Good Weekend for Never Have I Ever

Mon 14 Feb 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Never Have I Ever cover Congratulations to Isabel Yap whose debut collection Never Have I Ever received a Stabby Award this weekend! That was a new award for me and I’m delighted to discover it this way.

Then I read that Never was shortlisted for the 2022 Crawford Award “presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for a first book of fantasy.” Usman T. Malik won the award for his collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (Kitab) and E. Lily Yu’s novel On Fragile Waves (Erewhon) was the other runner-up. Congratulations all — and may all weekends be as fun!

The news comes in slightly too late to go on the cover of the second printing of the book — it is back at the printer slowly making its way through the general slowdown and will be back in stock oh in a blink of an eye (as slowed down to last weeks and weeks).