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Filter House
World Fantasy Awards
Nisi Shawl's story collection Filter House and her novella "Good Boy" have been nominated for 2009 World Fantasy awards. The winners will be announced November 1.
Tiptree Award
Filter House was one of two winners of the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Her co-winner was Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go. In a ceremony on May 24, 2009, Nisi was crowned with the Tiptree tiara and serenated with an Ellen Klages original. She also received a plaque, a check for $1000, a pie, a ceramic sculpture of a duck, a T shirt, and an enamel pin.
Best of 2008
Filter House was chosen one the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly magazine.
Filter House, the first collection of Nisi’s short fiction, came out from Aqueduct Press in late May, 2008. Filter House contains three previously unpublished stories and eleven reprints, plus an introduction by Nebula Award-winner Eileen Gunn.
Interviews
Eileen Gunn and Nisi Shawl talk about writing, race, the Tiptrees, Filter House, and pie in the Fantasy Magazine interview Ain't I a Woman.
Jesse Vernon talks with Nisi Shawl about Filter House at the Aqueduct Press blog: Seeing Voices: A Conversation with Nisi Shawl
Reviews & Comments
“Sometimes enigmatic, often surprising, always marvelous. This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places.”
—Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club
Sarah Canary“From the exotic, baroque complexities of ‘At the Huts of Ajala’ to the stark, folktale purity of ‘The Beads of Ku,’ these fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic.”
“A traveling story-bazaar, offering treasures and curios from diverse lands of wonder.”
“Nisi uses the tools of future and fable...to magically reveal what and who we all are here and today.”
- Introduction: Where Everything Is a Bit Different, by Eileen Gunn
- At the Huts of Ajala
- Wallamelon
- The Pragmatical Princess
- The Raineses’
- Bird Day
- Maggies
- Momi Watu
- Deep End
- Good Boy
- Little Horses
- Shiomah’s Land
- The Water Museum
- But She’s Only a Dream
- The Beads of Ku
Table of Contents
“Little Horses”
Nisi’s first crime story, “Little Horses,” is set on Detroit’s Belle Isle and the Ambassador Bridge circa 1960. It appears in the recent Detroit Noir anthology from Akashic Books, also featuring Loren Estleman and Joyce Carol Oates. You can read an interview, and read a review of the anthology.
New Stories
“To the Moment,” Nisi Shawl’s new story, is available online at Reflection’s Edge.
Nisi Shawl’s 2004 story “Deep End” was reprinted along with China Mieville’s “Jack” in a limited edition chapbook published this summer by Think Galactic Literary Cooperative. Think Galactic is a Chicago-based leftist organization which sponsors a book discussion group. They published this chapbook on July 14, 2007, in conjunction with their first convention, Think Galacticon.
Schedule
- On Sunday, October 18, Nisi takes part in a panel at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair at 11 a.m. The Fair is being held at Undergreound Events, 2407 1st Ave., in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. More details here as they become available.
- October 30 through November 1, Nisi as at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California. She has received two nominations for 2009 World Fantasy Awards: Best Collection for Filter House, and Best Novella for "Good Boy." Her panel participation isn't settled yet; more details here as they become available.
- On Friday, November 13, Nisi gives a reading and signs copies of Filter House at 7 p.m. at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. Free Admission.
- November 27 through 29, Nisi is at Orycon 31, at Portland's Double Tree Hotel. She'll appear on at least one panel; more details here as they become available.
- Online: Google recorded the reading Nisi did at their Seattle offices and posted it on YouTube.
- Online: No Gatekeepers: An Interview with Nisi Shawl at Reflection’s Edge, conducted by Sharon Dodge
- Previous appearances
Autobiography
Recent Fiction & Essays
- Filter House, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, June, 2008
- “Because We Are All So Royal,” The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 2, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, May, 2008 (forthcoming).
- “The Third Parable,” Potlatch 17 Program, Seattle, WA, February 29, 2008.
- “To the Moment,” Reflection’s Edge, November 2007.
- “Little Horses,” Detroit Noir, NY, NY, November 2007, Akashic Books.
- “Women of the Doll,” GUD Magazine, Laconia, NH, Fall 2007.
- "Dry Eyes," The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, May, 2007.
- “But She’s Only a Dream,” Trabuco Road, March 2007.
- “The Snooted One,” Farrago’s Wainscot, January 2007.
- “Colorful Stories,” Vector Magazine, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, May/June 2006.
- “Octavia E. Butler: In Memoriam,” Foundation Magzine, Kempston, Bedford, England, Summer 2006.
- “Octavia Butler: A Parable of Talent,” Colors NW Magazine, Seattle, WA, April 2006.
- "To Jack Kerouac, to Make Much of Space and Time," Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies, L. Timmel Duchamp (editor), Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, March, 2006.
Bibliography
How to Tell a True Story
Writing the Other
Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward’s Writing the Other: A Practical Guide, the companion book to the Writing the Other workshop.
Writing the Other is available directly from Aqueduct Press.
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