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Now is the time to say goodbye!

27/8/2018

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This is the last Grievous Angel post. 

It's been a long and intriguing ride since I launched the Grievous Angel science fiction and fantasy flash fiction and poetry zine in June 2014. Since then we have published over 500 separate stories and poems (and paid contributor fees at pro rates) including many, many scifaiku and at least one ghazal. 

It has however always been a one-man-band labour of love for me and I feel I now need a new project or two to reenergize my personal creative batteries, so the time has come to bring the curtain down on the Angel. 

Thank you for all your support and I wish you every success in finding new homes for your work.

What happens next?
• If you have received an acceptance but your work has not yet been published, feel free to submit it elsewhere – you should have all by now received a personal note about the Angel closure.
• If your work has been published but you have not yet received payment, please get in touch as, according to our records, we have now paid everyone.
• The Grievous Angel archive of published work will be remaining publicly available on the parent Urban Fantasist website indefinitely but, once again, feel free submit your work elsewhere, repurpose it, etc.
6 Comments
robert stahl
6/9/2018 14:42:34

Noo! Hate to hear that. Thanks for giving me one of my first breaks. "Mumbo Jumbo" is still one of my favorite stories I've ever written. Best of luck in the future!

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Charles Christian
6/9/2018 15:36:28

Thank you for those kind words Robert - but ars longa, vita brevis and all that - there is a heap of projects I want to pursue and only a limited number of hours in the day. CC

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Gabriel Smithwilson
7/9/2018 20:05:42

Sad news. Thank you for giving me my first accepted poem anywhere. And thank you, Charles, for creating such a wonderfully one-of-a-kind online zine. Every day that I read a new publication on here, it was as if Christmas came early. The Angel will be truly missed.

Sincerely, Gabriel.

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Theresa Barker link
20/9/2018 05:23:54

Charles,

I heard from Patrick Hurley that you had closed Grievous Angel. I'm excited for you that you'll be turning to new projects. Thank you for your enthusiasm for my work, and for your continued expressions of surprise when one of my stories caught your imagination. Best of everything in the future!

- Theresa

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Charles Christian
20/9/2018 11:05:02

Thank you Theresa :-)

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Elizabeth E King link
2/12/2018 18:30:45

You are loved and admired ! Thanks for your great site! I'm honored to have had Three works and a painting accepted! You ROCK!

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