Remembering what came out when, and which category it falls into, can be hard even for the people involved in writing, so we’ve compiled this list of award-eligible works from the past year for the upcoming season. The biggest one is obviously the completion of the Rook & Rose trilogy, but we think there’s a lot of great short and medium-length fiction as well.

As M.A. Carrick (pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms)

Eligible Series

• Rook & Rose – comprised of The Mask of Mirrors (Jan 2021), The Liar’s Knot (Dec 2021), and Labyrinth’s Hearth (Aug 2023)

Eligible Novels

• Labyrinth’s Heart — Orbit Books, August 2023

 

As Marie Brennan (solo)

Eligible Novels

• The Game of 100 Candles — Aconyte Books, March 2023
• The Waking of Angantyr — U.K. edition from Titan Books, October 2023; U.S. edition from Book View Cafe, November 2023; audiobook edition from Podium, December 2023

Eligible Novelettes

• “Pearl’s Price” (writing solo as M.A. Carrick)— When Swords Fall Silent, ed. Bryce O’Connor, March 2023 (anthology; requires purchase)
• “The Naming of Knots” (writing solo as M.A. Carrick) — Beneath Ceaseless Skies #388, August 2023

Eligible Short fiction, flash, poetry

Short fiction

• “Silver Necklace, Golden Ring” — Uncanny Magazine #50, January 2023
• “Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya” (writing solo as M.A. Carrick) — Beneath Ceaseless Skies #373, January 2023
• “At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand” — Sunday Morning Transport, April 2023 (requires subscription)
• “Oh, My Cursed Daughter” — Dream of Shadows, April 2023 (market unfortunately folded and took the website with it, so this won’t be available again until I republish it in a collection)
• “A Mighty Huntress” — Frivolous Comma, June 2023
• “Your Body, My Prison, My Forge” — On Spec #124, July 2023 (requires purchase)
• “999 Swords” — Interzone #296, November 2023 (requires purchase)
• “A Tale of Two Tarōs” — DreamForge Anvil #14, December 2023

Flash

• “Guidelines for Using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library” — Lightspeed Magazine #153, February 2023
• “The Merchant With No Coin” (as M.A. Carrick) — Flash Point SF, June 2023

Poetry

• “Damnatio Memoriae” — Fantasy Magazine, August 2023 (Baby’s First Published Poem!)