We’re Here 2023 is edited by Darcie Little Badger & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. An 8” x 5” book. 262 pages. Published Decembr 31st, 2024.

We’re Here 2023 includes the following stories:

• “A Promise in Bronze” by Ash Arya (Lost Atlantis)

• “Mama uat-ur” by Z. K. Abraham (PodCastle)

• “The Birds I Pull” by Sharang Biswas (Tales & Feathers)

• “Sentience” by Nkone Chaka (Fiyah)

• “The Ng Yut Queen (The 五 月 Queen)” by Eliza Chan (Worlds of Possibility)

• “Baobab Lover” by Kwame Sound Daniels (Tales & Feathers)

• “Braid Me a Howling Tongue” by Maria Dong (Lightspeed)

• “Eulogy for a Brother, Resurrected” by Carson Faust (Never Whistle at Night)

• “Morning Star Blues” by Tessa Fisher (Rosalind's Siblings)

• “Parásito” by Ana Hurtado (Wilted Pages)

• “Mandy and Lulu Welcome Walter” by S. M. Hallow (CatsCast)

• “Three Nights in Orissa” by Sean Robinson (Prismatica)

• “Please Mind the Poltergeist” by Tehnuka (Worlds of Possibility)

• “A Record of Lost Time” by Regina Kanyu Wang, translated by Rebecca F. Kuang (Lightspeed)

Our incredible cover is by Dan Rossi. Cover design by dave ring.

We’re Here 2022 is edited by Naomi Kanakia & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. An 8” x 5” book. 274 pages. Published October 17th, 2023.

We’re Here 2022 includes the following stories:

• “We'll Always Have Enceladus” by Amy Nagopaleen (Fusion Fragment)

• “The Planned Obsolescence of the Human Body” by Anja Hendrikse Liu (Fusion Fragment)

• “Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries” by Izzy Wasserstein (All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From)

• “Sheri, At This Very Moment” by Bianca Sayan (Apex)

• “Four Glass Cubes (Item Description)” by Bogi Takács (Baffling)

• “15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” by Carlie St. George (You Fed Us to the Roses)

• “B-ing” by Crystal Odelle (Strange Horizons)

• “Slow Communication” by Dominique S. Dickey (Fantasy)

• “Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare)

• “Beginnings” by Kristina Ten (Fantasy)

• “Drowning Songs” by M. S. Dean (Anathema)

• “My Dad Bought a Space Shuttle” by M. Shaw (Voyage YA Journal)

• “Falling to Pieces” by Rebecca Cuthbert (Defunkt)

• “Follow, Follow” by RJ Mustafa (Lolwe)

• “A Girl Explodes” by Ruth Joffre (Three-Lobed Burning Eye)

• “The Halved World” by Samir Sirk Morató (Strange Weeds: A Charity Anthology)

• “Normalization” by Xauri’EL Zwaan (Cossmass Infinities)

• “Icariana” by Wen-yi Lee (Baffling)

• “The Chavrusa” by Y.M. Resnik (Worlds of Possibility)

Our incredible cover is by Pau Edrosa. Cover design by dave ring.

“Kanakia (We Are Totally Normal) and series editor Payseur bolster Neon Hemlock’s reputation as a champion of queer speculative fiction with these 19 praiseworthy shorts…The message that queer people are here and will continue to be here in all possible futures resounds.”
—Publishers Weekly

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Anthology.

We’re Here 2020 is edited by C.L. Clark & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. A 263 page 8” x 5” book.

“This promising start to a new anthology series will appeal to any reader of contemporary short SFF, queer or otherwise, and reinforces Neon Hemlock’s spot at the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing.”
— Publishers Weekly

We’re Here 2020 includes the following stories from 2020:

• "If You Take My Meaning" by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom, February 26, 2020)

• "A Voyage to Queensthroat" by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange Horizons, August 2020)

• “Rat and Finch are Friends” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons, March 2020)

• “Salt and Iron” by Gem Isherwood (Podcastle, May 2020)

• "The Currant Dumas" by L.D. Lewis (Glitter + Ashes, edited by dave ring)

• “Everquest” by Naomi Kanakia (Lightspeed, October 2020)

• "Portrait of Three Women with an Owl" by Gwen C. Katz (The Future Fire, February 2020)

• “The Ashes of Vivian Firestrike” by Kristen Koopman (Glittership, May 2020)

• “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” by RB Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2020)

• “Thin Red Jellies” by Lina Rather (Gigonotosaurus, February 2020)

• “Body, Remember” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Fireside, November 2020)

• “Escaping Dr. Markoff” by Gabriela Santiago (The Dark, March 2020)

• "The Last Good Time to Be Alive" by Waverly SM (Reckoning 4, edited by Danika Dinsmore and Arkady Martine)

• “Monsters Never Leave You” by Carlie St. George (Strange Horizons, June 2020)

• "The Wedding After The Bomb" by Brendan Williams-Childs (Catapult, April 2020)

• "8-Bit Free Will" by John Wiswell (Podcastle, November 2020)

Our incredible cover is by Sajan Rai.

We’re Here 2021 is edited by L.D. Lewis & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. An 8” x 5” book. 258 pages.

We’re Here 2021 includes the following stories:

• “The Captain and the Quartermaster” by C.L. Clark (Beyond Ceaseless Skies)

• “A Study in Ugliness” by H. Pueyo (The Dark)

• “Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny)

• “The Lake, the Valley, the Border Between Water and Wood, and the End of Things” by Watson Neith (Translunar Traveler’s Lounge)

• “Let All the Children Boogie” by Sam J. Miller (Tordotcom)

• “The Hidden Language of Flowers” by Laurel Beckley-Jackson (Misspelled: Magic Gone Awry edited by Kelly Lynn Colby)

• “The Art and Mystery of Thea Wells” by Alexandra Seidel (Diabolical Plots)

• “To Rest and To Create” by LA Knight (FIYAH)

• “A Technical Term, Like Privilege” by Bogi Takács (Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable)

• “Root Rot” by Fargo Tbakhi (Apex)

• “Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station” by Ann LeBlanc (Mermaids Monthly)

• “Blood in the Thread” by Cheri Kamei (Tordotcom)

• “Sutekh: A Breath of Spring” by Sharang Biswas (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness edited by dave ring)

• “To Rise, Blown Open” by Jen Brown (Anathema: Spec from the Margins)

• "To Exhale Sky” by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Baffling)

Our incredible cover is by Paul Kellam.

PRAISE

"With this lovely anthology, Lewis and Payseur collect 15 speculative shorts that range widely in tone and genre, but all circle themes of love and identity...There's something here for any reader of speculative fiction to admire."
—Publishers Weekly