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Publisher’s Weekly calls my story “A Stitch In Time” a “Standout” story!

Standout stories include Tonya Liburd’s “A Stitch in Time,” in which a young man uses his gift of time travel to relive moments with his deceased girlfriend only to sink into an addictive pattern…

The Survivor anthology appears to be slated for an August release, according to the review’s tag.

You can read the whole review here:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59021-174-8

My poem for your consideration for the Rhysling Award

The Rhysling Award voting ends today!

SPFA Members: if you haven’t voted already…

Click to read my Rhysling-nominated poem “Let Me In”:

Let Me In

Table Of Contents revealed for Shades Within Us (an anthology I am in!)

The Table Of Contents was revealed a couple of hours ago, and I am sharing the TOC with so many good authors!

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More info at : http://laksamedia.com/shades-within-us-an-anthology-for-a-cause/

Here are the selected reviews Derek Newman-Stille did for the upcoming anthology, including one of my story, Superfreak, titled “Bordered By Change”

Bordered by Change

I made Rich Horton’s Campbell Recommendation List!

So, yesterday, I got a private message that I made Rich Horton’s Campbell Recommendation List and I had to see it for myself.

From his website:

Finally, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. This is given to the best writer whose first professional publication in the SF or Fantasy field appeared in the past two years (2016 or 2017). Writertopia has a page, not guaranteed to be complete, with a list of eligible authors: http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell .

I went through that list and came up with the following writers who have done something that impressed me:

G. V. Anderson (who already has a World Fantasy Award!)

R. S. Benedict

J. R. Dawson

Giovanni di Feo

Tonya Liburd

Benjamin C. Kinney

Finbarr O’Reilly

Vina Jie-Min Prasad

Rebecca Roanhorse

D. A. Xiaolin Spires

(…just WHAT…!?!?! THERE I AM!!!)

So excuse me I’m a be passed out on the floor with the vapours…

Review of my story in the upcoming anthology “Shades Within Us”!

I am extremely honoured that Derek Newman-Stille has reviewed my story from the upcoming anthology “Shades Within Us” edited by Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest!

“Tonya Liburd’s “Superfreak” is an intensely powerful and intensely painful tale that examines ideas of safety, security, and home.”

” “Superfreak” is a story that cuts to the quick, but it also reveals a great deal about the sort of lasting pain that comes from abuse and trauma.”

You can read the full review here:

Abuse and Ideas of Home

New story of mine published!

My story, “Damned Cat”, is now published over at Polar Borealis Magazine!

Read it here:

http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/POLAR-BOREALIS-5-Jan-Feb-2018-1.pdf

RHYSLING NOMINATION!

My poem “Let Me In”, published in Unnerving Magazine’s Alligators In The Sewers chapbook, has been nominated for a Rhysling!

YAY!

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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

― Zora Neale Hurston

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Happy New Year, all!

 

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance. -James Baldwin

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My Award Eligible publications for 2017

…and without further ado, dear readers/followers, the obligatory Awards Eligible List of my works for 2017…!

“Through Dreams She Moves”, longlisted for the 2015 Carter V Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile $15,000 Short Fiction Competition; appearing in the UnCommon Minds anthology, January 2017
“Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig”, “Mondays Are Murder” Series, Akashic Books, Feb 6th, 2017
“A Question Of Faith“, BookSmugglers, July 11th, 2017.

(On the The Nebula Awards Suggested Reading List)
“To Have And To Hold” (flash fiction),  Polar Borealis Magazine,  July/August 2017
 “Strange Ink” (poem), Polar Borealis Magazine, July/August 2017
“Let Me In” (poem), “ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS” Unnerving Magazine chapbook

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