Joseph Sidari

what's the answer to Life, the universe and Everything? 42!

Or Volume 42, to be precise Here is the Cover Artist and Writer for WOTF, Vol 42

There are 4 stories about dragons in Volume 42, and mine is one of them!. I am in great company since Orson Scot Card's story is inspired by the dragon on the cover, artfully drawn by Ciruelo Cabral. Dragons are definitely his thing!

Zoom Party

I got to see and hear many of my fellow winners (writers and illustrators) in this anthology, including the talented Nina Kiriki Hoffman, a winner from Volume 1. She has written a story about dragons to be included in Volume 42 as well!

Dragon Writers Unite!

April 28, 2026 Release!

Stay tuned for all three formats. And the audiobook version is being produced by Stefan Rudnicki! An audiobook legend! Can't wait!

Preorder at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible , or wait for it at your corner bookstore or library!

Announcements

My Winning Story in Volume 42, WOTF

“A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts”

Decades of letters, diary pages, and recorded conversations, reveals one woman’s enduring love for a dying dragon—a luminous portrait of courage, hope, and the magic we refuse to surrender. —Written by Joseph Sidari, Illustrated by Josie Moore

PREORDER ON AMAZON

WICKED LOCAL

FIND my article on WICKED LOCAL. For those non-Massachusetts residents, WICKED is regional slang for an extreme superlative, ie, "The traffic was wicked bad at rush hour on the Mass Pike today."

ASTRO-NERD

READ my latest MG speculative fiction appearing in the NOV 2025 online issue of EMBER: A Journal of Luminous Things. "Astro-Nerd" is the story of 13-year-old lunar refugee, Amari, whose family vacation to Earth goes very, very wrong.

The Author's Quill Podcast

WATCH my 45-minute interview with host Joe Montaldo and Publisher John Goodman on the Writers of the Future contest and my winning short story on YouTube.

About the Author

Joseph Sidari lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and a labradoodle named Chloe, who firmly believes it is her responsibility to make sure they both get daily exercise. He is a practicing physician, which means he spends his days trying to keep real people alive and his nights finding inventive ways to endanger fictional ones. He is a member of the Grub Street Writers' Group of Boston and SFWA. He has three grown sons and a daughter-in-law in New York City.

A lifelong reader of speculative fiction, Joseph began writing it after flipping his bicycle during triathlon training and concluding that typing involved fewer emergency room visits. Thankfully, once his wrist healed, his writing habit did not. After several novels and an agent's helpful suggestion, he discovered a fondness for short fiction.

He has over twenty short stories in print and online, spanning the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. He is a recent winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, and his story, “A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts,” will be featured in Volume 42 of the Writers of the Future anthology, to be published in April 2026.

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