Editor Mike Allen writes that the table of contents is set for the 21st issue of Mythic Delirium, the “Trickster Issue”. The issue is “centered around the various trickster figures of folklore. Contributors were asked to read previously accepted poems and write responses to them, resulting in an issue intended to read like an ensemble work.” Issue #21 of the “biannual journal that publishes science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal and cross-genre poetry” will be published in October.
The table of contents is:
Editorial: “Myths and Delusions”
“Coyote Knock” by Jessica Paige Wick
“Cooks’ Tricks Nix Sticks” by Anna Tambour
“The Gentleman” by Theodora Goss
“Before the Knock” by Holly Dworken Cooley
“Card Tricks” by JoSelle Vanderhooft
“Rain Face” by Jaime Lee Moyer
“The Animal Heart: She Warns Him” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
“Egyptology” by Samantha Henderson
“Red Silk” by F.J. Bergmann
“Trickster Weather” by Deborah P. Kolodji
“Tricksters are Spinning My Hair” by Erzebet YellowBoy
“Silk Sleeve Song” by Sonya Taaffe
“Red Engines” by Catherynne M. Valente
“We Took Our Gods” by Jennifer Crow
“The Gods We Left Behind” by Darrell Schweitzer
“Other Fires” by Constance Cooper
“Not Without a Struggle” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans
“Gentle Hestia” by Kacey Grannis
“The Ones Who Met Them” by Ann K. Schwader
“Maiden & Raven” by Ann K. Schwader
“The World Belongs to the Young” by Danny Adams
“Initiation” by Gary Every
Allen also says “this issue wound up being almost as big as the 10th Anniversary Issue, which wasn’t my original plan, but what can ya do?”