Once again, it is awards eligibility post time! It’s hard to believe it’s been essentially a year since the last one. That led to remarkable things; I received nominations for a Nebula Award (finalist), two BSFA Awards (finalist for both), two British Fantasy Awards (longlisted), the Lodestar Award (longlisted), and I was considered for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.
This year, I took a bit of a pause in terms of publishing, but writing ramped up, along with editing. 2025 will bring forth three solo books written by me and several books edited for Stars and Sabers Publishing. You can also expect me to write a fair number of short stories next year.
And speaking of short stories, here are my awards-eligible works for 2024.
“The Theseus Stone” – published in All Tomorrow’s Futures: Fictions That Disrupt from CyberSalon Press.
This story is a future-tech science fiction short story dealing with a woman’s grief and her healthcare decisions related to her memory.
“Splendid Though I Realize the Conception…” The title for this short story is actually a paragraph long, so I truncated it! It is part of the anthology Moving Across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, published by Air and Nothingness Press.
This story is a science fiction and humor story about a journalist called upon to investigate an interdimensional portal to a parallel universe inside a tree in someone’s yard. A madcap tale, with many footnotes; something for Douglas Adams fans to enjoy.
“Upon the Gloaming Hour”– published in Seaside Gothic Issue 11.
This is a magical realism story with supernatural elements, about a woman in the coastal Carolinas missing her parents.
“Protista” – published in Tales of Sley House 2024 from Sley House Press.
This is a chilling, seaside horror story set on the California coast.
“The Dewdrop Bot and the Honey Fae” – published in 2024 in the Western North Carolina Charity Anthology From Appalachia with Love: Sci-Fi Anthology (as well as the fantasy anthology).
This is a cozy science fiction and fantasy short story set in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The anthology benefits the people of that region, following the devastation there and in East Tennessee from Hurricane Helene.
Thank you so much for considering these works for awards.
Ad astra,
Jendia