My fingers wrap around your words

[sovay]

So this is what I had published this year:

"Di Vayse Pave" in Moral Relativism Magazine #3, January 2012.
"Theseid" in Under Review (ed. John Benson), January 2012.
"Cinderella dressed in green" in Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes (ed. Francesca Forrest), March 2012.
"Cinderella dressed in jade" in Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes (ed. Francesca Forrest), March 2012.
"The Magdalene of Gévaudan" in The Drowning Girl (by Caitlín R. Kiernan), March 2012.
"The Clock House" in Stone Telling #7, March 2012.
"Reiselied" in Not One of Us #47, April 2012.
"The Hero's Journey" in Not One of Us #47, April 2012.
"Scythe-Walk" in Mythic Delirium #26, April 2012.
"Lyric Fragment" in Goblin Fruit #26, July 2012.
"The Green Man Answers the Classifieds" in inkscrawl #4, August 2012.
"In the Firebird Museum" in Stone Telling #8, August 2012.
"Danger UXO" in Not One of Us #48, September 2012.
"Natural Phenomena" in Not One of Us #48, September 2012.
"Spirit Photography" in Through the Gate #1, September 2012.
"Ortygia to Trimountaine" in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 2.4, October 2012.
"Blueshift" in Goblin Fruit #27, October 2012.
"Kalligeneia 2012" in Mythic Delirium #27, November 2012.
"Being Providence" in The Revelator #2, December 2012.
"Settling Accounts" in The Revelator #2, December 2012.
"Trying for It" in The Revelator #2, December 2012.

Then there were the reprints:

"The Coast Guard" in Niteblade #19, March 2012.
"Persephone in Hel" in Here, We Cross: A Collection of Queer & Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Telling 1–7 (ed. Rose Lemberg), May 2012.
"The Clock House" in Here, We Cross: A Collection of Queer & Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Telling 1–7 (ed. Rose Lemberg), May 2012.
"Another Coming" in Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Science Fiction (ed. Brit Mandelo), June 2012.
"Madonna of the Cave" The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Science Fiction Poetry (ed. Rose Lemberg), July 2012.
"Matlacihuatl's Gift" in The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Science Fiction Poetry (ed. Rose Lemberg), July 2012.
"Phersu" in Niteblade #21, September 2012

And the nonfiction:

"It's Not, Quite Frankly, A Wholesome Situation: Dr. Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in Weird Fiction Review (ed. VanderMeers and Angela Slatter), January 2012.
"But She Also Lies Broken and Transformed: An Afterword" in Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart (by Caitlín R. Kiernan), August 2012.

I have evidence that both "The Color of the Ghost" and "A Find at Þingvellir" are now in print in the premiere issue of Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas, but as I have not yet received contributor's copies, I will not quite count them on my list for this year. I look forward, though. One of these is about Wittgenstein and the other Mjölnir.

And I seem to have ended up as the senior poetry editor at Strange Horizons. My co-editors are awesome.

Okay, that could have gone worse.

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Are you kiddin' me? That's great!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ariel-like, you flame amazement. You are everywhere.

Nine

[gwynnega]

Well done!!

[chomiji]

Epic! Wishing you many enjoyable and productive years! *bookmarks poem links for later*

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Okay, that could have gone worse

Graceful understatement!

Congratulations--the world is so much richer for your poetry and prose. I look forward to everything you write.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Well done! Et cetera!

I'm very happy to see this.

In other news, last night I dreamt that I ate a light meal of mysterious corncake-type things* in a hole in the wall second or third floor restaurant in a place that I knew at the time to be Boston but which didn't look anything like how I remember Boston being.**

Some of the people I was eating with turned out to be friends, or at least colleagues, of yours, at least in the dream; I'd never met any of them in waking life, so far as I know. I think I was getting up to check on my parked vehicle just before I woke. Unfortunately, I didn't get to find out if it was a steam car. It seemed the sort of place where it might have been.

*Not arepas, but perhaps some sort of alternate universe development of johnnycake/hoecake or corn pone?
**In some difficult-to-describe fashion it was like childhood memories of Galveston and San Francisco mashed together with the centre of some small city, maybe one of the Connecticut ones. Dusty streets, three and four floor walk-up buildings, some brick, some frame. There may have been a plank sidewalk, which is, I suppose, a detail from some historic town or other that somehow got mixed in.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I really can't say how wonderful getting to join the SH team was.

So I won't try.

*hugs*

Happy New Year, my friend.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

An astounding array of work, Sonya, great success! The abundance and high quality of your work is both humbling and inspiring.

I had no print publications in 2012, unless you count the two versions of my Joanna Russ essay, published in Chunga and NYRSF with late-2011 official pub dates but which showed up early in January 2012. Online, a bare double handful of LJ entries (my favorite a brief two-sentence dreamtelling), and three pieces pubbed in a new venue, the Brooklyn webzine Seat of Perception, including a short essay on divination and the nature of storytelling and a meditation on the blessings of mortality in memoriam Sandy Hook. I sold three things to print publications, none of which have yet been published: An expanded version of my essay "The First Woman on Mars" to the fabulous art journal White Fungus, due out in Sping 2013; and a short story and essay to the final volume of a three-volume literary-journal-masquerading-as-an-encyclopedia, due out in Spring 2014, where they will function respectively as the entries on "Menstruation" and "Oliveros, Pauline". Print can be so slow! But I love both of these publications and am delighted to be a part of them. Still, it often feels like I am completely invisible, and I know everything depends on strengthening my practices -- and of finally completing a certain long-term book publication project.

Much continued success to you. You are a boon to the world, and to so many in it.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

HEY HEY LOOK

LJ IS LETTING ME COMMENT AGAIN

...I didn't come here to say anything other than I wholeheartedly approve this post, except for how now I don't feel quite right sending poetry to Strange Horizons. And I do occasionally pome.