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PodCastle wants to thank all of our listeners and fans for a wonderful 2017. We’re so proud of everything we accomplished throughout the year, from the astounding amount of original fiction we put forth to the addition of some fabulous new staff to our first nomination and win of a major podcasting award. Below is a list of our award-eligible stories from 2017. Also note that PodCastle itself is eligible in the semiprozine category of the Hugos.

The stories:

• “Piety, Prayer, Peacekeeper, Apocalypse” by Rati Mehrotra
• “Bonsai” by Shaenon Garrity
• “Blackbird Pastry” by Megan Branning
• “Home is a House That Loves You” by Rachael K. Jones (Artemis Rising 3)
• “Ice Bar” by Petra Kuppers (Artemis Rising 3)
• “The Settlement” by Wendi Dunlap (Artemis Rising 3)
• “Fated Ink” by Siobhan Gallegher (Artemis Rising 3)
• “Stay” by K.C. Ball (Artemis Rising 3)
• “Needle Mouth” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• “Never Truly Yours” by Marion Deeds
• “Ravana’s Children” by Ian Muneshwar
• “The Thirty-Seven Faces of Tokh-Bathon” by Effie Seiberg
• “The Chaos Village” (part one, part two) by M. K. Hutchins
• “The Wizard of 63rd Street” by Shane Halbach
• “Crickets Sing for Naomi” by Eden Royce
• “A Ghost Among the Mangroves” by Naru Sundar
• “All of the Cuddles with None of the Pain” by J. J. Roth
• “What the Fires Burn” by A. Merc Rustad
• “The Family Ghost” by Rati Mehrotra
• “Thirteen Bullets” by Lawrence Raphael Brothers
• “In Spring, the Dawn. In Summer, the Night” by Aidan Doyle
• “Winter Witch” by Matt Dovey
• “Cassandra Writes Out of Order” by Andrea Tang
• “Hyddwen” by Heather Rose Jones
• “Emshalur’s Hand Stays” by Anaea Lay
• “The Names of the Sky” by Matthew Claxton
• “Seven Things That Oughtn’t Cut Me” by Jessi Cole Jackson
• “When You Find Such a Thing” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
• “Chasing Flowers” by L. Chan
• “National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure” by Sarah Monette
• “Three Cats at the End of the World” by Aimee Ogden
• “Have This Wish I Wish Tonight” by Katherine Kendig
• “A Good Egg” by Shawn Proctor
• “The Christmas Abomination from Beyond the Back of the Stars” by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt
• “Zilal and the Many-Folded Puzzle Ship” by Charlotte Ashley

 

Here’s to all our listeners, authors, narrators, and contributors; we are so grateful for all your enthusiasm and support. Wishing you all a happy 2018!

 

Jen R Albert and Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali, co-editors, Setsu Uzume, assistant editor, and the PodCastle team