Starred reviews

So it’s really wonderful to be invited to be part of amazing anthologies with wonderful editors who help you make your story the best it can be and wonderful fellow contributors whose work just shines. I’m so happy I have stories in three such anthologies this year (The Underwater Ballroom Anthology, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft), and the latter two are coming out this summer!

I’ve been so pleased to see the reviews coming in for all of them, both professional and reader, and I’m delighted to say that A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (out 26 June) and Toil & Trouble (out 28 August) each got two trade journal starred reviews so far! That’s amazing, and I’m so proud. Best of all, Kirkus had this to say about my story in Toil & Trouble: “Shveta Thakrar’s “The Moonapple Menagerie” opens with a few lines from Yeats, the perfect complement to her lyrical, South Asian–infused story of a small coven and a terrible bargain.”

Stories shape how we see the world, so I’m going to keep writing my brown characters with their brown heritage mythology and folklore (the stories I wish I had). Thanks for reading and celebrating with me.