A. C. Wise
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Anthologies
Chapter Books
- 2017. Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
- 2019. Catfish Lullaby
- 2024. Grackle
- 2024. Out of the Drowning Deep
- 2025. Wolf Moon, Antler Moon
Collections
- 2015. The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again
- 2016. The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories
- 2021. The Ghost Sequences
Essays
- 2011. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2011)
- 2011. Howling Through the Keyhole: The Stories Behind the Stories (Shock Totem 4)
- 2011. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, November 2011)
- 2012. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, February 14, 2012)
- 2012. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2012)
- 2012. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, August 28, 2012)
- 2012. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, November 2012)
- 2013. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2013)
- 2013. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Architecture, August 2013)
- 2013. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, November 2013)
- 2014. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, February 2014)
- 2014. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Story Acceptances, April 1, 2014)
- 2014. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, November 2014)
- 2015. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, February 2015)
- 2015. Editors' Note (The Journal of Unlikely Academia, October 2015)
- 2016. Telling Scary Stories
- 2016. Into the Labyrinth: The Heroine's Journey
- 2017. Books Worth Your Time (Apex Magazine, March 2017)
- 2018. Mother Knows Best
- 2019. Words for Thought (Apex Magazine, January 2019)
- 2019. Words for Thought (Apex Magazine, February 2019)
- 2019. Words for Thought (Apex Magazine, March 2019)
- 2020. Introduction (The Grand Tour)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, January 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews (Apex Magazine, March 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews (Apex Magazine, May 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews (Apex Magazine, July 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, September 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, October 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, November 2021)
- 2021. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, December 2021)
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, January 2022)
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, March 2022)
- 2022. Review of "I Know You're There" by Paul Tremblay
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, May 2022)
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, July 2022)
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, September 2022)
- 2022. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, November 2022)
- 2023. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, January 2023)
- 2023. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, March 2023)
- 2023. Foreword (Skin Thief)
- 2023. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, November 2023)
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, January 2024)
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, March 2024)
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, May 2024)
- 2024. Review of the Nongenre Book "It's Only a Game" by Kelsea Yu
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, July 2024)
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, September 2024)
- 2024. Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review (Apex Magazine, November 2024)
Interviews
- 2009. Author Spotlight: Alison Campbell-Wise
- 2013. Author Spotlight: A. C. Wise
- 2015. Interview with AC Wise
- 2017. Interview with A. C. Wise
- 2019. Interview: A.C. Wise
- 2022. Interview: Short Fictioneers
- 2022. Author Spotlight: A.C. Wise
- 2024. Mashing Tropes: A Conversation with A.C. Wise
Magazine Editor
- 2011. The Journal of Unlikely Entomology - 2011
- 2012. The Journal of Unlikely Entomology - 2012
- 2013. The Journal of Unlikely Entomology - 2013
- 2013. The Journal of Unlikely Architecture, August 2013
- 2014. The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, February 2014
- 2014. The Journal of Unlikely Story Acceptances, #8.5 April 1, 2014
- 2014. The Journal of Unlikely Cartography, June 2014
- 2014. The Journal of Unlikely Entomology - 2014
- 2015. The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, February 2015
- 2015. The Journal of Unlikely Academia, October 2015
Novels
Poems
Reviews
- 2021. Deep in the Drift, Spinning
- 2021. Tea with the Earl of Twilight
- 2021. The Goatkeeper's Harvest
- 2021. The Last Trophy of Hunter Hammerson
- 2021. To Inherit Hunger
- 2021. And This Is How to Stay Alive
- 2021. Collections
- 2021. Lost in Darkness and Distance
- 2021. The Span of His Wrist
- 2021. Where the Old Neighbors Go
- 2021. Deep Music
- 2021. Delete Your Memory for Free
- 2021. Let All the Children Boogie
- 2021. Shark Girls
- 2021. The Taste of Your Name
- 2021. Duppy
- 2021. Man vs. Bomb
- 2021. Masquerade Season
- 2021. The Cure for Boyhood
- 2021. The Machine Is Experiencing Uncertainty
- 2021. Clouds in a Clear Blue Sky
- 2021. Morning
- 2021. Pull
- 2021. The Loneliness of Former Constellations
- 2021. The Steel Magnolia Metaphor
- 2021. How to Break Into a Hotel Room
- 2021. Mouth & Marsh, Silver & Song
- 2021. She's Taken Away
- 2021. Te Ika
- 2021. Transitions
- 2021. All Us Ghosts
- 2021. The Future Library
- 2021. The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries
- 2021. They Call It Hipster Heaven
- 2021. What the Humans Call Heartache
- 2021. All Us Ghosts
- 2021. The Future Library
- 2021. The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries
- 2021. They Call It Hipster Heaven
- 2021. What the Humans Call Heartache
- 2022. Missing Dolls Around the World
- 2022. That House
- 2022. That Story Isn't the Story
- 2022. The Genius and the Devil
- 2022. Vampirito
- 2022. A Gentlemen's Agreement
- 2022. Dick Pig
- 2022. Intrusions
- 2022. Ribbons
- 2022. The Brave Dress
- 2022. Before We Drown
- 2022. Girl Oil
- 2022. The Brief Life Story of Lila
- 2022. The Long Way Up
- 2022. Wendy, Darling
- 2022. The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)
- 2022. Baba Nowruz Gives His Wife a Flower Only Once a Year
- 2022. Riding Hood
- 2022. The Bones Beneath
- 2022. The Projectionists
- 2022. To Live and Die in Dixieland
- 2022. How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon
- 2022. Sounds Like Forever
- 2022. Sunder Island
- 2022. The Morning House
- 2022. Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold
- 2022. Choke
- 2022. So, You Married Your Arch Nemesis... Again
- 2022. Sunday in the Park with Hank
- 2022. Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist
- 2022. We Can Make Death Work
- 2023. Devil Take Me
- 2023. Lemmings
- 2023. The UmHlosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)
- 2023. A Small Bloody Gift
- 2023. Broodmare
- 2023. Drowning Songs
- 2023. Sweetbaby
- 2023. To Cheer As They Leave You Behind
- 2023. The Dark House
- 2023. I Want to Wear You Like a Glove
- 2023. If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak
- 2023. It Comes Through Us
- 2023. Polar Shift
- 2023. Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down
- 2024. Auscultation
- 2024. Cretins
- 2024. Jack O'Dander
- 2024. There Are Only Two Chairs, and the Skin Is Draped Over the Other
- 2024. Zoraida la Zorra
- 2024. Ivy, Angelica, Bay
- 2024. Nothing of Value
- 2024. The Grit Born
- 2024. Woke Up New
- 2024. Buddy Raymond's No-Bullshit Guide to Drone Hunting
- 2024. First Girls
- 2024. Just You and Me, Now
- 2024. Median
- 2024. Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
- 2024. Blackjack
- 2024. My Containment
- 2024. Patience Is the Virtue
- 2024. There Are Three Children Jumping Over a Can Outside a Bodega
- 2024. Those Who Smuggle Themselves Into Slivermoon
- 2024. Between Home and a House on Fire
- 2024. Creature
- 2024. Joanna's Bodies
- 2024. The Fisherman's Wife's Son
- 2024. All Her Rows of Teeth
- 2024. Bite Me, Drink Me, Eat Me
- 2024. Cicadas, and Their Skins
- 2024. Painted Surfaces
Short Fiction
- 2005. Skin
- 2006. Robin of the Green
- 2006. After Midnight
- 2006. The Lady and the Tiger
- 2006. Under the Bed
- 2006. After the Lake
- 2007. Remembering Ophelia
- 2007. Dreams, Wholesale
- 2007. Feeder
- 2007. The Woodwife's Song
- 2007. Killing the Witch
- 2007. Sleeping in the Kisatchie
- 2007. Little Red
- 2007. At the Altar of Pan
- 2007. Giantkiller
- 2008. Matthew
- 2008. Strange Fruit
- 2008. Blessed
- 2008. Teeth
- 2008. Cloth from Flesh, Flesh from Bone
- 2009. A Mouse Ran Up the Clock
- 2009. Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew
- 2009. Fortune
- 2009. Revisionist History
- 2009. Mellie's Zoo
- 2010. Under the Leaves
- 2010. The Children of Main Street
- 2010. The Poet's Child
- 2011. Final Girl Theory
- 2011. The Thief of Precious Things
- 2011. Still Life
- 2011. The Many Ghosts of Annie Orens
- 2011. The Trans-Siberian
- 2011. Venice Burning
- 2011. Trashman
- 2012. My Body, Her Canvas
- 2012. The Pornographer's Assistant
- 2012. Where Dead Men Go to Dream
- 2013. Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron
- 2013. For the Removal of Unwanted Guests
- 2013. Kid Wonder
- 2013. Operation: Annihilate Mars! or, Doctor Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron
- 2013. Tasting of the Sea
- 2013. With Tales in Their Teeth, from the Mountain They Came
- 2013. The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution
- 2013. Doctor Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron
- 2013. Lesser Creek: A Love Story, a Ghost Story
- 2013. The Book of Her
- 2013. How Bunny Came to Be
- 2013. The Hush of Feathers, the Clamour of Wings
- 2013. Chasing Sunset
- 2013. Her Last Breath Before Waking
- 2013. At the Everywhere Café
- 2014. Matthew, Waiting
- 2014. And the Carnival Leaves Town
- 2014. Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
- 2014. Taking the Ghost
- 2014. A Game of Cards
- 2014. Evidence of Things Unseen
- 2014. From Stone and Bone, from Earth and Sky
- 2015. The Lion and the Unicorn
- 2015. Troublemake
- 2015. The Crane Wife
- 2015. Letters to a Body on the Cusp of Drowning
- 2015. Silver Buttons All Down His Back
- 2015. The Double Blind
- 2015. The Practical Witch's Guide to Acquiring Real Estate
- 2015. And If the Body Were Not the Soul
- 2015. We Are Not These Bodies, Strung Between the Stars
- 2015. Il dottor Blood e l'Ultra Favoloso Squadrone Glitterato
- 2015. City of the Dead
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: No
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: Passion Between the Sheets
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: Persephone's Kiss
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: Sapphire's Summer Sangria
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: The Blushing Rosebud
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: The Copper Top
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: The White Velvet Rabbit
- 2015. From Sapphire's Little Black Book of Cocktails: Why Bother?
- 2015. Jewels Beyond Compare
- 2015. Penny in the Air
- 2015. Roller Girls Have More Fun
- 2015. The Devil Comes to the Midnight Café
- 2015. The Story of M
- 2015. The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again; or, The Great G-String Men Team Up Extravaganza
- 2015. Even in This Skin
- 2016. In the Name of Free Will
- 2016. Tekeli-li, They Cry
- 2016. Seven Cups of Coffee
- 2016. A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)
- 2016. I Dress My Lover in Yellow
- 2016. The Men from Narrow Houses
- 2016. The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)
- 2016. When the Stitches Come Undone
- 2016. How Objects Behave on the Edge of a Black Hole
- 2016. The Ghosts of Mars
- 2016. After Midnight—A Fairy Tale Noir
- 2016. It's the End of the World As We Know It
- 2016. Juliet & Juliet(te): A Romance of Alternate Worlds
- 2016. The Astronaut, Her Lover, the Queen of Faerie, and Their Child
- 2016. The Kissing Booth Girl
- 2016. How to Host a Haunted House Murder Mystery Party
- 2017. The Paradox Collection
- 2017. The Secret of Flight
- 2017. Crossing
- 2017. Harvest Song, Gathering Song
- 2017. Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)
- 2017. Wendy, Darling
- 2017. The Stories We Tell About Ghosts
- 2017. A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World
- 2018. A Moment Before Breaking
- 2018. In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same
- 2018. With One Tongue
- 2018. Words in an Unfinished Poem
- 2018. The Time Traveler's Husband
- 2019. How the Trick Is Done
- 2019. The Ghost Sequences
- 2019. Catfish Lullaby
- 2020. Exhalation #10
- 2020. Split-Tail
- 2020. A Thousand Faces Minus One
- 2020. Teeth Long and Sharp As Blades
- 2020. To Sail the Black
- 2021. The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century
- 2021. The Height and Fiery Speed
- 2021. Jenny Come Up the Well
- 2021. The Hunt at Rotherdam
- 2021. Catfish Lullaby (excerpt)
- 2021. How to Find Yourself in a Fairy Tale
- 2021. The Nag Bride
- 2021. Tips for Living Out-of-Synch for the Frequent Time Traveler
- 2022. Seven Times Seven
- 2022. The Archive of Birds
- 2022. Crick Crack Rattle Tap
- 2022. Sharp Things, Killing Things
- 2022. Wind Come Down the Mountain
- 2022. Exhalación n.º 10
- 2023. Into the Green
- 2023. The Dark House
- 2023. Shoes as Red as Blood
- 2023. Manic Pixie Girl
- 2023. Death Is a Diner at 3:00 a.m.
- 2023. Julet & Juliet(te): A Romance of Alternate Worlds
- 2023. The Technosopher's Ball
- 2024. Grackle
- 2024. Out of the Drowning Deep
- 2024. The Slow Music of Drums
- 2025. Wolf Moon, Antler Moon
Awards
- 2016. The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories - Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2016. The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again - Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Adult (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2017. The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841) - Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Short Story (Win)
- 2017. The Men from Narrow Houses - Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Short Story (Nomination)
- 2019. The Time Traveler's Husband - Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Short Story (Nomination)
- 2020. Catfish Lullaby - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
- 2020. How the Trick Is Done - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
- 2020. How the Trick Is Done - Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2020. How the Trick Is Done - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2021. To Sail the Black - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 2021. To Sail the Black - Prix Aurora Awards, Best Novelette/Novella (Nomination)
- 2021. The Ghost Sequences - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
- 2021. The Ghost Sequences - Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2021. To Sail the Black - Hugo Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
- 2022. The Ghost Sequences - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 2022. Wendy, Darling - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
- 2022. The Ghost Sequences - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 2022. The Ghost Sequences - British Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 2022. The Nag Bride - Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 2024. The Dark House - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
Genres/Themes:
- horror (8 books)
- fantasy (2 books)
- halloween (1 book)
- superhero (1 book)
- clowns (1 book)
- stage magic (1 book)
- fox spirits (1 book)
- retold fairy tales (1 book)
- birds (1 book)
- theater (1 book)
- confronted by murdered woman (1 book)
- ghosts (1 book)
- movies (1 book)
- mermaids (1 book)
- lesbian (1 book)
- solarpunk (1 book)
- science fiction (1 book)
- slavery (1 book)
- nonbinary protagonist (1 book)
- weird west (1 book)
- LGBTQ+ (1 book)