Award Season 2023
A whole host of literary awards open for nominations in the next few months. For your convenience, I have assembled a page of works available for nomination here!
If you’re not familiar, here’s a little blurb about each of these:
BLISS STREET by C.Z. Tacks - first story of mine to ever win an award (thanks, SIWC!) Got a residency on the strength of this bad boy. Made myself sad about honeylocust trees while I was writing it. Inspired by a truly decrepit house in Melbourne that, despite actively rotting, sold for a cool $1MM. This is the story that made me take myself seriously as a writer. I talked about that some over here.
HIVE by C.Z. Tacks - dark academia, meet body horror. Mix vigorously and add my passion for fake citations and weird insects. I know just enough about ecology to know I’ve probably gotten something horribly wrong in here, but all the critters are ones I made up anyway, just to be safe. You can hear me read a portion of it on Narratives Library (scroll down; it’s ordered by author surname!)
BODY OF WORK, edited by C.Z. Tacks - Submissions for this anthology closed on 31 May 2023, and I launched the book on 30 September 2023. When I mentioned the timeline at the launch event, several people looked at me in open-mouthed horror; it turns out these were experienced anthology editors, who knew that four months is not nearly enough time to put an anthology together. Well, I did it anyway, and it came out pretty good! It’s available here, it’s getting rave reviews, and it’s full of weird body stuff.
GOING PROSE by A.D. Ellicott and C.Z. Tacks - something completely different! A podcast by myself and my dear friend. This is mostly an excuse for us to hang out and talk about our shared hobby on a regular basis. Started as a silly thing for our writing group, but enough people liked it that we decided to share it. Has a dedicated page.
