Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2023
We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Darcie Little Badger and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023:
“A Promise in Bronze” by Ash Arya (Lost Atlantis)
“Mama uat-ur” by Z. K. Abraham (PodCastle)
“The Birds I Pull” by Sharang Biswas (Tales & Feathers)
“Sentience” by Nkone Chaka (Fiyah)
“The Ng Yut Queen (The 五 月 Queen)” by Eliza Chan (Worlds of Possibility)
“Baobab Lover” by Kwame Sound Daniels (Tales & Feathers)
“Braid Me a Howling Tongue” by Maria Dong (Lightspeed)
“Eulogy for a Brother, Resurrected” by Carson Faust (Never Whistle at Night)
“Morning Star Blues” by Tessa Fisher (Rosalind's Siblings)
“Parásito” by Ana Hurtado (Wilted Pages)
“Mandy and Lulu Welcome Walter” by S. M. Hallow (CatsCast)
“Three Nights in Orissa” by Sean Robinson (Prismatica)
“Please Mind the Poltergeist” by Tehnuka (Worlds of Possibility)
“A Record of Lost Time” by Regina Kanyu Wang, translated by Rebecca F. Kuang (Lightspeed)
Scroll down to pre-order and for submission information about We’re Here 2024.
The cover art of We’re Here 2023 is by the talented Dan Rossi. Check out more of Dan’s work. And here’s the full image (click for a lightbox view):
Pre-sales for the ebook and paperback anthology are available first in this crowdfund:
We’ll announce when pre-orders open up for other retailers, local bookstores, and libraries.
Submissions for We’re Here 2024 are now open. We’re Here 2024 will be helmed again by Charles Payseur and guest edited by Ryka Aoki.
Ryka Aoki is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars (Tor Books 2021) was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards.
Ryka is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist for her collections Seasonal Velocities, and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, and her first novel, He Mele a Hilo, was callled one of the “10 Best Books Set in Hawaii” by Bookriot. She has been recognized by the California State Senate for “extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people,” and her work has appeared or been recognized in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bustle, Autostraddle, PopSugar, and Buzzfeed, as well as the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She was also honored to work with the American Association of Hiroshima Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, where two of her compositions were adopted as the organization’s “songs of peace.”