Since the first AMA was such a great time on r/Fantasy figured I’d do another one. This time I’ll be doing an AMA over on the sub r/PubTips this Friday, July 7, 2023, from 4 to 6pm PDT/7 to 9pm EDT! While my other AMA was all about fantasy writing, editing, and reading, this one is going to be all about short story writing, editing, selling, submitting, and all things short stories. r/PubTips is another of my favorite subs on Reddit, so I’m pretty pumped for it.
Unlike my other AMA, I’ll only be around for two hours for questions from 7-9pm EDT/4-6pm PDT.
Here’s the post I’ve written for the upcoming AMA with all the details:
Howdy, writers! I’m Aigner Loren Wilson (she/her), a HWA and SFWA literary speculative fiction writer/editor and a 2023 Ignyte Award Critic Finalist for my review and genre analysis writing. My dark fantasy novelette ‘To Carve Home in Your Bones’ (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2022) is an Ignyte Award Finalist and my fiction has landed me on the Otherwise Fellowship Award honor list. My short and longer fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Monstrous Futures, Fantasy Magazine, Baffling Magazine, and more.
I’ve been on the Hugo ballot for my editing work with the speculative literary magazine Strange Horizons, where I’ve been a first reader, copy editor, and now work as one of the senior fiction editors. I’m a former guest editor for Fireside Fiction and Apparition Literary Magazine. Other magazines and outlets I’ve read, edited, or judged for include Nightlight: A Black Horror Podcast and NYCMidnight Short Story Contests. I’ve also reviewed horror short fiction in a monthly column for Tor Nightfire called ‘Into the Night.’
A few of the stories I’ve had the pleasure of editing:
- I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself by Ken Coleman
- Mushroom Head by Marla Bingcang
- Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohamed
- Sheer in the Sun, They Pass by Hester J. Rook
- Since He Came Back by Lindsay King-Miller
- Bonesoup by Eugenia Triantafyllou
- What Anger Breaks and Builds by Devin Miller
- 12 Things a Trini Should Know Before Travelling to a Back in Times Fete by R.S.A Garcia
I’ve worked in the short fiction publishing landscape since 2017 as a writer, editor, judge, story assessor, and even a reader for a film production company recommending stories for optioning. I also act as a mentor through SFWA for writers wanting to get a handle on writing, editing, submitting, and selling short fiction. What really helped me get to where I am now was speaking with professionals and authors who were where I wanted to be. I want to offer that to y’all!
Please give me all your questions on short story writing and editing. Curious on how to figure out when a story is done? Or how to land a story in a particular magazine? How about figuring out ways of upping the emotional tension in your short fiction? I can even help demystify some of the oddities of the submission process. Whatever you want to learn about writing short stories as short as micro fictions or as long as novelettes, I’m your gal!
Answers and statements are not affiliated in any way with any publication.
If you can’t make the AMA, please feel free to drop questions in the comments and I’ll answer them on here!
Thanks again for reading and supporting me.
Aigner Loren Wilson 