Updates

There’s nothing like getting a story acceptance (or rejection for that matter) in your inbox first thing in the morning. A short story of mine  titled “Trichophagia” was accepted by The Other Room for publication!

Also, I just received news that the anthology The Dragon and the Stars (DAW), which had been nominated for Canada’s 2011 Prix Aurora Award and includes my short story “The Man on the Moon”, won in the category of Best Related Work – English! Congratulations to editors Derwin Mak and Eric Choi and the other writers!

Derwin Mak, Eric Choi, and Tony Pi accepting the award at the SFContario in Toronto, image courtesy of Eric

And to round up the day, a short fiction piece of mine got rejected by a literary journal but had made it to the second round. This piece has previously been a near-hit in another venue so it looks promising! I’ve generally been making it to a lot of second rounds lately, which is more than what I can say about last year, so it’s quite encouraging.

Finally, a HUGE thank you to the intrepid Charles Tan for getting Junot Diaz to sign a copy of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which I had read two years ago (just found out it won the Pulitzer in 2008), to me. TO ME. There’s a part of my mind going Oh my lord, Junot Diaz WROTE MY NAME.

Junot Diaz was in Manila for the Manila International Literary Festival 2011. (He was in Hong Kong too for the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival last year, which I had missed for a reason I can’t remember now but I hope had been a good one.) Charles has the interviews with Mr. Diaz up in his blog so check them out!

My story at Corvus Magazine

“Rubato”, my short story about music, food, and a robot, is up in the inaugural issue of Corvus Magazine. Many thanks to editors Emily-Jo Hopson and Rachael Bundock! (Links lead to the PDF file.) Includes fun words like amines, low-frequency oblivion and rum.

Image courtesy of Corvus Magazine

Issue One Available

Our inaugural issue features cover art by Hannah Simpson and prose and poetry from Rich Ives, Alex Bernstein, Valentina Cano, Leslianne Wilder, Sanchari Sur, P.A. Levy, S.J. Adair, Paul Lewellan, Lam Pham, Kevin Ridgeway, Neila Mezynski, Crystal Koo, Caleb Puckett, Elizabeth Allen, Jeffery Ryan Long, David McLean, and Allison Spangenberg. You can get it here. Simply click to view online or right click and save link/target as to download it.

We hope you’ll take a look, and that you’ll enjoy it as much as we have. Feedback is always welcome, via the contact form or straight to our email inbox.

We’d like to thank all of our contributors, including those whose work we were unfortunately not able to accept for this issue. It’s been a real privilege to get the opportunity to read so much work by so many different writers, and we do hope that you’ll all submit to us again in future.

Sincerely,
the Editors