Bourbon Penn
Bourbon Penn is a US speculative fiction magazine available to read free online, or to purchase in ebook and paperback format, writes Gary Dalkin.
Editor Erik Secker and his team are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. They want genre or speculative stories, and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal. Above all though, they want character, saying, ‘for us, stories live and die by their characters’. They want fully drawn characters ‘who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions’.
In addition, Bourbon Penn wants the mysterious, stories that make the reader ask, ‘what the hell is going on?’, then deliver a compelling answer. They want action, suspenseful plotting and…
