Honestly I’m so happy with the writing I’ve been doing this year.
Isn’t that a great thing to be able to say? And particularly isn’t that a great thing to be able to say in the face of a year that is otherwise a bit fraught? But for most of the year the work has been there for me, it’s been energizing rather than draining, it’s been stuff I’m really proud of, doing things that I really wanted to do. Picking up themes that I already loved and some that I haven’t addressed in fiction in quite these ways. Playing with form. Doing the thing. Hurrah for the work, when the rest of the world is on fire.
There are three poems, an essay, and eleven short fiction pieces to read here. I hope you enjoy them all, but honestly I hope you enjoy even one of them, that’s great, that’s all a lot of us get. I have several pieces in the publishing pipeline for next year (some of them quite early next year), and also some additional career stuff that’s good and weird. And that’s what we like around here, we like good and weird. We like being able to say, “really, wow, I…did not see that coming.” Stay tuned, you won’t see it coming, but it’s fun when it gets here. Until then, the 2024 list:
Lost on a World Tree (poem), Not One of Us Issue 77 (January 2024)
Islands of Stability, Lightspeed, March 2024
Mistletoe Theodicy (poem), Not One of Us Issue 78 (April 2024)
A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (May 2024)
And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream, Lightspeed, May 2024
Conjured from the Rubble, Haven Spec, July 2024
Book Clubs With My Imaginary Friends (essay), Uncanny, Issue 59 (Jul/Aug 2024)
Panthalassa (poem), Analog, Jul/Aug 2024
Denebian Glamour’s What’s Hot and What’s Not for the Next Millennium, Nature Futures, August 2024
The Music Must Always Play, Clarkesworld, September 2024
The Wrong Time Travel Story, Uncanny, Issue 60 (Sep/Oct 2024)
Transits of Other Lands, Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2024 (October 2024)
Three Drops in the River, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2024
On the Water Its Crystal Teeth, Uncanny, Issue 61 (Nov/Dec 2024)
Betsy Donnelly’s Forty-Third Chance, Nature Futures, December 2024