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Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2021

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor L.D. Lewis and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2021:

  • “The Captain and the Quartermaster” by C.L. Clark (Beyond Ceaseless Skies)

  • “A Study in Ugliness” by H. Pueyo (The Dark)

  • “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)

  • “The Lake, the Valley, the Border Between Water and Wood, and the End of Things” by Watson Neith (Translunar Traveler’s Lounge)

  • “Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller (Tordotcom)

  • “The Hidden Language of Flowers” by Laurel Beckley-Jackson (Misspelled: Magic Gone Awry edited by Kelly Lynn Colby)

  • “The Art and Mystery of Thea Wells” by Alexandra Seidel (Diabolical Plots)

  • “To Rest and To Create” by LA Knight (FIYAH)

  • “A Technical Term, Like Privilege” by Bogi Takács (Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable)

  • “Root Rot” by Fargo Tbakhi (Apex)

  • “Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station” by Ann LeBlanc (Mermaids Monthly)

  • “Blood in the Thread” by Cheri Kamei (Tordotcom)

  • “Sutekh: A Breath of Spring” by Sharang Biswas (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness edited by dave ring)

  • “To Rise, Blown Open” by Jen Brown (Anathema: Spec from the Margins)

  • "To Exhale Sky” by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Baffling)

Scroll down to pre-order and for more information about We’re Here 2022.

The cover art of We’re Here 2021 is by the incredible Paul Kellam. Check out more of Paul’s work here. And here’s the full image (click for a lightbox view):

 
 

Pre-sales for the paperback anthology are now open here via our store. We’ll announce when pre-orders open up for ebook retailers, local bookstores, and libraries.

Submissions for We’re Here 2022 are now open. We’re Here 2022 will be helmed again by Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews and guest edited by Naomi Kanakia.

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