The lovely people of Geekadelphia.com interviewed me for their blog. I had a lot of fun answering the questions and hope you enjoy reading them.
http://www.geekadelphia.com/2016/05/11/geek-of-the-week-ya-author-shveta-thakrar/
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I ended up combining the beginnings of a poem with the idea for this one, and I’m pleased with how it turned out in just a thousand words. I hope you like it!
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This is seriously one of those dreams you think will never happen. Or at least, I didn’t imagine it happening to me. But the insightful and generally awesome Haralambi Markov asked if he could profile my writing for his new column at Tor.com, and I practically threw myself through the computer screen to say yes.
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I’m delighted to share that my creepy story “The Shadow Collector” is live at Uncanny magazine, and you can both read it and listen to it narrated by the wonderful Amal El-Mohtar. Plus I was interviewed in the podcast by Deborah Stanish.
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I’ve been hiding away from winter, finishing up the second draft of my novel and working on other projects, and now I have a couple happy pieces of news to share.
First, my story poem “A Love in Twelve Feathers” was nominated for a Rhysling award in the long poem category! I’m so delighted! Just look at the company it’s in.
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Hi! I thought you might like to know what I published in 2015 that’s eligible for speculative fiction awards. Last year was really a banner year for me, so I’ve got a few things on offer.
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Well, I got the contract, so I can announce it: my story “The Rainbow Flame,” which first appeared in Uncanny, will be reprinted in The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, to be published by Twelfth Planet Press later this year! (You can see a previous volume here.)
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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.
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I’m thrilled to announce two new story sales:
My sunshine closet story, “Shimmering, Warm, and Bright,” will be in the autumn issue of Interfictions, which should be live very soon!
My weird structure story, “By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle,” will be in the forthcoming Clockwork Phoenix 5 anthology.
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I won one of the five inaugural Walter Dean Myers grants funded by We Need Diverse Books, and I am over the moon! From the announcement:
October 29, 2015 (New York, New York) – We Need Diverse Books™ (WNDB™)has selected the first five winners of its first ever Walter Dean Myers Grant: Naadeyah Haseeb, Jami Nakamura Lin, Yamile Saied Méndez, Shveta Thakrar, and Angela Thomas. The winners will each receive a monetary award of $2,000 to support their writing or illustrating career goals.
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I’m so happy to be able to share my latest poem with you, a collaboration with jeweler Meenoo Mishra of Minou Bazaar. I wrote “A Love in Twelve Feathers” to tell the tale about the woman and peacock in this necklace Meenoo made, and I’m really proud of it.
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I am writing this from a wing chair where I’m still rocking slightly from side to side. Sea legs and the lack thereof—it’s a real thing. But it’s a pleasant reminder of the wonderful experience I just enjoyed. Do you remember that a few months ago, I mentioned winning the Carl Brandon Out of Excuses writing retreat scholarship? That was a merit-based scholarship for writers of color, which I fully admit I never, ever even dreamed I’d win.
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I’m so, so delighted and honored that the first story I sold (“Lavanya and Deepika”) will be reprinted in Paula Guran’s fairy-tale retelling anthology Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, which comes out in July 2016. My story sits alongside pieces from luminaries like Holly Black, Theodora Goss, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Peter S. Beagle, and Neil Gaiman! (In fact, the whole lineup is like that, just full of stars.) Wow!
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I can finally announce that I’ll have an essay in Kelly Jensen’s forthcoming anthology for teen girls, titled Feminism for the Real World. I’ve already submitted my essay, “A Thousand Paper Cuts,” so now it’s just a matter of waiting until 2017.
So exciting! I can’t wait to see everyone else’s work.
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1. My story “The Rainbow Flame” is out in Uncanny magazine today. You can read it here!
“Wiping sweat from her forehead before it could spill into her eyes, Rupali stirred a large iron cauldron over a searing fire. Swirls of silver, shards of sky, and the thorny notes of a forgotten folk melody all danced through the boiling beeswax. It was different every time, like a legend passing from mouth to mouth and changing in the telling. She drew in a breath through cracked, parched lips, and the oppressive air scorched her lungs. Impatience shot through her. Would she always be the one heating the wax, never the one lighting the flame?”
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I love the art the Faerie magazine staff came up with to go with my story, but the entire issue is so beautiful. The theme is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” perfect to savor while sitting out in a night garden (how to make a night garden is the subject of one of the articles, by the way!) . . .
If you want to grab a copy, it’s available either here or in Barnes and Noble.
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. . . to borrow a headline from my dear friend C.S.E. Cooney, who wrote this gorgeous, magical, witty, incredibly wonderfully written collection of short stories that’s out in July, and you should preorder it now! (Print version and e-book.) I copyedited it, so I know of what I speak. (It’s already gotten a starred review from Publishers Weekly!)
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So a couple pieces of good news on this warm Tuesday morning:
1. My poem “Shadowskin” is up at Strange Horizons! I’m really proud of this one. You can read it or listen to it here.
2. My nagini story “She Sleeps Beneath the Sea” will appear in the summer/Midsummer Night’s Dream issue of Faerie magazine! I am so, so excited about this; I have adored Faerie for years and dreamed of having my words in its pages. And now I will!
I’m so delighted to finally be able to announce this.
You might know that I adore the Sirens Conference, which focuses on women in fantasy and works hard for inclusivity, and I do my best to attend each year. Well, this time, Sirens is doing something new; it’s offering a couple extra days in a package called Sirens Studio–and I’ll be part of the faculty.
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