Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2022
We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Naomi Kanakia and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022:
“We'll Always Have Enceladus” by Amy Nagopaleen (Fusion Fragment)
“The Planned Obsolescence of the Human Body” by Anja Hendrikse Liu (Fusion Fragment)
“Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries” by Izzy Wasserstein (All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From)
“Sheri, At This Very Moment” by Bianca Sayan (Apex)
“Four Glass Cubes (Item Description)” by Bogi Takács (Baffling)
“15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” by Carlie St. George (You Fed Us to the Roses)
“B-ing” by Crystal Odelle (Strange Horizons)
“Slow Communication” by Dominique S. Dickey (Fantasy)
“Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare)
“Beginnings” by Kristina Ten (Fantasy)
“Drowning Songs” by M. S. Dean (Anathema)
“My Dad Bought a Space Shuttle” by M. Shaw (Voyage YA Journal)
“Falling to Pieces” by Rebecca Cuthbert (Defunkt)
“Follow, Follow” by RJ Mustafa (Lolwe)
“A Girl Explodes” by Ruth Joffre (Three-Lobed Burning Eye)
“The Halved World” by Samir Sirk Morató (Strange Weeds: A Charity Anthology)
“Normalization” by Xauri’EL Zwaan (Cossmass Infinities)
“Icariana” by Wen-yi Lee (Baffling)
“The Chavrusa” by Y.M. Resnik (Worlds of Possibility)
Scroll down to pre-order and for more information about We’re Here 2022.
The cover art of We’re Here 2022 is by the incredible Pau Edrosa. Check out more of Pau’s work here (NSFW). 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 2023 are now open. We’re Here 2023 will be helmed again by Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews and guest edited by Darcie Little Badger.
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.