Publications

Books

The Lesson, a novel  (June 17, 2019) Blackstone Publishing

No Gods No Monsters, a novel (September 7th 2021) Blackstone Publishing

Many Worlds, or the Simulacra, anthology edited by Cadwell Turnbull and Josh Eure (June 2023) Radix Media

We Are the Crisis, a novel (November 7th 2023) Blackstone Publishing

Desperate, NC, linked-anthology edited by Jendayi Brooks Flemister, Alexander Lopez, Misha Lazzara, and Cadwell Turnbull (March 2025) published by N.C. State Creative Writing Program and distributed by UNC Press

Transmentation | Transience, novel written as 1/5th of Darkly Lem (March 18th 2025) Blackstone Publishing

A Ruin Great and Free, a novel (September 16th 2025) Blackstone Publishing

Transmentation | Transgression, novel written as 1/5th of Darkly Lem (forthcoming, March 18th 2026) Blackstone Publishing

All the Hidden Places, stories (forthcoming, September 1st 2026) Blackstone Publishing

 

Short Fiction

2025

• “Apeiron” Lightspeed Magazine
• “Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library” Lightspeed Magazine

2023

• “Wandering Devil” Out There Screaming
• “A Tech Mage Comes to Visit” Sunday Morning Transport
• “Narratology by Peter Young” Many Worlds

2022

• “Break the Skin If You Have To” (with Emma Osborne and Jess Essey) Nightmare Magazine
• “There, She Didn’t Need Air to Fill Her Lungs” Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms

2021

• “Notes on the Forum of the Simulacrum” Many Worlds
• “Killmonger Rising” Black Panther, Tales of Wakanda

2020

• “Shock of Birth” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, LeVar Burton Reads
• “Mediation” Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5
• The Letters Triptych The Dystopia Triptych

2019

• “All the Hidden Places” Nightmare Magazine
• “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season” The Verge

2018

• “Jump” Lightspeed Magazine, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 Edition, LeVar Burton Reads Podcast
• “They Built a Wall” Grassroots Economic Organizing
• “When the Rains Come Back” Asimov’s Science Fiction, We Will Remember Freedom Podcast

2017

• “Other Worlds and This One” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine 
• “A Third of the Stars of Heaven” Lightspeed Magazine
• “Loneliness is in Your Blood” Nightmare Magazine, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018

 

Essays

“Why We Need Media Cooperativism” Grassroots Economic Organizing

The H Word: “A Conspiracy of Monsters” Nightmare Magazine

“Cadwell Turnbull on the Implications of a Collectively Owned AI System” The Verge

“Dystopia Isn’t Sci-Fi—for Me, It’s the American Reality”  Wired