For publications we announced previous to June 2020, please see our Alumni News Archive.
April 2021
Robert Guffey (CW ’96)
“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” published by Crossroad Press
“Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes” published by Eraserhead Press
Monte Lin (CW ’19)
“Unnamed,” Cast of Wonders
Stephanie Malia Morris (CW ’17)
March 2021
Greg Cox (CW ’84)
Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021 edited by Robert Greenberger
Turning the Tied edited by Jean Rabe, Robert Greenberger, Jonathan Mabery, and D. J. Stevenson
“Penguin is a Girl’s Best Friend/Penguin Sets a Trend/Penguin’s Disastrous End” in BIFF! BAM! EEE-YOW!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman ’66–Season Two edited by Jim Beard and Rich Handley
Dennis E. Staples (CW ’18)
This Town Sleeps: A Novel from Counterpoint LLC
Caroline M. Yoachim (CW ‘06)
“Colors of the Immortal Palette,” Uncanny
Evan J. Peterson (CW ’15)
“The Challenge From Beyond” (final section), ed. Cody Goodfellow, for the 2020 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon
February 2021
Colleen (Celdae) Anderson (CW ’87)
“Rabbit Foot,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #47 (w/audio)
“Hourglass,” Burial Day Books
“Red Shoes,” Penumbric Speculative Fiction Vol. IV, #5
“Millennium’s Edge,” Shelter of Daylight
“Roots,” in Dark Moments
“Sacrifice,” Scifaikuest
“untitled (luring),” Scifaikuest
Betsy Aoki (CW ’16)
“A Crows of Yakubyō Gami (Pestilence Yōkai)” in Strange Horizons
Justin Key (CW ’15)
“The H Word: Horror, Through Colored Lenses” in Nightmare
“Spider King” on Serial Box
Evan J. Peterson (CW ’15)
“The Parachute” in Forbidden Futures
January 2021
Colleen (Celdae) Anderson (CW ’87)
“What Goldilocks Learned”—American Diversity Report
“In Feline Grace”—Illumen Winter 2021
“Offering,” Illumen Winter 2021
Greg Beatty (CW ’00)
“A New Once Upon a Time” in Little Blue Marble
Derrick Boden (CW ’19)
“The Unrepentent” in Escape Pod (workshopped during Clarion West!)
“Faulty Worker Process” in Dark Matter Magazine
“Confessions of a Forward Thinker” in Cossmass Infinities
Alyc Helms (CW ’12) and Marie Brennan (CW online instructor) released their new book The Mask of Mirrors under the collective pen name M. A. Carrick.
Justin Key (CW ’15)
“Balancing the Equation” in Escape Pod
“N-raptured” in Fantasy & Science Fiction (Jan/Feb)
December 2020
Colleen (Celdae) Anderson (CW ’87)
“masquerade” in OnSpec 115, Vol. 31 No. 1
“Pokey Potz” in Come Out to Play” OnSpec 115, Vol. 31 No. 1
“Mousetrap” in Lycan Valley Press’s Pulp Horror Book of Phobias II
Justin C. Key (CW ’15)
“Saving Grace” in Interstellar Flight Magazine
Evan J. Peterson (CW ’15)
Better Living Through Alchemy Chapter 2: “Coagula” from Broken Eye Books
Monte Lin (CW ’19)
“Menobezoar” in LampLight
Kristina Ten (CW ’19)
“Two Hundred Ways to Disappear” in Witness Magazine
M. L. Krishnan (CW ’19)
“My Adolescence in an Attempted Utopia” in Zócalo Public Square
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“Pumpkin’s Watch” in Sage Cigarettes
“Phoenix” in Yellow Arrow Publishing
“The Metallurgist’s Dream” in HWA Poetry Showcase
November 2020
Vicki Saunders (CW ’09) and Andrew Penn Romine (CW ’10) are both featured in Three Lobed Burning Eye Volume VI. The collection includes Saunders’s “Whale Woman Watches” and Romine’s “No God West of Pearceville.”
Emily C. Skaftun’s (CW ’09) debut collection, Living Forever & Other Terrible Ideas, is now out from Fairwood Press. The collection includes four of Skaftun’s Clarion West stories as well as her application story. Her short story “Bristle” also appears in Bourbon Penn.
Holly Wade Matter (CW ’92)
Damned Pretty Things from Aqueduct Press
Greg Cox (CW ’84)
Star Trek: The Original Series: A Contest of Principles from Simon & Schuster
Chris Willrich (CW ’88)
“Eyetooth” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Shannon Fay (CW ’14)
“Eyespots” and “Familiar Ground” in Daily Science Fiction
Usman T. Malik (CW ’13)
“City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat” via Tor.com
Lora Gray (CW ’16)
“Five Candles” a Warhammer horror story from Black Library
Eugenia Triantafyllou (CW ’19)
“Cherry Wood Coffin” audio at Pseudopod, reprinted from Apex
Millie Ho (CW ’19)
“Scar Literature” in PRISM International
October 2020
S. Qiouyi Lu (CW ’16) and Gordon B. White (CW ’17) are both featured in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 12, ed. Ellen Datlow. The collection includes Lu’s “As Dark As Hunger” and White’s “Birds of Passage.”
Sheree Renee Thomas (CW ’99 ) and Craig Laurance Gidney (CW ’96) are both featured in SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire. The collection includes Thomas’s “Love Hangover” and Gidney’s “Desiccant.”
Nibedita Sen (CW ’15)
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence” in Uncanny Magazine
Lora Gray (CW ’16)
“As if My Flesh was Summer Soil” in Uncanny Magazine
Natalia Theodoridou (CW ’18)
“To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds” in Clarkesworld
Craig Laurance Gidney (CW ’96)
“Spyder Threads” (podcast!) on Come Join Us By The Fire, Season 2 (Tor Nightfire)
“On Loving A Haunted City” at tornightfire.com
Maura McHugh (CW ’06)
“Thief of Senses” w/ Robin Henley in Misty and Scream! 2020 Special
Laurie Penny (CW ’15)
The Haunting of Bly Manor story editor, Netflix
Derrick Boden (CW ’19)
“Factory Girl” in Abyss & Apex
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“embalmed” in Chrome Baby
“Monster” in Breath and Shadow
“Telltale Moon” in Dreams and Nightmares
Christopher Caldwell (CW ’07)
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan”
in Best British Fantasy 2019 and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
“Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”
in Glitter + Ashes (Neon Hemlock)
Gordon B. White (CW ’17)
“In A Universe Where We Draw Children from the Stars”
in Legendary Tales
“Ranger Ronin Presents…”
in Video Palace: In Search of the Eyeless Man, ed. Nick Braccia & Michael Monello
September 2020
The Year’s Best Science Fiction vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020
features a cascade of Clarion West alumni and instructors including Caroline M. Yoachim (CW ’06), Chinelo Onwualu (CW ’14), Indrapramit Das (CW ’12), Tegan Moore (CW ’15), and Rich Larson (CW ’14), edited by 2019 instructor Jonathan Strahan.
Jae Steinbacher (CW ’14)
in Voyage YA Journal
Justin C. Key (CW ’15)
“The Perfection of Teresa Watkins”
from Tor.com
Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (CW ’19)
in Escape Pod
Derrick Boden (CW ’19)
in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Monte Lin (CW ’19)
“Heartsob Playplayplay Promisegift”
Book review, How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
in Strange Horizons
Evan J. Peterson (CW ’15)
microessay included in “How has COVID Influenced the Way Authors Tell Stories?”
in Sci Fi Pulse
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“Elegy from the Lost Colonies” in Time We Left, ed. Terry Grimwood
“Cautionary Steps” in Black Hare Press
“Clothed in Splendor” in Fabled Journal
Greg Beatty (CW ’00)
on Medium
August 2020
Georgina Kamsika (CW ’12)
from REUTS Publications
Maria Romasco Moore (CW ’11)
Some Kind of Animal (first novel!)
from Underlined
Sheree Renée Thomas (CW ’99)
“The Glassdreaming Tree”
in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (1945-2010)
Curator, Red Spring: Curating the End of the World
hosted on Google Culture
Evan J. Peterson (CW ’15)
on Tales To Terrify podcast
“Drinking Rituals of the Apollonian Dionysians”
Cynthia Ward (CW ’92)
“Whoever Fights Monsters” in Nine to Eternity: A Science Fiction Anthology, ed. M. Christian
“Dreams of Salt” in Skelos: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy
“Switch and Bait” in Black Cat Mystery Magazine
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“Divinity in the Afterglow” in Space and Time
“Untitled (pawn shops” in StarLine
“Tree of Life” and “Spirit Bound” in Literary Hatchet
and more recent poems published in Transition Magazine, Frozen Wavelets, Eternal Haunted Summer Solstice, Third Estate Art Quaranzine, and The Life of Beasts and Trees
Greg Beatty (CW ’00)
“For Auden, Regarding Leda” in Eye to the Telescope: The Sex Issue
“I Guess They Don’t” in The Pages from Semi-Sages
“The Man Not Traveling Through Time” on Medium
“Make the Monster Bigger,” essay on Joanna Russ on Medium
July 2020
Elly Bangs (CW ’17)
“The Liberation of Ghost City”
in Fireside Magazine
Dora Klindžić (CW ’18)
in Fireside Magazine
Andy Duncan (CW ’94)
“The All Go Hungry Hash House”
in Galactic Stew, ed. David Coe and Joshua Palmatier
Derrick Boden (CW ’19)
“The Silence That Consumes Us”
in Galactic Stew, ed. David Coe and Joshua Palmatier
Marilyn Holt (CW co-founder)
at Short-Story.me
Mitchell Shanklin (CW ’16)
“It Only Takes a Few Months for a Poet to Position Its Jaws”
in Daily Science Fiction
M. L. Krishnan (CW ’19)
“The Eggshell Sanctuary” (CW week 2 story!)
in Quarterly West
Genevieve Williams (CW ’02)
“The Sea of Stars”
in Retellings of the Inland Seas from Candlemark and Gleam
“Ghosts, Grimoires, and Dealing with Demons: Hellblazer‘s Real-World Magic”
essay in Hellblazer, From Bayou to Abyss at Sequart
Stephanie Burgis (CW ’01)
“Love, Your Flatmate”
in Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Coronavirus, ed. Iona Datt Sharma
Natalia Theodoridou (CW ’18)
“The Shape of Gifts”
in Fantasy and Science Fiction
“What It Sounds Like When You Fall”
in The Best of British Fantasy 2019, ed. Jared Shurin
Maura McHugh (CW ’06)
“Wake the Dead”
in The Best of British Fantasy 2019, ed. Jared Shurin
Millie Ho (CW ’19)
in Strange Horizons
Kristina Ten (CW ’19)
“Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills” in Lightspeed
“Call It My Signature Kill” in Okay Donkey
“Keep Tabs on You” in Cease, Cows
“Meat Eaters” in Fictive Dream
Caroline M. Yoachim (CW ’06)
“Shadow Prisons”, a novelette in three parts, appearing in The Dystopia Triptych (eds. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant):
Shadow Prisons: Part 1, “The Shadow Prison Experiment” is in
Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych Book 1)
Shadow Prisons: Part 2, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind” is in
Burn the Ashes (The Dystopia Triptych Book 2)
and Shadow Prisons: Part 3, “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma” is in
Or Else the Light (The Dystopia Triptych Book 3)
Cynthia Ward (CW ’92)
“Ice and Fire: Two Vampire Stories”
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“New Angles” at Engen Books
and new poems in Transition Magazine, Frozen Wavelets, Eternal Haunted Summer Solstice, Third Estate Art Quaranzine, and The Life of Beasts and Trees
Izzy Wasserstein (CW ’17)
“Five Reasons for the Sign Above Her Door, One of Them Unspoken” in Abyss & Apex
“Seven Plans of the League Of Villainous Empowerment to Break Atomic Patriot’s Hold on Star City” in DecodedPride
“For Change is the Moon’s Domain, and Tonight She Watches” in Fireside Magazine
June 2020
Lauren Dixon (CW ’10)
from Hydra House
Sonia Orin Lyris (CW ’92)
Unmoored, Book One of The Stranger Trilogy
online
Lawrence Schimel, translator (CW ’91)
Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy by George Takei)
from Top Shelf
Andrea Hairston (CW ’99), R. R. Angell (CW ’04), and Craig L. Gidney (CW ’96) have ebooks featured in this year’s Pride bundle, curated by Catherine Lundoff
M. J. (Marilyn) Holt (one of our founders!)
“No Statute of Limitations”
Kathleen Alcalá (CW ’87, instructor for CW ’10)
“The Road to Nyer”
in Latinx Rising from Ohio State University Press
A. T. Greenblatt (CW ’17)
“Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”
in Uncanny
Lora Gray (CW ’16)
“Matches, Tower, Sister, Stone”
in Flash Fiction Online
Tina Connolly (CW ’06, instructor CW ’20/21)
“Skating Without Streetlights”
in Us in Flux from ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
Nisi Shawl (CW ’92)
in Us in Flux from ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
Iori Kusano (CW ’17)
“Blades in the Dark” series of tabletop storytelling podcasts
from SpeculateSF
Robert Guffey (CW ’96)
“The Loser”
in Black Cat Mystery Magazine
“Her Wounded Eyes”
Colleen Anderson (CW ’87)
“Accidentally, He Gives Her Dreams”
in The Fantasy Files from Engen Books
“Twined” in Silver Blade
“Cleopatra” in Illumen
“Looking Glass” in Illumen
“Hacker Hallowe’en” in Polar Borealis