Priya Sharma's Blog, page 15

Disturbing the Body

“Disturbing the Body” is the new anthology from Boudicca Press.

It’s a collection of speculative autobiography centred around experiences of misbehaving bodies from women writers in the UK. It explores themes ranging from chronic illnesses, disability and major life changing operations, and puts before the reader moments where women can feel powerless and out of the ordinary from their own bodies.

Verity Holloway approached Boudicca Press back in 2019 with an idea for the anthology following her...

This is Horror Awards

Congratulations to everyone on the ballot for the This is Horror Awards 2019. Im very proud to be included in the novella category for Ormeshadow.

This Is Horror specialises in horror fiction and the craft of writing.

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You can now vote by sending an email to to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line Awards 2019. To cast a vote simply write the category and your first and second choice in that category. (This is to help break a tie should it arise).

Voting closes at 12:01am BST on...

Guest Post: The Library of Alison Littlewood

Hello! And a big thank you to Priya for asking me to have a wander around my bookshelves and take some shelfies for a guest post. Lets face it, all our opportunities for wanderings and witterings are limited these days, so it was a lovely thing to be asked to do. Here we go

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Here are some of the anthologies Ive gathered over the years, kept in check by zombie bookends and watched over by Brian the zombie wearing one of those knitted hats you find on Innocent bottles, cos even zombies need to...

Robert Shearman Tells Us Stories In The Dark

I was lucky enough to be in the audience last year at British Fantasy Con (Glasgow) to hear Robert Shearman read from We All Hear Stories in the Dark. He has an original mind and is a master storyteller, which is no surprise as hes worked with Alan Ackybourn and written scripts for Dr Who. His accolades include a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Readers Prize. I knew he was clever but I wasnt prepared for just how moving the experience would be.

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Stories of Hope and Wonder

I feel very proud to be part of Stories of Hope and Wonder.  Ian Whates of NewCon Press has worked very hard to pull together this digital anthology. All proceeds from its sale of this digital anthology are being donated to support NHS staff and other healthcare workers. It contains a mammoth 53 stories, 253,000 words of fiction, including several pieces that are original to this volume.

The Fox Maiden, which is reprinted here, originally appeared in On Spec magazine in 2011.

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BBC Culture Article: The Most Overlooked Recent Novels

In Cameron Laux’s article for BBC Culture eight acclaimed authors reveal their favourite hidden gems outside the literary canon.

Sometimes we need to nudge our reading off the beaten track – and this list aims to do that. All of the books here mess with, or transcend, the idea of genre in impressive ways – arguably to their cost, because if marketing departments can’t get a firm grip on them, they fall through the cracks of a book-selling system that often hinges on pigeon-holing. These...

Review in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine

[image error]Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning imonthly SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. I am blown away that the lastest issue (March/April 2020) contains a review of my novella, Ormshadow, by Elizabeth Hand. Yes, ELIZABETH HAND.

Like Alan Garner’s Alderley Edge novels, Ormeshadow draws much of its power from Sharma’s understanding...

Dos Pieles and Other News

I am superexcited to be included be in Two Skins (Dos Pieles), a collection curated and tranlsated by Sofia Barker for Spanish publisher, Pulpture Ediciones. Their aim is to champion women speculative fiction writers and this anthology that includes two short stories and two novelettes, all loosely connected around the theme of shapeshifters and monstrosity.

Me emociona muchísimo formar parte de «Dos Pieles», una colección seleccionada y traducida por Sofía Barker para la editorial española...

There’s Room By The Fire For Everyone

Last year Tom Doherty Associates annouced a new member of their family, the horror imprint Nightfire.

[image error]Come Join Us By The Fire was their audio-only horror anthology of thirty-five stories, available as free individual downloads in 2019. I was proud to included with “The Anatomist’s Mnemonic”.

So far it’s been exclusive to Google Play, garnering more than 100,000 downloads, Come Join Us By the Fire is now be available to download as free individual digital audiobooks or stream on Spotify and...

Stuff for February

Thanks to Georgina Bruce for reviewing “Ormeshadow” and interviewing me for the lastest issue of Black Static (#73)

[image error] [image error]The January-February 2020 issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Stephen Volk, Keith Rosson, Maria Haskins, Jack Westlake, and Gregory Norman Bossert. The cover art is by Ben Baldwin (for Stephen Volk’s ‘Sicko’), and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Ben Baldwin, Vincent Sammy, and others. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from...