Michael Bishop
Chateau de Marouatte, France, 2005
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Michael Bishop
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A Special Message from Michael Bishop concerning his son, Jamie.


Michael's story The Pile has won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story
of 2008!  To read the story online go here. For a list of all the winners go here.


Signed First Editions!

Readers who wish to obtain signed / inscribed copies of several of Michael's out-of-print books can order them directly from him via this page.


Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage is on the 2010 Nebula Awards shortlist for best novelette. An reading of the story can be heard on StarShipSofa.com.


Michael will be Steampunk Special Guest at ArmadilloCon 32, Austin, Texas, August 27-29, 2010.


Michael will be the first week instructor at this year's Clarion West Writers' Workshop in Seattle.  In July, he'll be teaching at the Shared Worlds conference at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.


"The Library of Babble", has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Subterranean.


Michael Bishop and Steven Utley's anthology Passing for Human has been published by PS Publishing with cover art by Jamie Bishop.  For ordering information go here.






The City Quiet as Death, a story by Steven Utley and Michael Bishop, has been posted on the Tor.com website.  You can also listen to a reading of the story by Michael Bishop here.


Purr has been published in the November-December 2008 issue of Weird Tales.  To order a copy here.








Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage has been published in the July 2008 issue of Asimov's.










Short story Dr. Prida's Dream-Plagued Patient has been reprinted in the 2007 annual of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.


PS Publishing has published The Crystal Cosmos, a novella by Rhys Hughes with a narrative introduction, "The Orchid Forest", by Michael Bishop.


For discussions about or questions to Michael Bishop, there is a message board on the Night Shade Books website.

A Cross of Centuries / Justine Ives Michael's anthology A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ has been published by Thunder's Mouth Press.  It includes original and reprinted stories by Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Isaac Babel, Jorge Luis Borges, Gene Wolfe, Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Holland Rogers, Oscar Wilde, and others.  The book can be ordered through Amazon.com.  Go here for the list of contents.


Mainstream story Free was published in the Fall 2008 issue of The Chattahoochee Review










Stories based on notes by Jamie Bishop are currently or will soon be in print. "The Pile" has been published in the Winter 2008 issue of Subterranean Magazine with cover art work by Jamie.  "Purr" was published in Weird Tales.  Another story, "The Library of Babble", has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Subterranean.  Here's a link to Michael's poem, Jamie's Hair, published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.


A Reverie for Mister Ray / Jamie Bishop A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death and Speculative Fiction, a collection of Michael's essays, reviews, and assorted works of nonfiction, edited by Michael H. Hutchins, has been published by PS Publishing.  For more information on the collection's contents, go here.  To order a copy, go to the publisher's website.


Paul Di Filippo has uploaded to his blog the article that he wrote on the fantasy fiction of Michael Bishop for Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror (Scribner's, 2003).  Link to the article.


Golden Gryphon Press has published Brighten to Incandescence, a collection of seventeen stories.  The wrap-around cover art is by Jamie Bishop, Michael's son.  For a larger reproduction of Jamie's cover, go here.  The short story O Happy Day from this collection is available on this website.  To order a copy from Amazon, click here.


For a listing of recent publications go here




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