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A collection of tiny terrors from Bram Stoker Award winner Christina Sng. The Gravity of Existence is a weight lifted, a monster freed, a princess with sneakers, a spell for a better world. From one of the leading voices in dark verse, this collection delights in the misunderstood, putting a new spin on werewolves, basilisks, sirens, ghosts, aliens, pandemics, fairy tales and myths. Sng gives new voice to classic heroines and the result is terrifying, magical, and fantastic. On sale at Amazon. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CONNECT: Facebook
SOCIETY6: Order my art prints at Society6. PATREON: My Patreon page features sneak peeks at works-in-progress, behind-the-scenes thoughts on my work, poems, art, haiku, plus signed limited cards and postcard poems to collect via snail mail! If you'd like to support me on Patreon, do stop by and drop me some coin. Tiers begin from $1!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Last updated: 28 December 2022 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2020 Bram Stoker Award® winner, 2021 Elgin Award runner-up, and 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award nominee, A Collection of Dreamscapes brings to life dark mythologies, fairy tales, a league of monsters, and a journey into the unfathomable depths of the human heart. This widely lauded follow-up to Sng's Bram Stoker award-winning volume, A Collection of Nightmares, has been described by reviewers as "a captivating collection that is not to be missed", "immersive, creepy, accessible", "a dream, dark and fantastic", "haunting, stunning, and poignant", and "a poetry collection every public library should own". Available from Raw Dog Screaming Press and Amazon.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In 2021 Bram Stoker Award® winner and 2022 Elgin runner-up Tortured Willows, four Southeast Asian women writers of horror expand on the exploration of otherness begun with the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women. Like the willow, women have bent and bowed under the expectations and duty heaped upon them. Like the willow, they endure and refuse to break. With exquisite poetry, Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, and Geneve Flynn invite you to sit beneath the tortured willow's gravid branches and listen to the uneasy shiver of its leaves. Available from Amazon.
2017 Bram Stoker Award® winner, 2018 Elgin Award nominee, and one of LitReactor's Best Books of 2017, A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press) features a surreal dreamscape of seasonal creatures, bone carvers, listless gods, vengeful angels, post-apocalyptic survivors, and the end of all things good and evil. Available from Amazon and Raw Dog Screaming Press. 2018 Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry (Alban Lake Publishing) celebrates the wonders and mysteries of space in scifaiku and lyrical prose. On sale from Amazon. 2017 Elgin Award nominee, An Assortment of Sky Things, is a poetic tour of the solar system and beyond in haiku and short poetry. Catku takes us on a whimsical life journey between a cat and its human, a tale woven with 21 haiku and senryu based on my life with beloved cats. A must-have for all cat lovers. A Constellation of Songs, my first haiku collection, spans birth to death, illuminating the wonder and beauty of life in between. Available as a free PDF from the Origami Poems Project.
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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), Tortured Willows (2021), Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry (2017), Elgin Award nominee An Assortment of Sky Things (2016), The Gravity of Existence (2022), and haiku chapbooks A Constellation of Songs (2016) and Catku (2016). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in such venues as Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post, and received many accolades, including the Jane Reichhold International Prize, The Pula Film Festival International Haiku Award, multiple nominations for the Rhysling Awards, the Dwarf Stars, the Pushcart Prize, the Elgin Award, and the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, as well as honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Best Horror of the Year. Christina was one of the recipients of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. Her essay Final Girl: A Life in Horror received a 2020 Bram Stoker nomination for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction and her first novelette Fury made its debut in the award-winning anthology Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (2020).
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ FEATURES6 December 2022: Happy Launch Day to THE GRAVITY OF EXISTENCE! My deepest thanks and gratitude to Holly Walrath and Saba Razvi for giving it a home at Interstellar Flight Press and a very special thank you to Anya Surgan for her breathtaking cover art!
29 November 2022: Elated to have 8 poems on the long list of Ellen Datlow's Recommendations for the Best Horror in 2021. Thank you so much, Ellen, for this tremendous honor!
4 November 2022: Lovely news that made my day! My poem "How Long Do Monsters Live? has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My most grateful thanks to Star*Line editor Jean-Paul Garnier for this incredible honor.
28 October 2022: The best 50th birthday present: my poem "Pontianak" in The Washington Post's Book Club!
20 October 2022: Thrilled to be reading at Fright Fest this year alongside some of my favorite people!
24 September 2022: TORTURED WILLOWS received second place in the 2022 Elgin Awards!! This could not have happened without my Willow sisters, Lee Murray, Gene Flynn, Angela Yuriko Smith, and K.P. Kulski with her incredible introduction. Thank you so much for bringing me along on this epic journey!
Congratulations to the Elgin nominees and winners! It's been such an honor sharing a ballot with you. Special thanks to all the voters who took the time to read our work, to the amazing reviewers out there, and to Elgin chair Jordan Hirsch.
22 September 2022: My flash fiction "The Eternal Fire" appears in The Best of Penumbric Volume 5.
19 September 2022: Thrilled to see A COLLECTION OF NIGHTMARES featured in The Lineup alongside collections and anthologies by these incredible poets whom I admire so much, Claire C. Holland, Linda D Addison, Donna Lynch, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ashley Dioses, and Cynthia Pelayo!
18 September 2022: Honored to be included in The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2022 "Our Garden" on Volunteer Appreciation Day! Thank you so much, Jim, Julie, Dave, and Theresa.
31 August 2022: Wonderful discussion with author Jocelyn Suarez and moderator Akshita Nanda on the panel Spooks & Shadows: Creating a Page Turner at Head2Head: Conversations Between Writers today. Many thanks to the National Library Board for this lovely invitation.
29 August 2022: So lovely to be featured in the Somerset County Library System of New Jersey for National Poetry Month. Just saw this and it made my day! Many thanks to collection development librarian Bob Helmbrecht for this wonderful honor.
RELEASES22 December 2022: Thrilled to see my flash fiction "The Doll" in the latest issue of New Myths. This makes it my third story published in a year -- a new record!
18 December 2022: I'm so happy to see my poem "Graveyard Shift" in the latest issue of Penumbric.
18 December 2022: Excited to receive my contributor’s copy of the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol IX that includes my poem "Face Off".
18 December 2022: My article "How to Read a Speculative Haiku" appears in Interstellar Flight Magazine.
16 December 2022: Thrilled to see my poem "Quiet Life" in this gorgeous anthology DAUGHTERS OF SARPEDON from Brigids Gate Press.
13 November 2022: MOTHER is here! My poem "Shields" joins this breathtaking anthology edited by Christi Nogle and Willow Dawn Becker. An incredible line-up! I'm elated to be in such great company.
3 November 2022: Hi friends, I'll be at the Singapore Writers Festival this year. I am moderating a panel on A Different Version of Events: Playing with Parallel Universes and moderating and speaking at Otherworldly Femininities on Sunday 6th of November 2022.
1 November 2022: So lovely to see my one-line haiku in brass bell this month! still faster than me my elderly cat
30 October 2022: My essay on the darkest chapter of The Sandman series "The Horror of 24/7" appears in Interstellar Flight Magazine, just in time for Halloween!
19 October 2022: Elated to see my craft essay "The Art of Speculative Haiku" in the Raw Dog Screaming Press anthology WRITING POETRY IN THE DARK.
11 October 2022: Elated to see my poem "Annihilation" in this month's Penumbric!
9 October 2022: Hi everyone! I'm back writing essays this October. My first, "Even the Stoic Weep when they meet Death", appears in Interstellar Flight Magazine.
1 October 2022: Lovely to be a part of this month's brass bell with my one-line haiku: kitchen herbs leaning toward the sun
27 September 2022: Excited to be back with a new poem "On Set" for the Ladies of Horror Flash Project!
28 September 2022: Happy Book Birthday to Chiral Mad 5! I'm so elated to be a part of this incredible anthology alongside such luminaries with my poem "The Infinite Lives of the Little Match Girl". Infinite thanks to editor Michael Bailey for giving my Little Match Girl a home.
31 August 2022: My poem "The Art of Healing", originally published in the HWA's mental health initiative's OF HORROR AND HOPE anthology, is reprinted in Crow's Feet.
27 August 2022: Elated to see my story "Mama Yaga" in Lindy Ryan's super cool anthology INTO THE FOREST.
11 August 2022: "Vlad's Cat", a poem I wrote for my children and our cat, appears in this month's Penumbric.
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