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Awards Eligibility 2022

The leaves are turning, there’s a chill in the air, and it’s awards eligibility season once again. This is my second year posting a publication round-up. I made my first last year and this year, I’ve had the good fortune to publish with more great magazines and work with wonderful editors.

On top of publications, this year had other writing victories. I was able to join Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) with my sale of my novelette. I was also accepted into Tin House Winter Workshop, Tin House Summer Workshop, and was picked to be Town Hall Seattle’s Writer-in-Residence in the spring.

If you’re a member of SFWA, I’d love it if you considered nominating one of my SFF stories in the online ballot. If you’re not a member of SFWA, I’d love it if you read and shared my work.

Below are the stories and essays I’ve put out this year. I have a speculative creative nonfiction piece coming out in Identity Theory in mid-December, and I’ll update the list at that time.

2022 Publications

Novelette:

  • “Our Memories Are What We Fear Most” – Uncharted Magazine, May 2022. Science fiction.

An #actuallyautistic story of a mother, daughter, and the intergalactic war between the two. (SFWA Forum link)

Short Fiction:

A scifi-fairytale about a boy living alone in an abandoned space station. This story is actually in the same universe as the novelette above. (SFWA Forum link)

  • “The Sum of Two People” – HAD, January 2022. Literary flash fiction.

This is love story set in a series of math problems. I’m not a fan of math at all and this piece started as a joke. But I was surprised where the form took me. This became one of my favorite flash pieces.

A ghost story about football and bad fathers.

Essay:

  • “A Winter Vigil” - Identity Theory, December 2022.

  • “Baseball Marks the Time” - HAD, originally published in Hobart Magazine, April 2022.

Art:

My art was published this year in Hobart, HAD, and The Future Fire.

What’s next?

I’m currently finishing up my fantasy novel—a dragon pastoral about a family coming to terms with trauma and finding healing as a war that’s devastated their family continues with no end in sight—and revising my literary novel, The Ashes, a braided narrative featuring three generations of women in a small town featuring a neurodivergent protagonist. I’m also at work on a series of essays, three new short stories, and a feature screenplay.

I’m looking forward to what stories 2023 brings.

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End of Year Round Up

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2021 Fiction, Poetry, & Art

Four of my illustrations from various publications (detailed below).

I’ve never written an End of Year Round Up / Awards Eligibility post before. Writing takes a while to get from a daydream you're trying to wrestle into words and the actual story you hold in your hands. I'm thrilled these stories made their way into the world this year. All these stories (and a poem!) mean the world for me to be able to share with you all. There’s literary, fantasy, science fiction, and pop culture represented—a little something for everyone.

Almost all of these pieces are viewable online but if any nominating readers or editors would like to read my science fiction story “Experiment Ninety-Four” in Collective Realms Magazine*, published Winter 2021 but now out-of-print, I can provide a copy for you if you reach out to me via my Contact page.

Thank you if you consider voting for me, but just as big of thanks if you just take the time to read. More stories will debut in 2022. Meanwhile, I'm busy on two novels (one in its first draft, one in revision). I met my New Year's courage goal of FINALLY submitting a poem (I have five weeks left to sub nonfiction!)

It was a good writing year.

Short Fiction:

  • “A List of Everyone in the World” in Hypertext Magazine’s Winter Issue. A queer, nonbinary love story between a misanthrope and social butterfly.

  • “Experiment Ninety-Four” in Collective Realms Magazine*, January/February 2021. A science fiction short story featuring a boy alone on a space station, who yearns to escape and find his own path in life.

  • “Stitched’ in The Future Fire, July 2021. A feminist re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood for people who typically hate both that particular story and fairytale retellings in general. A queer and neurodivergent myth, it’s an exploration of an outcast driven to confront her own untamed nature. You can read Charles Payseur’s (Quick Sips Review) praise for the story here.

Poetry:

Art:

  • “Dawn Treader Station” in Collective Realms Magazine’s January/February 2021 issue.*

  • “Cara” and “Tethered” in The Future Fire’s July 2021 issue. You can read about the art, especially one of the pieces being an homage to beloved illustrator Trina Schart Hyman, here.

  • The entirety of the online issue for Hypertext Magazine’s Winter 2020/2021 issue, including three pieces which were nominated by the editors for a Best of the Net award in Art.

*Collective Realms shut down in June 2021 and the EIC took the site offline. The story is currently off on submission for a reprint market, but you can read the PDF here until then.