Clarion West 2019

It’s award season! Looking for stories from the Clarion West class of 2019 to nominate? Look no further.

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Quick links:
Kristina Ten | Derrick Boden | Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
Millie Ho | Monte Lin | Phoebe Barton
Eugenia Triantafyllou | Kristiana Willsey | Isha Karki | Celeste Rita Baker

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Kristina Ten

• “Tend to Me” | Lightspeed, March 2020
  Nora is a serial becomer. Her latest transformation takes everyone by surprise.
  Reviews (possible spoilers): Strange Horizons Short Fiction Treasures, Quick Sip Reviews, The 1000 Year Plan, SFRevu, Rocket Stack Rank
• “Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills” | Lightspeed, July 2020
  When the witch’s chicken-legged hut runs away, she’ll go to the ends of the earth to find it. San Francisco proves a big culture shock.
  Reviews (possible spoilers): A.C. Wise’s Shiny Shorts, Paul Jessup’s July Roundup, Quick Sip Reviews, SFRevu, Locus, Lady Business, Rocket Stack Rank
• Find Kristina Ten’s full eligibility list here.

Derrick Boden

• “Hustle” | Escape Pod, February 2020
  “Hustle” explores the future of the gig economy through the eyes of a bounty hunter whose every possession – including her own body – are subject to the terms and conditions of short-term leases.
• “The Patron” | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2020
  “The Patron” is the story of a woman who grants favors in exchange for pain, in a frontier town where gangsters and cultists vie for power.

Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

• “The AI That Looked at the Sun” | Clarkesworld, January 2020
  A story about a newly-sapient AI who (in descending order of importance) falls in love with the sun, gets embroiled in workplace politics, and accidentally starts a revolution.
• “The Anatomy of Miracles” | Escape Pod, September 2020
  In which a weary old alien pondering the death of his people and a bored teenage girl whose main worry is what her parents think of her dating life discover that sometimes, the scale of your problems doesn’t make how you feel about them any different.

Millie Ho

• “A Moonlit Savagery” | Nightmare, April 2020
  The Thai viscera-eating ghost phi pop strikes up a relationship with a Canadian graffiti artist backpacking across Southeast Asia.
  Included in Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: April 2020
  Reviewed by Quick Sip Reviews, April 2020
  Reviewed in Locus Magazine, June 2020
  On the Bram Stoker Award 2020 Reading List
• “The Fenghuang” | Lightspeed, May 2020
  A young woman in Hong Kong who repeatedly burns to death and then comes back to life meets a person at the hospital who changes her life.
  Reviewed in Strange Horizon’s “Short Fiction Treasures,” June 2020
  Reviewed by Quick Sip Reviews, May 2020
• “Hungry Ghost” | Uncanny, March 2020
  An English teacher in Seoul makes a decision about their girlfriend who became a hungry ghost.
• “Beasts of New France” | Strange Horizons, June 2020
  Werewolves in Montreal go hunting together for the last time.
  Reviewed by Quick Sip Reviews, July 2020

Monte Lin

• heartsob playplayplay promisegift | Cossmass Infinities, September 2020
  In a fae-scoured Earth, Caitlin plays several dangerous games with her fae counterpart, Aisling, in order to win her family back. But when stories and your own imagination can be turned against you, when even hope itself can lead you astray, what else is left?

Phoebe Barton

• “The Last Ship Out of Exville” | Kaleidotrope, Winter 2020
  A space station populated by misfits prepares one final show before fascists take over.
  Recommended by Karen Burnham in Locus, June 2020
• “Purplefall” | Broadcasts from the Wasteland, April 2020
  After the death of her father, a grieving woman seeks answers from the gods.
  
• “A Compass in the Dark” | Analog, May/June 2020
  A woman discovers how easy it is for lunar spirits to lose their way.
  Reviewed in Rocket Stack Rank
• “The Forests Here Are Always Dark” | GlitterShip, Spring 2020
  On a world divided between eternal day and night, a trans woman struggles to ensure people see her as she is.
  Reviewed in Quick Sip Reviews
• “The Dreadnought and the Stars” | Glitter + Ashes, Neon Hemlock, 2020
  Long after the end of the world, a giant lesbian wanders the remnants, looking for her love.
  Reviewed in Quick Sip Reviews
• “A Brilliant Light, An Unreachable Dawn” | Recognize Fascism, World Weaver Press, 2020
  A traveller returns home to find that they both have changed, and that she doesn’t fit inside its walls anymore.
• “Little Rituals” | Heavy Metal Jupiters and Other Places, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, 2020
  Two space travellers share a quiet moment on a planet doomed to be engulfed by its sun.
• “The Luminous Underground” | Choice of Games, 2020
  Strange things are going down in the Underground! Build your team, descend beneath the city streets, and face down daemons with magic and science in this 660,000-word work of interactive fiction!

Eugenia Triantafyllou

• “My Country Is a Ghost” | Uncanny Magazine, January 2020
  An immigrant woman, who has her mother’s ghost confiscated at the border, struggles to find her place in a society full of ghosts.
  Included in Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: February 2020
  Recommended by Andy Duncan, October 2020
  Reviewed by A.C. Wise in Shiny Shorts
  Reviewed by Quick Sip Reviews, January 2020
  On the Nebula Recommended Reading List
• “Those We Serve” | Interzone, May 2020
  In a decaying summer resort, an Artificial’s life takes an unexpected turn when the human he got his memories from returns to claim back what he left behind.
  Recommended by Rich Horton in Locus Magazine, September 2020
  Reviewed in SFRevu, May 2020
  Reviewed in The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews, May 2020

Kristiana Willsey

• “The Kind and the Unkind Girls” | Toasted Cake, August 2020
  Two friends share the same story and grow apart.
  
• “Tiny House Living” | Fantasy Magazine, December 2020
  A woman moves into smaller and smaller apartments until she moves out of herself.
  Reviewed by Quick Sip Reviews, December 2020

Isha Karki

• “All in Good Time” | Galley Beggar Press, January 2020
  You get on a plane, you get to immigration control, you get stuck. You get on a plane, you get to the sorority house, you get stuck. You get on a plane…
  Winner of the Galley Beggar 2019/2020 Short Story Prize, February 2020
• “What Lies Within” | Augur Magazine, August 2020
  Whisked off to an unfamiliar country, a young bride lies awake on her husband’s towering bed and yearns for her mother’s chickpeas.
  Included in Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: August 2020
  Reviews (possible spoilers): Quick Sips Reviews, Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together

Celeste Rita Baker

• “Glass Bottle Dancer” | Lightspeed Magazine, April 2020