Corey J. White's Blog: I am still alive.

My latest story is Mirrored, out now in Interzone #301. Mirrored is the second story I’ve sold to Interzone (see my first Interzone story, the Aurealis Award winning Hollywood Animals in Issue #295). They bought it early in 2024, just a couple of months after my egg finally cracked, but it wasn’t until March or … Continue reading Mirrored, Out Now in Interzone #301

Crisis Actors By Maddison Stoff and Corey Jae White Maddison and I had the basic idea for this story (a traveling troupe of trans actors using tech and theatrical tools to fuck with cogs of the surveillance state) a couple of months before Stop Copaganda was even announced, and as soon as we saw the … Continue reading Crisis Actors

My story Exopunk’s Not Dead has just been reprinted, so I wanted to talk about how it came together, because it’s an experience that left a bad taste in my mouth in a way that only made sense after I came out. I originally submitted it to a certain high-paying (now defunct) market with a … Continue reading Exopunk’s Not Dead (You Can Read it Online Now)

All My Guns are Gay and Trans and They’re Ruining My Fucking Life, novelette written with Maddison Stoff, published on her Patreon. What if the space marine from a 90s shooter was sent to kill an alien god-ship and the only help he had was from a polycule of sentient, gay and trans guns? This … Continue reading All My Guns are Gay and Trans and They’re Ruining My Fucking Life

Pretend you’re good at it. – Neil Gaiman, via Jenny Lawson And all the rest I’ve decided to bring these monthly updates to a close. The fact is, I’m not a full-time writer, I don’t always have things to talk about, and this is just another self-imposed duty I’ve assigned to myself whether I have … Continue reading Now Zero, December, 2022

So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see ourselves drifting in dangerous directions. Because prediction is a useful way of pointing out safer, wiser courses. Because, most of all, our tomorrow is the child of … Continue reading Now Zero – November, 2022

I’ve got a bone to pick with capitalism And  a few to break. – Refused, Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull The Writing Another short story sale this past month. Still waiting on the contract, so no official announcement yet, but I will say it’s one of the big, legacy SF markets. The story … Continue reading Now Zero – October, 2022

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. – Philip K. Dick, Valis The Writing Been a busy month on the writing front, actually. I wrote the first draft of a flash piece I’ll submit to an anthology (submissions close in November from memory, so plenty of time to hone it still), … Continue reading Now Zero – September 2022

Your art is as big, as powerful, as beautiful and dangerous as you yourself are able to conceive of it as being. – Alan Moore The Writing I got a second round of feedback on SYTI and thankfully it lined up with the first. I was waiting on a third, but doesn’t look like that’s … Continue reading Now Zero – August 2022

Just a quick not to say that my short story Hollywood Animals will be in the December issue of Interzone, issue #295. Preorders are up now, with full TOC at the link. It’s the first story I’ll have published that sits under the banner of Crisp SF. Crisp isn’t just about genetic engineering (taking its … Continue reading Hollywood Animals in the upcoming Interzone #295