haha - if you do a google image search for "Shannon Connor Winward", you get a curious mix of my smiling face, pictures from my blog, illustrations from online magazines where I've been published, mug shots of my writing guild friends, and porn. CHECK IT OUT. lol


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My writing guild is awesome.

In a little under a month I get to be a featured author at THE FICTIONEERS, a literature event in my hometown:


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My love poem "Paradox of Return" has found the perfect home in this month's issue of Astropoetica. I invite you to check it out, and peruse this awesome magazine!
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Exciting News:

My short story, "Passage", has found a home in The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders - an anthology that celebrates "Standing stones, burial mounds, ruined castles or sunken settlements, the ancient sites that litter our landscapes... Think myth come to life; old folktales updated; the consequences of tomb raiding; hidden ( Read more... )

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OMG, guys, before I forget again - my poem "All Souls' Day"*, has been reprinted in the new anthology Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink now available through Amazon ( Read more... )

Now that life is letting me catch my breath, I can use it to tell you of my latest writing news!

* Read my (facebook themed!) prose poem, "My Heart is with Egipt" in the [About Face] issue of
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* Also my poem, "A Tale of Two Witches" won honorable mention over at
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At the end of a very hard week, I have just learned that my poem "All Soul's Day", which appeared in the Jack-O'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy anthology (Raven Electrik Ink) has been nominated for a Rhysling Award.

My poem will appear in The 2012 Rhysling Anthology, published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Members use the ( Read more... )