I write and publish mainly in English and sometimes in Greek.
My work has also been translated in a number of other languages. You can find links to all the translations here.
My work has also been translated in a number of other languages. You can find links to all the translations here.
Selected Publications
Forthcoming
"Every Ghost Story," Reactor.
"UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry And the Plague Can Speak," Psychopomp.
"A little like sap, a bit like a tree," khōréō.
2024
Nocturnal. The Rumpus (December 2024). Short story (2,400 words).
Restore, Reflect, Retry. Choice of Games (July 2024). Interactive Fiction.
"Cursed Moon Queers," Uncanny Magazine (September 2024). Short Story (2,500 words).
"Death is a Flightless Bird," The Crawling Moon (Neon Hemlock, July 2024).
"Aktis Aeliou, or the Machine of Margot's Destruction," Clarkesworld (July 2024).
"The Jukebox Man," Apex Magazine #144 (June 2024).
"Every Breath a Kiss," Haven Speculative, Issue 15 (May 2024).
"The Oldest Fun," Clarkesworld.
"An Elegy of Soil," Uncanny Magazine (January/February 2024). Novella (17,500 words).
"Tell the King," Beneath Ceaseless Skies (February 2024).
2023
"Love at the Event Horizon," Uncanny Magazine (July 2023). Also in audio.
"In April, the Dead," khōréō (March 2023). Also in audio [8m].
"Moons We Can Circumnavigate in One Day, or the Space Probe Love Story," Lightspeed (May 2023).
2022
"The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain," Uncanny Magazine (September/October 2022).
Vampire: The Masquerade - Sins of the Sires, Choice of Games (March 2022). Game / Interactive novel.
"The Mouth," +Horror Library+ Volume 7 (March 2022).
"The CSGCOVWR," ParSec Issue #3.
2021
MAD MILK, F&SF (November/December 2021). Novella.
"The Shadowed Undertows," The Deadlands #4 (August 2021).
"All the Ophelias in My Flat," Sylvia Magazine (June 2021).
"A Welling Up," Strange Horizons (31 May 2021).
"Oh Man's Land," Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition).
"Android Whores Can't Cry." Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece (March 2021). Reprint - originally in Clarkesworld. Also available in Italian.
"Notes on a Resurrection," PseudoPod #749 (March 19, 2021). Audio [40:33], full-cast reading. Originally in Strange Horizons.
2020
"To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds," Clarkesworld #169 (October 2020).
"The Shape of Gifts," F&SF (July/August 2020).
"Georgie in the Sun," Uncanny Magazine (April 2020).
"What it Sounds Like When You Fall," The Best of British Fantasy 2019 (April 2020). Reprint - originally in Nightmare Magazine.
2019
An Odyssey: Echoes of War. Published by Choice of Games (26 December 2019). Game/Interactive Novel. Also on Steam / Google Play / Amazon / App Store.
"Dent-de-Lion," Interzone #284 (November-December 2019).
"His Giant Heartbeat," PodCastle #591 (September 2019). Audio [19:42m].
"What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away," Beneath Ceaseless Skies (July 2019). Also in audio [17:34m].
"Notes on a Resurrection," Strange Horizons (July 2019). Also in audio [35:02m].
"The Last Eagle," Clarkesworld Magazine #151 (April 2019). Also in audio [44:34m].
"Aharesia," Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2019).
"An Actual Fish," Future SF Digest (April 2019).
"Poems Written While," Uncanny Magazine #26 (January/February 2019).
"What it Sounds Like When You Fall," Nightmare Magazine #76 (January 2019). Also in audio [23:29m].
"One's Burden, Again," Clarkesworld Magazine #148 (January 2019). Also in audio [45:07m]
"To Stab with a Rose, to Love with a Knife," Beneath Ceaseless Skies (January 2019). Also in audio [15:23m].
"Down by the Weeping Shore," Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Pantheon Magazine.
"Waiting for the Flood, or, the Bathers," Sunspot Jungle, Rosarium Publishing (February 2019). Originally published in Litro.
2018
"The Names of Women," Strange Horizons (November 2018). Also in audio [23:58m].
"The New Heart," Fireside Magazine #61 (November 2018).
"Birnam Platoon," Interzone 278 (November-December 2018).
"Fixer, Worker, Singer," PodCastle, read by Tina Connolly, Jen R. Albert, and Peter Behravesh [29:22m] (November 2018). Originally in Shimmer.
Rent-a-Vice. Published by Choice of Games (May 2018). Interactive Fiction. Steam / App Store / Google Play.
Exquisite corpse (with Vajra Chandrasekera, Mike Allen, JY Yang, and Amal El-Mohtar), Lackington's (May 2018).
"The Nightingales in Plátres," Best of British SF (Newcon Press).
"Dog Island," Endless Apocalypse (March 2018).
"All Those Parties We Didn't Cry At (Redux)," sub-Q (January 2018). Interactive Fiction. Originally published in Daily Science Fiction.
"The Ravens' Sister," PodCastle (February 2018), read by Tanja Milojevic [33m]. Originally published in Kenyon Review.
2017
"The Birding: A Fairy Tale," Strange Horizons (December 2017). Novelette.
- Audio: Strange Horizons Podcast, read by Anaea Lay [61m].
- 2018 World Fantasy Award Winner.
"The Rains on Mars," Clarkesworld #135 (December 2017).
- Audio: Clarkesworld Podcast, read by Kate Baker [35:17m].
- Translation: Estonian (Reaktor, August 2019).
"Bone Music," The Cincinnati Review 14.2 (Nov/Dec 2017).
"The Nightingales in Plátres," Clarkesworld #133 (October 2017).
- Audio: Clarkesworld Podcast, read by Kate Baker [46:17m].
- BSFA Short Fiction Longlist.
- Best of British SF 2017.
"Every Black Tree," Beneath Ceaseless Skies #236 (October 2017).
- Audio: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast, read by M. K. Hobson [32m].
"Fixer, Worker, Singer." Shimmer #39 (September-October 2017).
- Audio: PodCastle, read by Tina Connolly, Jen R. Albert, and Peter Behravesh [29:22m].
"On Post-Mortem Birds," Toasted Cake (originally published in Interfictions). December 2017. Read by Tina Connolly [9:30m].
"Ajdenia," Best of British Science Fiction 2016, ed. Donna Scott (July 2017). Reprint.
"The Starling of Her Name," Gamut Magazine (July 2017).
"Waiting for the Flood OR The Bathers," Flash Fiction Online (May 2017). Reprint.
"The Kind Things We Made," F(r)iction #7 (April 2017).
"The Emptiness Machine," The Forge Literary Magazine (April 2017).
- Nominated for Best of the Net 2017.
"Mateus Goes Higher," PodCastle (February 2017). Narrated by Thomas Busby [27:30m]. Reprint.
"Postscript to Mauser," Big Echo: Critical SF (February 2017).
2016
"The Tunnel," sub-Q (December 2016). Interactive fiction.
"When They Come Back," Escape Pod (November 2016). Narrated by Ibba Armancas [28:07m]. Reprint.
"The Island in the Attic," Apex Magazine #90 (November 2016).
"Now We've Lost," Shimmer #34 (November-December 2016).
"The Solace of Counted Things," Liminal Stories #2 (October 2016).
"All Those Parties We Didn't Cry At," Daily Science Fiction (30 September 2016).
"Windows of the Soul or Whatever," Unsung Stories (30 September 2016).
"The Tide," Ninth Letter Summer 2016 (August 2016). Prose poem.
"The Singing Soldier," Shimmer 32 (July 2016).
"Ajdenia," Nature Futures (2 March 2016).
- Audio: Toasted Cake by Tina Connolly (January 2019) [10m].
- Reprint: Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (NewCon Press, ed. Donna Scott. July 2017).
"On the Wall," Ember: a Journal of Luminous Things, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2016).
"Manapolis," Lackington's Issue 9 ("Architectures" - January/February 2016).
"The Kite Girl," Syntax and Salt (1 April 2016).
"Mateus Goes Higher," Neon Issue 42 (February 2016).
2015
"Anatomy of an Arrow," Daily Science Fiction (8 October 2015).
- Audio: Far-Fetched Fables (October 2016).
"The Vandalists," PodCastle Ep. 381. Read by Alasdair Stuart (September 2015). Originally published in Spark Anthology, Vol. IV.
"Sleepless," sub-Q Issue 1 (1 September 2015). Interactive Fiction.
- Interview by Devi Acharya.
- if:book UK & New Media Writing Prize 2017 shortlist.
"Android Whores Can't Cry," Clarkesworld Magazine #106 (July 2015).
- Audio: Clarkesworld Podcast, read by Kate Baker [45:03m].
- Reviews: Locus, SFRevu, Tangent.
- Translations: Italian (Future Fiction), Greek (ALEF 2017).
"Waiting for the Flood / OR / The Bathers," Litro (August 2015).
- Reprint: Flash Fiction Online (May 2017).
"On Post-Mortem Birds," Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts #5 (June 2015).
- Audio: Toasted Cake, read by Tina Connolly [9:30m].
"An Inventory of Ghosts," Strange Horizons (April 2015). Poem.
"Angelheaded Hipsters," An Unlikely Companion (May 2015).
"Philomela / In Seven Movements," Mythic Delirium (April 2015). Poem.
- Reprint: Mythic Delirium Volume Two: An international anthology of prose and verse (December 2015).
- Nominated: 2016 Rhysling Award.
"The Bleeding Game," Pseudopod (March 2015). Read by Sean Sorrentino. Originally published by Kazka Press (June 2013).
"A Domestic Lepidopterist," Daily Science Fiction (11 March 2015).
2014
"The Ravens' Sister," The Kenyon Review Online (December 2014).
- Audio: PodCastle, read by Tanja Milojevic [33m] (February 2018).
"The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul," Clarkesworld Magazine #89 (February 2014).
- Audio: Clarkesworld Podcast, read by Kate Baker [30:35min].
- Reviews etc.: Locus (Recommended), SFRevu, Reader's Poll for Best 2014 Clarkesworld Story (2nd place).
- Honourable Mention in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: 32nd Annual Collection.
- Reprints: The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane); The Apex Book of World SF 4 (ed. Mahvesh Murad), Clarkesworld: Year Eight (ed. Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace).
- Mini interview at SF Signal.
- Italian Translation (Future Fiction).
"When They Come Back," Crossed Genres #22 (October 2014).
- Audio: Escape Pod (November 2016).
"We Call Her Mama," FLAPPERHOUSE #3 (Fall 2014).
"The Shadow and the Snake," Black Apples (ed. Camilla Bruce and Liv Lingborn), by Belladonna Publishing (April 2014).
- Fairy Tale Friday interview.
"The Land Baby," The Dark #4 (May 2014).
- Reviews: Locus.
- Translations: French (Tenebres 2017).
"The Vandalists," Spark Anthology, Vol. IV.
- Grand Prize winner: Spark Contest Three (2013).
- Audio: PodCastle Ep. 381. Read by Alasdair Stuart (September 2015).
2013
"Blackmare," Ideomancer 12:4 (December 2013). Poem.
- Nominated: 2014 Rhysling Award.
- Reprint: The 2014 Rhysling Anthology (ed. Elizabeth R. McClellan, Ashley Brown).
"The Bleeding Game," Kazka Press (June 2013).
- Audio: Pseudopod (March 2015). Read by Sean Sorrentino.
Awards & Prizes
- 2022 Emerging Writer Award (Moniack Mhor and The Bridge Awards).
- World Fantasy Award Winner 2018 ("The Birding: A Fairy Tale").
- 2018 Game Writing Nebula Award Finalist (Rent-a-Vice).
- 2019 CFWA Silver Prize for Poetry ("Against the Backdrop of Pale Men, Under the Fake Rain, After We Left for Good").
- Word Factory Apprentice Award Winner 2018.
- Moth Poetry Prize 2017, Commended ("Against the Backdrop of Pale Men, Under the Fake Rain, After We Left for Good").
- If:book New Media Writing Prize 2017, Shortlist ("Sleepless").
- BSFA Short Fiction Longlist 2018 ("The Names of Women").
- BSFA Short Fiction Longlist 2018 ("Birnam Platoon").
- BSFA Short Fiction Longlist 2017 ("The Nightingales in Plátres").
- 2017 Manchester Fiction Prize, Highly Commended ("All the Ophelias in My Flat").
- 2016 Ink Tears Flash Fiction Competition, Highly Commended ("Things That Used To Be Safe").
- Aeon Award 2015, Longlist ("Dog Island").
- Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2016, Runner-up ("The Giant Girls").
- 2015 Manchester Fiction Prize, Highly Commended ("Grupa Kumulacija: A Durational Interview").
- 2016 Rhysling Award Nominee ("Philomela in Seven Movements").
- The White Review Short Story Prize 2016, Longlist ("Grupa Kumulacija: A Durational Interview").
- Tethered by Letters Fall 2015 Contest, Flash Fiction Finalist ("The Kind Things We Made").
- 2014 Rhysling Award Nominee ("Blackmare").
- Reader's Poll for Best 2014 Clarkesworld Story, 2nd place ("The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul").
- Kingston Writing School Hilary Mantel Competition 2014, Longlist ("Piece by Piece by Piece").
- InkTears Flash Fiction Competition 2015, Shortlist ("Light Snacks").
- InkTears Flash Fiction Competition 2014, Shortlist ("Saltwords").
- Spark Contest Three (2013), Grand Prize winner for Prose ("The Vandalists").
- Aeon Award 2013, Longlist ("That Tear Problem").
- Flash 500, Third Quarter 2013, Shortlist ("Windows of the Soul or Whatever").
- Flash 500, Third Quarter 2013, Longlist ("Saltwords").
Other Projects
- Dramaturgy, interactivity, and original material for Few, Happily Few [Λίγοι, Λίγο Ευτυχισμένοι] by AdriftPM (December 2016), at Theatro Technis Koun, Athens, Greece.
- Dramaturgy for Portable Soundscapes: An Acoustic Travelogue by AdriftPM (July 2015). Published in Body, Space & Technology Journal, Vol 15.
- Dramaturgy and original writing for Stabat Mater, dir. Konstantinos Thomaidis. Fragments presented at Chelsea Arts Collective, curated by Donald Hutera & Lilia Pegado (22 March 2014).