khōréō, Volume 4, Issue 1

khōréō

by Zhui Ning Chang (Editor), Anna Bendiy (Contributor), Natasha King (Contributor)

khoreo magazine’s Volume 4, Issue 1. Originally published March 15, 2024. Includes five fantastic stories:

“The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune” by Anna Bendiy
“Take Up Thy Mother’s Song” by Natasha King
“Piroska and the Wolf” by Varju Izzy
“Intersected Sky” by Andrew Najberg
“Child’s Tongue” by Monique Laban

76 pages, ebook

First published March 15, 2024

About the author

Zhui Ning Chang is a queer Malaysian editor, writer, translator and theatre maker based in London, UK.

They are editor-in-chief at khōréō, a Hugo-nominated and IGNYTE-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration. Additional editorial credits include co-editing The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020, co-editing Latin American Plays in Translation, assistant editing SFWA’s Publishing Taught Me essay series, and freelance book editing.

Zhui Ning’s writing includes the time travel adventure Asian Pirate Musical and queer romcom Seashore Yuanfen, as well as short stories, translations, and articles published with PEN Malaysia, This is Southeast Asia, Science Fiction Studies, Strange Horizons, The BSFA Review, and more.

Currently, Zhui Ning is pursuing a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, researching race, decoloniality, and the publishing economy via Southeast Asian speculative fiction.

Reviews

[David H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This issue of khōréō had 5 stories. My absolute favorite was Anna Bendiy's "The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune," which features Bohdana, returning to her childhood home after a war and accidentally summoning a local goddess. Just lovely. The others were interesting too, especially Monique Laban's "Child's Tongue" though I think I kept missing what was going on with the sinkholes.