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Shannon Connor Winward

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Shannon Connor Winward is an American author of literary and speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared widely in such venues as Pedestal Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Strange Horizons, Illumen, Ideomancer, Silver Blade Magazine, NewMyths.com, Star*Line, Hip Mama and PANK, as well as in genre anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Shannon recently earned Honorable Mention as an emerging artist by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Shannon is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a Rhysling Award nominee. She lives and writes in Newark, Delaware. For a full list of publications, or to read her accounts of writing, witchery, mommyhood and general sassiness, ...more

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Family Bones

Last week I finally got to take a much-anticipated field trip to the Soda House at Hagley Museum, where they keep the historical DuPont company archives.

Civil War era DuPont Co. Employee Petit Ledgers

Many of the 19th Century powder mill records are available online, but not all. As a descendent of several powder mill families, I’ve been dying to see the ones that have not been scanned, in the

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	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #731) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shannon Connor Winward (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard Bowes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Someone Wicked: A Written Remains Anthology by Weldon Burge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.M. Reinbold (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Billie Sue Mosiman (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endless Apocalypse Short Stories by Florian Mussgnug (Foreword), Mike Adamson (Contributor), Bill Davidson (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction by Jean Roberta (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Berman (Editor), M. Bennardo 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry by Stacey Balkun (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Catherine Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anna Weber (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	StoryHack Action & Adventure, #0 by Bryce Beattie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Boop, Jay Barnson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undoing Winter 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twisted Fairy Tales (Volume II) by Shannon Connor Winward (Goodreads Author), Alison Littlewood, Jaidis Shaw (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of the Witch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When She’s Ready 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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