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What I Published in 2020

1/1/2021

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 It's that time of the year again! I'm here to update you with all the things I published last year. It's been a fruitful year despite all the chaos, and I am supremely grateful as always for the editors who read and enjoy my work. Thank you to all the publications on this list! 

This year I have several Rhysling-eligible poems for SFPA members to consider for nomination. "Yes, Antimatter is Real" is eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award. My short story "The Red Shoes" in the Coppice and Brake Anthology from Crone Girls Press is eligible for the HWA Bram Stoker Awards in the anthology category. (If you'd like a copy of the anthology to review, send me an email at hlwalrath at gmail dot com.)

Poetry

Download a PDF of all my 2020 poems here

​Short Poems
  • Now the Patient Recounts the Houses in Her Mind (Eye to the Telescope Issue 36, April 2020, House & Home, edited by Emma J. Gibbon)
  • Acacia (Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry Issue #24 - Summer 2020)
  • Dear Future (Star*Line Issue 43.3, Summer 2020) 
  • We Hold Up Eternity​ (Twisted Moon Mag, Issue 5, August 2020)
  • Divergent and Rotten to the Core​​ (Liminality Issue #25, Autumn 2020)
  • Yes, Antimatter Is Real (Analog Science Fiction and Fact Sep/Oct 2020)
  • So Many Blank Moons (Analog Science Fiction and Fact Nov/Dec 2020)
  • It's Never Going to Stop (Pork Belly Press Love Me, Love My Belly Zine No.5, 2020)
 Long Poems
  •  Daughters Saving Mothers (Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Issue #23 – Spring 2020)
Short Fiction
  • The Red Shoes (Coppice & Brake: A Dark Fiction Anthology by Crone Girls Press) 

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What I Published This Year

12/26/2019

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Every year at the end of the year I post a review of all the articles, poems, stories, and books I’ve published that year. 2019 was a big year for me in writing. While I felt like I wasn’t getting a lot done, I was surprised when I looked back and realized I really had written a great deal.

Most of my time was spent working on two novels-in-progress. But I did manage to send out some poems for publication too. I’m very honored by the editors who recognized and published my work. Here’s to 2020 and another year of writing.

Books
Glimmerglass Girl — Won the Elgin Award for best speculative chapbook
Numinous Stones — To be published in Italian in 2020 by Kipple Press

Poems
The 2019 Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Contest, Winner: Short Form Category: The Fox and the Forest (Erasure of Ray Bradbury)
The 2019 Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Contest, Winner: Long Form Category: The Mining Town
Apparition Lit #8 (October 2019) — Belly of the Beast
Mirror Dance Issue 44 (Spring 2019) — Farewell Dead Men
Not One of Us #61 (April 2019) — ​A Book Is a Tomb and Words Are Souls
The Avenue: Issue V: Music (April 2019) — Chopin Falls in Love with the Night (1827–1846)
The Knicknackery Issue 6 (February 2019) — Bayou Dream
Dreams & Nightmares Magazine (Issue #111, January 2019) — An Unknowing Breach of the Law
Kaleidotrope (Winter 2019) — “All the Glory of Her Earthly Shell”

On Writing:
Medium (12/18/19) — My NaNoWriMo Was a Mess
Writing Hacks (11/27/19) — Tricking Yourself into Writing
Bulletproof Writers (11/28/19) — The End of the Year Sometimes Sucks for Creatives
Storymaker (11/25/19) — Reluctantly Writing About Death
Interstellar Flight Press (11/15/19) — Defying Genre in The Dream House
Daily Muse Books (10/24/19) — NaNoWriMo Isn’t Just for Books
Medium (10/15/19) — Does Publishing Short Stories Matter?
Medium (9/4/19) — The Writing Life: An Infographic
Medium (8/28/19) — 40 Writing Milestones to Celebrate
Medium (8/21/19) — Queries, Contributors, and Common Terms: An A-Z glossary for submitting writing
Horror Writer’s Association Newsletter (7/1/19) — Darkness & Light
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Medium (5/16/19) — Fighting Rejection & Imposter Syndrome
Medium (5/3/19) — Switching Genres
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Medium (4/3/19) — Creating a Writer’s Mission Statement
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Medium (3/27/19) — NaPoWriMo: A Poet’s Challenge
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Dream Foundry (3/14/19) — The Cone of Silence
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Medium (3/11/19) — These are a Few of My Favorite Rejections
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Medium (1/31/19) — Forming a Critique Group 101

If you are a member of the SFPA, my poems are eligible for the Rhysling Award. Click here to download a PDF version for reading. 
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What I Wrote in 2018

12/31/2018

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Here's to You, 2018!


2018 was one wild ride of a year for me. I published my first chapbook. I took many workshops, attended many conferences, and met many new friends. I wrote a lot of things and learned a great deal while writing. 

I've been thinking about how the new year is an arbitrary date. We tell ourselves that it's time to rethink what we've done and to plan for the future. But the truth is that writing is always there. It's a well of creativity that you constantly have to refill, rethink, and renegotiate. As arbitrary as it might be, I love the new year. I love the idea that I might be able to make a difference in my future just by the power of positive thinking. 

In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, we need to "see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”

I hope your new year is fantastic and full of all the things you love and enjoy. I hope we make it to next year feeling a bit less angry about the world. 

Here's what I wrote in 2018: 

Books


  • Glimmerglass Girl, Finishing Line Press 
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Poetry


I published several speculative poems eligible for the Rhysling Award: 
  • Star*Line 41.4 (October 2018) - "A Terrible Meat Eating God"
  • Liminality Issue #17 (Autumn 2018) - "Dead-Eye Girl" 
  • Nice Cage (Issue 006, Climate Change And/Or Die, Summer/Spring 2018) - "Boll Heart," "And Farther Death Goes," "A Deep Enough Abyss" 
  • Really System(Issue 19: Stymy a Seller, Summer 2018)- "Orbital Debris" 
  • Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Book Company, July 17, 2018) - "Sea Fog"
I also published a few realist poems this year: 
  • Texas Poetry Calendar 2019 (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2018) - "Dear Childhood"
  • Terse Journal (Oct. 3, 2018) - "What it Feels Like to Play Video Games as a Woman" 
  • "Erasure" (after Ralph Waldo Emerson) - in ARTHouston Magazine Issue#7 (September 2018) 
  • Storyscape (Issue 20, July 2018) - "A Woman" (erasure of William Faulkner)and "She was a Nice Little Nothing" (erasure of Jack Kerouac) 
  • ​Isacoustic, April 14, 2018 -  "espejitos"
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Short Stories
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I'm particularly proud to have published several stories in pro-paying publications this year. The following stories are awards eligible:
  • Daily Science Fiction (August 13, 2018) - After the First Comes the Last
  • Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, September 2018) - Stardust
  • Fireside Magazine (February 2018) - knick knack, knick knack
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Nonfiction


Here are the essays and reviews I published this year:
  • ​Cotton Xenomorph (9/17/18) - ​YUM-DERDOME: Oh My Sweet Pickle Babies
  • Up the Staircase (8/1/18) Review: Dear Judas by Melissa Jennings
  • Trish Hopkinson's Blog (7/29/18) 6 Resources for Submitting Your Work
  • Cotton Xenomorph (6/21/18) Manifestos: Six Principles of Flash Fiction
  • ​Entropy Magazine (6/15/18) Review: Consolation Prize by Tyler Robert Sheldon 
That's it! Whew! As per usual, I am supremely grateful to the editors who continue to support my work and think it's worthwhile enough to grace the pages, or cyberspaces, of their publications. 

I have one more thing to be grateful for. This December, I decided to finally launch a small press and magazine. Now, there's not much to share right now as the ink is not quite dry yet on this new venture, but I promise to post soon about my plans. 

Now, who's ready for 2019? Let's do this.
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What I Published in 2017 (Awards Eligibility)

12/29/2017

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As the end of the year draws to a close, I'd like to share with you the works I published in 2017 that I'm proud of. 2017 was a great year for me and I'm so grateful to the editors who have taken my work under their wings. I wrote a lot more experimental poetry this year, which people seem to enjoy, and I published my first full-length story, which was pretty exciting to me. 

If you've read my work or nominated it in the past, I am truly truly thankful. I couldn't get by without the support of my amazing writer friends and the writing community as a whole. 

Poetry
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The following are poems eligible for the SFPA Rhysling Award: 
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Short Poems:

  • "Confessions of a Supermassive Black Hole" (Short Poem, Dwarf Stars Eligible) in Grievous Angel, October 12, 2017 
  • "We Have Always Lived" (Short poem) in Nonbinary Review, Issue#15 (November)*
  • "Anvil Crawler" (Short poem) in ARTHouston Magazine, Issue#5, Sept. 2017 
  • "The Hearts of Robots" (Short poem) in Dreams & Nightmares Magazine, Sept 2017, Issue #107*
  • "​Lace at the Throat" (Short poem, Dwarf Star Eligible) in 2017 SFPA Poetry Contest.
  • "How I Lost My Chastity" (Short poem) in Liminality Magazine, Issue #13, Autumn 2017
  • "Dear Shotgun City" (Short poem) in Eye to the Telescope, Issue 25: July 2017, Theme: Garbage
  • ​"My City of Ruin" (Short poem) in Mithila Review, Issue 8, April, 2017
  • "Lunar Girl Drinks Poetry from the Stars" (Short poem) in Mithila Review, Issue 8, April, 2017
  • "Grayslick" (Short poem) in By & By Poetry, Issue 7
  • "Spring Will Come Again" (Short poem) in Abyss & Apex, Issue 62: 2nd Quarter 2017)
  • "Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song" (Short poem) in Liminality, Issue #11: Spring 2017
  • "Madness" (Short poem) in Crab Fat Magazine, March 2017
  • "Ship of Jinn" (Short poem) in Kaleidotrope, Winter 2017

Long Poems:
  • "Bird House" (Long poem) in ​Strange Horizons, August 7, 2017
  • "Reflection" (Long poem) in Mithila Review, Issue 8, April, 2017

*Poems noted with an asterisk are not available online. If you'd like a copy, email me.

Fiction


​While I didn't publish anything that was specifically eligible for a fiction award, I still want to share my story, The Joy of Baking, which appeared in Luna Station Quarterly  (Issue 030, July 2017).

It’s amazing how much easier it is to bake a cake when you’ve got an eternity to get it right. The secret to effective baking is patience, followed by the ability to fold the batter with a metal spoon instead of rushing in with a wooden spoon like a hammer. The folding in must be gentle so as not to break the hard-earned bubbles of air. Lastly, a baker must have the willingness to guard the oven, your feet cold on the tile, letting the warm scents of butter and vanilla envelop you and seep into the whole house, holding your breath while the batter rises, goldens, and browns slightly at the edges... read more

For a full list of publications go here. 

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2016 Awards eligibility

12/21/2016

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This feels a bit strange, but since I do have works that are eligible I thought I would list them here for interested parties. 2016 was an exciting year for me, and I feel grateful to the editors who enjoyed my work enough to publish it. I'd love to read your work, so please link below if you have an eligibility post!

The following poems are Rhysling Awards Eligible: 
  • "Powder Keg" (short poem) in Silver Blade, Issue #29, February 22, 2016
  • "Revolution" (long poem) in Abyss & Apex, Issue #58 (2nd Quarter 2016)
  • "Woven" (short poem) in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (May 2016)
  • "Night Raven" (short poem) in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (June 2016)
  • "For Lonnie" (long poem) in Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Issue#9 (Autumn 2016)
  • "Cetecean Prosthesis" (short poem) in Star*Line, Issue #39.4 (Fall 2016)*
  • "Hart Island" (short poem) in Eye to the Telescope, Issue#22 (October 2016)

​*Not available online - send me an email to receive a copy


​For my full publication history, click here. 

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    Holly Lyn Walrath is a freelance editor and author of poetry, flash fiction, and short fiction. Find her on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath

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