Canadian Authors – Toronto branch had an open mic on Friday that I ALMOST didn’t attend…
Holy Geez;
imagine if I didn’t go…?
Then I got invited to talk in the Women In Horror Month episode of their podcast!
You can find the podcast episode at:
PODBEAN: Episode # 10: The Women in Horror Show (podbean.com)
GOOGLE PODCAST: Words with Writers Podcast – Episode # 10: The Women in Horror Show (google.com)
APPLE PODCAST: Episode #10 : The Women In Horror Show
So, um, Apex Magazine had this to say about my reprint, unlocked on Feb. 16th and free-to-read online:
Um…!!!
Here’s the story:
https://apex-magazine.com/the-ace-of-knives/
Guys! My story, about someone turning into a Soucouyant, published today!
I also narrate it in Patois!
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/10-steps-to-a-whole-new-you/
My reprint, “The Ace Of Knives”, is reprinted in Apex magazine!
I’ve had the honour of having both Nisi Shawl use it in her Writing The Other workshops, and Tananarive Due has used it as well, in her Black Horror course in UCLA. In both cases my story was used as an example of code-switching.
I have Rachel Nussbaum to thank, for if it wasn’t for her asking to interview me for an interview series she was doing on he Facebook page, Maurice Broaddus’ attention wouldn’t have been caught, and I wouldn’t have been reprinted.
I’m happy it gets such a great opportunity for reprinting!
It will be available for reading on Jan. 16th.
https://www.apex-magazine.com
Speaking of code-switching, I had originally conceived of “10 Steps To A Whole New You” walking back from rescuing an injured starling and handing it in to The Humane Society, near Queen and Broadview, around the middle of December last year, and had planned to do this story as an assignment to turn in as part of Richard Thomas’ Short Story Mechanics class. Based on how the course was designed, that didn’t work out. But I still wanted to work on it, seeing as I had never done a story in this way before. Writing a story in complete Patois had been done; heck, I’d spearheaded the way for SFF stories written in complete Patois, which is basically an English creole unique to the Caribbean, and it varies distinctly from island to island. Writing small segments of a story in Patois I’d done in The Ace Of Knives, for example. But actively switching between standard English and Patois? I hadn’t seen that done yet. So I’m assuming that’s how it got started, because I’m always striving to do something I hadn’t done previously in my work.
Fantasy Magazine will have it available for reading… and I also did the narration!… on the 19th.
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com
My first ever published short story, “The Ace Of Knives”, will be reprinted in the relaunch issue of Apex Magazine Issue 121, next year in 2021!
My, but does this story have legs.
Nisi Shawl uses it in her Writing The Other workshops as an example of code switching. Same for Tananarive Due, when she was using it in her UCLA Black Horror course.
I can say that Jordan Peele crashed one lecture, and it became a Twitter Moment.
He also guest lectured.
Wee!
The indiegogo campaign is still up as of this posting. We’re trying to reach a stretch goal or two…
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chiral-mad-5#/
I’m on the government’s website…!
https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/general-granting-information/grant-results/2019/october/literary-creation-projects-(works-for-publication)
So, it’s that time of the year again, isn’t it?
Here’s my list of award eligible work for the year, folks.
1. “Bootleg Jesus”, published by Diabolical Plots, June 17th, 2019:
diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-52b
2. “Fear Of A Black Planet”, in It Came From Miskatonic University, published by Broken Eye Books:
Story: Tonya Liburd – Fear Of A Black Planet partial
Anthology: brokeneyebooks.com/store/c27/It-C
3. “Sometimes You”, in the Nothing Without Us anthology, published by Renaissance Press, September 30th 2019:
Story: Tonya Liburd – Sometimes You partial
Anthology: renaissancebookpress.com/product/nothin
4. “Mimosa Versus The Soucouyant”, in American Monsters 2, edited by Margrét Helgadóttir, published by Fox Spirit Books, forthcoming December 2019. The table of contents:
Story: Tonya Liburd – Mimosa vs the Soucouyant partial
Anthology: https://www.foxspirit.co.uk/american-monsters-part-2-toc/
And thanks for your consideration!
When you LITERALLY get paid for being a nice and decent human being…
I think whoever said that nice people end up last should probably reconsider.
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