Bards and Sages Quarterly Volume 3 Issue 4 October 2011

by Julie Ann Dawson (Editor), Gitte Christensen, Devyani Borade

The Bards and Sages Quarterly features original short speculative fiction from both new and established authors. Our writers include first-time authors, Pushcart Prize nominees and Nebula award winners. With each issue, our goal is to bring readers the most inclusive collection of speculative fiction available. In this Two friends wake up with something worse than a hangover in the days following the zombie apocalypse in "Breakfast". A lovestruck adventurer's little white lie has unintended consequences in "Utter Fail". A "hero" employs an unconventional tactic to rescue a rather annoying damsel in distress in "Tintinnabulation."

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 24, 2011

About the author

Julie Ann Dawson is an author, editor, publisher, RPG designer, and advocate for writers who may occasionally require the services of someone with access to Force Lightning (and in case it was not obvious, a bit of a geek).

Her work has appeared in a variety of print and digital media, including such diverse publications as the New Jersey Review of Literature, Lucidity, Black Bough, Poetry Magazine, Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Demonground, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.

In 2002, she started her own publishing company, Bards and Sages. The company has gone from having two titles to over a one hundred titles between their print and digital products.

In 2009, she launched the Bards and Sages Quarterly, a literary journal of speculative fiction. Since 2012, she has served as a judge for the IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Special Note: The best way to reach her is through the contact form on the Bards and Sages website. Those messages go directly to her email, which she checks daily.