Nisi Shawl

 

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On Sunday morning, September 23, June Rosilee Jackson Rickman Cotton breathed her last breath.  A shining star of a woman, June was a vital focus of any and every community she joined.  We will gather together at two memorial services in her honor: Sunday, October 14 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center (4655 Holly at the intersection of Holly and Rainier); and Thursday, November 1 at a time to be determined at Bible Baptist Church (1700 North Drake Road, Kalamazoo MI).

A GoFundMe campaign has been created to defray the costs of those services and associated expenses such as cremation and family travel.  Please visit https://www.gofundme.com/forjuneandfamily, and thank you for helping us celebrate the life of a truly remarkable woman.

 

Nisi's debut novel Everfair, was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award.
The trade paperback edition of Everfair came out September 26th.

For a sneak peek at Everfair, click here.

 

Nisi's essay, "A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction", is available here.

 

Classes and Workshops

For current online Writing the Other classes and workshops, please visit WritingtheOther.com.

 

Other Notes

Can you help me go take care of my seriously ill mom again?

Nisi has an article in Ambling Along the Aqueduct titled A Year of Comfort and Discomfort.

Nisi did a reading, participated in several panels, and taught a workshop at the Arisia science fiction convention in January, 2015. For more information, visit www.arisia.org.

Blogs

Nisi Shawl’s blog is here.

Nisi's essay "I Hear a Different Frontier" is online at The Future Fire editor's blog.

Nisi has appeared as a guest blogger for The Angry Black Woman.

Nisi has appeared as a guest blogger for Monica Legatt at the Seattle Acupuncture Blog.

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Filter House

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Selected Appearances, 2010 through 2015

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Autobiography

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Recent Work

Nonfiction

Nisi’s monthly column for the Seattle Review of Books, The Future Alternative Past, can be found here.

Nisi’s monthly column for Tor.com, Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, can be found here.

• “My One-and-only Octavia” in Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017.
• “All My Relations” in WisCon Chronicles 11: Trials by Whiteness, Aqueduct Press, May 2017.
• “Golden Ages” for Fantasy Café, April 2017.
• “Peter Pan and Everfair” for Unbound Worlds, October 2016.
• “Representing My Equals” for the Tor/Forge blog, September 2016.
• “Everfair: The Big Idea” for Whatever, September 2016.
• “She Smells Tea Spells in the Steam Clouds” for Tor.com, September 2016.
• “Five Books About Loving Everybody” for Tor.com, August 2016.
• “Ones and Twos and Rarely Threes” for Fireside Magazine, July 2016.
• “Our Queer Roundtable” (with A.J. Odasso, anna anthropy, Rose Fox, Vanessa Rose Phin, and Cynthia Ward) for Strange Horizons, July 2016.
• “The Best and Worst of Writing Cyberpunk” for Tor.com’s Cyberpunk Week, June 2016.
• “The People Men Don’t See” in the People of Color Destroy Science Fiction issue of Lightspeed Magazine, June 2016.
• “Across the Lies of Space and Time” in WisCon Chronicles 10, Aqueduct Press, May 2016.
• “A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction” for Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February 2016.
• “IGY” in Shattered Prism #1, Rosarium Publishing, December 2015.
• “Foreword” for Ruins Excavation, Hadley Rille, November 2015.
• “Family Ties” in WisCon Chronicles 9, Aqueduct Press, May 2015.

 

Fiction

• “Evens” in The Obama Inheritance, Three Rooms Press, October 2017.
• “Vulcanization” in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Mariner, October 2017 (reprint) (Everfair adjacent).
• Everfair paperback, Tor Books, September 2017.
• “Sunshine of Your Love” in The Sum of Us, Laksa Media, September 2017.
• “The Colors of Money” in Sunvault, Upper Rubber Boot Press, August 2017 (an Everfair sequel).
• “Sun River” in Clockwork Cairo, Twopenny Books, June 2017 (an Everfair sequel).
• “More than Nothing” for Tor.com’s Nevertheless She Persisted series, Tor.com, March 2017.
• “Queen of Dirt” in Apex Magazine, February 2017.
• “Slippernet” for Slate Magazine’s Trump Story Project, Slate.com, February 2017.
• “Lazzrus” in Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Apex Publications, December 2016.
• “Luisah’s Church” in Dark Discoveries #36, Journalstone, Fall 2016.
• “Just Between Us” in Words Magazine, Hex Publishing, December 2016 (reprint).
• “The Pragmatical Princess" in The Dragon Super Pack, Wilder Press, November 2016 (reprint).
• “Like the Deadly Hands” in Analog, October 2016.
• “Cruel Sistah” in the People of Color Destroy Horror issue of Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 (reprint).
• “The Mighty Phin” in Cyber World, Hex Publishing, September 2016.
• “Deep End” in The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked, Cinco Puntos Press, September 2016 (reprint).
• “An Awfully Big Adventure” in An Alphabet of Embers, Stone Bird Press, July 2016.
• “White Dawn” in Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology, Procyon Press, July 2016 (reprint).
• “The Mighty Phin” in Cyberpunk Week for Tor.com, June 2016 (reprint).
• “Jamaica Ginger” (with Nalo Hopkinson) in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, Solaris, May 2016 (reprint).
• “Street Worm” in Street Magicks, Prime Books, April 2016 (reprint).
• “Salt on the Dance Floor” in Not Your Average Monster Volume 2, Bloodshot Books, February 2016 (reprint).
• “Vulcanization” in Nightmare Magazine Issue 40, January 2016.
• “Jamaica Ginger” in Stories for Chip, Rosarium Publishing, August 2015.
• “At the Huts of Ajala” in See the Elephant #1, Metaphysical Circus Press, July 2015 (reprint).
• “Walk Like a Man” in Bahamut #1, Underland Press, June 2015.
• “A Beautiful Stream” in Cranky Ladies of History, FableCroft, March 2015.

 

Selected Reviews and Interviews

Nisi regularly writes about books for The Seattle Times, and also contributes frequently to Ms. Magazine, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, The Washington Post, Seattle Review of Books, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.  Below are a few examples of her recent book reportage.

• “Talking with Cory Doctorow,” interview for Seattle Review of Books, May 2017.
• “The Latest Dazzling Novel,” review of  Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, in The Washington Post, April 2017.
• Review of The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn, in Ms. Magazine, April 2017.
• “New Fantastic Fiction,” review of The Universe of Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu in The Seattle Times, May 2016.
• “Fantastic Cities,” reviews of The Just City by Jo Walton, The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock, and A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab in The Seattle Times, April 2015.
• “The Shock of the New Normal,” review of Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell in Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2014.

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Bibliography

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How to Tell a True Story

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Writing the Other®

Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward’s Writing the Other: A Practical Guide, the companion book to the Writing the Other workshop.

Writing the Other is available directly from Aqueduct Press.

Writing the Other® is a Registered Trademark of Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.

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