Awards Eligibility 2021
Short Fiction
In this horror-ish YA short, names make us and can unmake us. For some of us who have two names, they unmake us in different ways.
Reviews/recs: Charles Payseur's Quick Sips, Tor's Must Reads
A horror flash: "When I was a boy, my left hand grew a cluster of tiny eyes..."
Reviews/recs: Vanessa Fogg's it's a jumble
Information overload can cause us to shut down, and opening up means letting certain info (love, loneliness, purposeness) back in.
Imagine a city dedicated to the art, craft, and reading of books. Now imagine turning into a book. Now imagine a desperate non-reader navigating such a city searching for her sister.
Non-fiction
- Media critique essay, "Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?" in Strange Horizons (3700 words)
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In creating a fictional afterlife, creators can inadvertently erase or flatten the complicated issues of identity, ethnicity, and culture. We poke at how different fictional afterlives can enact this erasure through their own worldbuilding.
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