Emma Törzs

reader / writer

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Book Launch!

Ink Blood Sister Scribe comes out on May 30th!!! That’s NEXT MONTH, omg. If you haven’t yet, please consider pre-ordering the novel!

If you’re in or around the Twin Cities, I’d love to see you at my book launch on June 1st, 6pm, at Moon Palace Books! There will be refreshments, book swag, and short readings from local literary luminaries Lesley Nneka Arimah, Abbey Mei Otis, and Sally Franson. Afterparty next door at Arbeiter Brewering.

Also, I now have a monthly newsletter, called “News & Mews,” which will feature relevant writing news plus photographs of my glorious feline companion, Igor. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

YAYYYYY I SOLD MY NOVEL

Coming in 2023, my debut novel, Ink Blood Mirror Magic Ink Blood Sister Scribe! A standalone contemporary fantasy for your reading (hopefully) pleasure!

I am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so happy about this.

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National Endowment for the Arts grant!

I am extremely thrilled to be a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow in prose for 2020! Also known as an NEA grant, you can see the full list of fellows (i.e. scan for your friends and nemeses) here. I quite literally jumped on the bed when I got the (second) call from D.C., after I screened the first one and let it go to voicemail, because who picks up random calls from D.C.??? So if you see me out and about it’s a good time to hit me up for a free drink, because I’m feeling prettttyyyyy darn $$$ right about now. I’m also going to try and use those government funds to get to Antarctica somehow for writing-related research, so wish me luck on that front. Thank you NEA!!!

World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction!

Good god y’all, I WON!

In a tie with Mel Kassel’s excellent Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake! Mel couldn’t make it to the World Fantasy Convention in L.A., and though we haven’t met in person she had written to me earlier in the week asking if I’d accept in her stead should she win. Well OF COURSE, I said, honored to be asked, but little did I know I’d end up on stage making TWO speeches; one for Mel, and one for me. Kismet that I had her speech in hand! I hadn’t bothered to write one for myself because I genuinely did not think I had a chance in hell of winning, so let that be some kind of lesson to some kind of someone? I had to wing it through a haze of shock. ANYWAY it’s all very exciting and I could not be in better company. WOW.

Photo below courtesy of Alex Manglis, who along with Izzy Wasserstein flew on planes to be in L.A. to support me, THANK YOU BELOVED FAMFRIENDS.

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Sponsor me in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon? Yeah!

To help raise money for my beloved Clarion West, I'm participating in the workshop-concurrent write-a-thon, and for the next six weeks will be writing 500 words a day, 5 days a week, with the aim of a) finishing rewrites on my novel and b) finishing or least maybe hopefully coming reeeealllly close to finishing a novella. Clarion West changed my life, and the lives of many, many other writers both past and future, and I can only hope to give back a fraction of what they gave to me -- literally and metaphorically and psychically and spiritually etc etc. 

My sponsorship profile can be found RIGHT HERE Y'ALL, and the sponsorship rewards are as follows:

$15. On a postcard, which I’ll send to you, I’ll draw a picture of what I was doing at the exact moment you were generously donating money.

$25. On a postcard, which I’ll send you, I will write a rhyming poem that praises you as if you were a murderous emperor, and I a court poet in fear of my life.

$50. I will read any novel you choose, and on a postcard, which I’ll send to you, I will write a brief fanfiction (gen or slash, up to you) in your choice of popular trope: Coffeeshop AU, CurtainFic, or GenderSwap.

$100. I will use your full name in a story — you may choose if you’d like to be a character, a place, or a fake product-placement.

Thank you! <3