Year: 2024

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Ihor Mysiak

Ihor Mysiak, born June 16, 1993 in Lviv, was a contemporary Ukrainian poet and prose writer. He studied history at Drohobych Pedagogical University and actively participated in the Revolution of Dignity. From late 2014 to mid-2015, he served as a military paramedic in the Azov Brigade.

Mysiak won several literary awards in Ukraine, including Khortytsia Bells (2018), Irpin Parnassus (2018), Zhytomyr TEM (2019), and An T-R-Act (2020). His work has been featured in Literary Chernihiv, Dzvin, and various anthologies.

In March 2022, a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, he joined the Territorial Defense Forces, fighting in the liberation of Kherson and later in the intense battles near Bakhmut.

His debut novel, The Factory, was published in Ukrainian soon after, a sign of hope during the early weeks of the full-scale invasion that Ukraine would stand. Ihor’s life was cut short at the front line when he was killed by Russia in the spring of 2023.

Hanna Leliv is a freelance literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Iowa’s Literary Translation MFA program and mentee at the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program run by the UK National Center for Writing. Hanna has been collaborating with a range of Ukrainian and international publishers, and in 2023-24, she was a translator-in-residence at Princeton University.

Yevheniia Dubrova is a writer and literary translator from the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. Winner of the 2024 Lando Grant for refugee writing from the de Groot Foundation, she writes about displacement, loss, memory, and what endures, and translates fiction, poetry, and plays from Ukrainian.

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Atthis Arts Award Eligibility 2024

Atthis Arts Award Eligibility

>>> Our Year

March: Be the Sea by Clara Ward

April: Just Chad by E.D.E. Bell, completing The Just Duology

July: Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson, completing The Gray Assassin Trilogy

August: Interdimensions, Vol 1 edited by Toiya Kristen Finley

October: Storm Tree by E.D.E. Bell from the world of Alyssia

November: Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy, a Sauútiverse story

November: The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

>>> General / Nebula Awards

Novel

Be the Sea by Clara Ward (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

Storm Tree by E.D.E. Bell (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

Short Story

“All Time Is Now” by Linda D. Addison from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley (SFWA Members: To Read) / To Recommend

“All the Light in the Room” by Gabrielle Harbowy from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley (SFWA Members: To Read / To Recommend)

“You Need Not Fear” by Brandon Crilly from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley (SFWA Members: To Read) / To Recommend

>>> Hugo Awards

Novel

Be the Sea by Clara Ward

Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson

Storm Tree by E.D.E. Bell

The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

Short Story

“All Time Is Now” by Linda D. Addison from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“All the Light in the Room” by Gabrielle Harbowy from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“You Need Not Fear” by Brandon Crilly from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

Series

The Gray Assassin Trilogy by Gregory A. Wilson

Just Duology by E.D.E. Bell

Alyssia by E.D.E. Bell

Related Work

Gen Con Writers’ Symposium 2024 Program, led by Emily D.E. Bell, featuring Linda D. Addison and Mikki Kendall

Professional Artist

Matthew Spencer, including covers for Be the Sea and Storm Tree

>>> World Fantasy Awards

Novel

Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson

Storm Tree by E.D.E. Bell

The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

Short Fiction

“You Need Not Fear” by Brandon Crilly from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“One Kind of Many, Undefined by Them” by Jason Sanford from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“The Goblin’s Locket” by Gregory A. Wilson from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

Anthology

Interdimensions, Vol 1 edited by Toiya Kristen Finley

Collection

Just Chad by E.D.E. Bell

Artist

Matthew Spencer, including covers for Be the Sea and Storm Tree

>>> Locus Awards

Science Fiction Novel

Be the Sea by Clara Ward

Fantasy Novel

Be the Sea by Clara Ward

Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson

Storm Tree by E.D.E. Bell

The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

First Novel

Be the Sea by Clara Ward

The Factory by Ihor Mysiak, translated by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

Short Story

“All Time Is Now” by Linda D. Addison from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“All the Light in the Room” by Gabrielle Harbowy from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“You Need Not Fear” by Brandon Crilly from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

Anthology

Interdimensions, Vol 1 edited by Toiya Kristen Finley

Collection

Just Chad by E.D.E. Bell

Publisher

Atthis Arts

Editor

Toiya Kristen Finley for Interdimensions, Vol 1

Artist

Matthew Spencer, including covers for Be the Sea and Storm Tree

>>> Ignyte Awards

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

Short Story

“All Time Is Now” by Linda D. Addison from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

“The Grandmother Tale” by LaShawn M. Wanak from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

Anthology/Collected Works

Interdimensions, Vol 1 edited by Toiya Kristen Finley

>>> Nommo Awards

Novella

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

>>> Aurora Awards

Short Story

“You Need Not Fear” by Brandon Crilly from Interdimensions, Vol 1, ed. Toiya Kristen Finley

>>> Other E.D.E. Bell

Non-Fiction: “Escapism is a Lie” by E.D.E. Bell, Apex Magazine Issue 143

Fiction: Divergence to “The Bar at the End of the World” by E.D.E. Bell from Inter Librarian Loan, ed. Todd Sanders, Air and Nothingness Press

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Cheryl S. Ntumy

Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction, young adult fiction and romance. Her work has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine; Apex Magazine; World Literature Today; Best of World SF Vol. 3 and Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, among others. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Nommo Award for African Speculative Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship. She is part of the Sauúti Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and a member of Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops and promotes creative writing in Botswana.

cherylsntumy.wordpress.com

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These are exhausting times for people who care. We understand. Our intent with this rally is not to exhaust anyone already feeling strained, but to provide a simple thing to post and share, and blast out into the space of Earth, hoping that people who have more resources to help may see it and step in.

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If you have time to dive in a little more, look how much we have going on! Pick something you can support, or a link to share. Please, join our rally and show that bold small presses are essential.

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Just Duology

Comedic, Slipstream Fantasy

The Just Duology is a set of fifty weird, comedic, slipstream episodes by E.D.E. Bell. Emily hopes that they will bring a smile to your face.

Book 1: Just Bart 

Bart is just a simple folk trying to get by. With a posse comprisin’ of a sparkle-loving horse, an unsettled ghost, and a magic old whiskey bottle, they wander from town to town in search of some needed coin, and maybe a brighter day.

GOLD WINNER – Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) Book Awards, Fiction: Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal, 2021

“Deadpan humor, clever wordplay, and sweet aphorisms that stick with you long after you’ve turned the last page. But, more than anything…a sense of camaraderie, of hope, and of a genuine desire to be loved and appreciated within any life one is given.” — Poet Marsalis, 5 Stars

Book 2: Just Chad

Chad is just a robot from Future Town. With xyr family network of Angel, a cocktail glass, a flirty phone, and a partying unicorn, xe explores the streets of the city in search of hard-core adventures, and maybe a bit of the realness.

Duology Bundle

Receive both books: Just Bart and Just Chad at a discount.