Sara Norja | writer

Category: short stories

  • Story sale to Strange Horizons

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    I’m delighted to announce that I’ve sold a story to Strange Horizons: “Water, Birch, and Blood” will be appearing in SH’s special issue Our Queer Planet. “Water, Birch, and Blood” is about family, memory, and loss; it’s got echoes of my own memories in it, through the setting (a Finnish summer cabin). I can’t wait…

  • Story sale to Flash Fiction Online

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    Sooo this was official already last week and I squeed about it on Twitter but did not have time to post here: I’ve sold a story to Flash Fiction Online! My faerie story “Creation” will be out this summer. This is my second pro fiction sale – the first was to An Alphabet of Embers.…

  • Alphabet of Embers review

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    An Alphabet of Embers launches this week, at the Nebula Awards! And here’s a lovely review of it, in which the reviewer Christina lists my story “The City Beneath the Sea” among those they particularly appreciated: “Embers maintains a consistent and cohesive feel throughout: it stories are literary and poetic, with a fluidity of style…

  • Sunday recs: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers

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    Long time no rec on the blog – I’ve been posting occasional recs on Twitter, but this blog has been quiet. But now — it’s Mothers’ Day in Finland, and how better to celebrate than by recommending a creepy story? Alyssa Wong’s Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (in Nightmare Magazine, originally published in the Queers…

  • Sunday recs

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    Three powerful stories this Sunday: A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, by Alyssa Wong (on Tor.com). This story about weather-bending sisters and apocalypses is quite personally painful for me. But good, so good! Not an easy story, but very much worth the read. Makeisha in Time, by Rachael K. Jones (in Crossed Genres).…

  • An Alphabet of Embers update!

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    Aaasdgjhsdg I got my pre-release contributor ebook copy of Alphabet of Embers (ed. by Rose Lemberg)! The official print and ebook launch will be on the Nebula awards weekend, 12-15 May. The book has a Goodreads page already! I just. Incoherence and happiness, right now. I reread my story (it’s in an actual book! along…

  • Sunday recs: Rose Lemberg’s Birdverse

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    Rose Lemberg is a wonderful writer (and editor! but I’m concentrating on her writing here). I’ve recced many things by her in the past too: she writes beautiful poetry full of word-magic, for instance. But today, I want to highlight two stories from Rose that I’ve recently read and loved. These are both set in…

  • Sunday recs: strange bees

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    The smallest of recs but an utterly gorgeous one — a tiny story that I just read on Strange Horizons: Telling the Bees by T. Kingfisher. Poetic, strange and utterly wonderful. Such a short read that you’ve no excuse not to feast on its juicy word-goodness right away!

  • Finnish story “Vierain silmin” in Usva!

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    I just noticed that the Finnish ezine Usva has published its folklore issue, which includes my story “Vierain silmin” (‘With Strange Eyes’). You can read the whole issue here – well, if you can read Finnish, that is. (I recommend downloading the PDF – it’s got pretty pictures and the text is formatted more nicely.)…

  • Sunday recs: Sunshine

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    The world’s a horrible mess right now, even more than usual. As an antidote for all the hate and attacks worldwide, here is a story to read that gave me the warm fuzzies. Reader, I hope it brings you joy too. Shimmering, Warm and Bright by Shveta Thakrar (in the current issue of Interfictions). I…