My Year in Writing

Well, it’s definitely been one amazing year, writing-wise, and since all my publications for 2015 are live, I thought I’d make a list here and remind myself what sticking with it year after year yielded this time around. 

Nonfiction

“Thorns in My Throat” in The Toast (which led to the next two items)

“A Thousand Paper Cuts” to Kelly Jensen’s Feminism for the Real World anthology (out in 2017)

“Recounting in Rainbow” to People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction for its online essay series (starting January 2016)

Fiction

“She Sleeps Beneath the Sea” in Faerie magazine (with a forthcoming audio reprint in Cast of Wonders)

“The Rainbow Flame” in Uncanny magazine (and was recommended for the Tiptree Award!)

Reprint of “Lavanya and Deepika” sold to Paula Guran’s Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold anthology (out July 2016)

“Shimmering, Warm, and Bright” in Interfictions Online

“By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” sold to Clockwork Phoenix 5 (out April 2016)

“The Shadow Collector” sold to Uncanny magazine (2016)

Poetry

“The Nagini’s Night Song” in Mythic Delirium (to be republished in Mythic Delirium: Volume Two)

“Shadowskin” in Strange Horizons

“A Love in Twelve Feathers” in Strange Horizons

“Star Fishing” in Mythic Delirium

“जंगली गुलाब/Jangli Gulaab (Briar Rose)” (details forthcoming)

Miscellaneous Wonderful Things

The Writing Excuses 2015 Retreat scholarship

The 2015 We Need Diverse Books grant

All in all, not too shabby, eh? Let’s see what 2016 brings, and in the meantime, I’m off to make more words.