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The World More Full of Weeping for the Aurora!
Robert J. Wiersema's The World More Full of Weeping has been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work In English!
The Auroras are open to all Canadian and Canadian residents. Full information is available on the Prix Aurora Awards website.
Please take a few seconds to support CZP and vote for Rob!
February 14, 2009
New Contest: Match The Book To Holiday Contest in Honour of Valentine's Day
We're giving a way your choice of a tradepaperback or short story critique by CZP Assistant Editor Helen Marshall if you can correctly match CZP's first thirteen titles to a holiday.
So, that creepy looking guy just below this paragraph relates to Valentine's Day.
Full details available here. Deadline is February 28, 2010.
February 9, 2009
Monstrous Affections Wins Black Quill Award
David Nickle's Monstrous Affections won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection in the 3rd Annual Black Quill Awards.
On behalf of David and CZP, we'd like to thank everyone who voted.
January 30, 2010
Fall, 2010 Line-Up Announced
ChiZine Publications will be publishing books by Gord Zajac, Craig Davidson, Halli Villegas, Tony Burgess, Paul Tremblay and CZP alum Robert Boyczuk. Full Details.
January 23, 2010
CZP Limited Edition Hardcovers Now Available Through Camelot Books
CZP signed limited editions are now being carried by Camelot Books.
January 4, 2010
Two New Books Up for Pre-Order
Pre-orders are now being taken for limited edition hardcovers of Cities of Night by Philip Nutman and The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon.
Cities of Night takes you to Atlanta, London, New York, Rome, Prague . . . all are cities of night. And the night is forever now.
In The Thief of Broken Toys, a father loses his son and his wife leaves him. Wandering the cliffs of a small fishing village, he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change.
These are limited edition print runs. Only 250 copies of The Thief of Broken Toys and 150 copies of Cities of Night will be printed. Find more information at Horror Mall.
January 2, 2010
The Winners of CZP's Flash-Flash Fiction Contest!
We asked for the best 300 word (or less) flash fiction story to be judged by our short story collection authors: Robert Boyczuk, Claude Lalumière and David Nickle. The results are in:
WINNER:
Cedar by Donna Burgess
RUNNERS-UP:
Layers Deep by Paul Abbamondi
One Zombie by Catherine MacLeod
December 16, 2009
Robert J. Wiersema's new short story available on Torontoist.com
Torontoist.com will publish an original story by Robert J Wiersema, "Just Like the Ones He Used to Know," in eight daily posts, beginning on Thursday, December 16 and ending on Christmas Eve.
December 8, 2009
Robert J. Wiersema Interviewed on TheCommentary.ca
Robert J. Wiersema, author of The World More Full of Weeping is interviewed on TheCommentary.ca about the book, the town it's set in, and more. Give a listen or download directly.
December 2, 2009
ChiZine Publications sign with Diamond Book Distributors
ChiZine Publications has signed a deal with Diamond Book Distributors for U.S./U.K. distribution of their titles.
November 24, 2009
Brett, Sandra, Dave and Rob in the National Post
Co-Editors Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi along with author David Nickle (Monstrous Affections) and Robert J. Wiersema (The World More Full of Weeping) were interviewed in The Afterword, the "place for all things literary" in The National Post (a major Canadian newspaper). They talk about the origin and growth of CZP.
November 11, 2009
All CZP Books Available as eBooks
We're pleased and excited that all of our titles are now available from Horror Mall as eBooks! All titles are available in .PDF, .MOBI and .EPUB formats for $5.95 (except The World More Full of Weeping is $3.95).
From now on, we plan on releasing our hardcovers, trade paperbacks and eBooks at the same time. More than that, we're going to keep the costs of the eBook as low as possible.
All CZP's eBooks can be found at http://www.horror-mall.com/ChiZine-Publications-p-1-c-433.html.
ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words.
CZP March Newsletter
We're starting something new here at CZP. A monthly newsletter to update you on what's happened and what's coming up. The current issue is the March, 2010 Newsletter. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Upcoming Events
World Horror Convention
Brighton, England
March 25-28, 2010
Odyssey 2010
Heathrow, London, UK
April 2-5, 2010
Ad Astra
Toronto, ON
April 9-11, 2010
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7:05 PM Mar 4th
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Available Books
Limited Edition Hardcovers
Cities of Night
Signed hardcovers available from Horror Mall and Camelot Books. Print run limited to 150 copies.
The Thief of Broken Toys
Signed hardcovers available from Horror Mall and Camelot Books. Print run limited to 250 copies.
Trade Paperbacks & eBooks
Katja from the Punk Band
Trade paperbacks will be available April 15, 2010.
A Book of Tongues
Trade paperbacks will be available April 15, 2010.
Chimerascope
Trade paperbacks will be available March 15th, 2010.
Chasing the Dragon
Trade paperbacks will be available March 15th, 2010.
The World More Full of Weeping
"(H)aunting . . . seamlessly blends literary fiction with mythic fantasy"
- Publishers Weekly
Objects of Worship
"These stories are terrifically creepy. And not unlike Edgar Allan Poe or Potted Meat Product, they gave me the willies."
- Christopher Moore
Monstrous Affections
"David Nickle writes 'em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don't miss this one."
- Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother
The Choir Boats
"I could not put it down until I finished it."
- Liviu Suciu, Fantasy Book Critic
The Tel Aviv Dossier
"The most enjoyably bizarre novel I've read."
- Gareth D. Jones, SF Crowsnest
Horror Story and Other Horror Stories
"Boyczuk has a real knack for creepy, Twilight Zone-style atmospherics."
- Alex Good, Quill & Quire
Filaria
"Crackling with invention, energy, and suspense."
- Alex Good, Quill & Quire
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