Awards Eligibility Post aka Year-in-Review

This time of year has a habit of turning me toward reflection. Perspective kicks in and once the end of the calendar year looms, it begins to feel a little less like you’re in the thick of things. A page is being turned. It’s with this in mind that I look back on the year 2020 in writing/publishing.

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• In 2020, I had two books come out, Riot Baby in January and Rebel Sisters in November.

Short fiction published this year includes the following:

• “The Hurt Pattern” in Made to Order: Robots and Revolution

• “A Room of One’s Own” as part of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination Us in Flux series

• “How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary” for Slate

• “Habibi” in A Universe of Wishes

And now for my non-fiction:

• “Where in your affidavit does it say you’re Black?”: Why Worldbuilding Can’t Neglect Race for Tor.com

• Greatest City On Earth: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin for Tor.com

• Seeing the Child: Braiding Possibility for the Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2020

• Why war stories could reinjure those affected for the Oxford University Press blog

• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest for Tor.com

• “Fine Weather, Isn’t It?” in the SFWA Bulletin #215, guest edited by L.D. Lewis

Lastly, I’m not sure that this is eligible for anything but it is something I am absolutely proud of: my first New York Times byline:

• Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: A Black Hero’s Boyhood for The New York Times

Quite a few hyperlinks there, as telling a signal as any that the year has been, among quite a few other things, blessed.