Magazine / webzine: Shimmer
Bibliographic comments: Digital issues only from #19.
• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white and linked in blue where available.
Shimmer, #1
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Autumn 2005
Shimmer
Octavo, 72 pages
$5.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Kuzhali Manickavel, Sour Hands // Edward Cox, Nobody's Fool // Stephen M. Dare, White Burn // Dario
Ciriello, Valley of the Shadow // Richard S. Crawford, An Interrupted Nap // J. Albert Bell, Finders Keepers //
Michael Mathews, The Shoppers // Jeremiah Swanson, And Death Will Seize the Doctor, Too // Mel Cameron, A
Convocation of Clowns
Shimmer, #3
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Spring 2006
Shimmer
Octavo, 80 pages
$5.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Clifford Royal Johns, Dog Thinks Ahead // Marina T. Stern, Drevka's Rain // Paul Abbamondi, The
Dealer's Hands // John Mantooth, Litany // Bruce K. Derksen, Rubber Boots, Mr. President // Darby Harn, Paper
Man // Aliette de Bodard, A Warrior's Death // Angela Slatter, The Little Match Girl
Shimmer, #4
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Summer 2006
Shimmer
Octavo, 76 pages
$5.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Amal El-Mohtar, The Crow's Caw // Stephen L. Moss, Oscar's Temple // Paul Abbamondi, Always
Greener // Angela Slatter, Bluebeard // Michael Livingston, Gnome Season // Marina T. Stern, On the Edge of the
World // Tom Pendergrass, Urban Renewal // Beverly Jackson, A Fish Tale
Interview: Ken Scholes, Jen West, Interview with Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
Shimmer, #5
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Autumn 2006
Shimmer
Octavo, 80 pages
$5.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
• 'A Wizard on the Road' translated by Lavie Tidhar.
Fiction: John Parke Davis, Halloween Night // Kathy Watts, Skeletonbaby Magic // Bryan Lindsey, Pray for Us, St.
Dymphna // Angela Slatter, The Angel Wood // Aliette de Bodard, Through the Obsidian Gates // Nir Yaniv, A
Wizard on the Road // Monica Eiland, Voices of the Gods // Silvia Moreno-Garcia, King of Sand and Stormy Seas
Interview: uncredited, Interview with John Scalzi
Shimmer, #6
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Winter 2007
Shimmer
Octavo, 84 pages
$5.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: N. A. Bourke, Juana and the Dancing Bear // Philip J. Lees, Duets // Stephen L. Moss, Tom Cofferwillow
Comes Undone // Michael Livingston, Catch of the Day // Cat Rambo, Eagle-Haunted Lake Sammamish // Mike
Driver, Night Milling // Dario Ciriello, Dwell on Her Graciousness // Amal El-Mohtar, Sparrow and Egg
Interview: uncredited, Interview with Cherie Priest
Shimmer, #7
John Joseph Adams, ed.
< Autumn 2007
Shimmer
Octavo, 84 pages
$7.00
Notes:
• The 'Pirate' issue.
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Jill Snider Lum, The Sweet Realm // Jeremiah Tolbert, Captain Blood's B00ty // J. Kathleen Cheney, A
Hand for Each // Melinda Selmys, The Blackguard of God // Mikal Trimm, Come to the Islands // James L.
Cambias, The Barbary Shore // Marissa K. Lingen, Pirates by Adeline Thromb Age 8 // Rajan Khanna, The Furies
// Justine Graykin, The Perfect Hook // Grant Stone, Hard Times for Bartleby Crow
Interview: uncredited, An Inconvenient Pirate: Interview with the Founder of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster
Shimmer, #8
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Winter 2008
Shimmer
Octavo, 84 pages
$6.00
Notes:
• The 'Art' issue.
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Kurt Kirchmeier, Penny Wise // Michael Livingston, A Very Young Boy with Largely Clipped Wings // Aliette
de Bodard, Within the City of the Swan // Josh Vogt, Even Songbirds Are Kept in Cages // Daniel A. Rabuzzi,
Monologue with Birds and Burin // Angela Slatter, Dresses, Three // Kuzhali Manickavel, Flying and Falling
Interview: uncredited, Interview with John Picacio
Shimmer, #9
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< Spring 2008
Shimmer
Octavo
$6.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Tinatsu Wallace, Chimera and Qi // Angela Slatter, The Hummingbird Heart // Jenny Maloney, Maybe
Blue // Alex Dally MacFarlane, Juniper Grave // D. Lynn Smith, The Girl Who Lost Her Way // Joy Marchand,
The Shape of Her Sorrow // M. K. Hobson, The Hand of the Devil on a String // Grá Linnaea, 20th Anniversary
Caveman // D. T. Friedman, Even the Slowest Fall // Chad Brian Henry, Distractions // Chrissy Ellsworth, Lucy
// Stephanie Campisi, The Glass Girl Looks Back
Interview: Spencer Ellsworth, Interview with Dave Farland
Shimmer, #10
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
April 2009
Shimmer
Library edition: PDF, 103 pages
$6.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
• 'A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor' translated by Lavie Tidhar.
• Free download from the Shimmer site.
Fiction: Stephanie Burgis, Blue Joe // Caitlyn Paxson, The Carnivale of Abandoned Tales // Nir Yaniv, A Painter, a
Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor // Shweta Narayan, One for Sorrow // Richard S. Crawford, The Bride Price //
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jaguar Woman // Caroline M. Yoachim, Firefly Igloo // Jessica Paige Wick, The Fox and
the King's Beard // Becca De La Rosa, River Water // Claude Lalumière, What to Do with the Dead // Alex
Wilson, The Spoils of Springfield // Sara Genge, Counting Down to the End of the Universe
Interview: Jen West, Interview with Cory Doctorow
Shimmer, #11
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< January 2010
Shimmer
Octavo
$8.00
Notes:
• The 'Clockwork Jungle Book' issue.
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Jay Lake, Shedding Skin; or How the World Came to Be // Blake Hutchins, The Jackdaw's Wife // Jess
Nevins, The Student and the Rats // Shweta Narayan, The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad
Akbar // Marissa Lingen, Kay's Box // Vince Pendergast, Otto's Elephant // Susannah Mandel, The Monkey and
the Butterfly // James Maxey, Message in a Bottle // Gwynne Garfinkle, The Clockwork Cat's Escape // James L.
Cambias, The Wolf and the Schoolmaster // Genevieve Valentine, A Garden in Bloom // Lou Anders, And How His
Audit Stands // Sara Genge, The Story in Which Dog Dies // Barbara A. Barnett, A Red One Cannot See // Amal
El-Mohtar, The Fishbowl // Chris Roberson, His Majesty's Menagerie // Rajan Khanna, The Emperor's Gift //
Peter M. Ball, The Clockwork Goat and the Smokestack Magi // Alethea Kontis, The Giant and the Unicorn // Caleb
Wilson, Mockmouse
Shimmer, #12
Beth Wodzinksi, ed.
< October 2010
Shimmer
Octavo
$8.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Peter M. Ball, The Mike and Carly Story, Without the Gossip // Josh Storey, Seek Him i'th'Other Place
Yourself // Erin Cashier, Near the Flame // Carmen Lau, Red and Grandma Inside the Wolf // Jen Volant, An
Organization Man in the Time Long After Legends // Ben Francisco, Crepuscular // Nicky Drayden, You Had Me at
Rarrrgg // Krista Hoeppner Leahy, No Place Like Home, or Building the Yellow Brick Road // Monica Byrne, Five
Letters from New Laverne
Shimmer, #17
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< September 2013
Shimmer
Octavo
$8.00
Notes:
• 'Letter from the Editor' by Beth Wodzinski.
Fiction: Katherine Sparrow, The Mostly True Adventures of Assman & Foxy // A. C. Wise, How Bunny Came to Be //
Sarah Brooks, The Moon Bears // Helena Bell, Sincerely, Your Psychic // Alex Dally MacFarlane, Out They Come
// Sunny Moraine, Love in the Time of Vivisection // Lavie Tidhar, Fishing // Robert N. Lee, 98 Ianthe // Jordan
Taylor, The Desire of All Things // Yarrow Paisley, The Metaphor of the Lakes // Alex Wilson, Romeo and Meatbox
// Kristi DeMeester, Like Feather, Like Bone // Damien Angelica Walters, Girl, with Coin // Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
River, Dreaming // Kim Neville, The Fairy Godmother // Carmen Maria Machado, We Were Never Alone in Space //
Ada Hoffmann, The Herdsman of the Dead
Shimmer, #21
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< September 2014
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
Fiction: Seth Dickinson, Anna Saves Them All // Vajra Chandrasekera, Dharmas // A. C. Wise, Dream of the
Fisherman's Wife // Erica Satifka, We Take the Long View
Shimmer, #25
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< May 2015
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
Fiction: Kali Wallace, The Proper Motion of Extraordinary Stars // J. R. Troughton, The Mothgate // Isabel Yap,
Good Girls // Cassandra Khaw, In the Rustle of Pages
Shimmer, #26
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< July 2015
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
Fiction: Roshani Chokshi, The Star Maiden // Lavie Tidhar, The Last Dinosaur // Cat Hellisen, Serein // Erica L.
Satifka, States of Emergency
Shimmer, #30
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< March 2016
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
• 'Editor's Note' by E. Catherine Tobler.
Fiction: Jessica May Lin, The Red Mask // Sarah Brooks, Blackpool // Rachael K. Jones, Indigo Blue //
Gwendolyn Kiste, All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray
Interviews: uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Jessica May Lin // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Sarah Brooks //
uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Rachael K. Jones // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Gwendolyn Kiste
Shimmer, #32
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< July 2016
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
• 'Editor's Note' by E. Catherine Tobler.
Fiction: Nicasio Andres Reed, Painted Grassy Mire // K. L. Morris, The Wombly // Avi Naftali, glam-grandma //
Natalia Theodoridou, The Singing Soldier
Interviews: uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Nicasio Andres Reed // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: K. L. Morris //
uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Avi Naftali // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Natalia Theodoridou
Shimmer, #40
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< November 2017
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
• 'Editor's Note' by E. Catherine Tobler.
Fiction: Lucia Iglesias, Boneset // Octavia Cade, The Atomic Hallows and the Body of Science // Andrea Corbin,
Raise-the-Dead Cobbler // Naru Dames Sundar, The Weight of Sentience
Interviews: uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Lucia Iglesias // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Octavia Cade //
uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Andrea Corbin // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Naru Dames Sundar
Shimmer, #42
E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
< March 2018
Shimmer
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
• 'Editor's Note' by E. Catherine Tobler.
Fiction: Sara Saab, The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea // Sara Beitia, They Have a Name for That //
Lora Gray, The Imitation Sea // Kathrin Köhler, If a Bear...
Interviews: uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Sara Saab // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Sara Beitia //
uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Lora Gray // uncredited, Shimmer Interviews: Kathrin Köhler