science Fiction. In celebration – belated celebration, but celebration nonetheless – I have come up with my Five Favorite Faerie Stories. Told in three points-of-view, “An Exodus of Wings” is a story about people struggling to communicate with one another…