Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Awards Eligibility 2018

    It’s awards season, y’all, and that means the annual eligibility posts are out and about. I’m thrilled to look back on this last year of my professional life; I taught my first classes for adults, heard LeVar Burton read my short story to a packed live audience, hosted another successful Art & Words Show, and…

  • My Year in Stories 2017

    Hey all! Nebula nominations have opened and award eligibility posts have started showing up on my timelines. I had a great year writing-wise. My favorite story that was published in 2017 is my Phantom of the Opera retelling, which takes place in a high school and features a female phantom, a young outcast who lives…

  • Award Eligibility 2016

    It’s that time of year again, when people like me rush to catch up on all the fiction we’ve missed throughout the year in order to nominate them for various awards including the Nebula, the Hugo, the World Fantasy, the Tiptree, etc. Lots of great stories this year. I’d be honored if you’d consider one…

  • Awards Eligibility 2015

    First, this post is late. I meant to write it sooner–I usually love reflecting back over the past year–but a death in my family slowed my writing to a terrible crawl. I’ve been avoiding much that I meant to do. But an email from Sunil Patel, an editor of Mothership Zeta, with whom I published…

  • SSR Extra: A Brief Interview with Ken Liu

    In honor of this year’s Hugos — and my excitement at attending WorldCon for the first time — I will be publishing interviews with the three writers nominated for Best Short Story; this week, I’ve interviewed, albeit briefly on account of his time constraints due to career obligations and a novel in the works, Ken…