Amal El-Mohtar
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and critic.| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, I'm so excited to share the cover of my upcoming short story collection! It's called Seasons of Glass and Iron, after my 2016 short story that went on to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Here she is! It's designed by Spencer Fuller at Faceout Studio, who| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, I got back to Ottawa from the UK last night, having spent a wonderful couple of weeks doing events and catching up with family. A more fulsome recap of those things is forthcoming. For now, though, I just wanted to remind folks of imminent The River Has Roots| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, A curiosity about Ghost, this newsletter software I use, is that every time I log in to write something in it I'm haunted by past selves. From my dashboard, I click on "posts," and there appears a list of posts begun but not finished; I've just counted and| Amal El-Mohtar
Apologies if you're getting this newsletter twice – it seems to have had a lot of delivery issues, from turning up in spam to being delivered hours late to simply not being delivered at all. We've tweaked some settings to hopefully avoid this happening in future; to be extra safe and| Amal El-Mohtar
From where I'm sitting – on a dear friend's couch in Colorado – I both can and can't see a mountain. Thick, flurrying snow obscures it from view every few minutes, catching on tall, sturdy pines, sleeving their sharp green fingers in white. But the snow paused long enough for a Steller's| Amal El-Mohtar
Friends, readers, fellow travellers, I'm writing from a dear friend's dining room table in St Louis, where I'm listening to sparrows, petting a perfect orange cat, and catching my breath. From March 4 to March 8 I was in a different city every day: New York, Portland (Maine), Chapel Hill,| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, Against all odds, today is March 4th. Which means – as it has meant for months and months that vanished into a hole in my pocket – that The River Has Roots is out in the world. Should you wish to support its journey, you can do any of the| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, First, welcome new readers! Since last I wrote, I turned 40, found this year's bird (of which more anon), and saw the passing of three New Years. I hope to find the time to write about any of those things before going on tour for The River Has| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, It's December 6! We're a week out from my birthday! I have scraps of letters I was writing in November that I haven't sent because that month managed to feel several months long and also vanish in an eye-blink. But since we're now less than three months out| Amal El-Mohtar
Friends! I'm in New York City! I haven't been since 2019! Getting here was smooth and good and now these events are no longer speculative and I want to take this opportunity to tell you about them again! Wednesday, October 16, at 7PM: Ripped Bodice Event I'm so excited to| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, I'm in London, briefly, to do an event with Lindsay Ellis and to see Hadestown for the [mumble]th time, before heading up to Glasgow and Worldcon! So here's some information about that. Conversations Lindsay's a goddamn rockstar and the event was sold out before I could even| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, I'm so excited to get to share with you the cover of my next book! It's called The River Has Roots, and it's about sisters, ballads, and grammar as magic. It comes out in March 2025, and you can pre-order it here, or from wherever you get your| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, The crocuses, squill, and lilacs have all been and gone. The last time I wrote was March 8, and at some point in the last 5-7 days, I fully out loud said "isn't it wild that May's almost over?" So that's how things have been over here. Meanwhile,| Amal El-Mohtar
If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government into withdrawing its support for Palestinian genocide. If you're in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace has many tools for coordinating action. I hope that| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, It's been almost two months since I've written to you. Partly this was due to receiving guests and writing secret things in the woods, and partly due to being in the streets demanding ceasefire now and a cessation of the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. I will not| Amal El-Mohtar
Here's my finalized schedule for Can*Con, Ottawa's local SFF convention! I'm so happy to be attending in person for the first time in years. If you're looking to attend, please be aware of the convention's 2023 COVID-19 policy, and its other attendance policies more generally! Friday, October 13 5PM| Amal El-Mohtar
When I was a child, I watched with great and regular passion a show called Are You Afraid of the Dark? In it, a group of teens calling themselves The Midnight Society would gather around a fire in the woods at night, and one of them would share a scary| Amal El-Mohtar
The following actions are more important to me than anything to do with my career, and I hope you won't skip past them. If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government into ceasing| Amal El-Mohtar
If you're in Canada, this informational google doc is updated almost daily with information, scripts, and direct actions you can take to pressure our government into withdrawing its support for Palestinian genocide. If you're in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace has many tools for coordinating action. I hope that| Amal El-Mohtar
