P. H. Low

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THESE DEATHLESS SHORES • poetry ed @Anathema • short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph

Friday, July 10, 2026 12:00 EDT Books that Fear the Reader, Salon A-B Kit Sedia, Lark Morgan Lu (moderator), P. Djèlí Clark, P. H. Low, Robert V.S. Redick, W.B.J. Williams 18:00 EDT Comfort Reads: Not Always Cozy, Salon E, A. T. Greenblatt P. H. Low, Rachel Gutin, Sacha Lamb, Sam Wilket (moderator) Saturday, July 11, 2026 11:00 EDT Beyond Coming of Age: Cultural Narratives Around Aging and Surviving Ellen Kushner, Meredith Schwartz, P. H. Low (moderator), Rebecca Fraimow, Susan Stinson 12:00 EDT Group Reading: Ayala, Granades, Huang, Low, Veohongs Envision - Enliven
Beyond Coming of Age: Cultural Narratives Around Aging and Surviving In Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up, P.H. Low talks about the harms resulting from the sharp cultural divide between "child" and "grown-up," especially for marginalized kids: "You age straight out of shame into villainy, and the gates of the story clang shut behind you, and you know in your bones you’ll never be allowed back in." What stories allow their adult characters the kind of play and freedom traditionally reserved to children? What stories celebrate their adult characters for growing into middle age?
Strange Horizons co-ordinating editor and author of The Wall and The Horizon Gautam Bhatia spoke about what I’d call a related issue — which I slotted in “nuance” — specifically, orientalism: “Literary agents and editors based in the U.S. and the U.K. have certain assumptions of what Indian sf/fantasy should look like, and these assumptions flow from what they believe a U.S. and U.K.-driven market wants — which is essentially an orientalised and Bollywood-ised vision of India that flattens most of its complexity, and forces writers to write narrow, ‘identifiably Indian’ themes. For example, which is the last space opera authored by an Indian writer to get published in the West? The last hard sf novel in the tradition of Banks or Tchaikovsky? These don’t exist.”
[chapter marker—a silhouette of a fairy] The Island tracked everything that washed ashore. An invisible barrier surrounded it, a shimmering wall a hundred kilometers in every direction. Canoes sank in crossing; navigators lost sight of the stars. Later, trawlers and airplanes split themselves against nothing, and the probes they sent into the water returned out of sync or cracked precisely down the middle. Only the birds arrived unscathed. Only the foxes, floating in on driftwood rafts. So the Island embraced them with limestone arms and swaying trees – as it did the corpses, the broken gunports. Death is the way of things, after all, and who was it to question the sea?
trash icon on the new iOS, which looks narrower and has colored paper crumpled inside
Barnes & Noble 25% off preorders with code PREORDER25 until Sep 5 Cover mockup of THESE BODIES AIN'T BROKEN, a YA horror anthology featuring disabled characters & edited by Madeline Dyer
instagram post by sweetfellasofficial: yellow letters on art of clouds against blue sky. Text reads: Gay culture is being a teenager when you're 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live First comment (donnie_george_) "arrested development and Peter Pan syndrome hit hard in the community"
PH Low, seattle concurrent and worldcon events Aug 14 1–2 PM worlds and the spaces between: exploring the liminal in Science Fiction (moderator). With Yume Kitasei, Micaiah Johnson, Charlie Jane Anders, & Felicia Martinez Aug 14 6–7 PM writing without heroes and villains with Marie Brennan, Victor Manibo, Eric Scott de Bie, and James Patrick Kelly Aug 15 12-1 PM Autographs Aug 17 11-11:30AM Reading: These Deathless Shores
Mira, Rumi, and Zoey from K-Pop Demon Hunters wielding their swords in front of a Huntrix poster as demons close in
Photo of a page from THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson: A Question If something hurts, does that make it true?
Cropped photo of a page in SUNRISE ON THE REAPING that says QUARTER QUELL (TRIB)UTE ROSTER District 2 Boy Alpheus Girl Camilla Boy Janus Girl Nona Red line points from Alpheus to a Wikipedia screenshot that reads Alpheus Deity—Alpheus or Alpheios, was in Greek mythology a river and river god. Wikipedia Two red lines point from Janus to a photo of a Janus sculpture and screenshot of a Wikipedia entry that reads: "In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: Iānus [ˈi̯aːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces. The month of January is named for Janus"
derpy and sussie from k-pop demon hunters. derpy, a blue tiger, has his paws draped over the edge of the building; sussie, a magpie with three eyes, is perched on his head, looking unamused
hello friends! i have once again forgotten to post more than once every three months oops. anyway, the one-year anniversary of these deathless shores’ publication is coming up and i thought i’d do a retrospective™ of what i learned about book things this year. some things traditional publication gave me: 1. bit o’ cash, aka savings for the first time in my life 2. a lovely community of fellow debuts (& also peeps i met through pitch wars cont’d., s/o the final class!!) 3. a gorgeous 464+-page object with which to bonk haters on the head
the blue tiger from kpop demon hunters with tongue stuck out and a letter on top
Post from phoenixrisingisdead Fox News just accidentally made Zohran Mamdani sound like the most pro-family candidate in America. Free childcare. Baby baskets. $30 wages. Tell me where to sign. A screenshot of Fox News under the headline "Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Promises" / "NYC Dem Socialist Declares Mayoral Primary Victory"
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Title in orange letters placed on top of a fairytale-like moon, framed by an island, silhouetted flying figures, and a ghostly ship
scrivener screenshot that says THE END / 108,369 words
snippet of text on starry background from These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low: She lowered her arm slowly. The air had broken between them like a fever, something gone cold and missing and sad, and he wanted to weep, he wanted to buckle the leather strap that dangled loose at her elbow, he wanted to shake her by the shoulders until she turned back into the Jordan he knew.
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low, which features silhouetted characters flying around an island
7 with 8-across, magical substance that enables flight in "Peter Pan" 8 See 7-Across
The Atlantic's "Search for an author in LibGen" tool. For instance, Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Note that different spellings of the same name—“JK Rowling” versus “J. K. Rowling”—may produce different results. P. H. Low is entered in the search bar and there is one result—These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low
The US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Silhouetted figures circle a moon with the title in orange, above a small island crowned with a hook
spine of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES in between Ken Liu's SPEAKING BONES and two copies of Sarah J. Maas's A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
book covers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Bestiary by K-Ming Chang, and The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
You might think that something about the shape of those trunks, the sweep of their twisted crowns, reminds you of something, or someone, you've lost—something, or someone, you would break the world to have again. Something, you might think, happened here, long, long ago; something, you might think, is on the cusp of happening again.
cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES surrounded by text "ebook sale $2.99 today"
On top of a starry sky background, white text: "After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel" and "2025 Rhysling Award Nominee"; originally published in Haven Spec, March 2024
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low. Silhouetted figures flying around a luminescent moon, above an island with a ghostly ship
Screenshot of Scrivener showing "THE END" and 47,758 words
two lines of music
scoop of van leeuwens planet earth ice cream on a cone. the scoop is blue with green cake bits
set of three chonky white crochet chickens
photo of a shih tzu in bright autumn leaves beneath a maple tree
screenshot from dracula, a comedy of terrors. jonathan harker is waving at someone in the distance while dracula leans close to his ear
meme of girl with microphone looking surprised and then smiling
tumblr post reblogged by bread-lowph. a tweet from @ao3tagsbot reading "slow burn but also they are having sex the whole time"
Screenshot of the Hachette website showing the US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES and the ebook price of $4.99
The bottom part of an electronic toothbrush sitting on top of a charger that has a piece sticking out the top. The charging light of the toothbrush base is lit
a graphic of a cardboard box with the US and UK covers of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES on the facing side, held up by a stick. Under the box are the covers of various books: Mary Oliver's Devotions, The Amber Spyglass, The Song of Achilles, This is How You Lose the Time War, Vicious, Jade City, Graceling, Six of Crows, The Likeness, The Poppy War, A Darker Shade of Magic, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, These Deathless Bones, Wilder Girls, and She Who Became the Sun
3x3 gridded aesthetic with a letter and a wax seal, a gothic nave, two silhouetted faces, an androgynous person in a suit, a violin, a page with an inked skull, and a pair of people holding hands
A tweet from P. H. Low: It is 2035. Penguin Random Simon Harper Schuster Collins Hachette Macmillan (PRSHSCHM) is rebranded simply as the First House. Necromancy is discovered.
Chay (given name) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chay is a masculine name. It is either a diminutive of Charles,[1] ultimately derived from Germanic Karal, Karel, Karl, meaning “man”, or it may be Gaelic in origin, meaning “Fairy Tale” [citation needed]. This unusual name surfaced into the public in Britain in the mid-1970s, with the publicity for yachtsman Chay Blyth. It is generally pronounced Sh (as in Shane) ay (as in May) (/ʃeɪ/), and sometimes pronounced Ch (as in Charles) ay (as in May) (/tʃeɪ/).
Publishers Marketplace announcement for THESE BODIES AIN'T BROKEN by Madeline Dyer Imprint: Page Street Lambda Literary Award finalist and poet Madeline Dyer's THESE BODIES AIN'T BROKEN, an anthology showcasing disabled and chronically ill teenagers as they fight monsters, break gothic curses, and flourish in horror stories, including contributions from Dana Mele, Donyae Coles, S. E. Anderson, C. G. Moore, and Mo Netz, alongside new and emerging writers, to Tamara Grasty at Page Street, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Amy A. Collins at Talcott Notch Literary Services (world). acollins@talcottnotch.net
US cover of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES by P. H. Low, surrounded by the text "SECOND PRINTING!"
A box of ARCs for the US edition of THESE DEATHLESS SHORES