I’ve been submitting stories to open submission calls from Air and Nothingness Press for years now, because AaN’s anthologies consistently have incredibly cool themes, and I love having a strong theme to work with when I’m working on something new. So I’m delighted to finally say one of my stories made the cut, and in a ridiculously cool book, too: Our Dust Earth!

The anthology is a collection of 19 Dying Earth stories, and, on top of that, an awesome d10 tabletop RPG game created by Todd Sanders, AaN’s illustrious publisher. Having that game’s original setting to work with while writing was fantastic, and my contribution ended up being a story titled The Long Trawl, about a pair of exhausted scavengers trying out a new method to scrounge up some pasttech and keep on making their increasingly tenuous living. If stories of a world slowly burning out intrigue you, you can order a copy of Our Dust Earth directly from Air and Nothingness Press.

This will also be my first publication as just Zoey Hedman, which is super exciting! There are more neat submission calls I’m working on stories for with deadlines in the near future, too, so hopefully there’ll be many more stories published under my shiny new name soon. Stay tuned!