#voidspace magazine

[merelymatt]

all interactive work is political because all of it, in one way or another, deals with how you as an individual relate to your communal space, whether that communal space is a supermarket and you’re listening to a piece of audio about it, or that communal space is the court of an elven king and you’re trying to work out the social dynamics within that.

Katy Naylor, in conversation with Leo Doulton, voidspace magazine

[allison-dedecker]

Clippings: How It Was Made

This piece was generated from a very cool writing prompt game hosted by The Voidspace Magazine:

I wanted the piece that be fluid, so that there was no specific order that the three sections had to be read in. I wanted it to feel like a series of memories that can bubble up at any time unbidden. So, I modifed a template I found here:

and made them into an infinity card:

Want to make your own copy? Here's the template:

And here is a little tutorial I put together:

If videos aren't your speed, I also made this photo guide:

Feel free to customize it with watercolors, colored pencils, stickers, anything! I'd love to see your booklets if you feel comfortable; just tag me in a post or reblog!

[batmonkfish80]

2023 is meandering towards it’s end. So what have I been up to?

Things you can read online:

Eliza Sky And The Elfborn Herald (Sword And Sorcery Magazine, January) Eliza Sky And The Gallows Tree (Sword And Sorcery Magazine, July) Kelpie (Crow And Cross Keys, June) Foresight (Voidspace, June)

Two sword and sorcery entries, a bit of folklore fantasy, and another fantasy story that ran off a tarot prompt.

Things you can experience online but the word “read” isn’t quite right:

Romantic Subplot (Voidpace, July) A Malevolently Bad Map Of The Voyage Of HMG Babylon (Voidspace, September) Exhibition Preview (Bitsy Game Jam, November)

An interactive essay, a map, again based on a prompt and a game on the theme of museums

Not online:

The 57th Daughter (The Little Cozy Book, August) Pitch Meeting (Hellarkey II, October)

A tiny cozy fantasy flash fiction and a bit of cosmic horror/business drama for the Halloween zine, Do you need a review copy? Hit me up at the contact link.

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Also many reviews. Here's some examples: TV show The Peripheral,  short story Shoveling Snow For Money, film Top Gun: Maverick, and 19th century novel Trilby.

Of course the year is not over yet so watch this space

[allison-dedecker]

Voidspace Magazine is using my piece, Clippings, for their pop-up prompt!

Link here:

There's also a prompt from a piece called Cross-Sections; which involves using photo manipulation in order to embed images in letters and then writing a poem with the letters for added layers of meaning. It's very cool! So if you are looking to scratch a creative itch, check these out!

[batmonkfish80]

My story Foresight, written with the aid of a tarot draw, in online at Voidspace magazine. Watching, being watched, prophecy and having a hard time at university.

[allison-dedecker]

Check out other amazing pieces of interactive fiction and poetry in Void Space Issue 5 and others here.

Image Version of the full piece with alt-text:

To see how it was made, and for the video tutorial on how to make your own copy, you can check out this post:

[batmonkfish80]

Some Eligibility

Hey pals, I write things, here are some things by me published in 2022 that are therefore eligible for awards, prizes, best of year lists, worst of year lists, 2022 round-ups etc.

The Apple Desires To Be Eaten, a fairytale poem, published in Pink Plastic House: A Tiny Journal

The Reading Of The Will Of J Arthur Worthington III, an interactive twine story about death and letting go, published in Voidspace

Eliza Sky And The Lodestar Warrior, a sword and sorcery story about elves, iron and women testing gender norms in not-14th century not-England, published in Swords And Sorcery magazine

The Red Cap Of Old Hobb Mill, a brisk, light-hearted and very English story about a fairy-infested house, published in Kaleidotrope

Dinner Time At The Café des Lumières, again in Voidspace, is an interactive story about having dinner in a French bistro, with your lab partner, after/during the two of you have broken time

On the first of every month I post a story on my Patreon, and this years are gathered under the tag Strandbridge (the first was in December 2021). Perhaps the best, the most unusual, and the shortest was Candlewife.

Last and not least I post a Monster Of The Week most Tuesdays. Here’s a few fun ones

There’s still a month to go in 2022, so there may be additions to come.