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Club Chicxulub 2026

Club Chicxulub is a celebration of fabulist art. This performance series and literary journal features writers and their stories accompanied by a live soundtrack of synthwave, darkwave, and ambient beats. Our show features creators from the San Francisco Bay Area, and our journal features artists from around the world.

Think the War of the Worlds radio play with Moog sweeps over Manhattans with friends.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA on Ramaytush Ohlone land.

Vol. 6, MIRRORS is out now 🪞⚡ featuring 9 authors and 2 visual artists in a prismatic collective of art, stories, and a soundtrack by Shipwreck Detective, N!, and Velvet Android!

Stay tuned for our next live show coming this Spring ✵

clubchicxulub

A Fabulist Science Fiction Performance Series
🍸🎙️📖🦖🎹
by @ruddagerrustin & @laurenc.johnson, @shipwreckdetective & @kristin.eade

We invite you to gaze upon the beauty and delusion

We invite you to gaze upon the beauty and delusion of MIRRORS: A prismatic collection of art, speculative stories, and music. 🪞🔮💎 Now live: clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxulub-journal-vol-6-mirrors

Thank you, Brian Despain @despainart for contributing your beautiful piece, “Together, Always,” for the cover!

Meet our fiction and visual art contributors:

🪞 Brian Despain
@despainart

🪞 Ericka Sobrack
@sobrackstudios

🪞 Heather D. Norton

🪞 J.E. Rudd

🪞 Malon Edwards
@malonlouis

🪞 Natalie Paris

🪞 Nicole Walsh
@nicolewalshauthor

🪞 Noam Youngrak Son
@bloomcascade

🪞 Rina Song

🪞 Thomas Rohner

🪞 Xan van Rooyen
@xan_writer

With musical score by Matt Scott Carney (N!), @ruddagerrustin Devanand Bhat (Shipwreck Detective), @shipwreckdetective and Keith Houston @keithhoustonvoices & Lala Boosh @invaderlala (Velvet Android) for stories by Xan van Rooyen, Nicole Walsh, Natalie Paris, and Thomas Rohner.

If you really want to make our day, head on over to clubchicxulub.bandcamp.com to support the album for Bandcamp Friday!

Produced by Matt Scott Carney, Kristin Eade @kristin.eade Dev Bhat, and Lauren C. Johnson @laurenc.johnson

Club Chicxulub Journal: Vol. 6, Mirrors
clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxulub-journal-vol-6-mirrors/

THANK YOU FOR TRANSPORTING US TO NEW WORLDS 🌐

Would you accept an influence chip that changes ho

Would you accept an influence chip that changes how you perceive yourself? Reflect on the dissolution of memory and identity in the escalating AI era, with Nicole Walsh @nicolewalshauthor in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞Her story, “Bone-White” is coming soon with a custom score by Matt Scott Carney aka N! @ruddagerrustin

Nicole Walsh (she/her) is a cat enthusiast from the east coast of Australia who loves fern gardens and long dresses. She writes short and novel-length speculative fiction and urban fantasy that span from a little bit dark, a little bit amusing through to a little bit steamy. Her work features in 50+ magazines and anthologies. Her second novel, sci-fi-fantasy mashup novel The God-Wife Reborn is OUT NOW. Visit Nicole at: https://nicolewalshauthor.com/ and www.facebook.com/nicolewalshauthor

Watch this space—the issue drops soon!

Learn to sing the melodious “Scrimshaw Song” with

Learn to sing the melodious “Scrimshaw Song” with Xan van Rooyen @xan_writer in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞Soon, you can hear Xan perform their piece accompanied by bespoke soundtrack by Dev Bhat aka The Shipwreck Detective @shipwreckdetective and Matt Scott Carney aka N! @ruddagerrustin

Xan van Rooyen is an award-winning autistic, non-binary storyteller from South Africa, currently living in Finland. Xan’s short stories can be found in the likes of Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, and Galaxy’s Edge among others. They have also written several novels, including the YA cyberpunk Dorian Gray retelling, Exquisite Decay (Dec 2026, Tiny Ghost Press) and adult dark fantasy novel, Born of Malice (Oct 2026, Ruadan Books). Xan is part of the Sauútiverse, an African writer’s collective, with stories in several award-nominated anthologies. You can find Xan's non-fiction in the Locus Award and Ignyte Award winning Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury, Australia) among others. Feel free to say hi on all the usual socials @xanvanrooyen (https://linktr.ee/xanvanrooyen)

Watch this space—the issue drops soon! ☄️🦖

The living walls of the “The Holobiome Lab” will k

The living walls of the “The Holobiome Lab” will keep you company in Thomas Rohner’s contribution to Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞🌿 We can’t wait for you to hear Thomas read this lush, ecological piece accompanied by a bespoke soundtrack by Velvet Android @keithhoustonvoices @invaderlala !

Thomas (he/they) is a writer based in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Canada. He calls himself a recovering journalist and has recently turned to fiction (mostly speculative) to help him return to his senses. This is his first fiction publication, but he muckraked for The Toronto Star, VICE News, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC), among others, in his previous life. He lives with his one-eye husky Nacho Momsky, a sassy kitty named Possum, and his woodland fairy boyfriend. You can contact him through his website, thomasrohner.com.

Coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞

How far would you go to save a beloved, inanimate

How far would you go to save a beloved, inanimate companion? Would you descend into the dark caverns of Mars? Natalie Paris’ short story, “We Are Practical Beings, With Limited Functions and Duties to Perform” explores the human emotions we can't avoid.

Natalie Paris' short fiction has appeared in Litro Magazine. They are a mechanical engineer from Massachusetts working in the green energy industry.

Coming soon—with an audio performance by Natalie and a bespoke soundtrack by @ruddagerrustin aka N!—in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞

Confront the mirror in Rina Song’s short story, “F

Confront the mirror in Rina Song’s short story, “Flesh”—coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! This story is all about facing off with reflections, challenging the disconnect between the body and mind, and shattering self-criticism. We had to snatch it up for this issue.

Rina Song is a writer and speculative fiction lover based out of California. When not writing, she has a day job involving computers. Her work is published or forthcoming in Dirty Magick Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, and NewMyths, among others.

Coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞

👾🤌 And how materialism metastasizes into beautiful

👾🤌 And how materialism metastasizes into beautiful new alien digs. Noam Youngrak Son brings the horrors of the “Model House” to @clubchicxulub!

Noam Youngrak Son is a theorist of material culture, science-fiction writer, and cultural worker based in Brussels. Son critically examines the politics of representation and asks how human and nonhuman bodies, infrastructures, and systems of value are organized through material and representational regimes. For Son, science fiction is a materialist method for approaching the not-yet: forms of life already latent in the present but not yet available to existing regimes of representation. https://www.d-act.org/

Read “Model House” by @bloomcascade soon in Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 6, MIRRORS 🪞

A mysterious aquatic tree arrives with Heather D.

A mysterious aquatic tree arrives with Heather D. Norton’s contribution to Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞🌳 This empathetic, softly speculative tale tickled our funny bones but also got us reflecting on climate grief.

Heather D. Norton is a fiction writer based in the North of England. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Luna Station Quarterly, The Scottish Trust’s Edinburgh Anthologies, After Midnight Lit Mag, and Quotidian Bagatelle. She also makes field recordings — primarily of rain, birds, and the sea — that she occasionally shares with the world. Find her at @heatherdnorton.bsky.social.

Coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS 🪞

Friends! Are you going to World Fantasy Con 2026?!

Friends! Are you going to World Fantasy Con 2026?! We'll see you there! 🦖☄️

Join us for a rad, chatty meet up event: "Fault Lines: What’s Shaking in SF Bay Area Spec-Lit Publishing"

📍Marriott Bar - 2nd Floor
⏰ 5PM - 6PM

Grab a beer at the hotel bar and mingle with some spec fic publishers! We're going to yap about the ever-shifting SFF genres, what speculative fiction means to us today, how we run our journals and more! With:

🌟 Isis Asare @isisasare (Aunt Lute & Sistah SciFi)
🌟 Matt Scott Carney @ruddagerrustin and Kristin Eade @kristin.eade (Club Chicxulub)
🌟 Lezlie A. Kinyon, PhD @lezliethepoet (Roses & Wildflowers)
🌟 Jacob Weisman @oserwise (Tachyon Publications)
🌟 Joshua Wilson @fabulistmag (The Fabulist)

Inhabit the body, mind, and solarpunk Creole of a

Inhabit the body, mind, and solarpunk Creole of a cybernetic person in Malon Edwards’ “The Room with an Effulgent Sky” 🪟 ✨ When this piece landed in our submissions, we were absolutely floored. We can’t wait to share Edwards’ alt-future world with Club Chicxulub ☄️🦖

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Malon now lives in the Greater Toronto Area, where he was lured by his beautiful Canadian wife. Many of his short stories are set in an alt Chicago future and feature people of color. He is an Ember Award and Sunburst Award finalist. His short story collection, If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories, was published by Fireside Press in the fall of 2023.

Coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞

Prepare to embody a tardigrade tasked with terrafo

Prepare to embody a tardigrade tasked with terraforming a world in J.E. Rudd’s contribution to Vol. 6, MIRRORS! 🪞🦠🌱 Equal parts wild, funny, and strangely endearing, “Soil Pioneers” will win your heart.

J.E. Rudd grew up in London but escaped on a canal boat at the age of 40 and is now based in the West Midlands. She has worked in horticulture all her life and her essays and fiction often take inspiration from the natural world. A featured writer for TheRoom-Psy.com, J E Rudd is hoping to exchange spade and secateurs for pens and pencils as she nears retirement age.

Coming soon in Club Chicxulub Vol. 6! 🪞

NOW ON BANDCAMP 📻 THE FOUNDERS EDITION, our first

NOW ON BANDCAMP 📻 THE FOUNDERS EDITION, our first live show in 16 months. Featuring the Club Chicxulub team and long time friends and contributors.

Tracks:⁣
⚡ Born Yesterday But Wise Nonetheless / Intros
⚡ Shipwreck Detective⁣: Chicxulub IX
⚡ Kristina Ten: "Ivan Ivanovich" [available in 2027!]
⚡ Rohan DaCosta: "The Moon Beneath Us"
⚡ Devanand Bhat: "Prologue," an excerpt from The Mountain
⚡ Matt Scott Carney: an excerpt from "The Comeback Kid"
⚡ Kristin Eade: "A Crumb's Tale"
⚡ Lauren C. Johnson: an excerpt from The West Facade
🍻 Credits & ⚡ N!⁣: You Want For Nothing

Emcees: Lauren C. Johnson, Kristin Eade, and Matt Scott Carney
Music by Devanand Bhat (Shipwreck Detective) and Carney (N!)
Recorded, mixed, and produced by Carney

Thank you for transporting us to new worlds!

🎭 We laughed, we cried, we danced through tunnels

If you love gargoyles, talking statues, and creepy

If you love gargoyles, talking statues, and creepy stone angels, you'll love our co-founder Lauren C. Johnson’s (@laurenc.johnson) debut novel, The West Facade. 🕯️🖤🪽

Lauren’s been all over the place this summer promoting her book and we're so excited to put a scene to music at Club Chicxulub IX: The Founders Edition! Get ready for bells and spooky cathedral sounds this Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Lauren C. Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida–America’s weirdest state–to her interest in the ecological and surreal. She's the interviews editor for The Racket Journal, where she champions experimental literature, and is a co-founder and editor of Club Chicxulub, a speculative fiction journal and reading series that amplifies emerging authors. She also co-hosts Babylon Salon, one of the longest-running reading series in the Bay Area. Her short stories, interviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The Rumpus and Orion Magazine online. The West Façade is her debut novel. Find out more at laurencjohnson.com.

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

Club Chicxulub visionary and co-founder, Matt Scot

Club Chicxulub visionary and co-founder, Matt Scott Carney @ruddagerrustin is making his musical debut at our live show this Thursday, 8/13 at Ocean Ale House!

Matt does everything from producing the shows and journals to running the website and making the event flyers. When we say this whole operation wouldn't exist without him, we mean it. Now he's playing live with @shipwreckdetective 🎹🤘 Matt’s also reading a rad story about psychopomps trying to get by in the face of climate change and the anthropocene.

Matt Scott Carney is a Latino writer and musician living in San Francisco. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Red Light Lit, sPARKLE & bLINK, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tilted House, The Racket Journal, Systemic Dreaming and in readings at seedy bars across California. His short story "On Becoming" was a finalist in the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest, and another science fiction story, "In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust," was included Baobab Press anthology This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West. He is a co-founder, managing editor, and music contributor of Club Chicxulub, a fabulist science fiction performance series and journal. He has also released 3 LPs and 4 EPs as writer and producer of his electro art-rock project N! across streaming platforms. mattcarney.space

Hear Matt perform at Club Chicxulub IX, The Founders Edition on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Readings by 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

Kristina Ten is such a blazing star in the specula

Kristina Ten is such a blazing star in the speculative fiction literary world! 🌠 We celebrate her return to the Bay Area at Club Chicxulub IX!

Kristina’s new story, Ivan Ivanovich, is about a creepy crash test dummy that may or may not be sentient, and it is just so good. We can't wait for you to hear it!

Kristina Ten is the author of Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, out last fall from Stillhouse Press. Her stories appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the Conjunctions Residency. Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder's MFA program in fiction, and a former fellow of the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She lives and teaches in Berkeley.

Hear Kristina perform at Club Chicxulub IX, The Founders Edition on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

We welcome our synthlord Devanand Addison Bhat, ak

We welcome our synthlord Devanand Addison Bhat, aka @shipwreckdetective, to the Club Chicxulub stage, this time as a debut fiction performer!

You've heard Shipwreck Detective perform live music at Club Chicxulub shows past. Now, travel with him to a fog-haunted mountain world.⛰️ 🌫️

Devanand Addison Bhat is a self-taught musician, producer, composer, teacher, and Bay Area native living in San Francisco’s Sunset District. He grew up performing in bands ranging from industrial and metal to shoegaze and post-rock. Devanand’s solo work as Shipwreck Detective spans downtempo electronic and ambient music. His sound features synthetic and acoustic textures, improvised looping, drum machines, tape recorders, analog synthesizers, samplers, and dense combinations of effects processors. He draws inspiration from film scores, classic RPG video game soundtracks, 90s anime, and all things speculative fiction. Devanand’s latest album, Rest Vol. 2, can be heard and purchased on Bandcamp.

Hear Shipwreck Defective perform fiction AND music at Club Chicxulub IX, The Founders Edition on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

We welcome our visual arts contributor Rohan DaCos

We welcome our visual arts contributor Rohan DaCosta (@playdatephoto) to the Club Chicxulub stage, this time as a fiction performer!

If you live in the Bay Area, you’re probably already familiar with Rohan’s photos and poetry. We think his new techno-horror story (set in a data center💧) should be required reading/listening.

Rohan DaCosta is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago, based in Oakland, working
primarily through photography, writing, and song. His book, The Edge of Fruitvale, was
published by Nomadic Press on April 28, 2018. His writing can also be found in collaboration with QuietLightning Literary Mixtape Series, The Racket Journal, The Town Anthology by Nomadic Press, and SF Chronicle Archives. His photography has been featured in The Flight Deck Gallery, Root Division Gallery, and Joyce Gordon Gallery, Mercury Twenty Gallery, and
Gearbox Gallery. Rohan is an awardee of Oakland Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Grant in 2018. Rohan has served as a member of the Alameda County Arts Commission. Rohan curated as the exhibition coordinator for the East Bay Photo Collective for the 2022 campaign. Rohan
has served as a review panelist for the Bay Area Creative Foundation. In 2023 Rohan produced an interview series / magazine titled PLAYDATE spotlighting the innovative work of artists and entrepreneurs in the bay area. Rohan currently works as a freelance photographer hired for professional headshots, creative portraiture, and live events.

Hear Rohan perform at Club Chicxulub IX, The Founders Edition on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

While we’re working on the next edition of the Clu

While we’re working on the next edition of the Club Chicxulub Journal, get jazzed for the return of our live performances! 🎙️

This will be Kristin Eade’s @kristin.eade's
first CC show as an official editor and producer! Her offering is a proper ghost story about books and Roethke. 👻📚

Kristin Eade is a writer from Seattle, although she currently calls the Bay Area home. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts and has an ardent love for words, especially those that need a good edit. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Defunct Magazine, Spectrum, and Rogue Agent. When she’s not writing she enjoys bookbinding, playing with cats, and being in nature. You can find her at www.kristineade.com.

Hear Kristin perform at Club Chicxulub IX, The Founders Edition on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00 at Ocean Ale House! @oceanalehouse @oceanalehousemusic

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

🧬☄️ CLUB CHICXULUB RETURNS live 8/13 with readings

🧬☄️ CLUB CHICXULUB RETURNS live 8/13 with readings and music from founders and old friends!

We come back after a live hiatus with a show celebrating milestones and firsts. @laurenc.johnson reads from her debut novel The West Façade, @shipwreckdetective reads new fiction with score from @ruddagerrustin aka N! -- both celebrate recent album releases -- @kristin.eade joins us as as our new editor and producer, and our long time supporters and contributors @playdatephoto and @kristinasergeevnaten share the stage with daring new speculative works.

Join us at @oceanalehouse on Thursday, August 13th @ 7:00...

Readings from 🦖 DEV BHAT 🦖 LAUREN C. JOHNSON 🦖 MATT SCOTT CARNEY 🦖 ROHAN DACOSTA 🦖 KRISTINA TEN 🦖 KRISTIN EADE 🎹 featuring a live synthesizer score by Dev Bhat aka SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE and Matt Scott Carney aka N!

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