Anthologies

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America’s Future: Poetry & Prose in Response to Tomorrow

An anthology from Washington Writers Publishing House, featuring 164 bold, thought-provoking writers and 179 works of poetry, fiction, essays, visual language, and more. Includes Myna Chang’s drabble, “The Next Billionaire in the Queue.” Available here.

 

The Best of MetaStellar Year Three

The third book in MetaStellar’s Best Of Anthology, featuring Myna Chang’s micro, “The Great Chickenomachy of Chandler County, Kentucky.” Available here.

 

Mothman Was Here: Tales of the Uncanny

Mothman Was Here: Tales of the Uncanny is an anthology of 21 pieces of poetry and prose telling the tales of the ephemeral, the ethereal, and the downright creepy. Includes Myna Chang’s micro, “Wild Bill’s Last Ride,” originally published in Hex Literary.

Available here.

 

The 2024 Rhysling Anthology

The Rhysling Anthology, published by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, brings together Rhysling Award finalists in the Short and Long poetry categories. The 2024 edition includes Myna Chang’s short poem, “Let Us Dream,” originally published in Small Wonders.

Available here.

 

Best Microfiction 2024

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. The 2024 edition features two stories by Myna Chang, including “Blackberry Nights,” originally published in Cease, Cows, and “Hometown Johnnies,” originally published in Middle House Review and reprinted in Fractured Lit. This volume also includes Myna’s essay on the inspiration for these stories.

Available here.

 

SNAFU: Comms

SNAFU: Comms is a small explosion of action/horror, including “Metalloid Blues” by Myna Chang.

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Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience

Whether striving to protect the family they’ve chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different things. Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience explores the nuance of sentience manufactured and evolved within mechanical beings. It peels back the metal exterior and takes a hard look at what is inside. Featuring Myna Chang’s noir-cyberpunk-romance, “Intersecting Datafields.” Check out this review!

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SNAFU: PUNK’D

SNAFU: Punk’d holds eighteen tales from some of the best authors working in action-horror today, with a slant towards cyberpunk, steampunk, biopunk, and other punk sub-genres you may or may not have heard of. Featuring Myna Chang’s bio-punk story, “Situation Normal.”

Available from Amazon.

 

Flash Fiction America

“A striking new anthology of the best short-short fiction from all over the United States.” 

Published by W. W. Norton, February 14, 2023. Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne. 

Publisher’s Weekly says: “[This] elegant anthology brims with economical, well-crafted prose… Throughout, the authors craft distinctive glimpses of their characters’ worlds within a span of a page or two. This showcases a multitude of talent.”  

Featuring Myna Chang’s award-winning flash, “An Alternate Theory Regarding Natural Disasters, As Posited by the Teenage Girls of Clove County, Kansas.”

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The Best Small Fictions 2021

“The 2021 volume of The Best Small Fictions presents its richest collection of stories yet. These short works capture in all their multifaceted glory, the singular times in which we live. At times hilarious, catastrophic, philosophical — and ever original — this year’s Best Small Fictions is a must-have, must-read gem of an anthology.”

Featuring mirofiction by Myna Chang. Available from Amazon.

 

This is What America Looks Like

Published by Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Edited by Caroline Bock & Jona Colson. “One hundred writers and poets from DC, Maryland and Virginia draw a portrait of the creative state of our union.” 

Featuring “The Sky Stretches Clear and Whole for a Single, Hovering Heartbeat” by Myna Chang.

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Furious Gravity

Published by Politics & Prose//American University. Edited by Melissa Scholes Young.

“…women write about the gravitational forces that bind them together or push them apart. Fury is useful fuel as they respond to a world they wish was more just.”

Featuring Myna Chang’s humorous CNF flash “Driving Like a Boss.”

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Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2021

Published by Bards and Sages Publishing. A collection of 18 science fiction and fantasy stories, including “The Collection” by Myna Chang.

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Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2020

Published by Bards and Sages Publishing. Celebrating the amazing work being produced in the indie publishing community, including “Penny the Poisonmonger: An Origin Story” by Myna Chang.

Available on Amazon