John Wiswell on the Web

I wrote you a new story! It's live over at Daily Science Fiction , and it's called "You Can Adapt to Anything." It follo...

Happy birthday to people who were born on the same day as myself! Today I'm celebrating by playing the RAQ: the Rarely Asked Questions. ...

I'll miss you, Summer 2017! Fun as it was to see people at so many cons, it's nice to have the weather cool down and be able to stay...

Happy Tuesday, Earth! You may have noticed my birthday is coming up on September 4th. I'm celebrating with a custom called the RAQ: th...

I can't believe it's been five years since I asked people to look at my RAQ. This was an annual highlight of the Bathroom Monologues...

Friends! How's your summer going? Because mine's been a heck of a ride. In the last week I've had two very different things pu...

Nebulas: Done! 4th Street Fantasy: Done! College Reunion: Done! The blitz of Spring turning into Summer is almost over. I just have on...

Today, Fireside Magazine published a new essay of mine about Horror, Politics, and Disability . What began as a plaintive question on Twitte...

May kicked off my busy summer, as I finished a novel and visited the Nebula Awards for the first time. This travel is wiping me out, but it...

I'm pleased to announce that "Under the Rubble" has been published over at Pseudopod! It's a Horror story about two peopl...

We're going into convention season, and I keep meeting new writers who are nervous about making bad impressions. Especially early o...

I'm pleased to be a guest this month at Almost An Author, a site designed to help new writers shape their careers. Kathryn Johnson had m...

Bobby wanted to be a magician, but couldn't fit all the scarves up his sleeve and made a pocket dimension instead. He was a hack.

I am so unprepared for May. Are you unprepared for May? Well let's make it a little easier with some quality fiction and journalism. As ...

I'm happy to announce that I've sold a new story to Fireside Magazine ! I'm excited to be back with them, as they publish such a...

The first piece of my recent Good Newsathon has walked out into the world: "The Terrible" is in this month's Flash Fiction Onl...

It's been my busiest March in a while! A couple of brutal health episodes couldn't stop the train of goodness. In fact, I managed to...

This is a few days late, isn't it? I had to postpone a little for my Mock Oscars, covering Logan, and a certain wonderful event in my f...

Logan is to Wolverine what Deadpool is to Deadpool, significantly more faithful to the character than anything before it. Is it the best X...

It's almost March 2017, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2016. Personally, I'm most bummed that I missed ...

Since I couldn't sleep thanks to syndrome pain, I tried out Amazon's new show Patriot. It felt worth a shot given warm reviews and a...

This round-up has been on hiatus over a few particularly chaotic months, but is back for 2017. A few old stories and articles popped up in h...

Heads up, everybody: your marching is bothering the Republicans. Better cut it out. You know what special snowflakes they are. Did the pe...

While a terrible year for many things, 2016 was phenomenal for games. Not only do I passionately love more releases this year than normal, b...

Humans: ill kill and eat anything that looks good Lobster: I'm a bug that lives underwater. Humans: eh still Lobster: With claws! Hu...

The longer the live, the less I believe in objectively good literature. Even subjectively good literature is a concept deserving some scrut...

I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ...

I'm tickled to be back at Daily Science Fiction this month with a new story: " Where I'm From, We Eat Our Parents ." The...

After I finished The Guest , I got on the elliptical and loaded up Netflix. By pure coincidence, We Are Still Here was next in my queue, ...

Patrick Stewart plays the leader of a ground of backwoods skinheads trying to kill a Punk band. Patrick Freaking Stewart. Captain P...