{"id":1498,"date":"2025-01-14T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhiannonheld.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:15:13","slug":"2024-award-eligible-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhiannonheld.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"2024 Award-Eligible Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a quiet year or two for my longer work, but I had two novelettes published as R. Z. Held last year! They&#8217;re both available to read totally free, so if you are going to be nominating for any awards this year, I urge you to take a look! I know, come nomination time, I often haven&#8217;t read as much in that length category myself, so I&#8217;m here to help you out with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com\/stories\/twice-marked-wild-against-city\/\">Twice-Marked, Wild Against City<\/a>, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, novelette<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giganotosaurus.org\/2024\/10\/01\/to-sacrifice-others\/\">To Sacrifice Others<\/a>, Giganotosaurus, novelette<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction-1024x576.png?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?resize=1320%2C743&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhiannonheld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Eligible-Short-Fiction.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a list of some other really awesome short speculative fiction to look at to inform your nomination reading, I am going to be using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/2025-recommended-119163106\">this one<\/a> myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a quiet year or two for my longer work, but I had two novelettes published as R. 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