The Year’s Best Fantasy Vol. 1

My copy of The Year’s Best Fantasy Vol. 1 (2021), edited by Paula Guran, has arrived! It includes my short story “Gisla and the Three Favours”, first published last year in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43.

Here’s the table of contents. I’ve linked to my notes on each story (except for my own).

• Marika Bailey, “The White Road; Or How a Crow Carried Death Over a River” (Fiyah #18) (notes)
• Elizabeth Bear, “The Red Mother” (Tor.com) (notes)
• Tobias Buckell, “Brickomancer” (Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories) (notes)
• P. Djèlí Clark, “If the Martians Have Magic” (Uncanny #42) (notes)
• Roshani Chokshi, “Passing Fair and Young” (Sword Table Stone: Old Legend, New Voices) (notes)
• Varsha Dinesh, “The Demon Sage’s Daughter” (Strange Horizons 2/8/21) (notes)
• Andrew Dykstal, “Quintessence” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #324) (notes)
• James Enge, “Drunkard’s Walk (F&SF 5-6) (notes)
• Karen Joy Fowler, “The Piper” (F&SF 1-2) (notes)
• Carlos Hernandez & C. S. E. Cooney, “A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid (Mermaids Monthly, April) (notes)
• Kathleen Jennings, “Gisla and the Three Favors” (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43)
• Allison King, “Breath of the Dragon King” (Fantasy #72) (notes)
• PH Lee, “Frost’s Boy” (Lightspeed #128) (notes)
• Yukimi Ogawa, “Her Garden the Size of Her Palm (F&SF 7-8) (notes)
• Tobi Ogundiran, “The Tale of Jaja and Canti” (Lightspeed #135) (notes)
• Richard Parks. “The Fox’s Daughter (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #344) (notes)
• Karen Russell, “The Cloud Lake Unicorn” (Conjunctions:76) (notes)
• Sofia Samatar, “Three Tales from the Blue Library” (Conjunctions:76) (notes)
• Catherynne Valente, “L’Esprit de Escalier” (Tor.com) (notes)
• Fran Wilde, “Unseelie Bros, Ltd.” (Uncanny #40) (notes)
• Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, “Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts” (Apex #121) (notes)
• Isabel Yap,“A Spell for Foolish Hearts” (Never Have I Ever) (notes)
• E. Lily Yu, “Small Monsters” (Tor.com) (notes)