For Your Consideration: Apparition Lit - Dread issue 2023
Lots of Spooky Recommendations For Your Literary Awards!
Last year, me and my sister in crime Eugenia Triantafyllou had the opportunity to be guest co-editors for the issue 21 of Apparition Lit magazine which was all about dread. Working alongside an amazing editorial team was a very fulfilling experience: I can't thank enough the guidance, patience and overall awesomeness showed by everyone involved in creating this issue of the magazine. We learned so much and had lots of fun. You can read our editorial here where we talked about the theme and the stories in more detail.
Since award nomination season is underway I wanted to use this opportunity to emulate what Eugenia already wrote in a more eloquent way and recommend you the amazing short fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art that are part of this issue made with love and... dread. Please, think about these pieces when filling out your awards ballots.
Remember that Apparition Lit is eligible for the BEST SEMIPROZINE category in the Hugo Awards! Please, think about this team that is not only bringing us amazing speculative fiction and poetry but are striving for a more diverse community. Bennett, Amy Henry Robinson, Tacoma Tomilson, and Clarke Doty, the magazine's senior editors, are also eligible for the EDITOR, SHORT FORM Hugo.
SHORT FICTION
- Luis, the Last Time by Rachel Lastra
- The Bones Are Hungry by Joshua Jones Lofflin
- Oh Jackie by Wess Mongo Jolley
- Soulbirds by Sylvia Heike
POETRY
- The Marriages: The dybbuk by Gemma Cooper-Novack
- Shut Mouths Sing Melodious by Tiffany Morris
- CONSENT FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE SHELLEY CONCEPTS INC CUSTOM PATIENT-FITTED RECONSTRUCTION PROSTHESIS by Katie R. Yen
- Ghostboy Kills Our Mother with Trauma by Olumide Manuel
NONFICTION
- inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale by Jeané Ridges
ART
- Maria Schrater wrote a beautiful essay about Edith Silva's cover art and how it relates to this issue's theme in Dread is Being Trapped in a Curiosity Shop by Your Terrible Sense of Direction. This art piece and all the Apparition's covers for 2023 were made by Edith who is eligible for the ARTIST categories in the Hugo Awards.
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| Apparition Lit - Issue 21: Dread (January 2023) Art by Edith Silva |
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