Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling

I’m so excited to share the Kickstarter for Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, an anthology edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates, with cover art by the amazing, award-winning Galen Dara Smith published by Apex Publications.

I’m honored to be included on this Table of Contents, which includes Nisi Shawl, Maurice Broaddus, Alyssa Wong, Alethea Kontis, Sunil Patel, Michael R. Underwood, Kat Richardson, and more!

Check it out:

More to come in the next few weeks about the motivation behind these stories and the ways they challenge and invert popular tropes.

 

Published by Valya

Valya Dudycz Lupescu is the author of Mother Christmas, The Silence of Trees, Forking Good, and Geek Parenting. She is also the editor of Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora, published in 2023 by Atthis Arts. Valya earned her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been published in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Ukrainian American Poets Respond, Kenyon Review, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, and others. Valya has been making magic with words and food for 25 years, incorporating traditions from her Ukrainian heritage with practices that honor the Earth.

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