Sara Norja | writer

Category: short stories

  • Story sale to Fantasy Scroll Magazine

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    Some nice news amidst my flurry of a grant-application/academic-conference/busybusy life – Fantasy Scroll Magazine will be publishing my short story “Birch-Daughter”. Am very pleased that this story has found a home!

  • Sunday recs: art magic

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    Have been way too exhausted to blog lately. Should learn better time management, or possibly just somehow learn how to be less busy… Anyway, small rec for today because I don’t want to get too badly out of the habit: Do Not Touch by Prudence Shen (with some charming art by Noreen Rana and Faith…

  • Sunday recs: cuteness, mythology and pirates

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    I was just making a start on editing my upcoming Finnish short story as per the editor’s suggestions – very good suggestions! I love it when someone reads your work and points out possible things to improve and you’re like yesssss this will make it so much better. Now for recs before I go to…

  • Sunday recs: Court of Fives and other stories

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    Firstly: get yourself a copy of Kate Elliott’s newest book, Court of Fives. I finally got myself one and glommed the book in a few breathless sessions. I would’ve read it in a single day (I got halfway through in a few hours on my first reading session) but I was helping people move on…

  • Sunday recs: birds and the earth

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    One rec today, a long and wonderful read: The Earth and Everything Under by K.M. Ferebee (in Shimmer Magazine). I just read this story last night (it appeared last year) and was struck by a strange, melancholy sense of beauty. I absolutely love the way Ferebee writes! She creates a strange world both like and…

  • Sunday recs: pirates, space, ghuls

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    Sunday recs! Three stories I’ve enjoyed lately: With a Golden Risha by P. Djéli Clark (in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly) – a fun epic tale of air pirates and music. I enjoy it when music is used to further plot. Monsters in Space by Angela Ambroz (in Shimmer) – featuring an extremely entertaining narrator, such an…

  • Sunday recs: Recent faves

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    Here’s some stories I’ve read and really enjoyed these past few days: Forestspirit, Forestspirit by Bogi Takács (in Clarkesworld) – a great SF piece, and superyay for nonbinary character and nonviolence! The Cure by Malinda Lo (in the new issue of Interfictions) – feat. a great atmosphere and creepy (based on history) hysteria cures. Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s…

  • Sunday recs: art lessons, limestone, berries

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    Two poems and a story today. First, an oldie but goodie from 2010: “Art Lessons” by Yoon Ha Lee (in Stone Telling). This is a really good poem, witches’ daughters transforming into a great feminist punch. Then something more recent, from February this year: “Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies” by Kate Heartfield (in…

  • Sunday recs

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    I’ve had a flu for the past eight days and it doesn’t seem to be going away. I think it’s going and then… back it comes, mostly in the form of a sore throat. So, I haven’t had any extra energy to spare. I’ve tried to keep up with PhD work, but creativity has been…

  • Sunday recs

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    I probably should’ve spent this evening recovering from a busy three-day medieval studies conference and a day of active exploring. Instead, I submitted poetry to quite a few places. Not very restful, but useful – I’ve been lax with submitting poetry, or anything really, the past month. * My recs for tonight: Myrrha by Mari…