Caroline M. Yoachim

@CarolineYoachim
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SFF writer. Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte & Nebula finalist. Interviewer at Uncanny Magazine.
Caroline M. YoachimDec 16, 2024
Caroline M. YoachimDec 15, 2024

Catching up on 2024 reading?

I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine

This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a single strand of words / laid end to end. You will have to work hard if / you want to understand us properly. You / must learn to hold more than one thread of / language simultaneously in your mind.

Lightspeed Magazine
Caroline M. YoachimDec 15, 2024

Catching up on 2024 reading?

I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine

This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a single strand of words / laid end to end. You will have to work hard if / you want to understand us properly. You / must learn to hold more than one thread of / language simultaneously in your mind.

Lightspeed Magazine
Caroline M. YoachimSep 18, 2024
Jeremy KahnSep 18, 2024

This is a message to the universe and a SF story and a poem all at the same time 🀯

Obsessed with thinking about doing a live reading

It would have to have two readers

or a queue of readers, with readers 1 & 3 reading the "chorus" before R1 sits down & queue pops

πŸ‘΄ this is our story, simplified
πŸ‘©β€πŸ« We Will Teach You How To Read
πŸ‘Ά this is our story, simplified

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/

By @CarolineYoachim

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine

This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a single strand of words / laid end to end. You will have to work hard if / you want to understand us properly. You / must learn to hold more than one thread of / language simultaneously in your mind.

Lightspeed Magazine
Caroline M. YoachimJan 20, 2024
A photo from yesterday's walk: cormorant.
Show threadCaroline M. YoachimDec 14, 2023

The original version of the story has a fair bit of formatting trickery, so we have also created an accessible version for screen readers, which you can find here:

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/collaboration-accessible-version/

Collaboration? (accessible version) - Uncanny Magazine

{Because this story encodes a great deal of information in complex formatting, descriptive passages like this, enclosed in curly brackets, have been added to help screenreaders and other accessibility devices make sense of the formatting for readers.} Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away […]

Uncanny Magazine
Show threadCaroline M. YoachimDec 14, 2023
And really, how better to explore the question of what it means to collaborate than by writing a collaboration?
Show threadCaroline M. YoachimDec 14, 2023
This novelette was a blast to write, with interwoven worlds, poetry and mirrors, muses and anti-muses, wine and kittens. There are robots, bored gods, and art that cannot quite be appreciated by human minds. I even got to try my hand at some digital calligraphy to create an ensō.
Caroline M. YoachimDec 14, 2023

Catching up on your reading? My year-end post is a short one as I only had one piece out this year:

"Collaboration?" is a 7550-word novelette, co-written with
@kyliu99. It appeared in the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of
@UncannyMagazine.

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/collaboration/

Collaboration? - Uncanny Magazine

Content Note: This story uses unusual formatting and fonts that may not be accessible to screen readers. A screen reader- and accessibility device-friendly version is located in this link here.   Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away in spells, algorithms, entangled particles, recipes; evoked […]

Uncanny Magazine
Caroline M. YoachimDec 1, 2023
A photo from yesterday's outing to Woodland Park Zoo: Flamingo.
Caroline M. YoachimNov 25, 2023
A photo from this morning's walk: early morning mist.