So excited for this!!

....speaking as another poet in this anthology, agreed!

My one and only published story for the year is "Elephant in Winter", which appeared in OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE! I’m wildly proud of it. There’s clockwork animals and magic! 🙂 If you'd like to read it, you can purchase the anthology here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...

I'll just tag along here and say that my story in Mmeory is the story most dear to me that was published this year. I wrote "Smother the Wailing of the Heart" in 2023 and I've always loved it but I couldn't find a home for it. I guess I just had to wait for the right anthology. 😁💙

So far? (I *do* believe in Dec. I do! I do!) My concrete prose poem "'Starling' Is Another Word for 'Little Star'", in issue 5 of @zhagaram.bsky.social. That was among the most emotionally difficult pieces I've ever written (I was crying when I started it), & it waited a long time for a home.

Thank you for asking, Jenna! t wasn't an easy pub year for me, but of the two new stories I published this year, Respect the Hustle is my abso fave. I love this opossum & her fierceness, & it's a bit about finding a new voice in the face of really tough times. plotthoundmag.com/respect-the-...

For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.

Or POSSIBLY "Ino's Hideaway," which popped up in The Sunday Morning Transport in September, because, hi, marine biology jokes that I suspect most people didn't see.... www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/inos-hidea...

Or, um, maybe "Without Sunsets or Snow," since I liked the setup: www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...

.....ok, obviously I am completely unable to answer this question, because I could ALSO mention, in the nonfiction category, my essay on portrayals of disability in a recently cancelled TV show: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/port...

AND my special 25-year anniversary column for @strangehorizons.bsky.social - strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

.....well, so far, possibly "Care for Lightning," a poem that appeared in Uncanny waaaaayyyyy back in January. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/care...

My story "Highway 1, Past Hope" in @thedeadlands.com - psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... The guest columns I edited for Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...

@dukepress.bsky.social has some incredible work on sale! @pepepierce.bsky.social's Speculative Relations is a recent fave: www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-... annnnd I also have a book on decolonial possibility in the collapse of current aid relations included: www.dukeupress.edu/the-center-c...

I'm most proud of my story in THE DEADLANDS "The Twelve Deaths of You." It was very harrowing to write and (I think) one of my best pieces. Mind the content advisory. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Mine is this one! www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

OOOOooooo!!! Marking the calendar...

My most dear publication this year is "That God's Works Might Be Revealed," a collection of 14 short stories about saints with disability or illness. I loved doing the research the stories required, and as I learned the details of their lives, I fell in love with all the people I was writing about.

I am really very happy with my Clarkesworld story ‘Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents’. Of all my stories, it’s the only one I don’t want to open back up and play around with. …Alright, maybe a little bit. clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_25/

Has to be the the whole ZamaShort series, it has been a wild ride so far and every one has been most dear to me, I am honoured to have put forth works from all these amazing authors.

my novella THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS, where the... well the titular character, the Death of Mountains, comes for a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. in the tradition of Scheherazade, they trade story for story to stave off the inevitable. (out from @lethepress.bsky.social)

Has to be "On the Night Shift," my novella in Asimov's: Houston is hit by a massive hurricane on the eve of NASA's first Mars mission, and a young flight controller is forced to take over during a chaotic evacuation. fromearthtothestars.com/2025/03/18/o...

I had three books out this year, and they are all special to me. Future’s Edge is a novel, Who Will You Save? is a collection of 32 short stories, and The Well is a novelisation of a Doctor Who episode.

For me its my novella "Descent". Because its set in the Sauútiverse which is unique and dear to my heart, and because its a story rooted in traditional African epistemology, the unbearable weight of parental expectations and the limits of all knowledge - clarkesworldmagazine.com/talabi_05_25/

My story Birds, Vibrant and Wild in Kaleidotrope, is both very different from me and the most 'me' thing I have ever written. kaleidotrope.net/archives/win...

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC is deeply personal; the culmination of everything I've done professionally. From my career on stage, to tour guiding, to my fiction, to my own paranormal experiences, to lecturing nationwide on the importance of ghost lore, this ties it together: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

Mine has to be the satire "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" in @diabolicalplots.com , which combines my rage about disability accessibility (or lack thereof) with snark and superhero puns: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Yaaaay I now have so many meaningful things to read this weekend 🥰✨💕

I love this! Mine is my Strange Horizons poem, “My Love Wails in the Mending.” 😊The poem’s setting was drawn from a few choice childhood memories, which made the creation process deeply personal. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Brain has a tendency to downplay my own work the second I get it done... But then every time I reread "Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in their Pocket" at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social from June 2025, I tear up all over again <3 Those family dynamics get me every time...

Gotta be this article about trans themes in this classic sci-fi series. reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

I published my debut collection IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS, found poetry from the work of @sgj.bsky.social , and it's the best thing I've ever done but honorable mention to "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" in @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social BRAINROT anthology (free) fifthwheelpress.com/brainrot

It's a hard choice but I'm going with: “The Regrettable Loneliness of the Great Wizard Graveblossom’s Door” - Worlds of Possibility, April 2025 --cozy fantasy comedy with knock-knock jokes-- It's a funny, silly, intimate little piece and I love it. www.patreon.com/juliarios/sh...

Over a weekend I wrote “Dislocated,” a meet-cute that’s also about disability and being left behind by society, and I still love it for its hopefulness. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

I do have a December story coming out later too—but my BCS story “Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth,” about grieving and winter holidays and Beowulf, is really special to me! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

This one for me, just because I believe so strongly that AI does nothing good for the arts and harms creatives. (Not to mention those who aren’t creatives but whose livelihood is directly affected by the arts) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

I can't wait to read through everyone else's answers. Mine is "The Millay Illusion" because I'm always proudest of the stories where I manage to marry form and content. Those are my favorite to read and to write. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

I didn't write a ton this year, but published a handful of pieces (incl. one more coming in December!), all of which are kinda my fave, each in its own way. This one from back in January caught myself by surprise in ways that felt real exciting. doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/r...

I think "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social is most dear to me, because it's a love letter to my adopted city, and it's about the power of community in the fact of systemic oppression and violence www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

What a fantastic question. I got very little published this year but I was so proud of this poem that @havehashad.com picked up: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/cou... It's one of the first pieces I wrote about becoming a mom, and a publication I adore.

just came out, but this story is a result of me actually getting brave enough to write it: reactormag.com/timelike-curves-spacelike-curves-p-h-lee/ (the warning at the front is very, very real)

My novel, Memory and Magic. I have dreamed of publishing a novel, then this novel. It's a romance, in my favorite era, a quasi regency, with blood magic, politics, and a lot of laundry...

my weird biracial love letter to the gothic genre, "mrs. no face" in @fusionfragment.bsky.social. this was the first time i did the whole "write the story you wished you had as a kid" thing, and now i get why people say to do it. it's the good scary! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

It's a little book called HAIR SHIRT. It's my second collection and it's about how we manage to exist and find love and art in an increasingly absurd, authoritarian world. And it's available at IWANTMYHAIRSHIRT.com

Undoubtedly it’s ‘25 Peppercorns,’ which @mythaxis.bsky.social ran. It’s possibly my most personal & political piece, and one of the scariest to write and have published. I cried the day it came out, bc I was so worried about how people would read it (turns out, positively). bsky.app/profile/slas...

I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Oooh, I love this reflective pause! My fave is this quiet piece because I want to believe that even in this darker world we're now in, there's still hope for something beautiful to emerge. Thanks for this pause moment! ✨💖 factorfourmag.com/a-little-res... #speculative #flashfiction #fantasy

For me, it's probably my poem 'To Be the Change', which was released this spring from @strangehorizons.bsky.social! This was my first explicitly trans piece to enter the world; it tackles familial expectations and ancestral prophecies through a fantasy lens. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

I love this question (and this parenthetical, as someone with a December story on the way 🥲). For me, it’s got to be this love letter to my dog disguised as a short story: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...