Black and white image of a human form walking through a flooded city street, with a dirty pigeon flying by in the foreground.

This is not a newsletter.
Graphic announcing the winner of the Prix ActuSF de l'Uchronie, 2025 - KID WOLF AND KRAKEN BOY, showing the cover of the French edition

KID WOLF AND KRAKEN BOY wins the ActuSF Award for Alternate History.
Black and white photo of me with the text SAM J MILLER / AUTHOR OF BLACKFISH CITY / FUTUREVERSE.EARTH

Futureverse #13: Resilience in Dystopia
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The French translation of “Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy” is a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Image of the cover of RED STAR HUSTLE, depicting a cyberpunk neon night scene of a lone figure running down a city street.

Announcing RED STAR HUSTLE.

The National Endowment for the Arts chose BLACKFISH CITY for the 2025-2026 “Big Read.”
Cover of the anthology NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, with an art-deco style image of a ringed planet against a black background with a vertical line of moons.

“Planetstuck” is in the awesome anthology NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.

A Bram Stoker Award nomination for “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak.”

Announcing the winning stories from the Imagine 2200 climate fiction competition.
Images of the four instructors of the 2024 Clarion UCSD writing workshop: Sam J Miller, Jeffrey Ford, Matt Bell, Nalo Hopkinson, Isabel Yap, and Alyssa Wong

Teaching Clarion for a Second Time!
Screencap of a pixel art video game, with a boy and an orca and a T-rex.

Announcing SMOKEFALL.
Book cover depicting a person wearing a cyberpunk headset, and the title THE BIG BOOK OF CYBERPUNK / edited by Jared Shurin

THE BIG BOOK OF CYBERPUNK includes my story “Feral Arcade Children of the American Northeast.”

KID WOLF & KRAKEN BOY wins the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award.

Come see me at the NYPL: “Confronting Climate Anxiety in Fiction”
The World Fantasy Award statuette; a tree with a bronze disc behind it.

A World Fantasy Award nomination for BOYS, BEASTS & MEN.
Cover of issue 98 of THE DARK magazine.

New Short Story: “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak”

I won the Locus Award for Best Short Story Collection!

New Zine: “Community is a Superpower”
Graphic that says "Locus Award Finalist" next to the cover of the book "Boys, Beasts & Men" by Sam J. Miller

BOYS, BEASTS & MEN is a Locus Award nominee.
An image of science and sci-fi uniting, illustrating the Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project.

I’m part of the Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project.

New Short Story: “A Field Guide to the Bear-Men of Leningrad”

I’m a judge for the Imagine 2200 climate fiction short story contest!!

New Short Story: “His Guns Could Not Protect Him”
Tor.com's header image containing covers of their picks for the best books of 2022.

BOYS, BEASTS & MEN is “one of the Best Books of the Year.”

Announcing tour dates for BOYS, BEASTS & MEN.

I’m judging the Shirley Jackson Awards this year.

Announcing KID WOLF & KRAKEN BOY.

Talking THE BLADE BETWEEN in Hudson, 3/28.

2022 Nebula Award ballot includes “Let All the Children Boogie” as a nominee for Best Short Story!

“Let All the Children Boogie” is one of the best of the year.

BOYS, BEASTS, & MEN – Cover Reveal

“Feral Arcade Children of the American Northeast” will appear in the Halloween issue of the Southwest Review.

The Blade Between is a bestseller (!!!??!?).
An illustration of a mammoth in a twilight city alley.

Talking Gentrification & Horror on “Our Opinions are Correct.”

Check me out on BBC Radio 4!

New Short Story: “A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last”

I wrote the cover story for Vogue Italia’s “Animal Issue.”

NPR loves “The Blade Between.”

THE BLADE BETWEEN is out now!

Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award.

New Story: “The Nation of the Sick,” in ENTANGLEMENTS from MIT

“Shucked” is one of ‘the year’s best science fiction & fantasy’ stories.

THE BLADE BETWEEN is “gripping,” “exciting,” and “insightful” according to Publishers Weekly.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS is nominated for a Locus Award.

Check out the cover for THE BLADE BETWEEN.

I’m judging this year’s Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards.

I’m in Vogue!

Talking climate change science fiction in Italy, while Venice drowns

Top of my writer bucket list: I’m teaching Clarion

New Short Story: “Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart”