Helen’s Bibliography
Education
Positions
Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing (Anglia Ruskin University ,2016-present)
Lecturer of Creative Writing and and Publishing (Anglia Ruskin University, 2016-2017)
Tutor in Creative Writing (University of Oxford, 2015-2016)
Associate Lecturer in Fiction (Manchester Metropolitan University, 2016)
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Oxford, 2014)
Degrees
PG Cert Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) (Anglia Ruskin University, 2017)
Ph. D (Medieval Studies) (University of Toronto, 2013)
MA (Medieval Studies) (University of Toronto, 2007)
BA Hons. (English) (University of Guelph, 2006)
Full Length Fiction
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, ChiZine Publications, 2014.
- winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection
- winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
- short-listed for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection
- short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection
- short-listed for the Aurora Award for Best Related Work
- short-listed for the ReLit Award
- honorable mention, Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
- long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Fiction Prize
- long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize
- recommended reading list, Locus Magazine
- starred review, Quill&Quire
Hair Side, Flesh Side, ChiZine Publications, 2012.
- winner of the 2013 British Fantasy Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
- short-listed for the 2013 Aurora Award for Best Related Work
- long-listed for the 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
- starred review, Library Journal
- “Top Ten Books of 2012 (SF/F)”, January Magazine
Full Length Poetry
The Sex Lives for Monsters: Collected Poems, Kelp Queen Press, Toronto, 2013.
- winner of the 2014 Elgin Chapbook Award
- short-listed for the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry
Skeleton Leaves: a Collection, Kelp Queen Press, Toronto, 2012.
- winner of the 2012 Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem
- jury-selected for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement preliminary ballot
- nominated for the 2012 Rhysling Award, long-form
Edited Collections
The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, vol 4. Toronto: Undertow Press, 2017.
Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ed. with Sandra Kasturi, ChiZine Publications, 2015.
Single Works Fiction
2017
“Survival Strategies,” Black Static Issue 58 (TTA Press).
“Caldera”, Unspeakable Horror 2: Abominations of Desire, ed. Vince Liaguno (Evil Jester Press).
“Heaven’s Night-blooming Garden”, Murder Ballads, ed. Mark Beech (Egaeus Press)
“They are Passing by Without Turning”, Gamut Magazine, ed. Richard Thomas
“The Embalmer”, The Mammoth Book of The Mummy, ed. Paula Guran (Constable-Robinson).
“The Way She Is With Strangers”, Dark Cities, ed. Christopher Golden (Titan).
2016
“The Gold Leaf Executions”, CVC Anthology Series, Book Six (Exile Editions).
“Submerged”, Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, ed. Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay (Exile Editions).
“One Quarter Dreaming, Three Quarters Want”, Liminal, issue 2, ed. Kelly Sandoval and Shannon Peavey.
“Caro in Carnis”, The Mammoth Book of Original Cthulhu, ed. Paula Guran (Running Press).
2015
“Exposure”, Cassilda’s Song, ed. Joe Pulver.
“Caldera”, Unspeakable Horror 2: Abominations of Desire, ed. Vince Liaguno (Evil Jester Press).
“The Vault of Heaven”, Aickman’s Heirs, ed. Simon Strantzas (Undertow Press).
“Stud”, 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather Wood (Stone Skin Press).
“The Zhanell Adler Brass Spyglass”, CVC Anthology Series, Book Four (Exile Editions).
“All Things Fall and Are Built Again”, Dangerous Games, ed. Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books).
“Funeral Rites,” Spectral Book of Horror Stories, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press).
“Crossroads and Gateways”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ed. Scott H. Andrews.
“In the Time of Omens”, Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow (ChiZine Publications).
“Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta”, Lackington’s, ed. Ranylt Richildis.
2013
“I’m the Lady of Good Times, She Said”, End of the Road, ed. Jonathan Oliver (Solaris).
“The Slipway Grey”, Chilling Tales 2, ed. Michael Kelly (EDGE).
“The Raising of Household Objects”, CVC Anthology Series, Book Three (Exile Press).
“The Hanging Game”, Tor.com.
“Skin”, Future Lovecraft, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (Innsmouth Free Press).
Reprinted Fiction
2018
“In the Year of Omens, The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, ed. Stephen Jones.
2017
“Caro in Carno”, The Dark, ed. Sean Wallace.
“The Vault of Heaven”, Nightmare Magazine, ed. John Joseph Adams.
“The Hanging Game”, as “Le jeu de la pendaison”, trans. Mathieu Arès, in Brins d’éternité une revue consacrée aux littératures de l’imaginaire: science-fiction fantastique, fantasy (#46, hiver).
2016
“Exposure”, Best New Horror 27, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing)
2015
“Secondhand Magic”, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 26, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing).
“Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta”, Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (ChiZine Publications).
“Secondhand Magic”, Best British Short Stories 2015, ed. Nicholas Royle (Salt Publishing).
“Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta”, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Dark Horror 6, ed. Paula Guran (Prime).
“In the Year of Omens”, Best British Horror 2015, ed. Johnny Mains (Salt Publishing).
“The Santa Claus Parade”, PseudoPod, ed. Shawn Garrett.
“All My Love, A Fishhook”, New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird, ed. Paula Guran (Prime).
“Supply Limited, Act Now”, EscapePod, ed. Norm Sherman.
2014
“The Slipway Grey”, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Dark Horror 5, ed. Paula Guran (Prime).
2013
“The Old and the New”, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24, ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson/Running Press).
“No Ghosts in London”, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Dark Horror 4, ed. Paula Guran (Prime).
“The Book of Judgement”, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing of 2012, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko (ChiZine Publications).
“Sanditon”, World Science Fiction Blog, ed. Lavie Tidhar. (https://worldsf.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/tuesday-fiction-sanditon-by-helen-marshall/)
“The Mouth, Open”, Weird Fiction Review, ed. Adam Mills.
“The Book of Judgement”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 28.
Single Works Poetry
2014
“Aversions”, Goblin Fruit, Summer Issue, ed. Amal El-Mohtar and Caitlyn Paxson.
“The Feather Calls Me By My True Name”, Arc Poetry Magazine 73, ed. Monty Reid.
2013
“The Dead Man’s Thumb”, Postscripts to Darkness 4, ed. Dominik Parisien.
“The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid”, Postscripts to Darkness 4, ed. Dominik Parisien.
2012
“The Ghosts of Birds”, Phantom Drift 2.
“Leda’s Daughter”, Abyss and Apex 41.
2011
“The Oak Girl”, Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, ed. Julie Czerneda and Susan MacGregor.
“Strict Nominalism”, 2011 Whittaker Anthology.
“Ghosts of Blood and Glass”, 2011 Whittaker Anthology.
“Beautiful Monster”, Paper Crow. (Fall Issue)
“Strict Nominalism”, Chiaroscuro 49.
“One Quarter Gorgon”, Chiaroscuro 47.
2010
“Waiting for the Harrowing”, Chiaroscuro 46.
“Witchcraft”, Acta Victoriana.
2006
“Trojan Nights”, Chiaroscuro 26.
2005
“Eurydice”, Chiaroscuro 25.
“Baptism”, Star*Line 28.3.
“Mist and Shadows”, Star*Line 28.2.
“Apartment 8”, Star*Line 28.1.
2004
“The Cat Queen”, NFG 5.
“Physics”, Ontarion Arts Supplement 143.
Reprinted Poetry
2015
“Aversions”, Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (ChiZine Publications).
2013
“The Ghosts of Birds”, The 2013 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2012.
“The Ghosts of Birds”, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing of 2012, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko (ChiZine Publications).
“One Quarter Gorgon”, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing of 2011, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books).
2012
“Beautiful Monster”, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing of 2011, ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books).
“Beautiful Monster”, The 2012 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2011.
“Skeleton Leaves”, The 2012 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2011.
2006
“Mist and Shadows” The 2006 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2005.
Nonfiction
2017
“The State of Weird: An Introduction to Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 4,” Weird Fiction Review.
“The Only Lights are Headlights,” Weird Fiction Review. August 10.
“Infinite Worlds, Ordinary and Extraordinary”, Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Spectres of the Silver Screen”, Los Angeles Review of Books.
2015
“Sex, Death and the Man-Omelet in ‘The Specialist’s Hat’”, Weird Fiction Review.
“Beautiful Broken Bodies”, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 11.
“Getting Medieval in 21st-Century Horror Fiction”, Thinking Horror: A Journal of Horror Philosophy, ed. Simon Strantzas and S. J. Bagley.
“The H Word: Dissonance and Horror”, Nightmare Magazine, ed. John Joseph Adams.
2014
“Introduction”, Irregular Verbs, Matthew Johnson (ChiZine Publications).
Literary Awards
Literary Awards
Winner
2016 The $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection.
2014 The Sex Lives of Monsters, Elgin Chapbook Award.
2013 Hair Side, Flesh Side, British Fantasy Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer.
2012 Student Engagement in the Arts, University of Toronto.
2012 Skeleton Leaves, Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem.
2011 2010 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium, Aurora Award for Fan Organizational.
Short-Listed
2018 Arthur C. Clarke Shadow Jury, BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.
2017 “Caro in Carno”, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Relit Award for Best Collection
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, British Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Aurora Award for Best Related Work.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.
2015 “Aversions”, Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, This is Horror Award for Best Fiction Collection.
2014 “The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid”, Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem.
2014 “The Zhanell Adler Brass Spyglass”, The $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition.
2014 Hair Side, Flesh Side, This is Horror Award for Best Fiction Collection.
2014 The Sex Lives of Monsters, Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.
2013 “The Raising of Household Objects”, The $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition.
2013 Hair Side, Flesh Side, Aurora Award for Best Related Work.
2013 Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Aurora Award for Fan Organizational.
2013 “The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book”, Aurora Award for Fan Other.
2013 “The Ghosts of Birds”, Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem.
2012 “Holding Pattern”, Myslexia Short Story Contest.
2012 Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Aurora Award for Fan Organizational
Long-Listed
2017 “Caro in Carno”, The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
2015 Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Edge Hill Short Story Award.
2014 “The Slipway Grey”, Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
2013 “The Zhanell Adler Brass Spyglass”, Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest.
2013 Hair Side, Flesh Side, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
2013 “The Ghosts of Birds”, Rhysling Award for Poetry, short-form.
2012 “the feather calls me by my true name”, CBC Poetry Prize.
2012 “Beautiful Monster”, Rhysling Award for Poetry, long-form.
2012 Skeleton Leaves, Rhysling Award for Poetry, long-form.
2012 Skeleton Leaves, Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.
2011 “Waiting for the Harrowing”, Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poem.
2006 “Mist and Shadows”, Rhysling Award for Poetry, short-form.
Grants
Academic Grants
2014-2016 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011-2013 Mellon Research Grant [under Alexandra Gillespie]
2011-2012 University of Toronto Fellowship
2007-2011 Canada Graduate Scholarship
2009 Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada [under Alexandra Gillespie]
2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
2006 MA-level Canada Graduate Scholarship
2006 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
Creative Writing
2012, 2015 Canada Council Creative Writing Grant
2011, 2013 Ontario Arts Council Work-in-Progress Grant
2011, 2013 Toronto Arts Council Level Two Writers Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve: from ChiZine Publications, Dundurn Press, Arc Poetry, Diaspora Dialogues, and ELQ/Exile Publications.
2012 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve: from ChiZine Publications, The New Quarterly, Descant.