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"The First Touch"--Dreams and Nightmares (Jan 2008)
"Amuse-Bouche"--Shroud Magazine #2
"Strict Management"-- Open for Business, Cleis Press
Special Notice
"Cipher"(story)--Jerry Jazz Musician short fiction contest winner, 2007 http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/
"Hold Back the Night" (story)--Open Space anthology 2003, Years Best Science Fiction 22 Annual Collection, honourable mentione; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 17 Annual Collection— honourable mention;Shortlisted for the 2005? Gaylactic Spectrum award; Speculative Literature Foundation award nominee
"These Proud Trees" (poem)--Talebones Honourable Mention in the Year's Best Horror & Fantasy 1996
"Phoenix Sunset"--2nd place Pinekone SF convention 1989
Shari Meakin Scholarship for writing (first recipient), Burnaby Writers Society 1988
"A Matter of View"--2nd place Pinekone SF convention 1987
"Hunger" (poem)--placed 15th/800--Cross Canada Writers Quarterly competition 1986
Wherein swims a freak of nature in the seas of change.
Prepare to have your mind boarded
Siren Song
- Colleen Anderson
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician short fiction contest Nov. 2007: http://jerryjazzmusician.com. New work out in Dreams & Nightmares, Shroud, Warrior Wisewoman, Pinecone, Nemonymous: Cone Zero. Published works include fiction, fantasy, erotic, SF stories, poetry, articles, one co-produced Fringe Festival play. And a host of other little tidbits of interest, tucked away like clams.
Past Treasures
Barnacles on the Ship of Fate
- Colleen Anderson--another blog
- Cleis Books (Naughty or Nice)
- Cleis Books (B is for Bondage, E is for Exotic)
- Kelp Queen Press--Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths and Past Lives
- SF Canada
- Another Lobe
- You Can't Say That (words & meanings)
- Word Wenches
- Twilight Tales
- Karen Morrow, Jeweller
- Jonny Algiers, Super Spy
- Eileen Kernaghan, Writer
Pirate's Booty
Coming Soon
"The First Touch"--Dreams and Nightmares (Jan 2008)
"Amuse-Bouche"--Shroud Magazine #2
"Strict Management"-- Open for Business, Cleis Press
Special Notice
"Cipher"(story)--Jerry Jazz Musician short fiction contest winner, 2007 http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/
"Hold Back the Night" (story)--Open Space anthology 2003, Years Best Science Fiction 22 Annual Collection, honourable mentione; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 17 Annual Collection— honourable mention;Shortlisted for the 2005? Gaylactic Spectrum award; Speculative Literature Foundation award nominee
"These Proud Trees" (poem)--Talebones Honourable Mention in the Year's Best Horror & Fantasy 1996
"Phoenix Sunset"--2nd place Pinekone SF convention 1989
Shari Meakin Scholarship for writing (first recipient), Burnaby Writers Society 1988
"A Matter of View"--2nd place Pinekone SF convention 1987
"Hunger" (poem)--placed 15th/800--Cross Canada Writers Quarterly competition 1986
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