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  • Fantasy Watch #2

    This week’s list of lists and features celebrating the genre. 9 Dark Magic Fantasy Books – BookRiot  The 2018 Nebula Reading Lists – SWFA: Novel: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/1-novel/?filter=2018  Novella: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/2-novella/?filter=2018  Novelette: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/3-novelette/?filter=2018  Short Story: https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading/4-shortstory/?filter=2018 And then there’s Locus’ reading list for 2018:  Speculative Poetry: Poems of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Other-worldly Visions – BookRiot Two original stories on Tor.com –…

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  • State of the Art: Essay Digest January 2019

    One goal I set out for Modern Folklore Press is to engage in and promote the art of Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. The State of the Art series presents original essays and a digest from around the web by authors of the genre about the genre. If genre fiction is to thrive, those who create it and consume…

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  • Fantasy Watch #1

    One of the founding goals for Modern Folklore Press is to promote the literature of the Fantasy and Speculative. In an effort to spread the good word of the genre, here is the first weekly survey of lists and features reveling in the joy of the genre. Fantasy from Around the World: BookRiot Why Science…

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  • Not Quite Open for Submissions

    We’ve been asked several times in the past week if we’re open for submissions. We are not yet. We will be soon. Starting a new business, and particularly a publisher, takes a great deal of work. We are currently honing our submission guidelines, author contracts, and submission process. MFP wants to do right by authors.…

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  • Launching Modern Folklore Press

    Hello We are Modern Folklore Press. We are a micro press at the moment with plans to grow into a small press. We publish Fantasy, Speculative, and literature, or as we like to call it: modern folklore. We are closed for submissions but when we open, we’ll provide a link for agents and authors on how…

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