DaVaun Sanders

Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew

FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue #14, Spring 2020

The Matriarch rules over Mataano Qahndo with casual ruthlessness and unimaginable power. Her focus is entirely on the Bay, which seems to contain the mysterious source of the phage -- an infectious agent that is both the cause of a bewildering array of maladies as well as the power source for all magic in the Revealed Lands.Suraldisha is a woman who has lost everything but a tiny pouch of bones and an all-consuming need for reventge. She is one of hundreds streaming into the city, hoping to offer their bodies as vessels for phage in service of the Matriarch. But she is hiding more than seething hatred and a fish knife in her sun robes.Will she get close enough to the Matriarch to carry out her plan? And what does justice look like in a world where power is drawn from the suffering of so many?

She Who Hears All Whispers

Lavie Tidhar

Beth Cato

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Natalia Theodoridou

Rati Mehotra

Andrea Chapela

Miyuki Jane Pinckard

The September/October 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Natalia Theodoridou, DaVaun Sanders, Rati Mehotra, Beth Cato, Lavie Tidhar, Andrea Chapela (translated by Emma Törzs, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Miyuki Jane Pinckard. Essays by Greg Pak, Juliet Kemp, Premee Mohamed, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, poetry by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, Marissa Lingen, Linda D. Addison, and Simbo, Olumide Manuel, interviews with Rati Mehotra and Miyuki Jane Pinckard by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Sija Hong, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Chimedum Ohaegbu, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

September/October 2022

Uncanny Magazine Issue 48

DaVaun Sanders has resided in Phoenix, Arizona since 2002, where the local spoken word community fostered his passion to pursue writing novels and screenplays. “The Seedbearing Prince” began as a dream vivid enough to play like a movie trailer. Deciding to write the debut novel took some time, as it wasn't part of "The Plan," but the housing market collapse forced DaVaun's small design firm under in 2008. He eventually decided to step away from architecture and plunge into writing full-time, and is loving every minute as an indy publisher. The Seedbearing Prince: Part I has reached as high as #1 on Amazon’s genre lists for Science Fiction and Epic Fantasy and is a perennial favorite in the top 100 downloads. DaVaun’s screenplay “Vault of Souls,” won the Grand Prize in Phoenix Comicon’s 2014 Short Script Competition. DaVaun is currently hard at work editing Dayn Ro’Halan’s latest adventure, “The Course of Blades,” the third of six books in the World Breach series. Follow him on Twitter @davaunwrites or like on Facebook for updates and giveaways!

The Seedbearing Prince: Part I

DaVaun Sanders

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