(Cross-posted from Kickstarter) Now that we’ve reached our initial $4000 goal – in less than a day, yowza! – It’s time for a stretch goal. We thought up this goal at the beginning, but weren’t sure we’d get the chance to go for it – we thought $4k was ambitious! But here we are! Crossed [...]

Ibi Zoboi’s “The Fire in Your Sky“, and Nisi Shawl’s “Black Betty“, were both named as Notable Stories of 2011 for the storySouth Million Writers Award! The Million Writers Award is given each year to the best online short stories. Both “The Fire in Your Sky” and “Black Betty” were originally published in Crossed Genres [...]

(Cross-posted from Kickstarter) Everyone, we hardly know what to say! It’s been just 20 hours since we launched our Kickstarter, and we’re already at $3,363 – that’s 84% of our goal! Unbelievable! This is far beyond anything we’d have expected at this point. With only $637 to go, we were even wondering if we’d make [...]

Crossed Genres’ co-publishers are both out of work, and we’re at risk of losing all our funds to continue publishing! So we’ve launched a Kickstarter to cover our publication costs through 2013 and save CGP! 100% of the $4000 fundraising goal will be used for publishing new books. Over half will go directly to authors [...]

We’re accepting submissions to our upcoming anthology Menial: Skilled Labor in SF for 31 more days: Other people treat laborers like the dirt they work with. But skilled labor is crucial to the continuation of human culture on earth – and if we ever wish to visit the stars, skilled labor will be indispensable. We [...]

“These are stories of the magic in cities, of the life in death, of the hope that even the most cynical of people still feel deep down. It had everything I wanted: noir and horror and mystery and fantasy, all mixed up and flavored with fresh attitude. And I loved every bit of it.” ~ [...]

“These are stories of the magic in cities, of the life in death, of the hope that even the most cynical of people still feel deep down. It had everything I wanted: noir and horror and mystery and fantasy, all mixed up and flavored with fresh attitude. And I loved every bit of it.” ~ [...]

The Future Fire is an excellent small publisher of “social, political and speculative cyber-fiction”. Several authors which CGP has published have also appeared in TFF publications. TFF is running a Peerbacker campaign for an awesome-sounding project: We See A Different Frontier, “an anthology of colonialism-themed speculative fiction from outside the first-world viewpoint, co-edited by Fabio [...]

“These are stories of the magic in cities, of the life in death, of the hope that even the most cynical of people still feel deep down. It had everything I wanted: noir and horror and mystery and fantasy, all mixed up and flavored with fresh attitude. And I loved every bit of it.” ~ [...]

We’re accepting submissions to our upcoming anthology Menial: Skilled Labor in SF for 45 more days: Other people treat laborers like the dirt they work with. But skilled labor is crucial to the continuation of human culture on earth – and if we ever wish to visit the stars, skilled labor will be indispensable. We [...]