my 2021 publications

[gwynnega]

Needless to say, this has been another weird year. It seems to me that I wasn't terribly productive last year once the pandemic started. The same was true this year until my mother got vaxxed. Once that happened, the creative part of my brain came back online. I didn't write all that much short fiction or poetry this year, because I was working on NOVELS. There were edits for Can't Find My Way Home (coming out from Aqueduct Press on January 15th!), and also a vast amount of first draft writing on (working title) Thank You for Sending Me an Angel, a novel I had tried unsuccessfully for years to write but kept stopping after a chapter or so (because I knew I was on the wrong track). Suddenly this spring I found the right track, and now I'm over 100,000 words into it, with roughly three and half chapters to go. It had been a long time since I'd written a novel first draft, and it's been such a fun experience. Of course, in 2022 I will need to revise the thing.


short fiction


"Emily and the What-if Imp" in Fantasy October 2021


short fiction reprints

"A Wild Patience" in Escape Pod (novelette reprint from GigaNotoSaurus): Part 1 (February 18, 2021), Part 2 (February 25, 2021), Part 3 (March 4, 2021)

"Sinking, Singing" in Mermaids Monthly May 26, 2021 (reprint from Not One of Us)


poetry

"they keep resurrecting Larry Talbot" in Not One of Us (65, 2021)

"ode to illness" in Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Lisa M. Bradley and R.B. Lemberg (Aqueduct Press, 2021)

"the ending" in The Deadlands (issue 3)


poetry reprint

"The Pied Piper vs. the Sirens" in Mermaids Monthly (November 29, 2021) (reprint from Mythic Delirium)