Shan's Writings and Where to Find Them

[shanmonster]

Here are my publications and where to find them. Some are print-only, but some are freely available online.

• Dinner is Served. My Galvanized Friend. June 30, 2026
  
• Unnamed. God's Cruel Joke. June 30, 2026. (Content note: death of a baby)
  
• White Sheets Rust. God's Cruel Joke. June 30, 2026.
  
• "All That Came From Our Lips Were Lilies." Necksnap Magazine. June 30, 2026.
  
• Ethel's Bones. Shortlisted for the London Literary Prize. The Temz Review. June 29, 2026.
  
• Moonlight and Moonshine. The Temz Review. June 29, 2026.
  
• In Me. The Temz Review. June 29, 2026.
  
• In the Beginning. The Temz Review. June 29, 2026.
  
• Survival. The Temz Review. June 29, 2026.
  
• Thank You For Calling the Thoughts and Prayers Hotline. FlashFlood. June 13, 2026
  
• "The Bird Husband." If There's Anyone Left, Volume 6. June 11, 2026
  
• “Thumbing to Sugar Daddy Oberon.” Summer of Sci-fi & Fantasy, Volume Five. Worldstone Publishing. June 7, 2026.
  
• Death of the Emperor's Nightingale. Strange Horizons. May 18, 2026
  
• The Butcher of Mazdin. Slugger Fiction. May 9, 2026
  
• "The Sick Fuck at Monsterfck by Incision Press. April 30, 2026.
  
• Eclipse at Roses & Wildflowers Magazine. April 30, 2026.
  
• "Cyanotype of a Burning World" and "Weeds." ALOCASIA. April 22, 2026.
  
• "The Sick Fuck." Monsterf#ck. Incision Press. April 20, 2026
  
• "I Am Canadian." Canada is Our Poem Fanfare Books. April 1, 2026
  
• "The Grave of Robert Kirk." Once Upon a Moonless Night: Tales of Betrayal, Revenge, and Redemption. One Screw Loose Publishing. March 10, 2026.
  
• Running Around in a Prepubescent Parody of Lust. Narratively. March 6, 2026. (Winner of First Kiss contest)
  
• Things No One Ever Told Me About the Change of Life. Breath & Shadow. February 17, 2026
  
• Sibyl Has a Heart of Gold. Rat Bag. February 14, 2026
  
• "We, Medusa" and "Prayer to Dorn Ridge." The Malahat Review: INHALE/EXHALE: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling. February 9, 2026.
  
• I Am Pretty Sure Those are the Same Cops I Saw Dragging a Disabled Woman Across the Pavement By Her Dislocated Arm A Few Years Ago. Wordflower Poetry. February 8, 2026
  
• "He'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain When He Comes." Cosmic Horror Monthly. Issue 68. February 2, 2026.
  
• The Ghosts of Forests Past. Ecological Design Collective: Litter Journal. February 2, 2026
  
• What Could Be. Lucky Jefferson. January 25, 2026.
  
• "Sirens Don't Sing Underwater." Aothen Magazine. January 25, 2026
  
• -ocide. Eavesdrop Magazine. December 31, 2025
  
• "The Silent Madness of Whales." Essay in Heathentide Orphans 2025. Zoetic Press. December 30, 2025
  
• 2025 "The Guidance of Pigeons. Fiction in Round Robin Stories Volume 4. Co-written with Terri Bruce, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, Jessica Turnbull, & Anne Keck. Published by Strong Women Strange Worlds. December 2025
  
• 2025 "The Butcher of Mazdin." Fiction in Issue 0 of Slugger. December 8, 2025
  
• 2025 To Fall Into Godhood. Writers' Hour Magazine. 3rd place winner in The Doorway contest. November 16, 2025
  
• 2025 "To Live a Life More Full" and "Half Blood Line." Up:Rising - A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions. November 15, 2025
  
• 2025 "Removed." Poety in Trans Voice in Horror. Bloodletter. November 2025
  
• 2025 "Before the Flood." Fiction in The Storms: Issue V. November 2025
  
• 2025 The Bison Return With the Prairie Grass. Fiction in Augur Magazine, issue 8.1. Publisher's choice winner of the Augur Microfiction Contest. October 2025
  
• 2025 "Angakkuq." Poem in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three. October 2025
  
• 2025 Stillborn. Poem in Nightmare Magazine. October 15, 2025
  
• 2025 "Sirens Don't Sing Underwater." Fiction in Harvest Moon - Volume 1. September 2025
  
• 2025 "All That Came From Our Lips Were Lilies." Fiction in Silk and Foxglove: anthology of erotic eco-fiction by BIPOC authors. September 2025
  
• 2025 Raspberry Elegy. Poem in ALOCASIA: Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue. September 2025
  
• 2025 Honey in the End Times. Poem in ALOCASIA: Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue. September 2025
  
• 2025 The Silent Madness of Whales. Essay in Zoetic Press. August 2025
  
• 2025 "The Infective." Fiction in The Asylum of Terror, Vol. 2. July 2025
  
• 2025 Insides In and Outsides Out. Personal essay in Breath and Shadow. June 2025
  
• 2025 "The Snow Hath No Queen. Fiction in Brave New Weird Volume 3 (Brave New Weird award winner). June 2025
  
• 2025 If You Listen. Fiction in Terrain.org. June 2025
  
• 2025 Overdrawn. Fiction in Flash Flood. June 2025
  
• 2025 "Doctrine of Prosperity." Poem in Rainy Weather Days. May 2025
  
• 2025 "The Selkie." Poem in Gwyllion Magazine, Issue 10. May 2025
  
• 2025 Pyrocene. Poem in Emerge Literary Journal. April 2025
  
• 2025 The Qalupalik. Flash Fiction Online. Dark Waters Issue. March 2025
  
• 2025 Nuliajuk and the Birds. Poem in Strange Horizons. March 2025
  
• 2025 The Ghosts of Forests Past. Essay in ALOCASIA. March 2025
  
• 2025 Pony. Poem in ZO Magazine. (Decennalia Poetry Expo winner). January 2025
  
• 2025 "The Tupilaq." Fiction in Iridescence: Speculative Fiction and Poetry Featuring Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. (Iridescence Prize runner-up). January 2025
  
• 2024 “Angakkuq.” Poetry in On Spec. December 2024 (Aurora Award finalist!)
  
• The Stolen Language of My Ancestors.” Poem in IHRAM Quarterly: Indigenous Voices - Heart, Hope and Land. December 2024
  
• 2024 Sirens Don’t Sing Underwater. Fiction in Moonlit Getaway. December 2024.
  
• 2024 The Anxious Writer. Personal Essay in Breath & Shadow. December 2024
  
• 2024 The Yolk of the Moon Fiction in LSUA Flash Fiction Booklet and website. December 2024
  
• 2024 Wolf Mother Fiction in Inner Worlds. December 2024
  
• 2024 “Daisy Chain.” Fiction in Against the Wall, Under the Armor anthology. December 2024.
  
• 2024 Monsters CNF in Ex-Puritan. November 2024.
  
• 2024 The T-Bone CNF in The Masters Review. November 2024
  
• 2024 “Scarred.” Fiction in Meetinghouse Magazine. October 2024.
  
• 2024 The Snow Hath No Queen. Fiction in MetaStellar. September 2024.
  
• 2024 Excerpt from “The Tupilaq.” Fiction in Kinsman Quarterly. September 2024
  
• 2024 “A Time For Dolls.” Play in Native Voices: A Literary Collection of Emerging Indigenous Writers (Native Voices Prize runner-up)
  
• 2024 "The Last Trench." Fiction in Bitter Become the Fields. Horns and Rattles Press. July 2024.
  
• 2024 “Exile of Nuliajuk.” Poetry in Heredity issue of NonBinary Review, June 2024
  
• 2024 “Keswick Valley Memorial, 1984,” “This is How to Not Give Up,” and “Salt Water Strider.” Poems in Event Poetry and Prose
  
• 2024 “Tom Thumb of the North'' & “Blubber Boy: A Traditional Inuit Tale Then and Now.” Fiction in Mihko Kiskisiwin/Blood Memory: An Anthology.
  
• 2024 Saddles in the Kitchen. Memoir in Redivider. (Pushcart Prize nominee)
  
• 2024 Hiding in Plain Sight: Life With and Without Masks. Personal essay in Knee Brace Press.
  
• 2024 “Saved” and “Wrassling’s Object Lesson.” Poetry in Eavesdrop Magazine.
  
• 2024 Thumbing to Sugar Daddy Oberon. Short fiction in MetaStellar.
  
• 2024 This is the Time Just Before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq. Poetry in West Trestle Review
  
• 2023 Wolf Mother. Fiction in Augur Magazine. (Aurora Award nominee)
  
• 2023 The Redcoats are Coming. Fiction in NUNUM's Done in A Hundred 2023
  
• 2023 How the Blubber Boy Came to Be. Poetry in The Deadlands.
  
• 2023 “The Anxious Writer.” Open Minds Quarterly. (Out of print).
  
• 2023 The Silent Madness of Whales. Essay in About Place Journal.
  
• 2023 Sibyl Has a Heart of Gold. Fiction in The Temz Review. (Journey Prize nominee)
  
• 2023 "Original Sin." Poetry in Arc Poetry 102: Disability Desirability.
  
• 2023 "The Ghosts of Forests Past." Essay in Solarpunk Magazine: Issue 10.
  
• 2023 “Anirniliit: Those Which Breathe.” Poem in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2023.
  
• 2023 “Nuliajuk’s Promise.” Poem in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2023.
  
• 2023 “Seasons of the Nattiq.” Poem in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2023.
  
• 2023 “Monkey Business.” Fiction in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2023.
  
• 2023 Digital Mountains, Ink in the Sink. Essay co-written with Moira Walsh in Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics
  
• 2023 "How to Make Boiled Potatoes. Essay for the Festival of Literary Diversity. Out of Print.
  
• 2023 Lost and Found. Personal Essay in Grand Dame Journal.
  
• 2022 Constellation and Aurora. Poetry in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 14.
  
• 2022 The Fern Yard. Poetry in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 14.
  
• 2022 "This is the Time Just Before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq." Poetry in Emerge22 Anthology.
  
• 2022 "Forced Birth." Novel excerpt in Emerge22 Anthology.
  
• 2021 In Slipstream. Poem in Augur Magazine.
  
• 2021 "Scrimshaw and Egregore." Poem in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2021
  
• 2021 "I am Canadian." Poem in Yellow Medicine Review: Spring 2021
  
• 2019 "Skin Folk." Hybrid illustrated essay and rear cover illustration in Feminist Studies, volume 45 2/3