In Other Words

In Other Words is a chapbook of poetry and flash fiction brought together by editors Saira Ali and Julia Rios to raise funds for Con or Bust. It has an impressive table of contents with work coming from Hugo Award winning and other award nominated writers. In their introduction, Ali and Rios write about the choices that went into gathering together these writers and the pieces contained in the chapbook. These pieces bear testimony to the experience of what it means to be other not only in genre space but also in the wider world beyond genre. There are seventeen pieces in this collection. Contents: “Nettle-stung” by Shweta Narayan “A Corpse Full of Birds” by John Chu “If They Catch Me, I’m Using Your Name” by Nisi Shawl “Volcano Woman” by Kiini Ibura Salaam “Self-Portrait” by Emily Jiang “The Bean Between the E and the I” by LaShawn Wanak “Every Day of the Dead” by Sabrina Vourvoulias “The Adventures of Ja’far al-Barmaki” by Sofia Samatar “Ce Qu’on Dit Du Vent” by Amal el-Mohtar “What is Said of the Wind” translated by Amal el-Mohtar “Crystal” by Ken Liu “Ancestors” by JT Stewart “After the Near-Miss by the Planet Destroying Asteroid” by Rahul Kanakia “Stolen” by David Findlay “Pretty Apocalypse” by Lisa Bradley “Eating Words” by Yoon Ha Lee “Drive Careful” by Tom Greene