Here is my eligibility post for 2023. I’ve had a very fortunate publishing year and I’m grateful for the publishers who believed enough in my work to give it a home. Aside from my visual poetry book, SCARLET, the work in this list is speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, sci-fi), and that work is mostly flash or micro-fiction. I’ve provided links to read the work for free, where possible, and I’m in the process of going through my publishing agreements to see if I can provide textual copies of the pieces that require magazine subscriptions to read.
I hope that if you enjoy any of these pieces, you will consider nominating them for any awards they might be eligible for.
Books
“SCARLET”
Published by Spuyten Duyvil, Jul. 23
Description: A digital visual/poetic meditation on the psychological and physical toll of social isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project documents the social, political, and personal disruption of the pandemic as society moved through its various mutations and surges. The digital/visual poems in the collection were created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic, with the poem titles being derived from objects contained in each glitched still life.
Read excerpts here.
Or, you can buy the book here.
Short Fiction
“The Limits of Resource Allocation”
Published in Black Sheep, Aug. 23. 1400 words.
Description: A necropunk story about a backstreet biohacker trying to free her partner’s corpse from a post-death, debt-labor contract. Pluck, snark, and well-deserved consequences ensue.
Read it for free here.
Or, you can buy the issue here.
Flash & Micro-fiction
“Suture”
Published in Trembling with Fear, Nov. 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“Sin Eater”
Published in SciFanSat, Oct. 23. 556 words.
Read it for free here.
“Fragrant Bodies”
Published in Tiny Frights, Oct. 23. 50 words.
Read it for free here.
“Bitter”
Published in Tiny Frights, Oct. 23. 50 words.
Read it for free here.
“It Has Come to This”
Published in Trembling with Fear, June 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“Still Life with Saw Blade and Gnawed Bones”
Published in Tales to Terrify, Oct. 23. 552 words.
Listen to it for free here.
“The Burning Season”
Published in Fantastic Other, Aug. 23. 588 words.
Read it for free here.
“Behind the Garden Wall”
Published in Burningword Literary Journal, Oct. 23. 333 words.
Read it for free here.
“Waiting for Home”
Published in Sci-fi Shorts, June 23. 700 words.
Read it here.
“Euphony, or a Study in Xenolinguistics”
Published in Scribes Micro Fiction, Aug. 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“What Remains”
Published in Dark Moments, Black Hare Press, Jul. 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“The Colony”
Published in Sirens Call, June 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“The Gateway”
Published in Microfiction Monday, June 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“The Walker”
Published in Dark Moments, Black Hare Press, June 23. 100 words.
Read it for free here.
“Red”
Published in Fifty-word Stories, June 23. 50 words.
Read it for free here.