I received good news recently that I am one of the two winners of the D Franklin Defying Doomsday award for my Strange Horizons essay “Sergeant Bothari and Disability Representation in Early Vorkosiverse.” The other winner is Ace Ratcliff.

Here is the writeup in Locus:

Twelfth Planet Press announced two winners of the 2018 D Franklin Defying ( Read more... )

Updated  and expanded Jan 30.

Dear friends,

This award season, I would like you to consider only one piece  for awards - the Birdverse novella A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power  in Beneath Ceaseless Skies  (Part I, Part II), and you can also listen to an absolutely epic podcast/audiobook by C.S.E. Cooney.

“Portrait” is eligible as a ( Read more... )

My poetry collection Marginalia to Stone Bird has been nominated for the Elgin Award. That’s the second award nomination for it, after the Crawford.

My publisher (Aqueduct Press) sent a pdf to the Elgin chair to share with SFPA members, so if you are a SFPA voter and are interested in checking out the book, it will be available at the SFPA private ( Read more... )

I recently learned that Marginalia to Stone Bird is the first poetry book to be nominated for the Crawford Award. I am really honored.

Two of my poems, “The Ash Manifesto” (Strange Horizons) and “The Journeymaker to Keddar II” (Marginalia to Stone Bird) were nominated for the Rhysling Award.

I am traveling back home from a conference and feeling ( Read more... )

I learned today that my debut poetry collection Marginalia to Stone Bird was a finalist for the William L. Crawford Award for a first fantasy book. I am really honored.

ETA: I learned that Marginalia is the first poetry book to be nominated for the Crawford in the history of the award.

Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky was the winner ( Read more... )

I am promoting Likhain/M.Sereno for the Hugos, specifically for Fan Artist Hugo. I am also voting for her in the Professional Artist Hugo category.

WHO: Likhain, aka M. Sereno, a queer Filipina immigrant artist currently living in Australia, artist and poet.

WHAT: Fan Artist Hugo; also eligible for Professional Artist Hugo (justification below).

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This is my customary award eligibility post for the year. I did not have as much short pieces out because I was concentrating on longer work, but I am very proud of what I did publish this year.

I have bolded pieces I feel are most deserving of award consideration. Short fiction nominating folks, if you only want to read one thing, please read “The ( Read more... )

Last year I found myself a recipient of a new fan award, The Sippy, bestowed by none other than Charles Payseur, reviewer extraordinaire. My Birdverse novelette “Geometries of Belonging” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies received The Big Sip for excellent relationships in short SFF!

This year, in preparation for 2016 Sippys, Charles redesigned the award ( Read more... )

I was at MidAmericon2 only sporadically due to childcare constraints, observance (was not there on Shabbes), and health setbacks. I did not attend any parties, and missed the Hugo Award ceremony. Still, I enjoyed the con very much and loved meeting and/or seeing many of you there. I am sorry I missed so many of you, and hope to see everyone at some ( Read more... )

We went to Prairie Lights as a reward for all the relentless packing (moving for the fifth time in a year - this is not a drill!), and I spotted a copy of Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best SF on display. I looked at the Honorable Mentions section in the back and it appears I have THREE honorable mentions for work that came out in 2015:

“Archival ( Read more... )