RAKESFALL is shortlisted for the 2025 Le Guin Prize!| Vajra Chandrasekera
—This kind of writing is for the moſt part much affected and admired by people of weak judgement and vicious taſte—| Vajra Chandrasekera
4 posts published by Vajra Chandrasekera during May 2023| Vajra Chandrasekera
3 posts published by Vajra Chandrasekera during December 2024| Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall has won the Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree) which now awards multiple winners per year: Rakesfall is one of four, alongside Emet North’s In Universes, Walking Practice by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle, and “Kiss of Life” by P.C. Verrone. Many congratulations to my co-winners and the longlistees! The announcement page […]| Vajra Chandrasekera
I'm a Cullman Fellow! RAKESFALL is out in the UK! And Further Novel News| Vajra Chandrasekera
Subs are open for my issue of Deadlands! Plus I'm GoH at Flights of Foundry 2025.| Vajra Chandrasekera
RAKESFALL is a Nebula Award finalist!| Vajra Chandrasekera
eḻuttukkiṉiyavaṉ's Tamil translation of "The Translator, At Low Tide,” now readable in full.| Vajra Chandrasekera
Allegory, fascism, death, balls, falls.| Vajra Chandrasekera
On reading, fantasy, allegory, and other such terrors.| Vajra Chandrasekera
On RAKESFALL, piloerection, and a holiday discount.| Vajra Chandrasekera
I have a novel and a novelette to wave at you. Rakesfall was published in 2024 in the US, and is eligible for any award that has a novel category. It’s one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2024 and one of their ten picks for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy […]| Vajra Chandrasekera
Belated November update: on SAINT’s Ignyte Award win and on OzAsia| Vajra Chandrasekera
On canon and place.| Vajra Chandrasekera
On worldbuilding, the Sanderson profile industrial complex, and on how we read what we read.| Vajra Chandrasekera