Angela Liu

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First off, it is unreal to be writing this post at all. If you read my “one year since starting to sub” blog entry, you already know that even just a year ago, I barely had a story to my name and the only award I could even imagine getting nominated for was “Friend Most Likely To Be Eating During Inappropriate Times.” So thank you for being here and spending time with my stories and poems.

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For Nebula / Locus / Hugo:

I’ve had fourteen stories published this year, with one more coming out by the end of December. I’d be honored if you read any of them, but the three I am promoting for awards season:

**My favorite story I’ve written this year and would be honored if you read this one!

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For Bram Stoker Awards

I have five stories eligible and am promoting two in particular:

1) Salt Girl
Award Category: Short Fiction
Published in: Uncharted, October 2023
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Word Count: 2,800 words
Tagline: A story about a girl obsessed with her father’s eerie sand garden
Read it here.
It’s also on the Nebula Reading List here.

2) Devouring the Starry Night
Award Category: Short Fiction
Published in: Dark Matter Magazine #17
Genre: Dark Fantasy / Horror
Word Count: 3,600 words
Tagline: What if a monster lived in Van Gogh’s most famous painting? What has it seen over the years and what does it want? 
Read it here.

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Full List of Eligible Stories

NOVELETTES

1. “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon” (Clarkesworld #201, sci-fi, 8100 words)
   – a dark cyberpunk story where people can modify memories using neural art add-ons
2. “The Day We Returned To Sunnytown” (Fusion Fragment #15, sci-fi mystery romance, 13000 words)
   – a woman receives a message from her dead ex-boyfriend from an old Hotmail account, leading her on a mystery through 90s Internet conspiracies, cults, and memories she thought she’d left behind
3. “The Specimens of Red Hill” (Dark Matter Magazine #18, sci-fi horror, 11000 words)

SHORT STORIES

1. “The Time Traveler’s Cookbook” (Cast of Wonders 533, sci-fi, 3100 words)
   – a time traveler visits the places/times listed in their mother’s cookbook
2. “Pinocchio Photography” (Clarkesworld #198, sci-fi, 6400 words)
   – a woman interns at a studio that specializes in taking photos with dead loved ones (inspired by the B&W photos my parents brought with them when immigrating to the US)
3. “Time Is An Ocean” (Strange Horizons, sci-fi romance, 4200 words)
   – a time traveler with a broken time machine shows up at a woman’s house and asks to stay
4. “Kwong’s Bath” (khōréō 3.2, fantasy, 3500 words)
   – a woman starts to see dead family members in the bath after a surgery
5. “Salt Girl” (Uncharted, dark fantasy, Pushcart-nominated, 2800 words)*
   – a woman becomes obsessed with her dead father’s eerie salt garden (inspired by the Japanese folktales Chikarataro and Kaguya-hime)
6. “KAOSU, The Last Moving Country In The World” (Dark Matter Magazine #16, sci-fi thriller, 4900 words)*
   – a travel writer gets a coveted ticket onto the hottest dark tourism location on the planet, but how far will she go to get that 1 million-Likes video?
7. “Devouring The Starry Night” (Dark Matter Magazine #17, dark fantasy horror, 3600 words)*
   – What if a monster lived inside Van Gogh’s most famous painting?
8. “The Looking Glass Pillow” (NEVER WAKE: An Anthology of Dream Horror, sci-fi horror, 4500 words)*
   – While using her Looking Glass Pillow, a girl gets to be with her ideal boyfriend in her dreams, but what happens when the pillow doesn’t want her to leave?
9. “The Last Gamemaster in the World” (Clarkesworld #207, sci-fi, 2100 words)
   – a story about the last game in the world, motherhood, and what it means to win
10. “The Koji Show” (Ghoulish Tales #1, dark fantasy-comedy, 3500 words)*
    – Koji gets a dream acting job, but the director wants him to take the role further (inspired by the yokai story of Kohada Koheiji)
11. “The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye” (Fantasy Magazine #95, dark fantasy flash, 700 words)
    – a gruesome mother’s curse passed on to her daughter
12. “Happiness Quality Quotient” (Fission #3, sci-fi flash, 1000 words)
    – a woman has her first job interview in a strange town

* Stories also eligible for Bram Stoker

(Please contact me if you would like a reader copy of any story not available freely online.)

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Full List of Eligible Poems

LONG POEM

1. “An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis” (Strange Horizons)

SHORT POEM

1. “The Subway Is Another Place To Die” (Strange Horizons)
2. “Stone Kingdom” (Uncanny Magazine)
3. “Dark Patterns” (Strange Horizons)
4. “The witches are without work” (Strange Horizons)
5. “The Beauty of Monsters” (Small Wonders)
6. “Ferry to the Island of Ghosts” (Uncanny Magazine)
7. “The Room Never Had A Window” (HWA Poetry Showcase X)

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