About

Sidney Blaylock, Jr.

Sidney Blaylock, Jr. is a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer as well as a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in English at Middle Tennessee State University (M.T.S.U.).  He has worked previously as a Sixth Grade Language Arts Teacher, a Library Assistant in the Reference/Information and Popular Materials Department of the Chattanooga Public Library, an Adjunct Instructor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (U.T.C.), and a Bookseller for Waldenbooks (where he bought many Science Fiction & Fantasy novels before they sadly went out of business).

He holds two Master’s Degrees, one in English and one in Education and is working to complete his education in English at the Doctoral level.

Sidney’s work has appeared in:

• Childe Roland, Electricspec.com, November 30, 2016 edition. (Read for Free!)
• WarLight, Visions VI: Galaxies, Ed. by Carrol Fix, November 2016
  In print and available for purchase through Amazon.com
• Ship of Shadows, Visions IV: Space Between Stars, ed. by Carrol Fix, April 2016 (Science Fiction short-story).
  In print and available for purchase through Amazon.com.
• Knight of the Wylde West, Bonte Review, Pre-Issue 2014 (Fantasy short-story).
• Faerie Knight, Fae (A Magical Menagerie Anthology) ed. by Rhonda Parrish, July 2014 (Fantasy short-story).  Included on Tangent Online’s 2014 Recommended Reading List (Starred Recommendation).  If you’re interested, you can find their list at Tangent Online.
  In print and available for purchase through Amazon.com.
• Dragonhawk, Tales of the Talisman, Winter 2013 (Fantasy short-story).
  In print and available for purchase through Amazon.com.
• Sister-Knight,  Sorcerous Signals, May 2012 (Fantasy short-story).
• The Ghost and the Shadow  of G.W.N. Litmag, 1996-1997 (Fantasy short-story).
• “The Art of the Rough Draft,” in the Sept.-Oct. 2005 issue of the Writer’s Journal, (Article).

Sidney is currently working on several short-fiction projects and is working on his first novel.