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Since 2020, the We're Here series has combed speculative short fiction markets for the finest queer writing with an eye for celebrating work that spans the breadth of the field. The 2024 edition, edited by Ryka Aoki, is no exception.
We're Here 2024 includes the following stories:
- "Climbing the Mountains of Me" by Phoebe Barton (Kaleidotrope)
- "The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds" by Renan Bernardo (Diabolical Plots)
- "Something Small Enough to Ask For" by AnaMaria Curtis (Uncanny)
- "Mackson's Mardi Gras Moon Race" by David DeGraff (F&SF)
- "Show Goes On" by Louis Evans (Fusion Fragment)
- "Emergency Calls Only" by Kelsey Hutton (Analog)
- "The Last Flesh Figure Skaters" by Claire Jia-Wen (khōréō)
- "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country" by Angel Leal (Uncanny)
- "Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth" by Ann LeBlanc (3LBE)
- "The Owl" by Stephen M.A. (Apex)
- "No Happy Endings for Chasers" by Uchechukwu Nwaka (Fiyah)
- "Jumbie Closet" by Suzan Palumbo (The Crawling Moon)
- "The Spindle of Necessity" by B. Pladek (Strange Horizons)
- "Linden Honey, Blackcurrant Wine" by M. R. Robinson (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- "Zariel: Parable of a Gifted Black Child" by Denzel Xavier Scott (F&SF)
- "Together Like Hands on a Clock" by Jo Telle (Fiyah)
- "How to Make a Snow Maiden" by Kristina Ten (Porter House Review)
- "Syndical Organization in Revolutionary Transition" by Izzy Wasserstein (Embodied Exegesis)
- "A Taste of Justice" by John Wiswell (Sunday Morning Transport)
Ryka Aoki
RYKA AOKI (she/her) is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars, was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards.
Ryka is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist for her collections Seasonal Velocities, and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, and her first novel, He Mele a Hilo, was callled one of the "10 Best Books Set in Hawaii" by Bookriot. She has been recognized by the California State Senate for “extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people,” and her work has appeared or been recognized in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bustle, Autostraddle, PopSugar, and Buzzfeed, as well as the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She was also honored to work with the American Association of Hiroshima Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, where two of her compositions were adopted as the organization’s “songs of peace.”
She has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, and is currently a professor of English at Santa Monica College.
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