Across the top half of the front cover, the title says “Community of Magic Pens” in a font that looks handwritten in purple marker. Around the title, there are lavender and blue ink splotches to the upper left, a rainbow scribble to the upper right, and a few light blue stars and dots to the far right. Four anthropomorphic pens are spaced across the bottom half of the front cover, standing happily in a line. They do not have legs, but they each have cartoonish stick arms and cartoonish faces.

Community of Magic Pens

by Minerva Cerridwen, Ava Kelly

An eclectic, multi-genre collection of original stories about the power of communication, the magic of writing instruments, and the strength of community, curated to inspire wonder, hope, and joy.

Eclectic, imaginative, and unexpected, Community of Magic Pens features forty genre-spanning flash and short stories—including fantasy, humor, science fiction, romance, historical fiction, satire, and mystery—bringing together a rich group of diverse voices from a wide range of backgrounds and intersections.

Fountain pens, markers and ink, charcoals, spy pens, a braille writer, a printing press, virtual reality, and a supernatural pizza: whether revealing unspoken truths, fighting injustice, or finding friendship and love, our pens have power. Join us as a recent graduate of superhero school struggles to understand her gift, a disabled android interviews for a job, a queen’s conscripted artist must pull reality from illustrations on parchment, and a grandmother’s secret room is…better kept a secret. Tales of struggle and triumph, compassion and hope: Community of Magic Pens is a celebration of our shared story.

What will you see written when the pens speak?

Community of Magic Pens features all-new work from:

Z. Ahmad, J. S. Bailey, E.D.E. Bell, Gustavo Bondoni, Kella Campbell, Minerva Cerridwen, ZZ Claybourne, M. R. DeLuca, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Joy Givens, Beth Goder, Ethan Hedman, Andrew K Hoe, Victoria Hollis, A. P. Howell, Stella B. James, M. Kaur, Ava Kelly, Robert Kingett, Adam Kissel, N.R. Lambert, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, Gerri Leen, Lawrence Miller, Avery Montavon, Ether Nepenthes, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Mikko Rauhala, Rai Rocca, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lorraine Schein, Holly Schofield, Elizabeth Shaffer, Jannae’ Sifontes, K. Alysee Simon, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Vijay Varman, Dawn Vogel

Publisher: Atthis Arts
Editors:
E.D.E. Bell

Genres:
fantasy, mystery, paranormal, sci fi, urban fantasy

Tags:
Anthology

About the Authors

Minerva Cerridwen

Minerva Cerridwen (she/her or xe/xem/xyr) is a genderqueer aromantic asexual writer and pharmacist from Belgium. Xe enjoys baking, drawing and handlettering.

Since 2013 xe has been writing for Paranatellonta, a project combining photography and flash fiction. Xyr first published work was the queer fairy tale ‘Match Sticks’ in the Unburied Fables anthology (2016). The 2020 edition of xyr novella The Dragon of Ynys is published with Atthis Arts, where xe also wrote for the anthologies Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove (2019) and Community of Magic Pens (2020).

For updates on xyr newest projects, visit xyr website or follow xem on Twitter.
minervacerridwen.wordpress.com
twitter.com/minerva_cerr


Ava Kelly

Ava Kelly (they/them) is an engineer with a deep passion for stories. Whether reading, watching, or writing them, Ava has always been surrounded by tales of all genres. Their goal is to bring more stories into the world, especially those of friendship and compassion, those dedicated to trope subversion, those that give the void a voice, and those that spawn worlds of their own.

Long ago, Ava has begun the trek through the artworld with photography, the cello, and poetry. In another artlife—because what is engineering if not creation—Ava is tinkering with artificial intelligence, robots, and all sorts of systems.

Among their latest works are the award-winning novel Havesskadi and the short stories The Confessionist (A Community of Magic Pens) and A Sudden Displacement of Matter (Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers).


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