Hey guys. Guess what, it’s Awards Season for us Science Fiction Writers and so a lot of people will be writing these here “Award Eligibility” posts where they list and link their stories that are eligible for professional awards – that is, stories that appeared in SFWA-Approved markets for the Read more
My poetry professor gave out an assignment to write five interconnected, longer poems. The goal was that by the end of his course we would all write book-length poems. I was mad in love with the old victorian mansions of University Circle, now serving as office buildings, fraternity houses, and Read more
I’ve got a lot of balls in the air right now. On Saturday, May 19th, I will be at the SFWA Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, in particular I’ll be at the Clarion All Class Meetup from 3-6pm 😉 On Monday, May 21, I will be talking and reading at the Read more
It was the second week of Clarion. My first story written the week before had mixed success. The classmates were too nice and the instructor told me plain it wasn’t good enough. I started with humor hoping it would be a softball. Not so much. Licking my wounds, I decided Read more
Every year the Clarion Foundation hosts a write-a-thon to raise money to keep the Clarion workshop going. I attended Clarion in 2013 and it was a life-changing experience I’d like to help more people have. Write-a-thon participants set their own goals for the six weeks of the Clarion workshop. (It Read more
For the Clarion write-a-thon in 2014, I offered to write a story to order for anyone who donated. My friend Brian Fergueson prompted me to write “Aztecs in Space.” I happily fell down a research hole and learned, among other things, that the planet Venus was associated with the feathered Read more
Here are the stories I have published this year that are eligible for your consideration for the Hugo, Nebula, or Best Author on the East Side Who Doesn’t Have A Mustache, or whatever. (10 short stories and 6 poems. If that’s too much to read through, my favorite one was Read more