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Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2024

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Ryka Aoki and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024:

  • “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)

Scroll down for submission information about We’re Here 2025.

The cover art of We’re Here 2024 is by the incredible Matthew Spencer, a frequent Neon Hemlock co-conspirator. Check out more of Matt’s work. And here’s the full image (click for a lightbox view):

Submissions for We’re Here 2025 are now open. We’re Here 2024 will be helmed again by Charles Payseur and guest edited by Bogi Takács.

Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or singular they) is a Hungarian Jewish author, editor, critic and scholar who's an immigrant to the US. Bogi has won the Lambda and Hugo awards, and has been a finalist for other awards like the Ignyte and the Locus. E edited three volumes of Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting and eir debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation were both released in 2019, and eir second collection Power to Yield and Other Stories came out last year. You can find Bogi on various social media as bogiperson.

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