Natalia Theodoridou Explained

Natalia Theodoridou is a Greek interactive fiction writer and scholar.^[1] He was the fiction editor at sub-Q, an interactive fiction magazine. The magazine entered indefinite hiatus starting August of 2020.^[2] He has a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies and graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop.^[3]

Theodoridou's "The Birding: A Fairy Tale", published in Strange Horizons, was the winner of the 2018 World Fantasy Award for short fiction works.^[4] It is about a plague that turns nearly everyone in the world into birds. The work was also adapted into podcast format.^[5]

As of 2024, as an interactive fiction writer they have twice been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar, 2008–10
• Greek Scientific Society Award, 2003
• MA Studentship (Drama & Theatre Department, Royal Holloway University of London), 2007–2008
• Ouseley Memorial Scholarship, 2011–13
• Scholarship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for undergraduate studies, 2002–2005
• SOAS Research Scholarship 2010–13, & Additional Award for Fieldwork, 2010

Bibliography

Interactive Fiction

The following works were nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

• Rent-A-Vice (2018)
• Vampire: The Masquerade (Choice of Games)- Sins of the Sires (2022)

Poetry

• "Blackmare" (2013)
• "Pretty Half-Breeds, for Free" (2014)
• "Ex Machina" (2014)
• "Philomela in Seven Movements" (2015)
• "An Inventory of Ghosts" (2015)

Short fiction

Select short stories that have been nominated for awards

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted / collected	Notes[6]
"The Nightingales in Plátres"	2017	Theodoridou, Natalia . November 2017 . The Nightingales in Plátres . . 133 . 21–33.		Nominated BSFA for Best Short Fiction 2017
"The Birding: A Fairy Tale"	2017	Theodoridou, Natalia . 18 December 2017 . . . 2022-04-09-->.		Winner, World Fantasy Award 2018
"The Names of Women"	2018	Theodoridou, Natalia . 11 October 2018 . The Names of Women . Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special .		Nominated BSFA for Best Short Fiction 2018
"Birnam Platoon"	2018	Theodoridou, Natalia . November–December 2018 . Birnam Platoon . . 278 . 62–73.		Nominated BSFA for Best Short Fiction 2018
"Georgie in the Sun"	2020	Theodoridou, Natalia . March–April 2020 . . . 2022-04-09-->. 33.		Placed 34th Locus for Best Short Story 2021
data-sort-value="shape of gifts"	"The Shape of Gifts"	2020	Theodoridou, Natalia . July–August 2020 . The Shape of Gifts . . 139 . 1&2 . 239–256.
data-sort-value="to set at twilight in a land of reeds"	"To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds"	2022	Theodoridou, Natalia . 2022 . To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds . . 2 . ? . –––.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Acharya . Devi . Author Interview: Natalia Theodoridou . sub-Q Magazine . 3 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150903235527/https://sub-q.com/author-interview-natalia-theodoridou/ . 3 September 2015 . dead.
2. Web site: Submissions . 2022-06-21 . sub-Q Magazine . https://web.archive.org/web/20220705061036/https://sub-q.com/about/submissions/ . 5 July 2022 . dead.
3. Web site: Home . Natalia Theodoridou . en.
4. Web site: Announcing the 2018 World Fantasy Award Winners . Tor.com . 4 November 2018.
5. Web site: Lay . Anaea . Podcast: The Birding: A Fairy Tale . Strange Horizons . en . 18 December 2017 . 7 November 2024.
6. Web site: Award Bibliography: Natalia Theodoridou . 2022-06-21 . www.isfdb.org.