2016 award eligibility post from Mythic Delirium Books
It’s that time — in fact, a bit past the time — to create a post that makes it easier for readers to peruse all the things we published in 2016, for purposes of consideration for awards, or simply for the fun of exploring and catching up on what you might have missed.
In April, we produced Clockwork Phoenix 5, the newest installment in our anthology series showcasing “stories of beauty and strangeness” and our biggest yet. The book itself is eligible in awards categories that consider original anthologies.
Of the 20 tales included, 19 are short stories, as usually defined in genreland (under 7,500 words); the exception is Sunil Patel’s contribution, which is a novelette. Here’s the complete table of contents, with links include to the five sample stories we made free to read online. All of the stories are free to read in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America member forums. And those stories are:
- “The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble
- “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones
- “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo
- “The Mirror-City” by Marie Brennan
- “The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
- “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron
- “A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)” by A.C. Wise
- “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart
- “The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” by Sam Fleming
- “Social Visiting” by Sunil Patel
- “The Book of May” by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez
- “The Tiger’s Silent Roar” by Holly Heisey
- “Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff
- “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe
- “Two Bright Venuses” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- “By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” by Shveta Thakrar
- “The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw
- “The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli
- “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson
- “The Souls of Horses” by Beth Cato
We also published, over the course of the year, 12 short stories and 24 poems in our quarterly zine, Mythic Delirium. Here are all the short stories:
- “The Muse” by Amy Aderman
- “We Will Hold” by Alisa Alering
- “A Trade at the Fox Wedding” by Roshani Chokshi
- “Burdens” by Sheila Finch
- “John Wagner’s Last Blues” by Andrew Gilstrap
- “Luz and Bee at the Beach” by Janna Layton
- “Three Hundred Years” by Jeannette Ng
- “Left Behind” by Yukimi Ogawa
- “The Revenge of Hillier’s Belle” by TJ Radcliffe
- “Fade to Glass” by Chris Reinhardt
- “Comet’s Call” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
- “The Cartographer’s Price” by Suzanne J. Willis
And here are all of the poems, eligible for Rhysling consideration:
- “Beings of Air” by Daniel Ausema
- “When the Gunman Comes” by Edith Hope Bishop
- “Swimming with the Shark Boys” by Carina Bissett
- “Love, and the Merciless Sea” by Jennifer Crow
- “Moving the Earth” by Melissa Frederick
- “Introduction to Electromagnetics” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- “To the Ends of the Earth” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- “Champagne Ivy” by Gwynne Garfinkle
- “The Bear’s Wife” by Theodora Goss
- “Butterfly” by Lore Graham
- “Million-Year Elegies: Edmontonia” by Ada Hoffmann
- “Im Wald” by Sandi Leibowitz
- “One-Winged” by Sandi Leibowitz
- “Umbrellas of the Aftermath” by Sandi Leibowitz
- “The Immortal Accursed” by Olchar E. Lindsann
- “Half in Love with Easeful Death” by Lynette Mejía
- “Daily Office” by Virginia M Mohlere
- “After Midnight” by Mari Ness
- “XX/XY” by A.J. Odasso
- “Morgan Le Fay at the Downtown Mall” by Kavitha Rath
- “Deep Sea Mermaid Fishing” by Alexandra Seidel
- “I learned” by Lyndsey Silveira
- “Mirror to the Other Side” by Christina Sng
- “Rusalka” by Jane Yolen
We also published my second collection, The Spider Tapestries, which began life as an additional Kickstarter reward to help bolster the funding of Clockwork Phoenix 5. The book contained one original short story, “Silent in Her Nest.” I’ll discuss Spider Tapestries more fully in a separate entry at Descent into Light.
In at least this one way — the showcasing of great art — 2016 has been pretty terrific. We’re already working on the first issue of 2017, but it’s nice to have this chance to take stock of what we’ve accomplished.
Deeply honored to be included in your year. Thank you again, and always. -edie