Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing

A break in the mad-dash-to-finish-Midnight-and-Moonshine radio silence to share some awesome news I’ve been sitting on for a couple of weeks, and can now finally reveal. I am totally over the moon that ‘Fur and Feathers’ (from Bluegrass Symphony) has been included in the incredible Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, edited by Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (ChiZine Publications and Tightrope Books). The book has SUCH an amazing line-up, with authors like Cory Doctorow, Gemma Files (whose work I LOVE), Geoff Ryman, Amal El-Mohtar, Kelley Armstrong, Peter Watts… and so many others! And then there’s me. Wow. Also exciting, two other stories from Bluegrass — ‘The Short Go: A Future in Eight Seconds’ and ‘To Snuff a Flame’ — made the Honourable Mentions list! Thanks so much, Sandra and Halli!

Table of Contents:

• “Introduction” by Steven Erikson
• “Looker” by David Nickle
• “The List” by Kelley Armstrong
• “Biting Tongues” by Amal El-Mohtar
• “Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire Humphrey
• “Split Decision” by Robert Runté
• “The Cinder Girl” by Peter Chiykowski
• “The Candle” by Ian Rogers
• “Through the Door” by Susan Ioannu
• “Signal to Noise” by Gemma Files
• “The Ones Outside Your Door” by Neile Graham
• “Down Where the Best Lilies Grow” by Camille Alexa
• “Hide” by Rebecca M. Senese
• “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman
• “Lie-Father” by Gemma Files
• “Centipede Girl” by Ada Hoffmann
• “Clockwork Fagin” by Cory Doctorow
• “Selected Haiku” by George Swede
• “Pure” by Rio Youers
• “10 things to know about staplers” by Carolyn Clink
• “Laikas I” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• “On the Many Uses of Cedar” by Geoffrey W. Cole
• “Obscured” by Rhonda Parrish
• “Hawkwood’s Folly” by Timothy Reynolds
• “Razor Voices” by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
• “The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light” by Neile Graham
• “Fur and Feathers” by Lisa L. Hannett
• “Breathing Bones” by Peter Chiykowski
• “The Education of Junior Number 12” by Madeline Ashby
• “One Quarter Gorgon” by Helen Marshall
• “A Puddle of Blood” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• “Nothing but sky overhead” by David Livingstone Clink
• “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate” by Kristin Janz
• “Charm” by Anna Mioduchowska
• “Final Girl Theory” by A.C. Wise
• “To Live and Die in Gibbontown” by Derek Künsken
• “Beautiful Monster” by Helen Marshall
• “Malak” by Peter Watts

You can see the Honourable Mentions list here.