The fortieth, or April-June 2009, issue of ChiZine (also known as Chiaroscuro, and subtitled “Treatments of Light and Shade in Words”) is now available.
The fiction (edited by Editor-in-Chief Brett Alexander Savory and Fiction Editors Hannah Wolf Bowen, Michael Marano, and Gord Zajac) includes the winners of the “Enter the World of Filaria” Contest (see this article):
First Place: “Maker of Flight” by Richard Thomas
Second Place: “Bonepickers” by Debi Carroll
Third Place: “Elevated State” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
Other fiction:
“Fossils” by Sunil Sadanad
“The Bear and the Sea” by Jesse Bullington
The poetry line-up (edited by Sandra Kasturi with Colleen Anderson and Carolyn Clink) in this issue is:
“The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out the Last Candle” by David Clink
“Abscess” by M. Frost
“Extended Hand with the Palm Forward” by Maurice Oliver
“Lethe” by Jacqueline West
Also available are:
Squeals and Grunts from the Trough: “Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep” by Brett Alexander Savoy (editorial)
From the Shadeaux: “The Times, They are a Changing” by David Niall Wilson (column)
Book Reviews (archived) by William D. Gagliani, Ray Wallace, David Niall Wilson, Cherie Priest, Stephen Studach, Gord Zajac, and Kurt Dinan
“Son of Celluloid”—archived film reviews by Phillip Brugalette
“Mike and Lisa’s Throw-Down Review”—archived film reviews by Michael Marano and Lisa Morton
Nancy Kilpatrick presents: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation, or, Films to Love Forever”