30 November 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Reprint

Unrequited Sonata (Reprint)

30 November 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Reprint

‘Unrequited Sonata’ is a high fantasy short story reprinted in Tales from the Tavern, a charity anthology raising funds for the NZ Drug Foundation

Melanie Harding-Shaw

3 October 2022

2022, All, Award Winner, Climate Fiction, New Zealand, Reprint, Science Fiction

Data Migration (Reprint)

Melanie Harding-Shaw

3 October 2022

2022, All, Award Winner, Climate Fiction, New Zealand, Reprint, Science Fiction

‘Data Migration’ is an award-winning climate fiction short story reprinted in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 4

Melanie Harding-Shaw

2 October 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Free to read

A Little Dragon Waits

Melanie Harding-Shaw

2 October 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Free to read

‘A Little Dragon Waits’ is a flash fiction fantasy story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Frozen Wavelets Issue 7

Melanie Harding-Shaw

28 August 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Free to read

Wall or Hearth

Melanie Harding-Shaw

28 August 2022

2022, All, Fantasy, Free to read

‘Wall or Hearth’ is a fantasy story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Etherea Magazine #13

Melanie Harding-Shaw

14 June 2022

2022, All, Science Fiction, Audio, Award Winner

My Nascent Garden

Melanie Harding-Shaw

14 June 2022

2022, All, Science Fiction, Audio, Award Winner

‘My Nascent Garden’ is a dark sci-fi short story about a psychopathic city with a crush published in the July/August 2022 Edition of Analog Science Fiction & Fact.

Melanie Harding-Shaw

26 April 2022

2022, All, Climate Fiction, New Zealand, Reprint

GAC ATG ATT ACA

Melanie Harding-Shaw

26 April 2022

2022, All, Climate Fiction, New Zealand, Reprint

GAC ATG ATT ACA is a flash fiction cli-fi story reprinted in Aftermath: Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand from SpecFicNZ

Melanie Harding-Shaw

13 April 2022

2022, New Zealand, Free to read, Fantasy, All

From the Ashes

Melanie Harding-Shaw

13 April 2022

2022, New Zealand, Free to read, Fantasy, All

‘From the Ashes’ is a free-to-read urban fantasy short story by Mel Harding-Shaw available only to my newsletter subscribers

Melanie Harding-Shaw

4 December 2021

2021, All, Horror, Micro

Between the Lines

Melanie Harding-Shaw

4 December 2021

2021, All, Horror, Micro

‘Between the Lines’ is an acrostic horror story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in the Australasian Horror Writers Association Magazine Midnight Echo Issue 16

Melanie Harding-Shaw

25 October 2021

2021, All, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror, Micro, New Zealand, Reprint

Synaesthete and A Love Note

Melanie Harding-Shaw

25 October 2021

2021, All, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror, Micro, New Zealand, Reprint

‘Synaesthete’ and ‘A Love Note’ are short stories by Melanie Harding-Shaw reprinted in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume 3

Melanie Harding-Shaw

13 July 2021

2021, All, Climate Fiction, Free to read, New Zealand, Science Fiction, Audio, Award Winner

Data Migration

Melanie Harding-Shaw

13 July 2021

2021, All, Climate Fiction, Free to read, New Zealand, Science Fiction, Audio, Award Winner

‘Data Migration’ is a creepy cli-fi short story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Strange Horizons. It won Best Short Story in the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.