Spoon Knife 7: Transitions

The Spoon Knife Anthology

by Nick Walker (Editor), Mike Jung (Editor), J.S. Allen (Contributor)

Tales of transition and initiation, of life-changing encounters and moments of choice, of people who stumble into unexpected love or weird magic or designer lawn scams.

The seventh volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology features mind-bending stories from 19 authors:

J S Allen, Alicia K Anderson, [sarah] Cavar, Luigi Coppola, Julie Sondra Decker, C B Droege, Dean Gloster, Anastasia Jill, Nikoline Kaiser, Nick Mamatas, Mark A Nobles, Carmen Peters, Taylor Rae, Dora M Raymaker, Dani Alexis Ryskamp, Holly Schofield, Emily Jon Tobias, Heather Truett, Cirrus Wood

280 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 2023

About the author

Nick Walker is a queer, transgender, flamingly autistic author of both speculative fiction and nonfiction, and co-creator of the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck. Her nonfiction explores the edges and intersections of queerness, neurodivergence, embodiment, and creative transformation. She's also a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, an aikido teacher, and a lifelong zen practitioner.

Reviews

[Annika · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favourites are written by Heather Truett, J.S. Allen, CB Droege, Carmen Peters, Emily Jon Tobias, Dora M Raymaker and Julie Sondra Decker.

[Alicia Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a contributor to this book, I am proud for my work to appear among these stories. Several of the stories sparked my interest enough to go buy books by those authors!