That’s it folks, that’s the show: we have now published everything on our editorial calendar for 2018. And we published a lot. Short short stories, long short stories, and plenty of things that were not stories at all.

Fireside Magazine, which is eligible in the Best Semiprozine category for the Hugo Awards, published 52 stories, 11 essays, 12 illustrations and one illustrated poem in 2018. We collected each month’s worth of stories and artwork into the 12 issues of the monthly ebook magazine that we send to our subscribers, and in July we began collecting three months’ worth of stories, essays, and artwork into Fireside Quarterly, the new print edition of Fireside which hits our subscribers’ mailboxes every three months.

Separately, Fireside also published the yearly installment of the #BlackSpecFic Report along with its supporting essays; we also lent a hand with the publication of A Larger Reality, the Mexicanx Initiative anthology, as well as the scrapbook website commemorating the event.

This year we also began Fireside Press, our line of longer-form work. Fireside Press published one novella and two novels, and we’re just getting started. Expect more over time on this front.

Last year we brought on Julia Rios to replace Brian White as editor of Fireside Magazine, and this year we had some staff changes too. We brought on Meg Frank as our community coordinator, and we said goodbye to our managing editor, Elsa Sjunneson — but not before she edited a few nonfiction essays for us.

As we close out the year, we want to celebrate our contributors, so we’ve put together this list of all the stories we published in 2018. If you have a favorite among these, let us know on Twitter, we’d love to hear about it!

If you are nominating for the various awards, we’ve labelled everything appropriately. We’ve also listed the artists who we’ve commissioned artwork for in 2018, The special projects we’ve participated in, and the editors we’ve worked with who are eligible for awards.

Fireside Magazine

— Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25, 2013 a poem by Amal El-Mohtar, illustrated by Molly Crabapple

Fireside Magazine Issue 51: January 2018

— Two Years Dead, a short story by Kathryn Kania

— Those We Feed, a short story by Layla Al-Bedawi

— Hehua, a short story by Millie Ho, illustrated by Tesslyn Bergin

— A Legal Alien, a short story by Maya Kanwal

— Riddle, a short story by Ogbewe Amadin

— Immigrant Experiences in Fiction and Real Life: A Roundtable Discussion by Maya Kanwal, Layla Al-Bedawi, and Millie Ho

Fireside Magazine Issue 52: February 2018

— Dust to Dust, a short story by Mary Robinette Kowal

— How I Got Published (12 Tips from a Bestselling Author), a short story by Dominica Phetteplace

— The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington, a short story by Phenderson Djèlí Clark, illustrated by Odera Igbokwe

— Imagining the Past: Speculative Fiction and the Recovering of Black History, an essay by Phenderson Djèlí Clark

— knick knack, knick knack, a short story by Holly Lyn Walrath

Fireside Magazine Issue 53: March 2018

— Flow, a short story by Marissa Lingen, illustrated by Galen Dara

— Object-Oriented, a short story by Arkady Martine

— By the Mother’s Trunk, a short story by Lisa M. Bradley

— Power Structures Are Meant to Be Broken, an essay by Elsa Sjunneson

— Iyanuoluwa-Mercy of God, a short story by Jojo Bee

Fireside Magazine Issue 54: April 2018

— On Good Friday the Raven Washes Its Young, a short story by Bogi Takács

— Before the Burst, a short story by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

— One For Sorrow, Two For Joy, a short story by LaShawn M. Wanak, illustrated by Dawid Planeta

— We Need New Scripts, an essay by Andrea Phillips

— 50 Ways to Leave Your Fairy Lover), a short story by Aimee Picchi

Fireside Magazine Issue 55: May 2018

— So It Was Foretold, a short story by Mimi Mondal

— A Promise of Flight, a short story by Lee S. Bruce, illustrated by Maggie Chiang

— The Paladin Protocol, a short story by Sydnee Thompson

— The Finger, a short story by April Grant

— Redefining Scripts for Better Masculinity, an essay by Pablo Defendini

— Now Watch My Rising, a short story by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Fireside Magazine Issue 56: June 2018

— The Day After the Red Warlock of Skull Top Mountain Turned Everyone in Beane County into Pigs, a short story by Susan Jane Bigelow

— Beast of Breath, a short story by Gillian Daniels

— Cast Off Tight, a short story by Hal Y. Zhang, illustrated by Katie Chandler

— Getting Men Off Ledges, a short story by Brandon O’Brien

— Fascism and Facsimiles, a short story by John Wiswell

Fireside Quarterly July 2018 — collects the next three months of Fireside Magazine into a print edition.

Fireside Magazine Issue 57: July 2018

— Rules for Communing with Spirits, a short story by Christopher R. Alonso, illustrated by Charis Loke

— A Post-Modern Oracle, a short story by Courtney Floyd

— Shrugging Off the Weight of the World, a short story by Beth Cato

— The Story of a Young Woman, a short story by Ose Utomi

— Reclaiming Makerhood, an essay by Jessica S. Cauttero

— Love in Every Stitch, a short story by Alexandra Rowland

Fireside Magazine Issue 58: August 2018

— The Unusual Customer, a short story by Innocent Chizaram Ilo

— Pigeons, a short story by Nibedita Sen

— By Stone, by Sea, by Flower, by Thorn, a short story by Sarah Goslee

— Who Gets to Say #MeToo?, an essay by Ace Ratcliff

— A Taxonomy of Hurts, a short story by Kate Dollarhyde, illustrated by Kevin Tong

Fireside Magazine Issue 59: September 2018

— CARBORUNDORUM > /DEV/NULL, a short story by Annalee Flower Horne, illustrated by Michelle Wong

— Friday Night Games, a short story by Anne Dafeta

— How to Identify an Alien Shark, a short story by Beth Goder

— #MeToo, and Furthermore, an essay by Hillary Monahan

— The Ceremony, a short story by Mari Ness

Fireside Quarterly October 2018

Fireside Magazine Issue 60: October 2018

— Inner Space, a short story by Takim Williams

— Light and Death on the Indian Battle Station, a short story by Keyan Bowes, illustrated by Saleha Chowdhury

— STET, a short story by Sarah Gailey

— We Could Have the Future Star Trek Promised Us, an essay by Danilo Campos

— Odontogenesis, a short story by Nino Cipri

— Pendants of Precariousness, a short story by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

Fireside Magazine Issue 61: November 2018

— Birch Daughter, a short story by Sara Norja, illustrated by Satu Kettunen

— And I Never Named Her, a short story by Renee Christopher

-Reclaiming the Right to Truth, a short story by Tariro Ndoro

— The New Heart, a short story by Natalia Theodoridou

— Rain and the Designs of Your Body, a short story by J.M. Guzman

Fireside Magazine Issue 62: December 2018

— A Letter to My Sister, a short story by Nilah Magruder

— Cleaning Up, a short story by Brian M. Milton, illustrated by Clare DeZutti

— Choose Wisely, a short story by Fran Wilde

— You Wake Up Monstrous, an essay by Fran Wilde

— Tablecloth, a short story by Kathryn Kania

Fireside Press

— Every River Runs to Salt, a novella by Rachael K. Jones

— Gunsmoke & Glamour, a novel by Hillary Monahan

— Rattlesnake Wind, a novel by Lilith Saintcrow

Artists

— Molly Crabapple, for Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25, 2013

— Anna Zee, for Every River Runs to Salt

— Eli Hoyt, for Gunsmoke & Glamour

— Elanor Chuah, for Rattlesnake Wind

— Clare DeZutti, for Cleaning Up

— Satu Kettunen, for Birch Daughter

— Saleha Chowdhury, for Light and Death on the Indian Battle Station

— Michelle Wong, for CARBORUNDORUM > /DEV/NULL

— Kevin Tong, for A Taxonomy of Hurts

— Charis Loke, for Rules for Communing with Spirits

— Katie Chandler, for Cast Off Tight

— Maggie Chiang, for A Promise of Flight

— Dawid Planeta, for One For Sorrow, Two For Joy

— Galen Dara, for Flow

— Odera Igbokwe, for The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

— Tesslyn Bergin, for Hehua

Related Works

The #BlackSpecFic Report

— The 2017 #BlackSpecFic Report, by Cecily Kane

— POB Scoring: Growth and Accountability, by L. D. Lewis

— More Than Numbers, by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

— Three Years Into the #BlackSpecFic Report, by Mikki Kendall

— Fireside #BlackSpecFic Report Response, by Inda Lauyrn

— On Gaming, Fantastic Racism, & Real World Bigotry, by Latonya Pennington

— Mexicanxinitiative.com: The Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76, edited by Libia Brenda and Julia Rios, designed by Pablo Defendini, led by John Picacio

Our Editors

— Brian White, for our novels and novellas

— Julia Rios, for the stories, essays, and poems in Fireside Magazine

— Elsa Sjunneson, for selected essays in Fireside Magazine

— Tanya DePass, for The #BlackSpecFic Report

And that’s it from us, for the year. As always, thanks for reading.

© 2018 Pablo Defendini

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