J.L. Forrest

J.L. Forrest is a writer of science fiction and dark fantasy. His stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Crossed Genres, Third Flatiron, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and hosts the Denver Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series.

He is an Active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and J.L. is the author of the novel Requies Dawn and the novella series Songs at the End of the World.

His blog may have some entertaining, interesting, professorial, insightful, or plain-weird shit on it. Welcome.

Books

Songs at the End of the World

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Reading Series

Paolo Bacigalupi and J.L. Forrest

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Writing Workshops

Workshops online and in person

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Latest Dispatches from the Blog

"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—