{"id":209,"date":"2021-12-23T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specfic.vaults.ca\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-12-23T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:59:47","slug":"awards-eligibility-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specfic.vaults.ca\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Awards Eligibility 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This has been a great year for me publications-wise \u2014 some of my best work has come out this year. I would be delighted if you would read some of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Short Story Summaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything I’ve published this year has been short stories from about 1000-word flash fiction to a 7500-word novelette. Below I’ll describe each story and provide links. If you see something of interest, I’d be delighted if you clicked through and had a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In a Village Without Dogs<\/a>” (7500 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Romany generation ship receives a distress signal from the Earth that exiled them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You Cannot Return to the Burning Glade<\/a>” (1500 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After the death of her partner, a woman keeps a trail diary as she processes her grief and makes a disturbing discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When the Snowshoe Hare Turns White<\/a>” (1000 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A woman experiences some unexpected effects of climate change in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Orbital Bloom<\/a>” (6000 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A narcissistic mother and her astronaut daughter correspond as the daughter searches for a cure for an ecological sickness and the mother undergoes a surprising transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Silent Confirmation of a Notable Thing<\/a>” (2500 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Two young people discover new ways to care about each other and the world in a time of extinctions perpetuated by monstrous angels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A Widening Gyre<\/a>” (3500 words)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A woman and her paid donor take part in a fertility program at an experimental offshore clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards Eligibility as Editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year Stelliform Press published Octavia Cade’s <\/a>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief<\/a> <\/em>(a novella) and Cynthia Zhang’s <\/a>After the Dragons<\/a><\/em> (a novel). Please consider these works in their own respective categories, and me as their editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been a great year for me publications-wise \u2014 some of my best work has come out this year. I would be delighted if you would read some of it. Short Story Summaries Everything I’ve published this year has been short stories from about 1000-word flash fiction to a 7500-word novelette. Below I’ll describe … <\/p>\n

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