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Recent​
  • January 15, 2026. Reactor includes Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl on their list of "Can't Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for January and February 2006." HERE
  • January 15, 2026. Myna Change reviews Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl and interviews P.A. Cornell. HERE
  • January 12, 2026. Íde Hennessy includes P.A. Cornell's, "Falling Forever" on their 2025 Recommended Short Stories list. HERE
  • January 5, 2026. Helen Whistberry gives Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl a glowing review. HERE
  • January 5, 2026. Adria Bailton reaches into P.A. Cornell's backlist to recommend her story, "Vinyl Wisdom," first published in 2019's A Punk Rock Future anthology, and reprinted in 2022 by Haven Spec. HERE​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
2025
  • December 16, 2025. Reviewer Jamedi of JamReads includes Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl on his list of 2026 releases he's looking forward to reading. HERE
  • November 4, 2025. P.A. Cornell's "Bright Horizons" is quoted in an article titled "Resisting the AI push into Education" in The Halifax Examiner. HERE
  • August 12, 2025. Danielle Ranucci reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024. HERE
  • August 1, 2025. A.P. Howell includes P.A. Cornell's, "Through the Machine" on her Things I Enjoyed in 2025 list. HERE​
  • May 22, 2025. Gizmodo features "Through the Machine" by P.A. Cornell as this month's selection from the pages of Lightspeed Magazine. HERE
  • January 31, 2025. "Bright Horizons" and "The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" are both long-listed for the 2024 BSFA Awards.
  • January 15, 2025. Alex Brown reviews Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 2. HERE
  • January 6, 2025. A.P. Howell includes P.A. Cornell's "Bright Horizons" on her "Things I Enjoyed in 2024" list. HERE

2024
  • December 12, 2024. Gary K. Wolfe reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 for Locus Magazine, highlighting P.A. Cornell's, "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont."  HERE
  • November 3, 2024. Zachary Houle reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, and mentions P.A. Cornell's, "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont," as one of the anthology's standouts. HERE
  • September 21, 2024. P.A. Cornell's, "Side Effects May Vary," wins the 2024 Unicorn Mech Suit Short Story Contest. HERE
  • August 8, 2024. Locus Magazine announces the finalists for the 2024 World Fantasy Award, including "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" by P.A. Cornell for Best Short Fiction, and Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1 (which includes P.A. Cornell's "Into the Frozen Wilds" and lists her novella Lost Cargo as one of the best of 2022) for Best Anthology. HERE​
  • April 26, 2024. CSFFA announces the finalists for the 2024 Aurora Award and P.A. Cornell's "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" is a finalist for Best Short Story! Additionally, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1, which includes Cornell's, "Into the Frozen Wilds," and lists her novella Lost Cargo as one of the best of 2022, is also a finalist in the Best Related Work category. HERE
  • March 14, 2024. SFWA announces the finalists for the 2024 Nebula Awards and P.A. Cornell's "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" is among them! YouTube Text
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​2023​
  • ​November 28, 2023. "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" is included in the short fiction spotlight for Narrated podcast, episode 232. HERE
  • November 9, 2023. PseudoPod highlights their picks for the best horror anthologies of the year, including Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, from which they selected P.A. Cornell's, "The Body Remembers," to feature on their website and podcast. HERE
  • November 5, 2023. A.C. Wise reviews Augur, Issue 6.1, including P.A. Cornell's "The Collective Memories of Dogs and Robots." HERE
  • August 6, 2023. Maria Haskins reviews "A World Unto Myself" in her Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup for July. HERE
  • June 22, 2023. Arley Sorg reviews Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures for Lightspeed magazine, including P.A. Cornell's, "The Body Remembers." HERE
  • March 6, 2023. P.A. Cornell's "Things Most Meaningful" makes Reactor's Must Read Short Speculative Fiction list for February. Reviews by Alex Brown. HERE

2022
  • December 20, 2022. P.A. Cornell wins the 2022 Short Works Prize Hamilton Public Library Freda Waldon Award for Fiction for her story, "Splits," (originally published in Cossmass Infinities, Issue 6). HERE
  • January 11, 2022. Rich Horton reviews "Splits" for Locus magazine. HERE

2021​
  • June 22, 2021. Karen Burnham reviews Departure Mirror #2, including "Tabula Rasa" by P.A. Cornell, for Locus magazine. HERE