Kelly Link

News About Short Stories

2006 Locus Award winner: "Magic for Beginners" and Magic for Beginners (collection)
2006 British Science Fiction Association Award Winner: "Magic for Beginners"
2006 Nebula Award Winners: "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners"
2005 Hugo and Locus Award winner: "The Faery Handbag"
2001 Nebula Award winner: "Louise's Ghost"
1999 World Fantasy Award winner: "The Specialist's Hat"
1997 James Tiptree Jr. Award winner: "Travels with the Snow Queen."

Updates also here.

2/08 - Kelly just handed in the title story of her new collection, Pretty Monsters," for the new collection which will come out in October.

10/07 - Read "Light" online. Also, A Public Space has posted the full text of "Origin Story" — which is also available in the new anthology Best American Fantasy.

9/07 - "Light" will be published in Tin House, 33 -- the "fantastic women" issue with stories by Aimee Bender, Judy Budnitz, et al.

7/07 - Two new stories this month. The first is "The Wrong Grave" in The Restless Dead, edited by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick), an anthology of dark stories from M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, et al.

The second is "The Constable of Abal" in The Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. (Other stories in the anthology include are from Holly Black, Patricia A. McKillip, and Jane Yolen, et al.)

—Both of these stories will be in Kelly's next collection of young adult stories to be published by Viking in autumn 2008. In the meantimes, these anthologies are the only place to get them.

3/07 - Kelly just sold a new short story, "The Cinderella Game", for a new untitled anthology by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

- "Origin Story" (from A Public Space) will be reprinted in the first volume of Best American Fantasy.

- "The Wizard of Perfil"(from Firebirds Rising) reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (edited by Jonathan Strahan).

- "The Specialist's Hat" will be Kelly's first story to appear in Polish in the magazine Nowa Fantastyka.

6/06 - Two Locus Awards ! "Magic for Beginners" (Best Novella) and Magic for Beginners (Best Collection).

Might be some more info sometime on film rights but it's all very nebulous at the moment. Foreign rights are going well, yay!

5/06 - "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" both received Nebula Awards.

4/06 - Read "The Wizard of Perfil" in anthology Firebirds Rising.

- British Science Fiction Association Award Winner: "Magic for Beginners"

Kelly has completed a couple more young adult stories which will be published in young adult anthologies over the coming year or so.

"Magic for Beginners" is a Hugo Award finalist and will be reprinted in a Year's Best anthology.

1/06 - First Finnish translation: "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" is in Tahtivaeltaja No.4/2005. (The illustrations are wonderful so hopefully we can get them up here.)

Check out the great illustration and read an excerpt of a new Kelly Link story, "Origin Story," on the site of a new mag, A Public Space.

"Magic for Beginners" and "The Faery Handbag" are on the preliminary Nebula list.

FILM RIGHTS
Kelly Link's Hugo Award-Winning short story "The Faery Handbag," included in her collection Magic for Beginners, optioned to producer Corey Sienega of David Kirschner Productions (Miss Potter, Secondhand Lions, Martian Child), by Sarah Self at The Gersh Agency, on behalf of Renee Zuckerbrot.

"Monster" is in the McSweeney's anthology Noisy Outlaws.

"Stone Animals" (from Conjunctions) is in Best American Short Stories 2005.

Kelly has recently handed in stories for Sharyn November's next Firebirds anthology, a McSweeney's young adult anthology, and Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Coyote Road anthology. (All of which means Kelly is a good way toward having a young adult collection ready to go!)

"The Faery Handbag" can be read online. It has been nominated for a Hugo and was a British Science Fiction Association Award nominee. It will be reprinted in two anthologies:

The Year's Best Fantasy, (Jonathan Strahan & Karen Harber, eds.)
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (Jane Yolen & Patrick Nielsen Hayden, eds.)

Recent stories:

"The Faery Handbag" in YA anthology The Faery Reel
"Stone Animals" in Conjunctions.

First German translation: "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose."

"The Hortlak" from Ellen Datlow's anthology The Dark has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award.

"The Cannon"(from Say...) was translated into Japanese and published in the magazine SF Hayakawa.

"Catskin" (McSweeney's 10) was reprinted in David Hartwell's The Year's Best Fantasy.

"The Hortlak" from Ellen Datlow's anthology The Dark will be reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.

"Lull" was translated into Korean with the rest of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror XVI!

"The Cannon" in Say...what time is it?

"Louise's Ghost " reprinted in SF Hayakawa.

"Lull" appeared in the New Wave Fabulists issue of Conjunctions.

"Catskin" was in great company in the Michael Chabon-edited issue 10 of McSweeney's.

Nebula Award Winner "Louise's Ghost" reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Vol. XV (edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling) and the Nebula Awards Showcase 2003. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction 19, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water" reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13, edited by Stephen Jones & David Sutton.

Kelly Link's first collection of short fiction, Stranger Things Happen, was published by Small Beer Press in July 2001.
2nd printing, October 2001
3rd printing, February 2002
A Salon Book of the Year
Firecracker Award Nominee
Village Voice Favorite
World Fantasy Award Nominee

"Travels with the Snow Queen" was reprinted in a Japanese magazine SF Hayakawa, November 2000, vol 41 #12, along with Delia Sherman's "The Faerie Cony-catcher," Nalo Hopkinson's "Precious," Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry," Lisa Goldstein's "The Fantasma of Q____" as well as book, video, comics, music, and sf magazine reviews, a 'media corner,' a reader's story. Cover, title page, interior.

"Sea, Ship, Mountain, Sky," co-written with Gavin J. Grant appeared in Australian magazine Altair, no.6/7. Also collected in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Vol. XIV (edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction 19, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" is in the Jonathan Lethem-edited Vintage Book of Amnesia -- a strong anthology definitely worth reading. Lethem did a wonderful job of finding Amnesia fiction from all around the world. Includes works from Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabakov, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Cornell Woolrich, Karen Joy Fowler, Haruki Murakami, and John Frankin Bardin among others.

"Swans," the original YA anthology A Wolf at the Door (Ellen Datlow, ed.) Now available in paperback. Review

Originally published on Event Horizon, "The Girl Detective," saw its first paper publication in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIII, (Datlow & Windling, eds.). Honorably Mentions: Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party from the Dark Planet website and "The Dictator's Wife" (part of Shoe and Marriage") from LCRW no. 5.