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Down here on the coast at 13° north latitude, the days don't ever get too short, and "cold" is an unfamiliar concept. Nevertheless, what passes for the winter season is upon us!  And because we are slow to update the blog, we have lots of announcements. We released two new book-length titles in October!  The first: Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales. This isn't your typical horror anthology. Seven writers—Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Srividya Tadepalli, M L Krishnan, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, Jugal Mody, and Kuzhali Manickavel—have pooled their uncanny talents into one slim, vicious volume full of stray dogs,...

We're crowdfunding for Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, an anthology of 7 horror/weird fiction stories by 7 Indian writers: Kuzhali Manickavel, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, M. L. Krishnan, Jugal Mody, Lungmying Lepcha, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, and Srividya Tadepalli. The stories are set in the mountains of Sikkim, in the salt sloughs of the Tamil Nadu coast, and in a strange future Delhi where it never stops snowing and people spend their time getting drunk in igloos. We just hit our target! There are two days left to chip in! $5 ebooks and $6 print copies! There are t-shirts too, and other higher-tier...

 Banner Art by Larchtongue WELCOME TO THE RIOT! A zine subscription where you get brand new sick zines in your mail every month!"WHO'S MAKING THE ZINES?"You'll get 12 zines per year, 3 from each of the following:LarchTonguePriyanka PaulKuzhali ManickavelKaimurundai & other Blaft artists!"WHAT ARE THESE ZINES ABOUT?"Lesser sexy owl gods!Robots & cacti!Antifascist numerology!Disgruntled wizards summoning the internet!Rants about sports!New bonkers shit in your mailbox every month!"WHAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT MY CRIPPLING EXISTENTIAL DREAD AND FEAR OF THE FUTURE?"Buy weird art!Eat balanced meals!Start a riot after lunch! Here is the first zine, releasing September 1st! Subscribe now!

Join ROT Collective and Blaft Publications for a whole day of creative workshops, talks, networking, and celebration as we explore sci-fi and speculative fiction as a methodology for anti-caste speculative imagination on Saturday 30 August, 11am onwards!Discover Blaft’s new anthology, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, through a display of prints and artwork and co-reading on the day. Plus, take part in workshops that explore writing and art-making from a breadth of perspectives. Let’s imagine new possibilities together! Get your tickets here!                                    ...

On July 22, we lost Ajay Gupta, who had joined Blaft in February. He died of a lung infection after a sudden onset of fever. He was just 32.When he came on board, he told us he'd been out of the workforce for a few years due to a struggle with depression, but he had improved a lot with therapy and was looking for a part-time role, working from his home in Chandigarh. He had an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Panjab University, but was looking to transition to publishing. "I bunked the whole first year to read in the university...