Maria Haskins – Page 2 – Writer & Translator

About me

I’m a Swedish-Canadian writer and translator. My speculative fiction has been published in Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Mythic Delirium, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, Bracken, and elsewhere. I was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there, but moved to Canada in the early 1990s.…Continue reading “About me”

Read my latest speculative short fiction roundup at B&N’s SciFi & Fantasy Blog

My speculative short fiction roundup for June is now available at Barnes & Noble's SciFi & Fantasy Blog! Ten fabulous stories for your reading enjoyment. Read it here. The artwork…

Listen to my new flash story “Sunlit Surface, Depths Below” on R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

1 Jul 2018July 1, 2018

There's a brand new episode of the Word Count Podcast, and it includes my new flash fiction story "Sunlit Surface, Depths Below". Our story prompt this time was this evocative…

Listen to my story “Seven Kinds of Baked Goods” at The Overcast!

My fantasy story "Seven Kinds of Baked Goods" is now available on the podcast The Overcast, narrated by the fabulous J.S. Arquin. This story first appeared in the anthology Just…

My latest book roundup of short story collections & anthologies is now at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog!

13 Jun 2018June 19, 2018

My latest book roundup for B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog is now up! This roundup includes some wonderful short story collections and anthologies that make great reading for Pride Month,…

Read my new flash story “The Prince and the Dragon” from R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

8 Jun 2018June 5, 2018

You can listen to me read this story on R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast. The story prompt was a dramatic photo of an erupting volcano. Listen to the podcast. I…

Short Fiction Roundups…

10 (extra) spectacular speculative stories I read in May

May was full of stories. Great stories, wonderful stories, frightening stories, EXCELLENT stories. So. many. stories. I share ten of them here, and there's another ten for your reading pleasure…

My short fiction roundup for May 2018 is now at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog!

My latest speculative fiction short story roundup is now up at B&N's SciFi & Fantasy Blog! It features 10 great stories I read in May. Read it. The artwork for…

Monthly Recap…

Writerly recap April / May 2018

31 May 2018August 15, 2018

April and May were great writerly months for me: three of my stories saw the light of day in three wonderful zines. I also got a whole lot of writing…

Listen to my new story “The Prince and the Dragon” on R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast!

There's a brand new episode of the Word Count Podcast available for your listening pleasure! My new story for this podcast is called "The Prince and the Dragon", and the…

Story notes for “The Root Cellar”

11 May 2018May 11, 2018

First of all, you might want read The Root Cellar in #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Content warning for child abuse, dark magic, body parts, and death (of sorts).) It's…

Now available to read online – my story “The Root Cellar” in BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES

10 May 2018May 10, 2018

My story "The Root Cellar" is now available to read online for free in issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is a dream venue for me to be…

9 extra stellar short stories I read in April

6 May 2018May 6, 2018

Here are nine of the many great short stories I read in April. You can add them to the ten great stories I also read in April, featured at B&N…

My short fiction roundup for April 2018 is now at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog!

2 May 2018May 2, 2018

My latest SFF short fiction roundup is now up at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog, featuring ten fantastic stories I read in April. Read it. As always, it's so much…

New story in BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES – “The Root Cellar”

2 May 2018May 2, 2018

Today is turning out to be an awesomely exciting day. My story "The Root Cellar" is available right now in issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It's only available to…

Read my new flash story “Una’s Hand” – written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

30 Apr 2018May 2, 2018

The story prompt for the latest Word Count Podcast was a photo of a wolf, and Stephen Graham Jones's novel "Mongrels" (if you haven't read that book yet, you should…

New at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog – I recommend 10 SFF anthologies!

26 Apr 2018April 27, 2018

Head over to Barnes & Noble's SciFi & Fantasy Blog right now, and check out my latest: 10 anthologies with some spectacularly wonderful stories - fantasy, horror, scifi, and the…

Listen to my new flash-story “Una’s Hand” on R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

23 Apr 2018April 27, 2018

I have a brand new story called "Una's Hand" in episode #75 of The Word Count Podcast, created and hosted by the ever-wonderful R.B. Wood. The story prompt this time…

Story notes for “The Guitar Hero” and “Mothers, Watch Over Me”

10 Apr 2018April 10, 2018

This month, two of my stories have been released into the wild. Guitars and dogs, people. That's what it's all about. "The Guitar Hero" in Kaleidotrope is one of the…

10 extra excellent stories I read in March

7 Apr 2018April 9, 2018

March was rich in excellent short fiction. I picked 10 stories for my monthly roundup at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog (read it), and I have ten extra excellent picks…

My short fiction roundup for March 2018 is now at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog!

3 Apr 2018April 7, 2018

My latest monthly roundup of speculative fiction short stories is now live at B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog! As usual, the trouble is not to find a whole lot of…