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About Me

Anna Madden is a Rhysling Award nominated poet. She was the guest editor of the Ironwood MYRIAD zine, available from Hexagon Magazine. In free time, she makes birch forests out of stained glass.

2023 Fiction & Awards Eligibility

Here’s to new growth,
and a new tree ring.

2022 Fiction & Awards Eligibility

Autumn has arrived, and it’s time to collect this years fiction like so many sunset-colored leaves.

2021 Fiction & Awards Eligibility

I’ve had a great writing year. I had seven short stories (one co-written with Marie Croke), five flash, and one reprint published.

Short Fiction

Forthcoming

Matriarch

  • Baffling Magazine

Song of Water

  • Abyss & Apex Magazine

The Rain Fell Between Us

  • Small Wonders
  • Poem

Mooncalf

  • Shacklebound Books
  • Wyrms 2: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles
  • Reprint

Crown Harvest

  • Shacklebound Books
  • Drabbledark III: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles

2024

Wings of Light

  • Perennial Press: Arthropoda (February 2024)
  • Reprint

2023

Picking Daisies

  • Flash Point SF (December 2023)

Two Wings

  • All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 17 (December 2023)

Made of Glass

  • Haven Spec Magazine (December 2023)
  • Poem

The Rules of Voiding

  • Apex Magazine (October 2023)
  • Strange Machines: An Anthology of Dark User Manuals

Moth Girl

  • Utopia Science Fiction Magazine (October 2023)

Borne on a Hundred Wings

  • Star*Line: Issue 46.4 (Fall 2023)
  • Poem

Fishing Season

  • PseudoPod 874: Flash on the Borderlands (July 2023)

Broken Wing Syndrome

  • Wyldblood Press (March 2023)

Leaf and Smoke

  • Shacklebound Books (March 2023)
  • Dark Stars: Sci-Fi Horror Drabbles

How to Rebloom After the Frost

Rapture of the Deep

  • Apex Magazine (March 2023)
  • Strange Libations: Dark Cocktails

The Nettle Queens

  • Hexagon SF Magazine: Issue 12 (March 2023)
  • Poem

Lady of the Dullahan

  • Dark Matter Presents: Zero Dark Thirty (February 2023)
  • Reprint

Plastic Heart

  • Crow & Cross Keys (January 2023)

2022

Of Wood and Flame

  • Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 052 (December 2022)

Subject: Scout Report of Exoplanet Solanine

  • Shacklebound Books (November 2022)
  • Planetside: Science Fiction Drabbles

Corpus tuberosum ‘Flesh-Eater’ Potato

  • Solarpunk Magazine (October 2022)
  • October “Solarpunk Halloween” Microfiction Contest Winner

The Hammer That Couldn’t Dream

  • Tree and Stone Magazine: Issue 4 (September 2022)

Daughter of the Great Whales

  • Haven Spec Magazine: Issue 6 (September 2022)

Feast or Famine Rulebook

Mooncalf

  • Zooscape Zine: Issue 15 (August 2022)

All the Meanings of Her

  • Solarpunk Magazine: Micro Issue #2 (August 2022)
  • August “Solarpunk Deserts” Microfiction Contest Winner

Charon’s Maidenhair Tea

  • Deathcap & Hemlock (August 2022)

Time, Wolf, Emit, Flow

Becoming Human Again

  • Martian Magazine: Issue 5 (May 2022)

Song of the White Trout

  • Medusa Tales: Issue 1 (May 2022)

2021

Ten Ridiculous Items Returned to Fae-Leaf Landscape Boundaries of All Seasons

  • MYRIAD: Boundaries Issue (December 2021)

Ten Poisons That Cannot Kill the Queen

  • Lackington’s: Issue 24 Botanicals (Fall 2021)
  • Co-written with Marie Croke
  • Reviewed in Rebecca E. Treasure’s On My Lunch (August 2022)

Garden of the Gods

  • Orion’s Belt (October 2021)
  • Reviewed in Rebecca E. Treasure’s On My Lunch (April 2022)

Rootstock

  • Bards and Sages Quarterly: Volume XIII, Issue IIII (October 2021)

Lady of the Dullahan

Omega of the Nest Wanted! Night Shift, Permanent Position

  • Apex Magazine (July 2021)
  • July “Night Shift” Microfiction Contest Winner

Wildflower

  • Dark Matter Magazine: Issue 004 (July 2021)

A Daughter’s Aim

  • Hexagon SF Magazine: Issue 5 (June 2021)
  • Reviewed in Charles Payseur’s Quick Sips (June 2021)

Madame of the Vein

  • Apparition Literary Magazine (April 2021)
  • April “Stephanie St. Clair” Flash Fiction Contest Winner

Heart of Ice

  • Zooscape Zine: Issue 10 (March 2021)

Wings of Light

  • Hexagon SF Magazine: Issue 5 (March 2021)
  • Reviewed in Charles Payseur’s Quick Sips (May 2021)

Two Brothers, One Stone

  • DreamForge Anvil: Issue 1 (January 2021)
  • DreamForge Magazine: Issue 8 (August 2021)
  • Reprinted in Etherea Magazine: Issue 14 (September 2022)

2020

Cloak of Bearskin

  • Air & Nothingness Press: Upon a Once Time (November 2020)

2019

The Last Petal

  • DreamForge Magazine (December 2019)
  • Reprinted in PodCastle Episode 699 (October 2021)

Non-Fiction

Guest Editor

Dark Matter Presents: Monster Lairs

  • Dark Matter INK (October 2023)

Ironwood Zine

  • MYRIAD (April 2022)

Essays

New Quest Available

  • Dark Matter Magazine: Issue 009 (May 2022)
  • Topic: Forthcoming Dark Matter Ink “Monster Lairs” Anthology

The Forest Calls

  • MYRIAD’s Ironwood Zine (April 2022)
  • Topic: Letter from the Editor

Interviews

A Question for Anna Madden

  • Metaphorosis Magazine (June 2022)

Interview with Anna Madden

  • Hexagon SF Magazine (May 2021)

Why I Read Submissions

  • The Wicked Writing Corner (April 2020)

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