Alphans taking over the world

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Claire Spaulding (2014) whose story “Chocolate Chip Cookies for the Apocalypse” appeared yesterday at Daily Science Fiction:

I can’t believe how bright and sharp and silver the stars look at three in the morning between gaps in the clouds. A few flakes flutter through the warm night air. What people have been calling “goodbye flurries.” White snowflakes mixed with hot black ash. When the goodbye flurries show up, you know the doomsday front is only a day or two away from your town.

You can read the whole story at Daily Science Fiction’s website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Alena Sullivan (2006 & 2008), whose poem “Red Daughter” appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Goblin Fruit:

I have been lost as snow is lost
On the first warm morning of May,
And I have been lost as all women are lost
When they abandon the road for the shadowy way

You can read the whole poem at Goblin Fruit’s website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Andrea Lam (2005 & 2006), whose poem “Helen” appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Goblin Fruit. (Normally we would include a teaser excerpt here, but the poem is short and best enjoyed all at once.)

You can read the poem at Goblin Fruit’s website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Rachel Halpern (2007 & 2008), whose short story “Make No Promises” appears today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies:

My rooms look out on the back courtyard, so if I turn my head I can see everyone passing through. Just now, it’s the stable boy my sister has been pining after. Looking at him, I see our futures etched in the air between us, the courtyard filling with echoes of what will come. My sister will wait for him to approach her, careful of the power difference between them, but they will court for a time.

You can read the whole story at Beneath Ceaseless Skies’ website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Lara Elena Donnelly (2007 & 2008), whose short story “Chopin’s Eyes” appeared this week in Strange Horizons:

A cigarette burns low against one woman’s glove. The music brushes fingers up her spine and she loses herself in sound. She is no longer Aurore Dupin, nor the baroness Dudevant, nor the woman known to her friends, her lovers, and the scandalized Parisian public as the novelist George Sand. She is nothing but short breaths and a heartbeat.

You can read the whole story at Strange Horizons’ website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Gillian Conahan (2006 & 2007), whose short story “Insurrection in Silk” appears in this month’s issue of Apex:

She is drowning in organza and shantung, a rustling mass of indigo and royal purple. The fabric whispers under her hands, defying her to prick a finger and spot the silk.

You can read the whole story at Apex’s website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.

Congratulations to Alpha graduate Shivaun Hoad (2006), whose short story “The Trial of the Beekeeper” appeared in AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review in April:

There was a huge clump of bees at the end of my driveway. That in itself wasn’t reason enough for me to run towards them — they’d swarmed before — but the ever-so-familiar pair of pink Doc Martens protruding from the clump was.

You can read the whole story at the magazine’s website, and a complete list of Alpha graduates’ publications and awards is here.