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Steven Archer
@thestevenarcher.bsky.social
🇭🇹🇵🇪🏳️‍🌈 | he/him/his | writer, reader, floridian

stories in AGNI, Strange Horizons, Superstition Review, & (forthcoming in) Foglifter
Reposted by Steven Archer
Huge congratulations to @thestevenarcher.bsky.social — his short story "Burrowing Creatures" (AGNI 99) received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! "Burrowing Creatures" will be reprinted in Best Debut Short Stories 👏
buff.ly/9yrF1kv
Twelve Emerging Writers To Receive 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize - PEN America
The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers annually recognizes 12 emerging writers for an outstanding debut short story.
pen.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Steven Archer
This is a gorgeous and heartbreaking story about a family that sheds their grief with their skin, difficult relationships, and the desire to be seen - Pelt by @thestevenarcher.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

strangehorizons.com/fiction/pelt/
Pelt
I inherited the molting, which my mother will deny; she’ll insist it’s a thing only women do, each heartbreak withering from the body like a petal.
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:34 PM