Last update: 07/2022
To see all published stories from 2022, check out my monthly posts sharing links to where you can find my stories.
Poetry
Christine– a poem inspired by the Parker-Hulme Murder. (The Five-2)
Phantom– an acrostic poem about possession. (Arsenika)
Demon at My Window– poem about a little girl capturing a demon. (FIYAH)
Come to Me– dialogue between a space cadet and planet. (Anathema Spec from the Margins)
Fiction
It Came Gently– science fiction flash first contact story about a world gone dry and saved by a mysterious aquafer that moves and changes. (Lightspeed Magazine)
Unwanteds– science fiction story where a homeless man reaches out to his estranged daughter to help him solve a haunting. (NIGHTLIGHT)
Dead Children Stop Playing for Ungrateful Audiences- horror story written like a news article reporting on a haunting. (NIGHTLIGHT)
Pew Pew– dark gay sci-fi story about two friends who play video games as a way of coping. (The Ghostlight Theater)
A Crisis– science fiction story that reflects on the difficulties of the future and self. (Vice)
Lucky Number 8– dark science fiction story about a young man searching for the ghost of his dead brother in the stars while battling racism and homophobia in 1950s New Jersey. (Beyond Ballyhoo: Carnival Themed Speculative Fiction)
Select Nonfiction
Book Review of Premee Mohamed’s Annual Migration of Clouds– I’m a reviewer for Lightspeed Magazine and had the pleasure of reading this wonderful novella about leaving and home. (Lightspeed Magazine)
Cozy Management Games Remind Us How to Care– a reported article with interviews from narrative designers and an art director behind several triple A games, asking and answering the question what is it about cozy management games and their ability to teach us how to care. (WIRED)
The 20 Best True Crime Podcasts– socially conscious true crime podcasts. (Discover Pods)
Using Dialogue to Show Character Growth– tutorial on how to show character development through dialogue. (Writer’s Digest)
Getting Out of the Slush Pile– tips from my work as an editor and judge of how to get out of the slush pile for fiction writers. (The Writer)
The Heartbeat of Horror– an interview with horror writer Cass Khaw. (Tor Nightfire)
Does She Make You Scream?– a write up of the term horror babe and what it means for the horror genre. (Tor Nightfire)
10 Best Horror Poetry Collections of 2020– roundup of horror poetry collections published in 2020. (Discover Pods)
Your Guide to Africanfuturist Science Fiction– a primer for the africanfuturist literature published in Tordotcom. (Tor.com)
A Complete Self-Editing Guide for the Successful Writer– an in-depth guide to self-editing fiction and nonfiction novels for professional publication. (Better Humans)
What Communities Can Do– my experience finding community within the speculative fiction writing community and the benefits of it. (SFWA Blog)
Editing
Apparition Literary Magazine: Contamination Issue– I served as guest editor on a themed issue featuring both stories and poems
What Anger Builds and Breaks by Devin Miller– story about queer found family and using a storm built of anger to rescue dead love. (Strange Horizons)
Annunciation by P. Akasaka– story about a woman becoming pregnant with a language. (Strange Horizons)
NIGHTLIGHT Horror Podcast– work as an associate editor selecting stories for publication
Fireside Fiction January 2022– I served as guest editor on an issue featuring both stories and poems
Fireside Fiction February 2022– I served as guest editor on an issue featuring both stories and poems
Fireside Fiction March 2022– I served as guest editor on an issue featuring both stories and poems
Editorials, Reviews, Featured In, & Interviews
20 Must Read Online Literary Journals
Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Diabolical Plots, Lightspeed, Fantasy and F&SF
Aigner Loren Wilson Writer & Editor 