Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative fiction reading series held at the famous KGB bar in NYC, and hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel. Some of our past readers include N.K. Jemisin, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Paul Tremblay, Joyce Carol Oates, Samuel R. Delany, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeff VanderMeer, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear and many other talented authors.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB
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Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative fiction reading series held at the famous KGB bar in NYC, and hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel. Some of our past readers include N.K. Jemisin, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Paul Tremblay, Joyce Carol Oates, Samuel R. Delany, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeff VanderMeer, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear and many other talented authors.
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Recent Episodes
June 22, 2026
Audio from June 10th, with Nicholas Kaufmann & A.C. Wise
<p>Here’s the audio from the June 10th, 2026 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with guests Nicholas Kaufmann & A.C. Wise, recorded live at the KGB Bar.</p> <h3><a href="https://gofund.me/7c171ebc">Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!</a></h3> <p></p> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/monuments-in-darkness-nicholas-kaufmann/aa342efca25f5014?ean=9781614984719&next=t"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4015" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Monuments-in-Darkness.jpg" alt="" width="667" height="1000" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Monuments-in-Darkness.jpg 667w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Monuments-in-Darkness-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Monuments-in-Darkness-600x900.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" /></a></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>Nicholas Kaufmann</h2> <p>Nicholas Kaufmann has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Thriller Award, and the Dragon Award. Two of his novels, 100 Fathoms Below (co-written with Steven L. Kent) and The Hungry Earth, were Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com bestsellers. His latest book is the collection <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/monuments-in-darkness-nicholas-kaufmann/aa342efca25f5014?ean=9781614984719&next=t"><strong>Monuments in Darkness</strong></a>. He also co-hosts the strange-but-true science podcast Spooky Science Lab with author David Wellington.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 99.777%;" colspan="2"> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>&</strong></h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ballad-of-the-bone-road-a-c-wise/431073a66a9249e1?ean=9781835413784&next=t"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4017" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road-672x1024.jpg" alt="" width="672" height="1024" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road-672x1024.jpg 672w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road-197x300.jpg 197w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road-768x1170.jpg 768w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road-600x914.jpg 600w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ballad-of-the-Bone-Road.jpg 788w" sizes="(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px" /></a></td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>A.C. Wise</h2> <p>A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, Hooked, and her most recent, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ballad-of-the-bone-road-a-c-wise/431073a66a9249e1?ean=9781835413784&next=t"><strong>Ballad of the Bone Road</strong></a>, published in January 2026. She’s also the author of various novellas, collection, and short stories, and her work has won the Sunburst and been a finalist for the Nebula, Stoker, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Locus Awards, among others. Along with her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Locus and Apex Magazine.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p>
May 31, 2026
Audio from May 13th, with Siobhan Carroll & Micaiah Johnson
<p>Here’s the audio from the May 13th, 2026 Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Siobhan Carroll & Micaiah Johnson, who read live at the KGB Bar.</p> <h3><a href="https://gofund.me/7c171ebc">Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!</a></h3> <p></p> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-death-robots-the-official-anthology-volume-4-tim-miller-producer/7da848918d5492bc?ean=9781925623512&next=t"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-3999 size-full" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Love-Death-and-Robots.webp" alt="" width="647" height="1000" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Love-Death-and-Robots.webp 647w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Love-Death-and-Robots-194x300.webp 194w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Love-Death-and-Robots-600x927.webp 600w" sizes="(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px" /></a></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>Siobhan Carroll</h2> <p>Siobhan Carroll is a Philadelphia-based writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her award-winning short stories are defined by rich historical settings and a mixture of tragedy and comedy. They have been translated into multiple languages and adapted to television by Netflix’s <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-death-robots-the-official-anthology-volume-4-tim-miller-producer/7da848918d5492bc?ean=9781925623512&next=t">Love, Death + Robots</a></strong> and Amazon Prime’s Secret Level. Carroll teaches creative writing, 19th Century British Literature and the history of exploration at the University of Delaware</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 99.777%;" colspan="2"> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>&</strong></h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4001" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall-681x1024.jpg" alt="" width="676" height="1016" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall-681x1024.jpg 681w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall-768x1155.jpg 768w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall-600x902.jpg 600w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Those-Beyond-the-Wall.jpg 798w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" /></td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>Micaiah Johnson</h2> <p>Micaiah Johnson is the Compton Crook and Carl Brandon Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds. Her debut novel was a Sunday Times Bestseller, an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times and was named one of the best books of 2020 and one of the best science fiction books of the last decade by NPR. Her second novel, <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/those-beyond-the-wall-a-novel-micaiah-johnson/3f1e8437b20b627e?ean=9780593497524&next=t">Those Beyond the Wall</a></strong>, has been named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2024 and a finalist for the Ursula Le Guin Prize. In her academic life she studies race, the unhuman, and death, themes featured in her upcoming work The Unhaunted.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
April 15, 2026
Audio from April 8th, with Michael Swanwick & Mike Allen
<p>Here’s the audio from the April 8, 2026 Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Michael Swanwick & Mike Allen. Both read from their works to wow the audience.</p> <h3><a href="https://gofund.me/7c171ebc">Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!</a></h3> <p></p> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3985" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick-662x1024.webp" alt="" width="662" height="1024" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick-662x1024.webp 662w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick-194x300.webp 194w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick-768x1188.webp 768w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick-600x928.webp 600w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Universe-Box-Michael-Swanwick.webp 776w" sizes="(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px" /></p> <p> </p> </td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>Michael Swanwick</h2> <p>Michael Swanwick has been writing <strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-universe-box-michael-swanwick/ddae2caa3fc915d2?ean=9781616964504&next=t">fantasy and science fiction at every length</a></strong> from flash fiction to novel trilogy for over forty years, during which time he has received the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards, as well as five Hugo Awards. As a hobby, he writes critical non-fiction and the occasional interview.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 99.777%;" colspan="2"> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>&</strong></h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 7.46934%;" valign="top"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3986" src="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Trail-of-Shadows-Mike-Allen.jpg" alt="" width="667" height="1000" srcset="https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Trail-of-Shadows-Mike-Allen.jpg 667w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Trail-of-Shadows-Mike-Allen-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Trail-of-Shadows-Mike-Allen-600x900.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" /></td> <td style="width: 92.3077%;" valign="top"> <h2>Mike Allen</h2> <p>Mike Allen’s most recent novel is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/trail-of-shadows-mike-allen/50eb9dd5959132da?ean=9781940372723&next=t"><strong>Trail of Shadows</strong></a>, published in 2025. Two of his collections of horror tales, Unseaming and Aftermath of an Industrial Accident, were finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award, and as an editor, he’s a two-time World Fantasy Award nominee. His short fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Interzone, Weird Tales, and Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology. With his wife and creative partner, Anita, he runs Mythic Delirium Books in Roanoke, Virginia.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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