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Filter House

Filter House, the first collection of Nisi's short fiction, will come out from Aqueduct Press in late May, 2008. Filter House, contains three previously unpublished stories and eleven reprints, plus an introduction by Nebula Award-winner Eileen Gunn.

Interview: Seeing Voices: A Conversation with Nisi Shawl

Jesse Vernon talks with Nisi Shawl about Filter House at the Aqueduct Press blog.

Reviews & Comments

"Sometimes enigmatic, often surprising, always marvelous. This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places."

—Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club
Sarah Canary

"From the exotic, baroque complexities of 'At the Huts of Ajala' to the stark, folktale purity of 'The Beads of Ku,' these fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic."

— Ursula K. Le Guin

"A traveling story-bazaar, offering treasures and curios from diverse lands of wonder."

— Matt Ruff

"Nisi uses the tools of future and fable...to magically reveal what and who we all are here and today."

— Tobias Buckell

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Where Everything Is a Bit Different, by Eileen Gunn
• At the Huts of Ajala
• Wallamelon
• The Pragmatical Princess
• The Raineses'
• Bird Day
• Maggies
• Momi Watu
• Deep End
• Good Boy
• Little Horses
• Shiomah's Land
• The Water Museum
• But She's Only a Dream
• The Beads of Ku

"Little Horses"

Nisi's first crime story, "Little Horses," is set on Detroit's Belle Isle and the Ambassador Bridge circa 1960. It appears in the recent Detroit Noir anthology from Akashic Books, also featuring Loren Estleman and Joyce Carol Oates. You can read an interview, and read a review of the anthology.

New Stories

"To the Moment," Nisi Shawl's new story, is available online at Reflection's Edge.

Nisi Shawl's 2004 story "Deep End" was reprinted along with China Mieville's "Jack" in a limited edition chapbook published this summer by Think Galactic Literary Cooperative. Think Galactic is a Chicago-based leftist organization which sponsors a book discussion group. They published this chapbook on July 14, 2007, in conjunction with their first convention, Think Galacticon.

Schedule

• Saturday, October 4, 2008: Nisi reads from her new story collection, Filter House, and answers questions about African Americans in speculative fiction, Filter House, and Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction at BookPeople in Moscow, Idaho, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Copies of Filter House and Writing the Other will be available for sale, with a signing session following the reading. BookPeople is at 521 S. Main St., Moscow, ID, 83843.
• Online: No Gatekeepers: An Interview with Nisi Shawl at Reflection's Edge, conducted by Sharon Dodge
• Previous appearances

Autobiography

Recent Fiction & Essays

• Filter House, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, June, 2008
• "Because We Are All So Royal," The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 2, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, May, 2008 (forthcoming).
• "The Third Parable," Potlatch 17 Program, Seattle, WA, February 29, 2008.
• "To the Moment," Reflection's Edge, November 2007.
• "Little Horses," Detroit Noir, NY, NY, November 2007, Akashic Books.
• "Women of the Doll," GUD Magazine, Laconia, NH, Fall 2007.
• "Dry Eyes," The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1, Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, May, 2007.
• "But She's Only a Dream," Trabuco Road, March 2007.
• "The Snooted One," Farrago's Wainscot, January 2007.
• "Colorful Stories," Vector Magazine, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, May/June 2006.
• "Octavia E. Butler: In Memoriam," Foundation Magzine, Kempston, Bedford, England, Summer 2006.
• "Octavia Butler: A Parable of Talent," Colors NW Magazine, Seattle, WA, April 2006.
• "To Jack Kerouac, to Make Much of Space and Time," Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies, L. Timmel Duchamp (editor), Aqueduct Press, Seattle, WA, March, 2006.

Bibliography

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

How to Tell a True Story

Writing the Other

Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward's Writing the Other: A Practical Guide, the companion book to the Writing the Other workshop.

Writing the Other is available directly from Aqueduct Press.

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