Awards Eligibility 2022

So, this is a new experience! This year was my first year actively submitting my work for publication, and now discovering the strange feeling of posting an Awards Eligibility roundup! Madness.

Below I’ve listed the pieces that have seen the light this year, and tried to indicate eligbility and genres where I can. The publications are linked but I’m happy to email a copy of these pieces to any SFWA or HWA members who request it. Just shoot me a DM on twitter or get in touch using my contact form.

On with the list!

• 🌟 Personal Favourite

• 🧙‍♂️ Fantasy

• 💀 Horror

• 🚀 Science Fiction

Novella

• 🌟 🧙‍♂️ Sealkeeper — Young Adult Dark Fantasy — Self Published

  Sealkeepers guard dreamer’s realms, preventing our worst nightmares from escaping onto the waking plane. Tegwen is a sealkeeper-in-training, so close to graduation that she can taste it.

  On her first solo shift, she witnesses a seal broken by a nightmarish windigo. Tegwen has a decision to make—face demotion, or chase the beast down on the waking plane. But she has to work fast, or soon other dreamer’s realms will break down, unleashing all her wards upon an unwitting population.

  Tegwen made this mess all by herself. She decides she can fix it on her own too, right?

  Namid, a feisty dreamer with a long-held secret, will challenge that theory, and show Tegwen how it feels to have dreams of her own.

Short Stories

• 💀 “Not Her” — Psychological Horror — ‘Annus Horribilis: Horror set in 2022’, Bag of Bones Press

  It’s been a tough year for Jess, and when she starts to see strangers watching her from her driveway, it only gets worse.

• 💀 “Criminal Indications” — Near-Future Horror — ‘This is Too Tense ‘, Bag of Bones Press

  A second-person, present tense story following a pregnant woman through a horrific 20-week ultrasound scan, in a world where prenatal scans detect much more than simple health.

• 🚀 “The Sigh of a Shrieking Puff” — Science Fiction / Humour — Del Sol SFF Review

  Visitors scour the universe for new scientific discoveries in return for credits. One cocksure adventurer lets his greed get the better of them.

• 🌟 🚀 “A Cup of Empathy” — Science Fiction / Dystopia — Wyldblood Magazine

  Connie is a barista at Emotive, where she serves emotions in liquid form. Her daily duties are repetitive, if unusual, but something sinister is brewing under the surface…

• 💀 “Find Your Stone” — Folk Horror — Gwyllion Magazine

  A pair of Welsh teenagers set up for a YouTube video shoot in the eerie ruins of Cwmorthin. But Y Ladi Wen is watching them.

Microfiction

• 🚀 “Rise and Shine” — Science Fiction / Humour — Martian Magazine, Issue 5

  Jenna is the perfect partner, in every possible way. Except for one slight defect…

• 💀 “Cŵn Annwn” — Folk Horror — ‘Drabbledark II: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles’, Shacklebound Books

  Arawn, the Welsh God of the underworld, and his hunting dogs, the Cŵn Annwn, hunt down wrongdoers in the Welsh countryside

• 💀 “Payload” — Horror — Dark Moments, Black Hare Press

  How else do you finally end a zombie apocalypse, when you’ve already tried every possible avenue?