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Alex Jennings

26 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 2011 59 Short Fiction Billy Pete Albedo One, #40
2016 79 Short Fiction Ten Thousand Hours Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Fall 2016
2017 |10 Short Fiction Maggie Doll People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
May 2019 Short Fiction Mister Dog PodCastle, #574
July 2020 |1 Short Fiction The Leap Test Strange Horizons, 13 July 2020
December 2020 5 Poem Year in White Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 3, Issue 2
October 2021 Short Fiction T _ ME Escape Pod, 21 October 2021
January 2022 |12 Essay Midnight Mass Talks Too Much But Still Manages to Compel Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2022
March 2022 |6 Poem Negative Detection Fantasy Magazine, March 2022
May 2022 |11 Review The Ballad of Perilous Graves Lightspeed, May 2022
July 2022 167 Essay Chapter and Verse (F&SF, July/August 2022) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2022
July 2022 |11.1 Review The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2022
August 2022 8|8.3 Review The Ballad of Perilous Graves The New York Times Book Review, August 14, 2022
August 2022 |8 Review The Ballad of Perilous Graves Strange Horizons, 22 August 2022
October 2022 |9 Poem Ivory Coast SFPA-Sponsored Poetry Contests, October 2022
November 2022 |14 Interview Across the Afterverse: A Conversation with Afropunk SF/F Author Alex Smith Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022
November 2022 96 Review The Ballad of Perilous Graves The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2022
January 2023 226 Review The Ballad of Perilous Graves Interzone, Jan 2023
March 2023 Short Fiction Them Doghead Boys Pseudopod, #856
May 2023 223 Essay Chapter and Verse (F&SF, May/June 2023) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2023
2024 195 Essay Chapter and Verse The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Summer 2024
January 2024 |10 Essay Lest We Become Possessed Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2024
August 2024 |1 Short Fiction Fat Kids Bourbon Penn, August 2024
November 2024 |13 Essay Can't We All Just Get Along? Them: The Scare Uses Afro-Surrealism to Produce Effective Scares Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2024
May 2025 |11 Essay Get Lost! How Whereness Deepens Fiction Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2025
December 2025 |6 Poem Grove of Jealous Lovers Fantasy Magazine, Winter 2025

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2012 Collection Here I Come and Other Stories Alex Jennings
2022 Novel The Ballad of Perilous Graves Alex Jennings

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2019 Carl Brandon Society Award Carl Brandon Parallax Award Mister Dog Nominee
2023 Compton Crook Award Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) The Ballad of Perilous Graves Winner
2023 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel The Ballad of Perilous Graves Nominee
2023 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature The Ballad of Perilous Graves Nominee
2023 World Fantasy Award Best Novel The Ballad of Perilous Graves Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Fat Kids Nominee

Alex Jennings was born in Germany and raised in Botswana, Paramaribo, and Tunis. His writing has appeared on Podcastle, and in the Locus-Award-winning Luminescent Threads. His collection Here I Come and Other Stories was released in 2012. He writes for antenna.works and MCs Dogfish, a monthly readings series. He lives in New Orleans.
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