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With awards season firmly upon us, I thought it would be a good idea to put together an eligibility-post-as-audio, not just for the show, but also for all the amazing guests I've had on this past year.
 
What I mentioned this episode:
 
Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey
"Away with the Wolves," by Sarah Gailey
Here's The Thing, Sarah's newsletter
"The Neverending Story at 40: A Children's Book Grappling with the Legacy of War," by Sarah Gailey
"The Sweetest Fruit of Summer," by R. K. Duncan
R. K. Duncan's awards eligibility post
Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes
The Imaginary Corpse, by Tyler Hayes
The Library of the Unwritten, by A. J. Hackwith
"Through Doorways: Portal Fantasies as a Means of Queer Escape and Queer Hope," by A. J. Hackwith
A Choir of Lies, by Alexandra Rowland
Be the Serpent: A Podcast of Extremely Deep Literary Merit
Worldbuilding for Masochists
"Fanfiction: The Infinite Free Buffet," by Alexandra Rowland
"The Moving Stars," by Premee Mohamed
"Us and Ours," by Premee Mohamed, in A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods
"paper, incense, need," by Sharon Hsu
 
The transcript for this show is available here.

On this episode, World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk (@clpolk) joins us to talk being an early-career writer, losing at NaNoWriMo, her early strategies for submitting stories, and why stories don't land. Cee reads to us from a trunked first draft, "Memory and a Monkey," which is a very fun sci-fi detective story. The sequel to Witchmark, Stormsong, comes out February 11th, 2020 from Tor.com books.
On this episode, we mentioned:
Witchmark, by C. L. Polk
The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman
"Writing Begins With Forgiveness," by Daniel Jose Older
nanowrimo
SFWA qualifying market list
Shimmer Magazine
on spec magazine
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Ideomancer
"Bullet in the Brain," by Tobias Wolff
Tor.com
Uncanny Magazine
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Diggers (my dad actually got me Truckers), The Bromeliad Trilogy, by Terry Pratchett
Stormsong, by C. L. Polk
The Midnight Bargain, by C. L. Polk
Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger
"The Air Gap," by Hilary B. Bisenieks, LampLight Magazine
 
Join us again next month, when I'm excited to announce that our guest will be novelist K. B. Wagers.

This month, friend and neighbor of the show, Sharon Hsu (@pensyf) joins us live in studio (dining room). Sharon reads her story, "Grown-Up Business," and we talk about academia, art, and how terrible capitalism is. Sharon's latest story, "paper, incense, need," is out now in issue 2.3 of Augur Magazine. You can get much more of Sharon, along with co-host Charis Ellison, on their podcast, As My Wimsey Takes Me.
Join us again on January 17th, 2020, when we'll be joined by World Fantasy Award-winning author C. L. Polk!

This month, we're joined by podcaster and author Alexandra Rowland. Alex reads an excerpt from their trunked novel, Windfall, and we talk NaNoWriMo, community, and the issues with college creative writing programs.