We're Here, The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Anthology.

We’re Here 2020 is edited by C.L. Clark & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. A 263 page 8” x 5” book.

“This promising start to a new anthology series will appeal to any reader of contemporary short SFF, queer or otherwise, and reinforces Neon Hemlock’s spot at the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing.”
— Publishers Weekly

We’re Here 2020 includes the following stories from 2020:

• "If You Take My Meaning" by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom, February 26, 2020)

• "A Voyage to Queensthroat" by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange Horizons, August 2020)

• “Rat and Finch are Friends” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons, March 2020)

• “Salt and Iron” by Gem Isherwood (Podcastle, May 2020)

• "The Currant Dumas" by L.D. Lewis (Glitter + Ashes, edited by dave ring)

• “Everquest” by Naomi Kanakia (Lightspeed, October 2020)

• "Portrait of Three Women with an Owl" by Gwen C. Katz (The Future Fire, February 2020)

• “The Ashes of Vivian Firestrike” by Kristen Koopman (Glittership, May 2020)

• “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” by RB Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2020)

• “Thin Red Jellies” by Lina Rather (Gigonotosaurus, February 2020)

• “Body, Remember” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Fireside, November 2020)

• “Escaping Dr. Markoff” by Gabriela Santiago (The Dark, March 2020)

• "The Last Good Time to Be Alive" by Waverly SM (Reckoning 4, edited by Danika Dinsmore and Arkady Martine)

• “Monsters Never Leave You” by Carlie St. George (Strange Horizons, June 2020)

• "The Wedding After The Bomb" by Brendan Williams-Childs (Catapult, April 2020)

• "8-Bit Free Will" by John Wiswell (Podcastle, November 2020)