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  • May 31, 2025. Victoria Silverwolf reviews Lightspeed issue 180, including P.A. Cornell's "Through the Machine," for Tangent. HERE
  • May 23, 2025. Infrequent SF Microreviews (on Bluesky) reviews P.A. Cornell's "Through the Machine." 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
  • May 12, 2025. R Graeme Cameron reviews Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 2 for Amazing Stories. HERE
  • April 25, 2025. Myna Chang includes P.A. Cornell's "Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation," in her April flash fiction roundup. HERE
  • March 14, 2025. Stars and Sabers Publishing announces new book deal with P.A. Cornell for her short fiction collection, The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories, coming August 2026. HERE​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Earlier in 2025
  • March 5, 2025. Dawn Vogel review's P.A. Cornell's novella, Lost Cargo. HERE
  • February 3, 2025. Adria Bailton includes "Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel" in her monthly short fiction round up. HERE
  • January 31, 2025. "Bright Horizons" and "The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" are both long-listed for the 2024 BSFA Awards.
  • January 29, 2025. Ariel Marken Jack reviews 2022's If There's Anyone Left: Volume 2 anthology, including P.A. Cornell's, "Nine Lives." Find it in Fusion Fragment, Issue 23. HERE
  • 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 20, 2024. K.C. Mead-Brewer recommends some recent fiction, including P.A. Cornell's, "The Life You've Given Me, Rusty." 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
  • September 2, 2024. Stars and Sabers Publishing announces new book deal with P.A. Cornell for her novelette, "Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl," coming February 2026. 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
  • June 14, 2024. File 770 covers the announcement of the table of contents for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 (Edited by Hugh Howey), which includes P.A. Cornell's, "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont." 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
  • February 26, 2024. Great review of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1, in Amazing Stories magazine. HERE
  • February 15, 2024. Ottawa Review of Books gives a glowing review to Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1. HERE​
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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


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