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In our first 2017 metacast, we present the Escape Artists (EA) stories that ran in 2016 that are eligible in the upcoming nomination season.

PodCastle’s Award Eligible stories from 2016 are all listed below. Give the metacast a listen and visit our sister podcasts Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and our sister magazine Mothership Zeta to check out their award eligible fiction too!

 

Originals

“The Wedding of Snow, Earth, and Salt” by Kate Heartfield

“In the Woods Behind My House” by Nicolette Barischoff

“The Color of Regret” by Carrie Patel

“Opals and Clay” by Nino Cipri

“Send in the Ninjas” by Michelle Ann King

“Territory” by Julie Steinbacher

“Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel” by Beth Cato

“Tumbleweeds and Little Girls” by Jeff Bowles

“Hands of Burnished Bronze” by Rebecca Schwarz

“For Honor, For Waste” by Setsu Uzume

“Responsibility Descending” by G. Scott Huggins

“Communion” by Jei D. Marcade

“Archibald Defeats the Churlish Shark-Gods” by Benjamin Blattberg

“James and Peter, Fishing” by Anaea Lay

“The Bee Tamer’s Final Performance” by Aidan Doyle

“Mirabilis” by Shannon Peavey

“Sweeter than Lead” Benjamin C. Kinney

“Madame Félidé Elopes” by by K. A. Teryna translated by Anatoly Belilovsky

“Wolfy Things” by Erin Roberts

“The Beautiful Bird Sits No Longer Singing in the Nest” by Kate Lechler

“How to Survive in Room 105” by T. Jane Berry

“The Ghost Years” by Nghi Vo

“Telling Stories” by Sandra M. Odell

“Gaps of Joy, and a Knot for Love” by S. B. Divya

“Green Girl” by Erica Ruppert

“Dragon Fancy” by Leigh Wallace

“The Seventh Year” by Alexandra Balasa

“Chatter the Teeth” by Kurt Hunt

“It’s a Wonderful Carol” by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt

“Shaina Rubin Keeps Her Head Under Circumstances Nobody Could Have Expected” by Rebecca Fraimow

 

Reprints

“This Is Not a Wardrobe Door” by A. Merc Rustad, originally published at Fireside

“The Men from Narrow Houses” by A. C. Wise, originally published at Liminal Stories

“Braid of Days and Wake of Nights” by E. Lily Yu, originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Thundergod in Therapy” by Effie Seiberg, originally published in Galaxy’s Edge

“Lapis Lazuli” by Tania Fordwalker, originally in ASIM

“Girl in Blue Dress (1881)” by Sunil Patel, originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination

“Squalor and Sympathy” by Matt Dovey, originally published in Writers of the Future Volume 32

“Love Letters on the Nightmare Sea” by Rachael K. Jones, originally published in Flash Fiction Online

“In Mixcoatl’s Net” by Charlie Allison

“The Rock in the Water” by Thoriya Dyer, originally published in PoC Destroy Fantasy

“Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal to Bluma Zilberman” by Rebecca Fraimow, originally published in Diabolical Plots