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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES)
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THESE DEATHLESS SHORES (Orbit US / Angry Robot UK) • short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
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convincing you to read my novel THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by sharing the first page ~ feel free to share yours if you'd like!
[chapter marker—a silhouette of a fairy] The Island tracked everything that washed ashore. An invisible barrier surrounded it, a shimmering wall a hundred kilometers in every direction. Canoes sank in crossing; navigators lost sight of the stars. Later, trawlers and airplanes split themselves against nothing, and the probes they sent into the water returned out of sync or cracked precisely down the middle. Only the birds arrived unscathed. Only the foxes, floating in on driftwood rafts. So the Island embraced them with limestone arms and swaying trees – as it did the corpses, the broken gunports. Death is the way of things, after all, and who was it to question the sea?
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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why did apple add colorful trash to AND shrinkflation the trash can
trash icon on the new iOS, which looks narrower and has colored paper crumpled inside
September 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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fall events schedule, incl @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social ~
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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late to the party but: THESE BODIES AIN'T BROKEN, a YA horror antho featuring disabled characters (incl my literally hostile architecture novelette), is 25% at B&N until Friday~
Barnes & Noble 25% off preorders with code PREORDER25 until Sep 5 Cover mockup of THESE BODIES AIN'T BROKEN, a YA horror anthology featuring disabled characters & edited by Madeline Dyer
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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feeling personally called out by this
instagram post by sweetfellasofficial: yellow letters on art of clouds against blue sky. Text reads: Gay culture is being a teenager when you're 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live First comment (donnie_george_) "arrested development and Peter Pan syndrome hit hard in the community"
August 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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my @concurrentseattle.bsky.social @seattlein2025.org
schedule ~ hope to see y'all there!

+ sneak peek of the swag stash
PH Low, seattle concurrent and worldcon events Aug 14 1–2 PM worlds and the spaces between: exploring the liminal in Science Fiction (moderator). With Yume Kitasei, Micaiah Johnson, Charlie Jane Anders, & Felicia Martinez Aug 14 6–7 PM writing without heroes and villains with Marie Brennan, Victor Manibo, Eric Scott de Bie, and James Patrick Kelly Aug 15 12-1 PM Autographs Aug 17 11-11:30AM Reading: These Deathless Shores Photograph of various art prints, bookmarks, and nameplates for These Deathless Shores by PH Low, as well as a zine entitled cyborg sonnets and other poems
August 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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16. if you have ≥3 characters of roughly equal standing you are contractually obligated to give them a theme color, hair color, and/or lil accessory
Mira, Rumi, and Zoey from K-Pop Demon Hunters wielding their swords in front of a Huntrix poster as demons close in
July 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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HI YES THIS

(also reminded me of this bit from the monster baru cormorant, yay incrasticism:)
Photo of a page from THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson: A Question If something hurts, does that make it true?
July 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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15. suzanne collins galaxy brain (from SUNRISE ON THE REAPING)
Cropped photo of a page in SUNRISE ON THE REAPING that says QUARTER QUELL (TRIB)UTE ROSTER District 2 Boy Alpheus Girl Camilla Boy Janus Girl Nona Red line points from Alpheus to a Wikipedia screenshot that reads Alpheus Deity—Alpheus or Alpheios, was in Greek mythology a river and river god. Wikipedia Two red lines point from Janus to a photo of a Janus sculpture and screenshot of a Wikipedia entry that reads: "In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: Iānus [ˈi̯aːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces. The month of January is named for Janus"
July 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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same energy
derpy and sussie from k-pop demon hunters. derpy, a blue tiger, has his paws draped over the edge of the building; sussie, a magpie with three eyes, is perched on his head, looking unamused A small, extremely cute shih tzu pokes his head halfway from behind a white counter
July 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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hello friends! these deathless shores is one year old today 🍰 wrote a bit about it in my newsletter~ lowph.beehiiv.com/p/one-year-o...
hello friends! i have once again forgotten to post more than once every three months oops. anyway, the one-year anniversary of these deathless shores’ publication is coming up and i thought i’d do a retrospective™ of what i learned about book things this year. some things traditional publication gave me: 1. bit o’ cash, aka savings for the first time in my life 2. a lovely community of fellow debuts (& also peeps i met through pitch wars cont’d., s/o the final class!!) 3. a gorgeous 464+-page object with which to bonk haters on the head finally, the primary takeaway: there are truly so many people involved in putting a book out into the world. so much work that agents put in, editing and negotiating and writing difficult emails and explaining to authors the weird quirks of the industry; editors, giving more notes and managing the 5284 moving pieces and advocating for the book with passionate enthusiasm in front of the entire publishing team (editorial, sales, publicity, etc.); copyeditors and production people and designers and artists working their witchcraft (orz i have very much been blessed by the cover gods); marketing / sales / publicity spreading the word; booksellers and librarians finding it among catalogs of thousands of new books as they curate collections for their communities; reviewers and social media folk analyzing and critiquing and talking it up. however. hour by hour, day by day. no one but you is spending six years on that thing. (i mean, hopefully literal-you is not spending six years on that thing, either, but i digress.) no one is living inside the characters’ bodies and minds to the degree that you are, or gnashing your teeth at a new song because so perfectly fits a certain scene, or rushing out of the shower to whip open your laptop because you’ve thought of a plot twist. to me, writing is process. it is an act of existence in time, and a choice of how to spend it. and so (i can’t remember who i’m quoting, only that i am): why not love it? why not allow yourself to be yourself on the page, in a world that increasingly demands conformity and biting your tongue? why not play, in this space devoid (if you so choose) of performance reviews or exams—where you’re allowed to fall short, to be wrong, to spin new worlds out of thin air?
July 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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new hyperfixation just dropped
the blue tiger from kpop demon hunters with tongue stuck out and a letter on top
July 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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did not think i would ever say this but. what if i moved back to nyc 😆
Post from phoenixrisingisdead Fox News just accidentally made Zohran Mamdani sound like the most pro-family candidate in America. Free childcare. Baby baskets. $30 wages. Tell me where to sign. A screenshot of Fox News under the headline "Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Promises" / "NYC Dem Socialist Declares Mayoral Primary Victory"
June 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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👋 can i interest y'all in a genderbent captain hook retelling that has been variously called "a carnage of gender" (shelley parker-chan) and "bisexual catastrophe" (mia tsai)
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Title in orange letters placed on top of a fairytale-like moon, framed by an island, silhouetted flying figures, and a ghostly ship UK cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. A flying ship silhouetted by a yellow moon; framed in the curve of a black hook
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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draft 5 🎊🎊🎊 (up from 99k lol rip)
scrivener screenshot that says THE END / 108,369 words
June 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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happy may the 4th to all who celebrate! unfortunately i imprinted on RoTS at age 12 and have nothing since to rectify it.

(slight THESE DEATHLESS SHORES spoilers here but. hashtag do it for the bit)
snippet of text on starry background from These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low: She lowered her arm slowly. The air had broken between them like a fever, something gone cold and missing and sad, and he wanted to weep, he wanted to buckle the leather strap that dangled loose at her elbow, he wanted to shake her by the shoulders until she turned back into the Jordan he knew. snippet of text on starry background from These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low: /I loved you,/ he’d said, and she had hated him for speaking in the past tense what neither of them had ever dared say in the present. /No one ever stays./
May 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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*slaps covers* these things can fit so much neurodivergent trauma
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low, which features silhouetted characters flying around an island UK cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Silhouette of a pirate ship against a full moon, encircled by a dark watercolor figure of a hook
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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the way i initially got 7-across wrong 😅
7 with 8-across, magical substance that enables flight in "Peter Pan" 8 See 7-Across
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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i hate it here
The Atlantic's "Search for an author in LibGen" tool. For instance, Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Note that different spellings of the same name—“JK Rowling” versus “J. K. Rowling”—may produce different results. P. H. Low is entered in the search bar and there is one result—These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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ahem
The US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Silhouetted figures circle a moon with the title in orange, above a small island crowned with a hook
March 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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a friend found this at Newark airport omg???
spine of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES in between Ken Liu's SPEAKING BONES and two copies of Sarah J. Maas's A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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re: book recs, what are y'alls' favorite books by poets? (who is doing it like them!!)
book covers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Bestiary by K-Ming Chang, and The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
March 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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currently crying about gardens & braids & echoes (The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com)

if you see this, quote with what you're reading this weekend!
You might think that something about the shape of those trunks, the sweep of their twisted crowns, reminds you of something, or someone, you've lost—something, or someone, you would break the world to have again. Something, you might think, happened here, long, long ago; something, you might think, is on the cusp of happening again.
March 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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the THESE DEATHLESS SHORES ebook is $2.99 today across all platforms! cheaper than a dozen eggs ~
bookshop.org/p/books/thes...
cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES surrounded by text "ebook sale $2.99 today"
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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pleased and honored to announce that my poem “After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award (my second nom)!

you can read it at www.havenspec.com/after-they-blasted-your-home-planet-to-shrapnel :)
On top of a starry sky background, white text: "After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel" and "2025 Rhysling Award Nominee"; originally published in Haven Spec, March 2024
March 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM