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Fiction Writing

When the crows cry, I feed them.

5 March 20255 March 2025 joannemerriam

New publication! “Lightyears from Home” appeared this morning at 50-Word Stories.

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Fiction Writing

Easy Bake

25 January 202525 January 2025 joannemerriam

My flash fiction piece “Easy Bake” is now available at Baltimore Review!

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Fiction Yeah

rilly rilly busy you guys

6 March 201824 December 2022 joannemerriam

I’m hard at work on a Kickstarter slated for April for the next two volumes of the Women Up To No Good Series, and on

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Awards Fiction Photos & Video

Snow day

20 January 20165 January 2025 joannemerriam

It’s a snow day, Tennessee-style (which means we’ll get maybe two cm of snow, but tons of ice which we don’t have the infrastructure to

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Fiction Writing Yeah

Unlikely Entomology

9 November 201222 May 2015 joannemerriam

My story “The Candy Aisle” is out in The Journal of Unlikely Entomology! This is a story I wrote a million years ago, probably in

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Fiction Writing Yeah

Facial Deficits and more

7 June 201222 May 2015 joannemerriam

The Locus Online Roundtable has been doing a very nice series of posts on speculative poetry! Mine is here: “‘Literary’ Poetry” and F. J. Bergmann

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Fiction Poetry Writing

The hundred hidden chickadees

25 January 201222 May 2015 joannemerriam

“Larix laracina Anaphora” was just accepted for The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013)! Also! My short story “Facial Deficits” just

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Awards Fiction

What is wrong with the Man Booker Prize?

30 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

The finalists for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced today. Irritatingly, of the thirteen finalists, only four are women. Even more irritatingly, my

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Fiction Writing

I took the bladders of blood to the blood bank. The teller was a young woman in a smart black suit with big lapels that looked like they had coathanger wire inside them to keep the points pointy. Her face was as blank and innocent as a head of lettuce, like all the rest of them.

5 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Hey everybody, the Strange Horizons 2010 readers poll closes tomorrow. I have a short story (“Sundowning“) and a poem (“Improving on Nature“) up for it.

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Fiction Writing

steered by a virgin

3 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

My short, short, short story “The unicorn pulls…” (originally called “Work Requirements”) was reprinted today at Trapeze Magazine.

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