Shining Moon Episode 32: Novella Writing

 Bendi Barrett is a queer Black creator of speculative work in both fiction and interactive game narratives. His debut novella, Empire of the Feast, was a 2023 Ignyte award finalist for Best Novella. His work has appeared in Baffling Mag, PANK magazine, and several anthologies including the BSFA awards long-listed Luminescent Machinations. He also writes erotic fiction and games under the pen name Benji Bright. Nonetheless, his mother has implied she is very proud of him. | 

 Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with five patents and a background in AI and Internet R&D. He has published over 50 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasy novella series consisting of The Demons of Wall Street, The Demons of the Square Mile, and The Demons of Chiyoda has just added a new volume, The Demons of Montmartre, while his standalone novel The World's Shattered Shell has also recently been published.  

P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian graduate of the Odyssey workshop who has published over thirty original pieces of short fiction in respected genre magazines including, Lightspeed, Apex, and Fantasy. Her work has also appeared in over twenty anthologies, including Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1, which also listed her debut science fiction novella, Lost Cargo, as one of the best of 2022. Her story, “Splits,” went on to win Canada’s 2022 Short Works Prize and most recently she was long-listed for the BSFA Awards for her story, “Things Most Meaningful.” When not writing, Cornell can be found assembling intricate Lego builds or drinking ridiculous quantities of tea. Sometimes both. For more on the author and her work, visit her website pacornell.com.

 Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.

Stories in this episode:


Bendi Barrett, Empire of the Feast, Neon Hemlock Press, 2023. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire-of-the-feast 

 Laurence Raphael Brothers, Pâtissier et Étranger, Brigid’s Gate Press, pending publication.

P.A. Cornell, Lost Cargo Mocha Memoirs Press 2022.  https://mochamemoirspress.com/product/lost-cargo/


Premee Mohamed THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, Tordotcom Feb 27, 2024. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250881786/thebutcheroftheforest 

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