Tina has been publishing exceptional short fiction for over a decade now. -- Rich Horton
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"Angel Plantation" (flash), Daily SF, 7 June 2012
"As We Report to Gabriel", Fantasy Magazine, 3 January 2011
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Birthday Wish" (flash), Podcastle Miniature #29, 3 April 2009, narrated by Grammar Girl
"The Bitrunners", Helix #9, Summer 2008
Transcriptase, Summer 2008
Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy: 2008 Download, ed. Rich Horton, Dec 2009
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"By Hand and By Heart" (flash), Beneath Ceaseless Skies #370, December 2022
"Child of Sunlight, Woman of Blood", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #31, 3 December 2009
"Coin Flips" (with Caroline M. Yoachim) (flash), Daily SF, 17 February 2015
"A Day Out, with Stereoscopes", Birkensnake #1, July 2008
Drabblecast #204, May 2011, narrated by Norm Sherman
"Dial M for Martians" (flash), Daily SF, 29 April 2019
"Enchanted Objects: Buy-Sell-Trade Group, YOU MUST BE APPROVED TO JOIN" (flash), Daily SF, 27 October 2020
"Facts of Bone", GUD Magazine #3, Autumn 2008
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Flash Bang Remember" (with Caroline M. Yoachim), Lightspeed, August 2012
Podcast at Starship Sofa, 15 Jan 2014, narrated by Diane Severson Mori
"The Goats are Going Places", Shiny #2, December 2007
Podcast at Podcastle #108, 16 June 2010, narrated by Melissa Bugaj
"The God-Death of Halla", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #5, 4 December 2008
Podcast in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #8, 15 Jan 2009, narrated by Scott H. Andrews
Podcast at Podcastle, 15 November 2011, narrated by Jen Rhodes
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Golden Apples" (flash), Scheherezade's Bequest #16, Fall 2012
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Hard Choices" (flash), Brain Harvest, 7 June 2009
Drabblecast #204, May 2011, narrated by Norm Sherman
Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good, ed. H. L. Nelson and Joanne Merriam, Upper Rubber Boot Books, March 2015
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, ed. Susan DeFreitas, Forest Avenue Press, Nov 2021
Play it as a teensy flash game, developed by Kaolin Fire and Michael Greenhut, Jan 2023
Or just straight up read it here on my site
"Hearts, Sticky with Mulch and Jam" (flash), Daily SF, 28 August 2017
“How to Safely Store Your Magical Artifacts After Saving the World” (flash), Uncanny, 1 Feb 2022
"Inflection" (flash), Daily SF, 12 December 2011
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"The King of Halloween", Highlights, October 2009
"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections", Tor.com, 11 July 2018
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, Fall 2018
Podcast at Cast of Wonders, 28 July 2019 & 30 July 2019, narrated by Alethea Kontis
Nebula Showcase #54, November 2020
Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award Finalist for Best Novelette
"Left Hand" (flash), Gigantic Worlds, ed. Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, September 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Liability Insurance Policy for Immortals, Cryptids, and Other Magical Beings: Annual Newsletter" (flash), UFO 9, ed. Alex Shvartsman, Fall 2022
"Lions and Tigers and Girlfriends, Oh My", Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology, Titan Books, ed. S. B. Divya & Mur Lafferty, Fall 2020
Podcast at Escape Pod, narrated by Bria Strothers, 3 February 2022
"Love at Second Sight", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #18, April/May 2005
"A Memory of Seafood", Yog's Notebook #1, Spring 2007
Drabblecast, 16 March 2014, narrated by Kelley MacAvaney
"miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax" (flash), F&SF, March/April 2019
"Miss Violet May from the Ten Thousand Lakes" (flash), Daily SF, 25 February 2014
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Moon at the Starry Diner", Heliotrope Magazine #3, November 2007
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
The Overcast, Aug 2016, narrated by J. S. Arquin
"Monster in the Cafeteria", Spider Magazine, October 2012
"Old Dead Futures", Tor.com, 17 July 2013
Some of the Best From Tor.com 2013, 5 November 2013
Drabblecast #371, 16 November 2015, narrated by Hugh O'Donnel
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Once More Unto the Breach (But Don't Worry, the Inflatable Swords Are Latex-Free)" (flash), Uncanny #35, 7 July 2020
"One Ear Back", Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 14 June 2012
Podcast at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 14 June 2012, narrated by Tina Connolly
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"On Glicker Street", Escape Clause, ed. Clélie Rich, October 2009
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"On the Eyeball Floor", Strange Horizons, 2 June 2008
Podcast at Escape Pod #209, 30 July 2009, narrated by Norm Sherman
La Idea Fija #14, February 2014 (Spanish translation)
Bli-Panika, 8 November 2014 (Hebrew translation)
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Great Jones Street, April 2017
Escape Artists Twitch stream, narrated by Alasdair Stuart, 17 March 2021
"Paperheart" (flash), Bibliotheca Fantastica, ed. Claude Lalumière & Don Pizarro, July 2013
Podcastle, 31 December 2014, narrated by M. K. Hobson
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
"Pipecleaner Sculptures and Other Necessary Work" (flash), Uncanny #19, Nov 2017
"The Programmer and the Social Worker" (flash), Daily SF, 29 July 2013
"Queen Aster, Who Dances" (flash), Fireside, 4 July 2017
"Recalculating" (flash), Brain Harvest, 20 June 2010
After Ever After, 24 August 2011
Norwescon Program, 2012
Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, ed. Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum and Alexander Lumans, Dec 2012, Upper Rubber Boot Books
Podcast in Escape Pod Metacast, 13 October 2013 (starts at 24:00)
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Rejuve" (flash), Daily SF, 12 June 2018
SFVN Magazine, Feb 2019 (Vietnamese translation by Long Nguyen)
"The Salivary Reflex", GUD Magazine #2, Spring 2008
"Scales and Honor", Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, Summer 2015
"See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES!" (flash), Lightspeed, Women Destroy SF! issue, June 2014
Funny Science Fiction, ed. Alex Shvartsman, September 2015
Podcast in the Audiobook of Women Destroy SF, narrated by Harlan Ellison, November 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Selling Home", Bull Spec #6, Autumn 2011
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Podcast at Cast of Wonders, Aug 2016, narrated by Chloë Yates
"A Sharp Breath of Birds" (flash), Uncanny #27, March 2019
Then Again, ed. Laura Christensen, Fall 2019
Podcastle #626, 12 May 2020, narrated by me
"Silverfin Harbor", End of an Aeon, ed. Bridget and Marti McKenna, Fairwood Press, July 2011
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, April 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Skating Without Streetlights", Us in Flux, 14 May 2020
"So You Want to Write Human/Galthgearian Interstellar Romance: a brief how-to by EE’thoo Lnthogearian" (flash), Daily SF, 9 September 2019
"Stage Shows and Schnauzers", The Digital Aesthete, ed. Alex Shvartsman, November 2023
Available to read at Future-SF.com, 29 November 2023
"Standard Comfort Measures in Earthling Pregnancies" (flash), On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Super Baby-Moms Group Saves the Day!", UFO 3, ed. Alex Shvartsman, October 2014
Podcastle #356, 27 March 2015, narrated by C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, M.K. Hobson, Tina Connolly, LaShawn M. Wanak, Dave Thompson, Marguerite Kenner, and Anna Schwind.
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Great Jones Street, April 2017
"Ten" (flash), Escape Artists fund drive, October 2010
Toasted Cake #40, 1 October 2012, narrated by Tina Connolly
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Texts From My Mother About the Alien Invasion" (flash), UFO 4, ed. Alex Shvartsman, October 2015
The New Decameron, a Patreon project edited by Maya Chhabra, Jo Walton, and Lauren Schiller, 9 June 2020
"That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda’s One Hundredth Birthday Party", Tor.com, 26 August 2015
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Podcastle, Oct 2016, narrated by Gina Freeman
Great Jones Street, April 2017
"Turning the Apples", Strange Horizons, 30 March 2009
Pseudopod # 177, 15 Jan 2010, narrated by Cayenne Chris Conroy
Spin 3-4/2013, December 2013 (Finnish translation by Suvi Kauppila)
How to Live on Other Planets, ed. Joanne Merriam, Upper Rubber Boot Books, March 2015
For Mortal Things Unsung: A Pseudopod 10th Anniversary Special, ed. Alex Hofelich, March 2017
Escape Artists Twitch stream, narrated by Alasdair Stuart, 17 March 2021
"Twenty-Nine Responses to Inquiries about My Craigslist Post: Alien Spaceship for Sale, $200, You Haul" (flash), UFO 6, ed. Alex Shvartsman, October 2017
"The Two-Choice Foxtrot of Chapham County", F&SF, Sept/Oct 2017
Podcastle, 5 Nov 2019, narrated by Julie Hoverson
"Useful Guinevere and the Bio-Mechanical Dragons of Neptunias" (flash), Daily SF, 18 September 2020
"Wendy with a Comet in the Tail of the Y", On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"We Will Wake Among the Gods, Among the Stars" (with Caroline M. Yoachim), Analog, Jan/Feb 2016
"Zebedee the Giant Man" (flash), On Spec, Spring 2010
Toasted Cake #92, 13 October 2013, narrated by Tina Connolly
It’s a gripping piece, short and precise, a cold blade right to the feels. Definitely read it! -- Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews, on "Pipecleaner Sculptures"
"BOX" (co-written with Matt Haynes), a YA SF play, first produced by The Pulp Stage, Jan-Feb 2015.
"How Frederika Cassowary-Jones Joined the Ladies' Aid Society of Benevolent Goings-On", staged reading, Portland Fertile Ground Fringe Festival, first produced by The Pulp Stage, 28 & 29 January 2011
Reading version published in Gears and Levers 2, ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Jan 2013
Ditto, published in On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
Now available on New Play Exchange.
"How to Talk to Little Girls", staged reading, Portland Fertile Ground Fringe Festival, first produced by The Pulp Stage, January 21st and 28th, 2012
"Moon at the Starry Diner" (based on the short story), staged reading, Portland Fertile Ground Fringe Festival, first produced by The Pulp Stage, 24 January 2010
Storytelling Karaoke Vol 1, ed. Matt Haynes, September 2017
Now available on New Play Exchange.
"Recalculating" (short story performed as a monologue), reading, first produced by The Pulp Stage, 2014
"Silence", staged reading, first produced by The Pulp Stage, 21 April 2016
Storytelling Karaoke Vol 1, ed. Matt Haynes, September 2017
Listen to a live, unrehearsed karaoke version at KBOO radio, performed by Radio Geekly! First hear Matt explain Storytelling Karaoke, then Silence starts around -35, and then I answer questions after.
Overcast, live recording at Orycon, performed by Fonda Lee, Matt Haynes, J. S. Arquin, and me! Episode #117, November 2019.
Now available on New Play Exchange.
"And My Sinuses Are Killing Me", Asimov's, August 2009
Drabblecast #204, May 2011, narrated by Tina Connolly
"The Gourmet Cook Takes a Husband", Scattered, Covered, Smothered, Two Cranes Press, Dec 2004
"Growing Days", Strange Horizons, 30 July 2007
"The Heart Has a Memory", Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2006
"Hold Fast", Ideomancer Vol. 5 Issue 2, Summer 2006
"How to Walk in Heels", Diet Soap #2, May 2008
"A Million Little Paper Airplane Stories", 9 October 2013, Tor.com
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"Rehydration", Strange Horizons, 9 Apr 2007
Toasted Cake Podcast #125, 6 Oct 2014, narrated by Tina Connolly
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
"tiny atrocities", Abyss & Apex, October 2012
On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories, Fairwood Press, Aug 2016
The language Connolly uses to evoke this process is mystifying, horrific, and beautiful, and manages to explore without explaining, describe without defining. It’s a beautiful and intricate process. -- Carl Engle-Laird, Tor.com, on "Old Dead Futures"
“We All Have to Start Somewhere: Finding Your Process and Making it Work for You” by Tina Connolly and Caroline M. Yoachim, Pocket Workshop (Clarion West), ed. Tod McCoy & M. Huw Evans, Hydra House Books, 9 February 2021
"Going from Short Stories to Novels in 60,000 Easy Words", The Usual Path to Publication, ed. Shannon Page, Book View Cafe, 7 June 2016
"Toasted Cake", Ad Astra: The Fiftieth Anniversary SFWA Cookbook, SFWA Publications, ed. Cat Rambo and Fran Wilde, Summer 2015
"Untimely Magic", Pixelberry Studios / Storyloom, serialized Sept 2023 - Dec 2023
"Fairytale Thunderdome: Royal Rumble", Pixelberry Studios / Storyloom, serialized Apr 2023-Sept 2023, co-written with S. L. Huang.
"Plum Pie Magic", Pixelberry Studios / Storyloom, serialized Jan 2023-March 2023
"Cafe Magic", Pixelberry Studios / Storyloom, serialized Dec 2022- March 2023
On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Fairwood Press, August 2016
World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection
Scales and Other Transformations, Red Twig Press, was available through the 6x6 Kickstarter, April 2015
Glitterpony Farm, ChooseCo, March 2023
Seriously Hexed, Tor Teen, November 2017
Seriously Shifted, Tor Teen, November 2016
Seriously Wicked, Tor Teen, May 2015
Norton Award Nominee for Best YA Novel
Silverblind, Tor Books, October 2014
Copperhead, Tor Books, October 2013
Ironskin, Tor Books, October 2012
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel
Romantic Times Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel
Laugh out loud funny. -- David Kilman, Amazing Stories, on "Texts from my Mother About the Alien Invasion"