This is a terrific review of my short stories and non-fiction collection, Slipping from the team over at Kirkus: An art installation so tactile as to feel alive, a ghost that lurks alongside a promising architecture student, a girl gutted from the inside to make a premiere athlete: all stitched together into a punk tapestry […]
So cool to see such a great review of my collection of short stories and non-fiction, Slipping, in SciFi Now. Jonathan Hatfull writes: The stories assembled here not only show off her eclectic range of influences and interests, but the strength of her voice, her passion for her subjects, and that fantastic blend of anger, […]
A great new review for my debut collection, Slipping: Stories, Essays, and Other Writing, which is out tomorrow in the USA. You can order on Amazon or via your friendly neighbourhood independent bookstore (USA) or ask your local bookstore to order it in for you. “I don’t normally read essays, but I found those in this collection fascinating, in […]
Dale and I chat to Byron Brewer for Dynamic Forces about being authorial co-pilots, 80’s horror, and how they have gotten to know the characters in our Vertigo horror comic, Survivors’ Club. Dynamic Forces: Dale, the basic premise of Survivors’ Club comes from an idea of yours. Tell us about that notion and are you a horror […]
Cape Town survivors! Dale Halvorsen and I will we launching the trade paperback/collected graphic novel version of Survivor’s Club, our 80’s-tastic horror comic. It’s all happening at the Book Lounge, 24 Nov, 5.30 for 6pm with a special performance by one of our favourite local bands, The Morning Pages, whose music could absolutely be the soundtrack for […]
I love, love, love this review of my debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing, from Metaphysical Circus Press’ lit review blog, See The Elephant: Here’s a snip: “Lauren Beukes, judging from these tales, is one of the best fictional chroniclers of modern life per se. If many of the stories use science fiction tropes, it’s with a […]
Dale and I chatted about going meta in Survivors’ Club at the New York Comic Con this past October. Besides looking swanky on the red carpet we chat about being co-pilots, Child’s Play, and general eighties aesthetics. We’re launching the collected trade paperback this week at The Book Lounge. Check us out in action here:
In March, I got to hang out with one of my favourite people in the world, artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria at the Global Art Forum at the Art Dubai festival. (Pictured with Lana Shamma) The video is now up of the conversation we had with curator Shumon Basar about why the deep past of […]
My debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays, and Other Writing will be out on the 29th November (you can preorder it from Amazon or find your nearest local US independent bookstore via Indiebound) It’s getting some lovely reviews already, including this one from This Ain’t Living. Read the full thing here, and here’s a snip: “The stories range from […]
Thank you Book Riot for including Slipping in this list of seven new collections of short fiction for fans of SFF. Stoked to be in the incredible company of Ken Liu and absolute legend Terry Pratchett among others. A.J. O’Connell writes: Okay, guys, so his one isn’t strictly short stories. Lauren Beukes, the South African […]