Jan 1, 2018 | announcement
Awards eligibility post for 2017
by Pablo Defendini
As we open 2018, Fireside is looking back on 2017 and cataloguing our output. We went through a lot of changes and challenges in 2017, and we published a lot of excellent fiction, essays, and art while we were at it. Brian J. White stepped down as Fiction Editor and Publisher and Julia Rios joined the team. Mikki Kendall, Cecily Kane, and the staff of FIYAH Lit Magazine worked with us on the #BlackSpecFic report, Elsa Sjunneson moved up from Assistant Editor to Managing Editor, and Pablo Defendini took on the Publisher role. During this transitional year, we’ve experimented with different ways of running reading periods for submissions and wording our guidelines, gathered some survey answers from submitters to try to assemble statistics, and worked hard to uphold our collective values with things like the Hurricane Bookstore we put up to raise funds for people affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. We’re hoping, as ever, to find ways to do more and do it better in 2018.
But first, we want to celebrate our contributors.
Here’s a list of all the stories we published in 2017 in rough chronological order. If you have a favorite among these, let us know! We’d love to hear about it! If you are nominating for the Nebula, Hugo, or other awards and wondering about the categories your favorites are eligible in, we’ve broken everything down into the appropriate categories for you. We’ve also listed the artists we worked with in 2017, and the staff. Fireside Magazine is eligible in the Best Semiprozine category for the Hugo Awards, and Brian and Julia are both individually eligible in the Best Editor Short Form category.
Short Stories
Black Like Them, by Troy L. Wiggins
God Talk: Advice From A Deity in Distress, by Alexis A. Hunter
The Praetorian Guard, by Lucas J.W. Johnson
It Happened To Me: My Doppleganger Stole My Credit Card Info, and then My Life, by Nino Cipri
It Happened To Me: I Melded My Consciousness With the Giant Alien Mushroom Floating Above Chicago, by Nino Cipri
The Resurrectionists, by Alec Austin
Radio Werewolf, by Cassandra Khaw
It Happened To Me: I Was Brought Back to Avenge My Death, But Chose Justice Instead, by Nino Cipri
Balance Point, by Sarah Goslee
Regarding Your Future With The Futures Planning Consortium, by Raq Winchester & Fran Wilde
The Hulder’s Husband Says Don’t, by Kate Lechler
Bear Language, by Martin Cahill
Friendly Emily, by Kevin Hearne
Snow White, by Mikki Kendall
Narrative Disorder, by Malka Older
Breathe, by R.D. Sullivan
How to Sync Your Spouse, by Russell Nichols
Crow’s Eye, by Sarah Hollowell
Independent, Superior, by Chris Butera
Queen Aster, Who Dances, by Tina Connolly
We Who Stay Behind, by Karl Dandenell
The Witch in the Tower, by Mari Ness
Intruder, by M. E. Owen
A Silhouette Against Armageddon, by John Wiswell
Until the Day We Go Home, by Caroline M. Yoachim
Junebug’s Magical Magnificent Mercurial Barbershop, by Malon Edwards
Three Laws, by Andrea Phillips
Our Secrets, In Keys, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Feeding Mr. Whiskers, by Dawn Bonanno
If We Live to Be Giants, by Allison Mulder
Reaching Beyond, by Evelyn Wong
The Whale of Tikpiti’i, by Tariro Ndoro
Banshee, by Cherrelle Shelton
Geppetto, by Carlos Hernandez
River Boy, by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
H&D Plumbing, by Courtney Floyd
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, by Christa Carmen
The Scenarist, by Stu West
Caesura, by Hayley Stone
A Cure for Ghosts, by Eden Royce
Portrait of Skull with Man, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Mirrors in the Valley, by Kendra Sims
Rab the Giant versus the Witch of the Waterfall, by Brian M. Milton
The Gingerbread Pox, by Rachel Rodman
A Rabbit Egg for Flora, by Caroline M. Yoachi
Novelettes
The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike, by Andrea Phillips
The Fisher of Bones, by Sarah Gailey
Novels
She Wolf and Cub, by Lilith Saintcrow
Related works
The 2016 #BlackSpecFic Report, by Cecily Kane
The FIYAH #BlackSpecFic Roundtable, by The FIYAH Magazine Staff
A Note from the Editor of the #BlackSpecFic Responses, by Mikki Kendall
A response to the #BlackSpecFic Report, by De Ana Jones
Zero Percent Chance, by Chesya Burke
The Ones Who Walk Away from the Genres, by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Diversity Doesn’t Just Happen, by Maurice Broaddus
One Year Later and We Still Have Work To Do, by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Addressing a problem, by Thea James
It’s Up to Us, by Pablo Defendini
The Importance of Being Monstrous, by Meghan Ball
Artists
Galen Dara, for River Boy, Reaching Beyond, Intruder, Crow’s Eye, Narrative Disorder, Bear Language, The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike, and Black Like Them
Max Cole-Takanikos for Caesura
Marianne Khalil for Rab the Giant versus the Witch of the Waterfall
Miranda Meeks for The Fisher of Bones
Fireside
Pablo Defendini, Publisher
Brian J. White, Fiction Editor
Julia Rios, Fiction Editor
Elsa Sjunneson, Managing Editor
Mikki Kendall, #BlackSpecFic Editor
Thanks to everyone who reads Fireside, who talks with us on Twitter, and who supports us by subscribing or otherwise. We are so glad to be part of a thriving community. We look forward to making that community stronger in 2018. If you have ideas for us, please let us know. We’ve got some things already in the works, but we’re also always listening.
All best to everyone for 2018!
© 2018 Pablo Defendini
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