Sword and Sonnet – Aidan Doyle

Sword and Sonnet is Nominated for an Aurealis Award

Aidan — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:10:32 +0000

Sword and Sonnet is nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best Anthology!

2018 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Sword and Sonnet, Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones & E Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)

Aurum, Russell B Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)

Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Australian editors and authors are eligible for the award and two of the stories from the anthology are also nominated.

Anya Ow’s story Eight-Step Koan is nominated for Best Young Adult Short Story

Suzanne J. Willis’ story Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring is nominated for Best Fantasy Short Story.

The awards are in Melbourne in May.

2018 Eligibility Post

Aidan — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:07:32 +0000

I only had one original piece of fiction published in 2018, my story The Greatest Leader, which was published in The Cackle of Cthulhu, an anthology edited by Alex Shvartsman.

E. Catherine Tobler, Rachael K. Jones and I edited an anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories, Sword and Sonnet. It includes 23 stories featuring a battle poet main character and the stories are eligible for award nominations.

Words in an Unfinished Poem by A.C. Wise

A Subtle Fire Beneath the Skin by Hayley Stone

As for Peace, Call it Murder by C.S.E. Cooney

She Calls Down the Future in the Footprints Left Behind by Setsu Uzumé

Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-eyed Peas by Malon Edwards

El Cantar de la Reina Bruja by Victoria Sandbrook

The Other Foot by Margo Lanagan

Eight-Step Kōan by Anya Ow

The Firefly Beast by Tony Pi

Her Poems are Inked in Fears and Blood by Kira Lees

The Words of Our Enemies, The Words Of Our Hearts by A. Merc Rustad

Labyrinth, Sanctuary by A.E. Prevost

Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring by Suzanne J. Willis

The Bone Poet and God by Matt Dovey

And The Ghosts Sang With Her: A Tale of The Lyrist by Spencer Ellsworth

Dulce et Decorum by S.L. Huang

The Fiddler at the Heart of the World by Samantha Henderson

She Searches for God in the Storm Within by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

A Voice in Many Different Forms by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

Recite Her the Names of Pain by Cassandra Khaw

Siren by Alex Acks

This Lexicon of Bone and Feathers by Carlie St. George

Dark Clouds & Silver Linings by Ingrid Garcia

Sword and Sonnet

Aidan — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:41:46 +0000

Sword and Sonnet is the anthology I co-edited with Rachael K. Jones and E. Catherine Tobler.

It includes 23 fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets and is now available in ebook and paperback.

A list of places where you can buy it.

http://www.swordsonnet.com/where-to-buy/

Or direct from Amazon.

Sword & Sonnet Guidelines

Aidan — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:49:31 +0000

The Sword & Sonnet Kickstarter funded! Thank you for all of our backers. We’re having an open submission period in Feb 2018. We’re looking for original stories featuring a woman or non-binary battle poet. Up to 5000 words. We’re paying …

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Sword and Sonnet

Aidan — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 22:29:59 +0000

E. Catherine Tobler, Rachael K. Jones and I are running a Kickstarter throughout November. We’re raising funds for Sword and Sonnet, an anthology of genre stories about battle poets.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/169140551/sword-and-sonnet

We have some beautiful cover artwork from Vlada Monakhova. A group of wonderful writers have agreed to write stories for us and we’ll also be opening for general submissions.