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Website revamp, latest publications, & some news!

9/7/2021

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!

"A Welling Up," a short story about looking for a lost sibling, the undercurrents of loss and desire, and a woman sick with lakes. Published in Strange Horizons in May.
"All the Ophelias in My Flat" was published in Sylvia Magazine in June. This is probably my favourite piece of flash fiction I've written, and the one that got me my Word Factory Apprenticeship! Based on true events.

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.

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AMA about Betwixt

13/5/2021

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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

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2020 publications

6/1/2021

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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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Award Eligibility 2019

3/2/2020

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It's time for that self-promo post I've been putting off!

I published a lot of work I am proud of in 2019 (you can find the full list here), but if you are going to read one short story by me, make it this one, the story of my heart: "Poems Written While," published in Uncanny Magazine (January 2019). The blurb: Star poetry, a trans guy, and a world in which we take care of each other, for once.

In December 2019, I also published my second game/interactive novel with Choice of Games. An Odyssey: Echoes of War is a queer, feminist re-imagining of the Homeric epic, with a few twists. It's available to play on a number of platforms, including Steam, Android, and iOS.

That's it for now. Thank you for reading!

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Award-eligible work published in 2018

8/1/2019

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Happy New Year!

2018 was a long and complicated year for many of us. For me, it came with several life-changing moments (I won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story! I went to Clarion West and fell in literary love with every one of my classmates! I became a Word Factory Apprentice and got to work with the wonderful Courttia Newland! To list, astonishingly, only a few things that happened last year). But I also published a few works I am proud of, so here is a roundup of original work for your reading (and award-nominating) pleasure.

Games
So, the Nebulas this year have a new Game Writing category. And I published my first text-based game/interactive novel in 2018.

Rent-a-Vice, published by Choice of Games (May 2018), is a cyberpunk-ish noir about addiction and exploitation. It is available to play on several platforms, and you can read the first three chapters for free.

Short Stories

"The Names of Women" (2,500 words), published in Strange Horizons (November 2018). A retelling of an ancient Greek myth with some contemporary twists.
"Birnam Platoon" (3,300 words), published in Interzone (November-December 2018). Poetic bio-SF.
"The New Heart" (900 words), published in Fireside (November 2018). Not sure how to describe this one! It could be read as either SF or magical realism about artificial hearts and desperate love.

Notice how my publications tend to cluster? Last year it was November, this year it seems to be January. I had three of my Clarion West stories come out this month. Check them out--I would love to hear what you think!

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"The Birding: A Fairy Tale" is a World Fantasy Award Finalist

11/8/2018

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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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Original Fiction published in 2017

4/1/2018

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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

The Birding: a Fairy Tale (8,400 words), Strange Horizons (18 December 2017).
Like the zombie apocalypse, but with birds (and set in my Greek hometown).

Short Stories

Every Black Tree (4,400 words), Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2017).
Post-Bacchic fantasy.
The Rains on Mars (4,800 words), Clarkesworld (December 2017).
Hard, guilty SF.
The Nightingales in Plátres (5,200 words), Clarkesworld (October 2017).
Philosophical, retro SF (aka my Greeks in Spaaaaace story).
This one is on the BSFA longlist. Voting is open until 31 January!
Fixer, Worker, Singer (3,700 words), Shimmer (October 2017).
Poetic automata.

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!

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"The Birding: A Fairy Tale" in Strange Horizons

19/12/2017

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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).

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"The Rains on Mars" in Clarkesworld (December 2017)

2/12/2017

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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.

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"Every Black Tree" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

12/10/2017

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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.

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