The Furry Writers’ Guild announced the winners of the 2014 Cóyotl Awards Recognizing Excellence in Anthropomorphic Literature on September 24 at Rainfurrest in Seattle.
Best Novel
- Off the Beaten Path by Rukis
Best Novella
- Huntress by Renee Carter Hall
Best Short Story
- Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
Best Anthology
- Abandoned Places edited by TarlHoch
[Thanks to Mark for the story. The Mark that doesn’t use his surname.]
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Congrats to Red Wombat!
Looking at the other winners reminds me of something I’ve noticed about fiction from the furry side of things: they always have really good cover art.
(I don’t actually have a surname. It’s a tragic tale, too long for this small comment box…)
As I understand it, it was an unfortunate accident in your youth, when you caught your name in a mechanical rice-picker.
Fortunately, an American genealogist, living nearby, was able to prevent further damage.
Mark, I assume that it is simply an indication that you are nearly, but not quite, as bad-ass as the Clint Eastwood character from a Fistful of Dollars.
And ‘anthropomorthic literature’ is literature shaped like people surely? As much as I enjoyed Jackalope Wives it isn’t shaped like a person – unlike e.g. http://www.litographs.com/collections/posters/products/nancydrew
Thank goodness. I have visions of his atomized name spraying out of the end of that rice-picker like the body parts in Fargo…
@Kurt
That’s actually a cover story concocted by the WSFS Mark Protection Committee. Standlee has a vivid imagination….
To me, he’s “Mark with XKCD kitteh avatar”. “Mark kitteh” for short.
Huge congrats to Red Wombat, well-deserved!
I was considering sending Mike a request to put up a post about the awards, but I see that Mark already beat me to the punch.
In related news, Fred Patten, reviewer, historian and all-around prolific guy, has posted a furry reading list, including his ten top furry classics: http://dogpatch.press/2015/09/25/the-well-read-furry/ . I was a little agog to see that one of them was an anthology I was in (and that Fred reviewed my own story rather positively).
@Mark
I don’t know about always, but the furry fandom is very visually oriented and has a ton of great artists, so their work gets featured prominently. (Rukis illustrates all her own work, I believe.) The furry publishers also publish large interior illustrations quite regularly as well.
I think my favorite cover may be for Ryan Campbell’s God of Clay, whose sequel just released this weekend at RainFurrest as well.
@Mike Glyer
It should be “Tarl Hoch” not “TarlHoch.”
Thanks, guys!
And anthropomorphic literature probably looks like this, and thus terrifying:
http://www.freeportpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hugging-words.jpg
Congratulations, RedWombat!
ETA: “Mark Kitteh”. I like that.
@Fugue
Interesting list. Still on the subject of covers, I spotted this one for Albert Of Adelaide in that list, and it’s got to be my favourite.
@Red Wombat
Yup, terrifying.
@Lurkertype/JJ
Mark Kitteh sounds a bit anthropomorphic to me…
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