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During my final week at Clarion West, I was stunned to find out that "The Birding: A Fairy Tale" is nominated for the 2018 World Fantasy Award alongside truly amazing short fiction by some of my favourite writers. I am grateful to Strange Horizons and to my editor Vajra Chandrasekera for working with me on this story.
Here is the full list of nominees.
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2017 was a challenging year in many ways, so I'm not sad to see it over. However, I had a lot of original fiction published that year in some of my favourite magazines, and all of them are on the Nebula Suggested Reading lists, alongside some truly incredible fiction. Here's a roundup! Novelette
Short Stories
I hope you enjoy them. For more, take a look at my full bibliography. Here's to a better 2018. I hope it treats us all well. Happy New Year!
 My final piece of the year is also my first novelette (a short one, complete at 8,400 words, but still the longest thing I've published so far). It's an apocalyptic tale about birds, Greece, and the stories we tell each other at the end of the world.
You can read "The Birding: a Fairy Tale" here, or listen to the podcast, read wonderfully by Anaea Lay (just over an hour long).  In a surprise turn of events, I have another piece in Clarkesworld this year.
"The Rains on Mars" is a story about sibling love, trauma, and guilt. Read here (4,800 words). Listen here (35 minutes). Later in December, I'll have a novelette in Strange Horizons that I can't wait to share. 2017 has not been an easy year, but it has been full of writerly excitement. More soon. So apparently October is the month most of my forthcoming stories come forth at once.
You can now read "Every Black Tree" over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. There will be a podcast too in a couple of weeks, if you prefer having short stories read to you. [Content warning for suicide.] Here's a peek: This man. His accent is strange, foreign. How old is he? His hair is long and grey and curly, like Fedor's. He drinks from my glass. I'd forgotten what it's like to have a man sit at your table, drink from your glass. His smell. The old scar around his neck. Is it a double one—an old scar on yet an older one? The trembling of his hands. What am I doing. What am I doing. Read the rest.
The Nightingales in Platres My story about Greek diaspora in space is now out in issue 133 of Clarkesworld Magazine (alongside incredible writers like Nisi Shawl and Xia Jia!).
The cover art is by Marianna Stelmach. Read the story here. Hello! I am resurrecting this blog to post publication news and other tidbits, so go ahead and subscribe to the RSS Feed if you want to receive notifications whenever I have something new out. Here we go! Fixer, Worker, Singer, Shimmer #39The sky creaks as Fixer makes his way across the steel ramp that is suspended under the firmament. It's time to turn on the stars. [...] To read more, and for bonus interviews with the authors, get the issue (available online for free on October 3). Alice in Peaceland, Nature #549The first nightmare
The problem was we trusted Alice too much. I knew I was dreaming. I couldn't breathe. The air around me was thick with smoke. My eyes stung. I wiped my forehead with the back of my hand; it came away black with soot and bloody. [...] Read the rest here. There are some upcoming calls for submissions that I thought I would share. I am planning to submit to at least some of those:
Other reminders: I've been looking for a way to keep track of the short fiction I read every year. And I read a lot of it. I use Goodreads for novels and some magazines that I read cover to cover, but I haven't yet found an efficient way to do something similar with individual short stories. I started keeping a spreadsheet at some point, but decided that I'd rather spend that time reading stories rather than entering data about them, especially since a spreadsheet is not particularly sharable--and half the fun is sharing stuff you like, no?
So I figured I'd do brief lists of things I read and enjoyed, as a mnemonic device as much as anything else. Note: Not all of these are new, and the list is in no way exhaustive. Here we go!
I think that's it for now. Have you read any outstanding short stories so far this year? |
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