Following is a complete bibliography of English language fiction for Nisi Shawl through December, 2018. Not included are: foreign language translations, individual pieces of non-fiction, or individual pieces of poetry.
Abbreviations Used:
(1) = indicates story’s first publication. Omitted if story first published in author collection.
(c) = indicates the collection containing this story. If the collection is listed first, the story’s first appearance was in this collection.
(r) = indicates this is a reprint appearance.
anth. = anthology
mag. = magazine
f.c. = fiction collection
ed. = edited
v. = magazine volume number
# = magazine issue number
SHORT FICTION
“At the Huts of Ajala”
(1) Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (anth., ed. Sheree R. Thomas): Aspect/ Warner Books, 2000.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (f.c., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
“An Awfully Big Adventure”
(1) An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables (anth., ed. Rose Lemberg): Stone Bird Press, 2016.
(r) Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (e-mag., #357): Wilder Publications, Nov./Dec. 2016.
“The Beads of Ku”
(1) Rosebud (mag., #23): Rosebud, Inc., Apr. 2002.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (f.c., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
“A Beautiful Stream”
(1) Cranky Ladies of History (anth., ed. Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely): FableCroft Publishing, 2015.
“Beyond the Lighthouse”
(1) River (anth., ed. Alma Alexander): Dark Quest Books, 2011.
“Bird Day”
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
(r) Alas! (online media): amptoons.com, Dec. 2009.
“Black Betty”
(1) Crossed Genres (mag., #36): Crossed Genres Publications, Dec. 2011.
(r) LeVar Burton Reads (podcast/ audio): Stitcher., Jun. 2018.
“But She’s Only a Dream”
(1) Trabuco Road (e-mag., #3): Trabuco Road, Mar. 2007.
(r) Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention (anth., ed. Peggy Rae Sapienza, Jean Marie Ward, Bill Campbell, and Sam Lubell): Baltimore Washington Area Worldcon Association, Inc., 2014.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“The Colors of Money”
(1) Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (anth., ed. Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland): Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2017.
“Cruel Sistah”
(1) Asimov’s Science Fiction (mag., v.29, #10/11): Dell Magazines, Oct./Nov. 2005.
(r) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (anth., ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant): St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.
(r) Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2012.
(r) Nightmare Magazine (online media): nightmare-mag.com, Oct. 2016.
“Deep End”
(1) So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (anth., ed. Uppinder Mehan and Nalo Hopkinson): Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
(r) 2007 Think GalactiCon Discussion Primer (chapbook): Think GalactiCon, 2007.
(r) Lightspeed (e-mag., #48): Lightspeed Magazine, May 2014.
(r) The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability (anth., ed. Sheila Black, Michael Northen, and Annabelle Hayse): Cinco Puntos Press, 2017.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Down in the Flood”
(1) Daughters of Nyx (mag., #7): Ruby Rose’s Fairy Tale Emporium, Summer/Fall 1996.
(r) Pangaia (mag., #16): BBI Media, Summer 1998.
(r) PodCastle, Miniature (podcast/ audio, #31): Escape Artists, Inc., May 2009.
“Dynamo Hum”
(1) Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New Wave Trajectory (anth., ed. Marleen S. Barr): Ohio State University Press, 2008.
“Extremiades”
(1) Like a Coming Wave: Oceanic Erotica (anth., ed. Cecilia Tan and Andrea Trask): Circlet Press, 2012.
“The Five Petals of Thought”
(1) Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse (anth., ed. L. Timmel Duchamp): Aqueduct Press, 2013.
“Good Boy” (novelette)
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
(r) Alas! (online media): amptoons.com, Dec. 2009.
(r) Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (anth., ed. Edward Austin Hall and Bill Campbell): Rosarium Publishing, 2013.
(r) The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (anth., ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane): Running Press/ Robinson, 2014.
“Honorary Earthling”
(1) Expanded Horizons (e-mag., #33): expandedhorizons.net, Dec. 2011.
(r) Aliens: Recent Encounters (anth., ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane): Prime Books, 2013.
“I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer” (as Denise Angela Shawl)
(1) Semiotext[e] SF (anth., ed. Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Robert Anton Wilson): Autonomedia, 1989.
“In Blood and Song” (with Michael Ehart)
(1) Dark Faith: Invocations (anth., ed. Jerry Gordon and Maurice Broaddus): Apex Publications, 2012.
“In Colors Everywhere”
(1) The Other Half of the Sky (anth., ed. Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt): Candlemark & Gleam, 2013.
(r) How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens (anth., ed. Joanne Merriam): Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015.
“Jamaica Ginger” (with Nalo Hopkinson)
(1) Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (anth., ed. Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell): Rosarium Publishing, 2015.
(r) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten (anth., ed. Jonathan Strahan): Solaris, 2016.
“Just Between Us”
(1) Phantom Drift, A Journal of New Fabulism (mag., #1): Phantom Drift Limited, Fall 2011.
(r) Hex Publishers (online media): hexpublishers.com, Dec. 2016.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (f.c., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
“Lazzrus”
(1) Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling (anth., ed. Jaym Gates and Monica L. Valentinelli): Apex Publications, 2016.
“Like the Deadly Hands”
(1) Analog Science Fiction and Fact (mag., v.86, #12): Dell Magazines, Dec. 2016.
“Little Horses”
(1) Detroit Noir (anth., ed. E.J. Olsen and John C. Hocking): Akashic Books, 2007.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Looking for Lilith”
(1) Lenox Avenue (mag., #1): Lenox Avenue Magazine, Jul. 2004.
(r) Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good (anth., ed. H. L. Nelson and Joanne Merriam): Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015.
“Luisah’s Church”
(1) Dark Discoveries (mag., #36): Dark Discoveries Publications/ JournalStone, Fall 2016.
(r) Apex Magazine (mag., #108): Apex Publications, May 2018.
“Lupine”
(1) Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2013.
“Maggies”
(1) Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (anth., ed. Sheree R. Thomas): Aspect/ Warner Books, 2004.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Matched”
(1) The Infinite Matrix (e-mag.): The Infinite Matrix, May 2005.
“The Mighty Phin”
(1) Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow (anth., ed. Joshua Viola and Jason Heller): Hex Publishers, 2016.
(r) Tor.com (online media): tor.com, Jun. 2016.
“Momi Watu”
(1) Strange Horizons (online media): strangehorizons.com, Aug. 2003.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“More than Nothing”
(1) Tor.com (online media): tor.com, Mar. 2017.
“New Action”
(1) e-flux (online media): e-flux.com, Sep. 2018.
“Otherwise”
(1) Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Running Press, 2012.
(r) Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (anth., ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman): Lethe Press, 2013.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (f.c., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
“Pataki (Part 1 of 2)”
(1) Strange Horizons (online media): strangehorizons.com, Apr., 2011.
(c) Something More and More (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2011.
“Pataki (Part 2 of 2)”
(1) Strange Horizons (online media): strangehorizons.com, Apr., 2011.
(c) Something More and More (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2011.
“The Pragmatical Princess”
(1) Asimov’s Science Fiction (mag., v.23, #1): Dell Magazines, Jan. 1999.
(r) Fantasy Magazine (mag., #53): Prime Books, Aug. 2011.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Promised”
(1) Steampunk World (anth., ed. Sarah Hans): Alliteration Ink, 2014.
“Queen of Dirt”
(1) Apex Magazine (e-mag., #93): Apex Publications, Feb. 2017.
“The Rainses’” (var: The Raineses’)
(1) Asimov’s Science Fiction (mag., v.19, #4/5): Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines, Apr. 1995.
(r) Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (anth., ed. Sheila Williams and Gardner Dozois): Ace Books, 1995.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Red Matty”
(1) Strange Horizons (online media): strangehorizons.com, Sep. 2013.
“The Return of Chérie”
(1) Steam-Powered II: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories (anth., ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft): Torquere Press, 2011.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (anth., ed. Sean Wallace): Running Press/ Robinson, 2014.
“Salt on the Dance Floor”
(1) Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed (anth., ed. Jennifer Brozek): Graveside Tales, 2012.
(r) Not Your Average Monster, Vol. 2: A Menagerie of Vile Beasts (anth., ed. Pete Kahle): Bloodshot Books, 2016.
“Shiomah’s Land”
(1) Asimov’s Science Fiction (mag., v.25, #3): Dell Magazines, Mar. 2001.
(r) Clarkesworld.com (e-mag., #133): clarkesworld.com, Oct. 2017.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“Slippernet”
(1) Slate Magazine (online media): slate.com, Feb. 2017.
“The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin”
(1) Farrago’s Wainscot (e-mag., #1): Farrago’s Wainscot, Jan. 2007.
“Something More” (novelette)
(c) Something More and More (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2011.
“Street Worm”
(1) Streets of Shadows (anth., ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon): Alliteration Ink, 2014.
(r) Street Magicks (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2016.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (f.c., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
“Sun River”
(1) Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt (anth., ed. Matthew Bright): Twopenny Books, 2017.
“Sunshine of Your Love”
(1) The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (anth., ed. Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law): Laksa Media Groups Inc., 2017.
“The Tawny Bitch”
(1) Mojo: Conjure Stories (anth., ed. Nalo Hopkinson): Aspect/ Warner Books, 2003.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance (anth., ed. Ekaterina Sedia): Running Press/ Robinson, 2014.
“The Third Petal”
(1) Wired Magazine (online media): wired.com, Dec. 2018.
“To the Moment”
(1) Reflection’s Edge (e-mag.): Reflection’s Edge, Nov. 2007.
(r) Vampires: The Recent Undead (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2011.
“Vapors”
(1) Wet: More Aqua Erotica (anth., ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj): Three Rivers Press, 2002.
“Vulcanization”
(1) Nightmare Magazine (online media): nightmare-mag.com, Jan. 2016
“Walk Like a Man”
(1) Bahamut (mag., #1): Underland Press, Jun. 2015.
“Wallamelon” (novelette)
(1) Aeon (mag., #3): Scorpius Digital Publishing, May. 2005.
(r) Magic City: Recent Spells (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2014.
(r) Far Fetched Fables (podcast/ audio, #154): District of Wonders, Apr. 2017.
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
“The Water Museum”
(c) Filter House (f.c.): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
(r) Alas! (online media): amptoons.com, Dec. 2009.
(r) Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (anth., ed. Ellen Datlow): Hydra House, 2013.
“White Dawn”
(1) Athena’s Daughters: Women in Science Fiction & Fantasy, vol. 1 (anth., ed. Jean Rabe): Silence in the Library, 2014.
(r) Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology 2016 (anth., ed. Jeanne Thornton): Procyon Press/ Tayen Lane, 2016.
“Women of the Doll”
(1) Greatest Uncommon Denominator (e-mag., #1): Greatest Uncommon Denominator Publishing, Autumn 2007.
“Wonder-Worker-of-the-World”
(1) Reflection’s Edge (e-mag.): Reflection’s Edge, May 2005.
NOVELS, CHAPBOOKS, and OTHER SINGLE WORKS
Everfair (novel): Tor, 2016.
COLLECTIONS
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (fiction collection, ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
Filter House (fiction collection): Aqueduct Press, 2008.
Something More and More (fiction collection): Aqueduct Press, 2011.
ANTHOLOGIES AS EDITOR
Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars: Book View Café, 2013.
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (with Bill Campbell): Rosarium Publishing, 2015.
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (with Rebecca J. Holden): Aqueduct Press, 2013.
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.5: Writing and Racial Identity: Aqueduct Press, 2011.
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (with Cynthia Ward): Aqueduct Press, 2005.
MAGAZINES AS EDITOR
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (e-mag., People of Color Take Over: Special Issue): Positronic Publishing, Jun. 2017.
Lightspeed Magazine (e-mag., People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!: Special Issue): Lightspeed Magazine, Jun. 2016.
Obsidian (mag., Special Speculative Fiction Double-Volume Issue #42.1 and 42.2): Illinois State University, Fall 2016.
