(Go to Nonfiction Bibliography)
Forthcoming
The Tutor, Heart’s Choice
Published
2025
“How to Win Against the Robots,” Lightspeed Magazine, July 2025
► Audio reading available on site to listen or download
2024
“Memoirscape: a cozy interactive experience,” narrative/production consultant and ephemera developer (Direction: Kathleen Morrissey, Hannah Belan, and Melissa Kagen), WPI Interactive Media and Game Development program, May 2024
► Remote/virtual playthrough with The Cryptid Factor podcast (available through TCF’s Patreon), May 17, 2024
► Demo given at the Foundations of Digital Games 2024 conference, May 21-23, 2024
► Boston Post Mortem panel discussion “Designing a Cozy Escape Room: The Memoirscape Project at WPI“, May 29, 2024
► Article by Eurogamer: “Open Door Policy: Can an escape room be queer?“, July 3, 2024
► Article and video by WPI: “Escaping Into a Cozy World of Mystery“, September 13, 2024
► IndieCade Festival 2024 nominated game, October 17, 2024
► …see Katherine’s blog for behind-the-scenes talk
► …see reviews
2023
“Building the Spear: A ‘Blow the Man Down’ Text Adventure,” (coauthored with Dr. Naomi Jacobs and Shivhan Szabo), Fan Studies Network North America 2023, October 2023
► Created as a multimedia poster to augment the conference presentation “Faking and Re-Making: The Use of Emotional Responses and Creative Resonances in Communal Multimedia Storytelling”
► …see reviews
“3. An Evening Party,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Design program, 2023
“Interlude: Avant La Soirée,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Design program, 2023
“2. Le Voyage de Noces,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Design program, 2023
“1. The Language of Flowers,” The Puzzling History of His Majesty’s Botanical Society, WPI Interactive Media and Game Design program, 2023
2021
“DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS,” Apex Magazine, May 2021
► Listed on June 2021’s “Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry” by Tor Nightfire
► Reprinted in the limited edition Apex Magazine 2021 anthology
► …see reviews
2020
“Sing in Me, Muse,” Lightspeed Magazine, August 2020
► Audio reading available on site to listen or download
► …see reviews
“They’re Made Out of Corn,” Daily Science Fiction, June 2020
2016
“Customer Service,” The Operator Series: 4, under the name Kitty Austen, April 2016
“Breaking the Rules,” The Operator Series: 3, under the name Kitty Austen, January 2016
2015
“Repeat Customer,” The Operator Series: 2, under the name Kitty Austen, May 2015
“First Time Caller,” The Operator Series: 1, under the name Kitty Austen, May 2015
2014
“The Inside and the Outside,” Nightmare Magazine, “Women Destroy Horror!” Special Edition, October 2014
“The Lies We Tell Our Children,” Lightspeed Magazine, “Women Destroy Science Fiction!” Special Edition, June 2014
► Part of anthology that went on to:
* be named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014
* win the 2015 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
► Audio reading available
Blood and Salt (coauthored with Anna Genoese), Book 2 of the Door-world (2014)
“The Children’s Land,” Wisdom Crieth Without, January 2014
“Your Hand in Mine, We’ll Be All Right,” Flash Fiction Online, January 2014
► Reprinted in the Flash Fiction Online 2014 Anthology
► Video reading by Katherine Crighton, originally hosted by Flash Fiction Online for their 10-year anniversary (YouTube)
2013
“Like No One Is Watching,” Passion Beyond Words, Volume 2, December 2013
“Play Date,” Ignite (Light Your Fire Series, Vol. 1), Brickstone Publishing, December 2013
“Room for Two,” Passion Beyond Words, Vol. 1, August 2013
2009
Salt and Silver, Book 1 of the Door-world, coauthored with Anna Genoese under the name Anna Katherine (Tor Books, 2009)
► Publishers Weekly Starred Review
► …see reviews
2007
“All Kinds of Reasons,” Strange Horizons, under the name Katherine Maclaine, September 2007
Blog Freebies
“It Was [Not] Like This,” May 2024
“The Invasion,” April 2015
“The Words Are the Breath,” March 2015
“Fifty Silver Bells and Nine,” February 2015
“Honey, I’m the Best Time You’ll Never Have,” February 2015
“Après nous le déluge,” January 2015
“like fine print, so hard to read,” 2012 (set in Door-world, coauthored with Anna Genoese under the name Anna Katherine)
“Iwa,” 2009 (set in Door-world, coauthored with Anna Genoese under the name Anna Katherine)
Katherine Crighton 