It’s time to announce this year’s “Honorable Mention” stories – submissions that did not make one of the top three spots, but were nevertheless among the most well-fashioned, engaging stories that we received for the “Rise” Queer Sci Fi flash fiction anthology.
Here’s our announcement schedule for this year:
- August 9th: Anthology selections
- August 23rd: Honorable Mentions
- September 13th: Cover reveal
- October 4th: Judges’ and Director’s Choices
- October 25th: Book release and top three winners
And now, without further ado, the honorable mention picks – congrats to all:
- Alex Silver – Minion
- Alexei Madeleine Reyner – Blue
- Allan Dyen-Shapiro – Rising Up the Charts With a (Non-Silver) Bullet
- Ani Fox – Blood of the Innocents
- Anna Rueden – A Bite-Sized Duel
- Beáta Fülöp – Speaking Up
- Brenda Lee – Ectoplasm Is Fluid
- Carol Ryles – The Promise
- Chisto Healy – Where Does Magic Come From?
- Chloe Spencer – Ironheart
- Dawn Spina Couper – Ursula
- Dean Wells – It Came from Atom City
- Devon Widmer – Dough Cat
- Francine DeCarey – Time Again To Try
- George Underwood – Artemis, Fractured
- Grace Hudson – From Stasis
- Holli Rebecca Williams – Instead of Falling
- Ilyas M. – Talk to Me, Moon
- J Piper – Overrides
- Jaime Munn – Returned to Life
- Jamie Zaccaria – My Persephone
- Jeff Baker – Do Paint the Meadows With Delight
- Jeff Jacobson – Three Stories Up
- Joz Varlo – The Ship Who Loves Me
- K.L. Noone – Time to Rise
- Kayleen Burdine – In Frost, Our Whispers
- Kim Fielding – Principle and Reality
- LR Braden – False Alarm
- Milo Owen – We Rise
- Oliver Nash – Deadname
- Patricia Loofbourrow – The Seven Million
- Paul Wilson – Daisy Courage
- Rhian Waller – Darkrise
- Robin Springer – With What Do We Light?
- Rodello Santos – Surrender to the Sky
- Roxanne Skelly – It Started with a Brick
- Siri Caldwell – Molten
- Sonja Seren Calhoun – Commit
- Stacey Mahuna – Uploaded
- Storm Grant – Uprising
- Tom Folske – The Awakener
- Tori Thompson – Under the Cicada Moon
- W. Dale Jordan – Necromancing Bubba
- Ziggy Schutz – Simple Recipes for Small Magics