Can't believe it's awards season already! Here are some things I published in 2022. |   |
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Publication news from me!
I have a new novelette out in the September/October issue of Uncanny Magazine. It's called "The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain" and it's a queer fairy tale about desire and what we're willing to let go of in order to get what we want. Also, if you were looking for an audio version of "Ribbons," my trans take on the green ribbon tale originally published in the January/February issue of Uncanny, you can now head over to PodCastle. I hope you enjoy these! A bit late posting this, but I'm incredibly honoured and proud to share that I've won Moniack Mhor's 2022 Emerging Writer Award (formerly The Bridge Award). If you know me, you know there's little I like less than talking about myself, so head to Moniack Mhor's website for more information about the award and all the wonderful writers celebrated this year, as well as a few words by me about winning. I can't wait to head to the gorgeous Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat in the near future!  Just, seriously, look at this place.
I've mentioned a favourite new thing previously, and now it's available to read! "Ribbons" is made primarily of fairy tale scraps and gender feels. It's a story that means a lot to me, so I'd be grateful if you gave it a read. Find it here, alongside a gorgeous cover, fiction by Leah Cypess and Christopher Caldwell and poetry by Mehnaz Sahibzada and Sonya Taaffe.
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Mad Milk (19,700 words) came out in the November/December 2021 issue of F&SF. It’s a queer story and a messy story, about what happens when people and cultures relate to one another through the vocabularies, narratives, and practices of conquest alone. Games & Interactive Fiction Betwixt is a text-based choose-your-own-adventure app that helps you find clarity, courage and self-insight written in collaboration with Hazel Gale and Elitsa Dermendzhiyska. The first part is available in the App store. “Pockets, or When the Giants” came out in the Strange Lusts/Strange Loves issue of erotic interactive fiction of Strange Horizons. It’s a story about gender, transition, and the things we hold on to. Short Fiction “Oh Man’s Land” was in Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World alongside a veritable wealth of incredible fiction. “The Shadowed Undertows” came out in a gorgeous issue of The Deadlands (August 2021). A story of loss and death and birds (of course). “A Welling Up” was in Strange Horizons (May 2021). A story about family and looking for each other. A woman sick with lakes. “All the Ophelias in My Flat,” probably my favorite flash I’ve ever written, was published in Sylvia Magazine (June 2021). Based on true events. I think that's everything! Also, one of my favorite new stories, “Ribbons,” is forthcoming in Uncanny in a few days. This story means more to me than I can say. If you only ever read one thing by me, read this one. Wishing everyone a great end to 2021, and a better 2022.
I finally got around to restructuring my website a little bit. There's now a page with links to all my games and interactive fiction, as well as a page with my Greek work and translations in other languages.
And since I'm here, an update about recently published work and some upcoming things!
I have some exciting news coming up about a game project that should be released sometime next year. The kind of work that if you told my twenty-year-old self I'd do one day they'd die blissful and cackling. But I can't share the details just yet! So here's another bit of news instead: Late last year, I sold a fantasy novella to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction! Mad Milk is a story about what happens when cultures and people relate to each other through the vocabularies, narratives, and practices of conquest alone. It’s about the mythologies of belonging, queer desire, and what we do when we’re lost: the great things, the awful things. I can't wait to share it with you all. On 19 May (10am EDT / 3pm BST), I will be doing an AMA on Reddit about Betwixt, the mental resilience game/interactive story I've been working on for the past year, together with the creators, Elitsa Dermendzhiyska and Hazel Gale. Join us and ask us anything!
Here's the link! 19 May 10am EDT / 3pm BST u/n_theodor Aka: the Award Eligibility post.
I had three eligible short stories out in 2020. - “Georgie in the Sun” (2,600 words, Uncanny Magazine, April 2020), written at Clarion West, my sad vampire in space. - “The Shape of Gifts” (6,900 words, F&SF, July 2020). Birds, divination, and gender feels. - “To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds” (3,700 words, Clarkesworld, October 2020). Cute robots, existential angst, sad stars. I also hit a couple of writing milestones that I'm very excited to talk about (soon!). Wishing everyone a happier, kinder 2021. |
 
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