Surprised, but also very, very happy! My short story ‘Best Case Scenario’ addresses some issues that are close to my heart. Glad that it resonated with readers.
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Guess who won the Amazing Stories Readers’ Choice Award?
Susan May Oke · May 5, 2024 · Writing News · Amazing Stories, Readers Choice Award, science fiction, SF, short stories, Writing · 2 Comments
Amazing Stories – Quarterly Vote
Susan May Oke · April 24, 2024 · Uncategorized, Writing News · Amazing Stories, creative writing, science fiction, SF, short stories, speculative fiction, Writing · No Comments
MAYDAY Magazine – Revamp
Susan May Oke · August 1, 2020 · Uncategorized · MAYDAY Magazine, SF, SFF, short stories · No Comments
“After more than ten years of publishing literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and works in translation for an international readership, MAYDAY Magazine is relaunching with a new format and expanded editorial vision.”
Really looking forward to the new-look MAYDAY magazine with its focus on art, literature and the community. Look out for the live interview with Kali Wallace at 4pm on the 4th August. Kali is the author of the young adult novels Shallow Graves and The Memory Trees and the children’s fantasy novel City of Islands. Her first novel for adults, the sci-fi horror-thriller Salvation Day, was published by Berkley in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com.
Check out some of their past fiction pieces, including one of my own short stories, using the following links: Susan Oke, Michael Czyzniejewski, Liz Egan, Dariel Suarez, Jorge Volpi, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Mollie Boutell, and others.
100 Voices – Volume Two
Susan May Oke · December 1, 2016 · Writing News · 100 Voices, anthologies, centrum press, short stories · One Comment
One Hundred Voices Volume Two is now available for pre-order! Following up on the success of One Hundred Voices Volume One, there is a brand new collection of short stories and pieces of flash fiction from one hundred unique authors. While a good amount of the authors who will be published in Volume Two were also published Volume One, there are also many new authors from around the world (including me!).
Patterns – featured on Cast of Wonders
Susan May Oke · July 5, 2013 · Writing News · audio magazine, Fantasy, science fiction, short stories, Writing, YA fiction; Cast of Wonders · No Comments
Patterns is a short story that arose as part of a group writing exercise. The writing prompt was ‘and she looked at me again.’ The phrase conjured an image of a teenage boy watching his girlfriend walking away from him. As she reached the exit of the school hall she turned to look back at him. There was such a strong connection between these two characters that I had to discover who they were and what had brought them together. Thus, Kate and Mikey walked into my head and onto the page.
As it turned out, the bond between Kate and Mikey could not be broken by the mystery lurking at the bottom of the archaeological dig at the bottom of the school playing field: the place all the kids have nicknamed ‘The Pit’.
You can listen to this story on the Cast of Wonders website (a YA audio magazine).
Enjoy!
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