Okay, so how cool is this: “If We Make It Through This Alive” is a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award! This story was originally published in Slate Magazine’s Future Tense Fiction and came out in January 2022. I’m thrilled its on a finalist among so many amazing stories and authors. (Seriously, the list of finalists is fantastic this year.)

In other news, I’ve been writing some new things again. Or rather writing and being able to reach “The End” on smaller projects. I’ve spent most of the 2023 working on a longer piece, which is one of the hardest things I’ve ever written and consequently, the going is painfully slow. But I’ve been writing long enough to know that this is my process when I’m pushing the limits of my writing abilities. Stories have minds of their own and they will take as long as they need to sometimes.

Except I had to take a break and tackle some solicited work this summer. Some of which I’m not going to talk about just yet. But I can share that my essay “More Than a Journey: Reflections on Polyvocal Storytelling” will be in a forthcoming issue of Fantasy Magazine (possibly in August). I’m also writing a story for this anthology. Mad science written by disabled and chronically ill authors.

One last thing, I’ll be at Readercon this year! The schedule in not final yet, so I’ll post again when it is.

As always, if you’d like to support a magazine, Strange Horizons is currently running its annual Kickstarter. And my short story recommendation this time is “The Golden Hour” by Jeffery Ford.