‘Tis the season…for award eligibility posts!

Thanks to everyone looking at fiction for this award season. I have a few things from 2024 for your consideration. I appreciate you taking the time for these–hope you enjoy. And if you need copies, drop me an email or find me on Bluesky.

I had four stories published in 2024. They are eligible in the Best Short Story categories for the Aurora, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, etc. I also edited one anthology which is eligible for some awards, too. All the details below.

If you’re reading just one story, I hope you’ll consider my WWI historical fantasy, “St. George and the World Serpent.”

If you’re a horror reader and reading for the Bram Stoker Award, I hope you’ll also consider my alternate history Aztec horror story, “The Festival of Toxcatl.”

SHORT STORIES

“St. George and the World Serpent”

• WWI historical fantasy. 3500 words
• Published in Odin: New & Ancient Norse Tales (Flame Tree, November 2024)

“The Festival of Toxcatl”

• Aztec historical horror. 5400 words
• Published in Tenebrous Antiquities: An Anthology of Historical Horror (Chthonic Matter, May 2024)

“Waiting for the Iceman”

• Near future climate-based science fiction (“cli-fi”). 5000 words
• Published in Sunshine Superhighway: Solar Sailings (JayHenge Publishing KB, January 2024)

“Challenge Coin”

• Near future political/military science fiction. 1700 words
• Published in NATO 2099: The Science Fiction Anthology (February 2024)

ANTHOLOGY

If you’re reading for the Best Anthology category for the Locus, World Fantasy, or Aurora Awards (where it’s called the Best Related Work), I hope you’ll keep in mind Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two, edited by me and published in November 2024.