Every year in September, Cast of Wonders celebrates Banned Books Week, an annual international event celebrating the freedom to read and raising awareness of the immense social value of free and...
Associate Editor Somto Ihezue and author Innocent Chizaram Ilo are currently working on a short film based on Innocent’s story Our Skin Will Now Bear the Testimonies, which was published by Cas...
The Locus Recommended Reading List is a great resource for the best fiction of the year – and we’re over the moon to see Park’s All-Night Ramyun and Snack Emporium, by Seoung Kim, in the li...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2024/02/locus-2023-recommended-reading-list/
Our next submissions window will be a themed call for Halloween stories. We’re looking for shorter pieces this year, covering a range of genres and themes that would also appeal to the audience...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2024/01/halloween-2024-submissions/
We’re thrilled to share that there are two Cast of Wonders stories on the BSFA 2023 longlist – you can see all the longlisted nominees here on the BSFA page, but for now we’d just like to c...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2024/01/bsfa-2023-awards-longlist/
We had such a flood of submissions in August/September that we’ve decided to push our Halloween 2024 window back from next month to February 2024. The schedule page has been updated to reflec...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2023/09/submissions-schedule-update-2/
We’re absolutely thrilled to share that Simons, Far and Near by Ana Gardner, published as Cast of Wonders 485 in February 2022 (and reissued with new commentary as a Staff Pick Cast of Wonders ...
Every year in September, Cast of Wonders celebrates Banned Books Week, an annual international event celebrating the freedom to read and raising awareness of the immense social value of free and...
We’ve decided to push back our Banned Books Week submission window to the second half of May, and our next general submissions window to July. We will be opening as scheduled in the second half...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2023/04/submissions-schedule-update/
Presenters: Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart Hey folks, welcome to an Escape Artists metacast. I’m Marguerite Kenner. And I’m Alasdair Stuart. For those of you who have never heard a m...
https://www.castofwonders.org/2023/01/january-2023-metacast/