Nisi Shawl
Source: "Nisi Shawl Bibliography." Author Wars, https://authorwars.com/authors/nisi-shawl.html".
Pseudonyms:
Titles:
Anthologies
- Unknown. Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars
- 2015. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- 2019. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
- 2023. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Chapter Books
- 2021. 2043... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
- 2023. Sun River
- 2024. The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox
- 2024. Vulcanization
Collections
- Unknown. Filter House
- 2011. Something More and More
- 2018. A Primer to Nisi Shawl
- 2019. Talk Like a Man Plus Women of the Doll Plus An Awfully Big Adventure and Much More
- 2022. Our Fruiting Bodies
Essays
- Unknown. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction
- Unknown. A Letter to Octavia Butler—Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Afterword (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color)
- Unknown. Annunciation (Introduction, Ancient, Ancient)
- Unknown. Appropriate Cultural Appropriation
- Unknown. Asian SF: The Essential Reading List (2016)
- Unknown. Asian SF: The Essential Reading List (2016)
- Unknown. Beautiful Strangers: Transracial Writing for the Sincere
- Unknown. Colorful Stories: Fantastic Fiction by African Descended Authors
- Unknown. Editorial: Infodump
- Unknown. Editorial: It's Such an Obvious Thing
- Unknown. My Darling, My Jets of Semen: Nisi Shawl Goes on about Gardner Dozois
- Unknown. My One-and-Only Octavia
- Unknown. Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006: In Memoriam
- Unknown. Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard
- Unknown. The People Men Don't See
- Unknown. The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto
- Unknown. Through a Thousand Eyes
- Unknown. Transracial Writing for the Sincere
- Unknown. Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction
- 2010. Solitude and Souls
- 2011. Race, Again, Still
- 2011. Because We Are All So Royal
- 2011. How to Save the World, One Story at a Time
- 2011. Written on the Water
- 2012. What I Want: WisCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech
- 2012. Here He Is
- 2013. Excerpt 1 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
- 2013. Excerpt 2 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
- 2013. Excerpt 3 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
- 2013. Excerpt 4 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
- 2013. Excerpt 5 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler"
- 2013. Strange Matings and Their Progeny: A Legacy of Conversations, Thoughts, Writings, and Actions
- 2013. The Third Parable
- 2014. Reviewing the Other: Like Dancing about Architecture
- 2015. Family Affairs
- 2015. Dearest Tip,
- 2015. Foreword (Ruins Excavation)
- 2015. I.G.Y.
- 2016. Across the Lies of Space and Time
- 2016. Our Queer Roundtable
- 2016. Our Queer Roundtable
- 2017. All Our Relations
- 2018. About Nisi Shawl
- 2018. Written On The Water: An Essay
- 2019. Astro Black
- 2019. Ifa: Reverence, Science, and Social Technology
- 2020. Foreword: Necessary Stories
- 2021. Introduction (Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories)
- 2021. Introduction to the Novel: Occult Blood
- 2021. Introduction to the Novel: Occult Blood
- 2021. Something to Cry About
- 2021. Writing While Disabled (Strange Horizons, 23 August 2021)
- 2022. Introduction What Soft Power Creates/Destroys
- 2022. Nisi Shawl: My Life
Interviews
- Unknown. A Real Magician
- Unknown. A Real Magician
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Bridging Divides in Science, Magic, and Life: Galaxy's Edged Interviews Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. Interiew with Author Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. No Gatekeepers: An Interview with Nisi Shawl
- Unknown. The Poetry of Prose: A Conversation with Nisi Shawl
- 2004. A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler
- 2011. An Interview with Nisi Shawl
- 2011. Interview with Nisi Shawl
- 2014. Hiromi Goto: Interviewed by Nisi Shawl
- 2018. In Conversation with Nisi Shawl
- 2019. In Technicolor: A Roundtable on the Future of Diversity in Speculative Fiction
- 2019. "The Fly in the Sugar Bowl"
Magazine Editor
- Unknown. Beyond Magazine #1, 2004
- Unknown. Beyond Magazine #2, 2005
- Unknown. People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Non-fiction
- Unknown. Writing the Other: A Practical Approach
- 2011. The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.5: Writing and Racial Identity
- 2013. Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
Novels
Poems
Reviews
- Unknown. AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
- Unknown. Dark Orbit
- Unknown. Everfair
- Unknown. Everfair
- Unknown. New Suns
- Unknown. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
- Unknown. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
- Unknown. Stories for Chip
- Unknown. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- Unknown. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- Unknown. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- 2006. Writing the Other
- 2008. Filter House
- 2016. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- 2016. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
- 2016. Everfair
- 2019. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
- 2020. Talk Like a Man Plus Women of the Doll Plus An Awfully Big Adventure and Much More
- 2023. Our Fruiting Bodies
Serials
Short Fiction
- Unknown. A Beautiful Stream
- Unknown. An Awfully Big Adventure
- Unknown. At the Huts of Ajala
- Unknown. Big Mama Yaga's
- Unknown. Bird Day
- Unknown. Black Betty
- Unknown. But She's Only a Dream
- Unknown. Cruel Sistah
- Unknown. Deep End
- Unknown. Down in the Flood
- Unknown. Dynamo Hum
- Unknown. Everfair (excerpt)
- Unknown. Excerpt from Nisi Shawl's forthcoming novel The Blazing World
- Unknown. Good Boy
- Unknown. Honorary Earthling
- Unknown. How to Give a Dog a Name Without Owning It
- Unknown. I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer
- Unknown. In Blood and Song
- Unknown. Just Between Us
- Unknown. Lazzrus
- Unknown. Like the Deadly Hands
- Unknown. Little Horses
- Unknown. Looking for Lilith
- Unknown. Maggies
- Unknown. Otherwise
- Unknown. Over a Long Time Ago
- Unknown. Queen of Dirt
- Unknown. Shiomah's Land
- Unknown. Slippernet
- Unknown. The Beads of Ku
- Unknown. The Best Friend We Never Had
- Unknown. The Five Petals of Thought
- Unknown. The Mighty Phin
- Unknown. The Pragmatical Princess
- Unknown. The Raineses'
- Unknown. The Rainses'
- Unknown. The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin
- Unknown. The Tawny Bitch
- Unknown. The Things I Miss the Most
- Unknown. The Water Museum
- Unknown. To the Moment
- Unknown. Vulcanization
- Unknown. Wallamelon
- Unknown. Women of the Doll
- Unknown. Wonder-Worker-of-the-World
- 2003. Momi Watu
- 2011. Pataki
- 2011. Something More
- 2011. The Return of Chérie
- 2011. Beyond the Lighthouse
- 2012. Salt on the Dance Floor
- 2013. In Colors Everywhere
- 2013. Lupine
- 2014. White Dawn
- 2014. Promised
- 2014. Street Worm
- 2015. Walk Like a Man
- 2015. Jamaica Ginger
- 2016. Luisah's Church
- 2017. More Than Nothing
- 2017. Sun River
- 2017. The Colors of Money
- 2017. Sunshine of Your Love
- 2017. Evens
- 2018. She Tore
- 2018. Living Proof
- 2018. The Third Petal
- 2018. Conversion Therapy
- 2019. King Harvest (Will Surely Come)
- 2021. I Being Young and Foolish
- 2021. 2043... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
- 2022. Fourth and Most Important
- 2024. The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox
Awards
- 0000. Filter House - James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award, Gender-bending SF (Win)
- 0000. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Win)
- 0000. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (Win)
- 0000. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (Win)
- 0000. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - Ignyte Award, Best Anthology/Collected Works (Win)
- 0000. Queen of Dirt - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. I Being Young and Foolish - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 0000. Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler - Locus Poll Award, Best Non-Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Everfair - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
- 0000. Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
- 0000. Vulcanization - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
- 0000. Good Boy - World Fantasy Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
- 0000. Filter House - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Jamaica Ginger - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 0000. Everfair - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
- 0000. Sun River - Sidewise Awards for Alternate History, Best Short Form Alternate History (Nomination)
- 0000. Everfair - James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award, Gender-bending SF (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Everfair - John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Best Science Fiction Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Our Fruiting Bodies - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Shiomah's Land - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Everfair - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
Genres/Themes:
- science fiction (10 books)
- lesbian (2 books)
- steampunk (2 books)
- horror (2 books)
- alternate history (2 books)
- folktale-style (1 book)
- twin souls (1 book)
- dolls (1 book)
- interspecies sex (1 book)
- genetic engineering (1 book)
- vampires (1 book)
- Samuel R. Delany (1 book)
- artificial intelligence (1 book)
- personal copy (1 book)
- Futuristic romance (1 book)
- encounter with Death (1 book)
- bees (1 book)
- cloning (1 book)
- satire (1 book)
- solarpunk (1 book)
- space station (1 book)
- for-profit prisons (1 book)
- loss (1 book)
- love (1 book)
- cyberpunk (1 book)
- religion (1 book)
- science (1 book)
- juvenile fantasy (1 book)