For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019
In 2019, PodCastle produced 15 original stories and 33 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season.
PodCastle itself is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. Staff in 2019 included Co-Editors Jen R. Albert, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, and Cherae Clark, Assistant Editor Setsu Uzume, Audio Producer Peter Behravesh, and Artemis Rising editors Krystal Claxton, and Elora Gatts.
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Jen R. Albert, and Cherae Clark are also eligible for the Best Editor (Short Form) Hugo Award. (Please nominate all on the same ballot.)
A full list of current PodCastle staff is available here. We are so thankful for their work and proud of what we’ve achieved together. Thank you also to our authors, narrators, and listeners. Your enthusiasm and support makes the castle fly. Wishing you all the best in 2020!
— Jen R. Albert & Cherae Clark
Original Short Stories
I Am Fire; I Am Tears by Wendy Nikel
The Weaver Retires by Kai Hudson
Mister Dog by Alex Jennings
Elegy for a Slaughtered Swine by Rafaela Ferraz
Temptation by Karuna Riazi
Getaway by Jennifer Hudak
The Horrible Deaths of Helga Hrafnsdóttir by Christine Tyler
His Giant Heartbeat by Natalia Theodoridou
The Cost of the Revolution in Three Marvelous Confections by R. K. Duncan (flash)
By Jingly Bell, by Velvet Mouse by KT Bryski (flash)
A Thousand Points, the Sky by Michelle Muenzler (flash)
Tohoku by Nathan Susnik (flash)
Franken-Puppy by Derek Künsken
No Mercy to the Rest by Bennett North
River’s Giving by Heather Shaw, River Shaw, and Tim Pratt
Reprint Short Stories (first published in 2019 or earlier)
Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas by Malon Edwards
Shadow Boy by Lora Gray
The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank Stockton (d.)
A Place to Grow by A. T. Greenblatt
Dying Lessons by Troy Wiggins
Suddenwall by Sara Saab
Baby Teeth by Lina Rather
Cooking Creole by A. M. Dellamonica
El Cantar de la Reina Bruja by Victoria Sandbrook
One More Song by Eliza Chan
Starr Striker Should Remain Capitol City’s Resident Superhero, by Keisha Cole, 10th Grade Student; All The Fishes, Singing by Amanda Helms; Hester J Rook
The Pull of the Herd by Suzan Palumbo
The Guitar Hero by Maria Haskins
Into the Wind by Marie Brennan
The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker
A Toy Princess by Mary de Morgan (d.)
When Leopard’s-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Bone Poet and God by Matt Dovey
I Am Not I by G. V. Anderson
Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold by A. Merc Rustad
Life in Stone, Glass, and Plastic by José Pablo Iriarte
The Resurrectionist by John Sullivan
The Masochist’s Assistant by Auston Habershaw
Strange Waters by Samantha Mills
Willing by Premee Mohamed
Labyrinth, Sanctuary by A.E. Prevost
Balloon Man by Shiv Ramdas
The Deliverers of Their Country by E. Nesbit (d.)
The Feast by K.C. Mead-Brewer
The Satyr of Brandenburg by Charlotte Ashley
The Sound of His Voice Like the Colour of SaltL Chan by L Chan
The Two-Choice Foxtrot of Chapham County by Tina Connolly
A Thousand Tongues of Silver by Kate Heartfield
Copy Cat by K. A. Teryna and Alex Shvartsman
Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark by Aimee Ogden
