speculative writings,
both scientific and fantastic
Short Fiction
Jenna Hanchey, “Even in Worlds,” Cast of Wonders. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “Your Image in the World and the World in Your Image,” Gavagai. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems,” Strange Horizons. March 16, 2026.
Jenna Hanchey, “Accidental Curses,” Simultaneous Times. February 15, 2026.
Jenna Hanchey, “Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol. 5, eds Jason P. Burnham, C.M. Fields, and Sonia Sulaiman (If There’s Anyone Left, 2025), 34-36.
Jenna Hanchey and Marco Dehnert, “Ten Reasons You Should Get Lasik Before the Apocalypse,” Small Wonders. December 2, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “And You And I,” The Sunday Morning Transport. December 1, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Locked Box, Bound with Chains, Buried Six Feet Deep,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol 4, eds Jason P. Burnham, C.M. Fields, and Wen Wen Yang (If There’s Anyone Left, 2024), 66-70.
Jenna Hanchey, “When You See a Dragon, You Run,” Simultaneous Times. August 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Almost-Activation of Ruby Valentine’s Catastrophe Machine,” Simultaneous Times. January 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Devil’s Hand,” Paradise ICON Anthology 2023, ed. Ransom Noble (Paradise ICON, 2023), 3-12.
Jenna Hanchey, “Chapter 8: October 2121 – Of Second Chances and the Risks They Bear,” Nova Aera: A Collaborative Novel. Syllble Books. August 21, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Shades of Journeys, Past and to Come,” Stupefying Stories. July 13, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Til Death Do Us Part,” Martian Magazine. June 16, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Our World Between Their Lines,” Orion’s Belt and Utopia SF. March 17, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love Planted in the Night Sky,” Amazing Stories. March 13, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing the Phoenix to Flame,” Little Blue Marble. February 24, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Onyx & Snow,” Corvid Queen. February 20, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “We Found Ourselves Beyond the Vanishing Wave,” Daily Science Fiction. November 3, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Come Away from the Fire, My Love,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol 3, eds. Jason P Burnham and C.M. Fields. (If There’s Anyone Left, 2022), 97-102.
Jenna Hanchey, “Weathering, the Storms of Time,” The Dire Dark, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 25-30.
Jenna Hanchey, “Every Day the Music Died,” Stupefying Stories. October 24, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love’s Labors, Lost,” Stupefying Stories. October 15, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Weight of Expectation,” Martian Magazine. September 2, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Break, O Time,” Medusa Tales. August 13, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “What Everyone Assumes About Dragons,” Wyrms, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 19.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Afterthought,” Alternative Holidays, eds. Alicia Hilton and Bob Brown (B Cubed Press, 2022), 207-208.
Jenna Hanchey, “Collapsing Worlds Hail the Broadest Futures,” Martian Magazine. June 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Answers Beyond Garden and Sky,” Tree and Stone. June 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve For You Today?” Nature. April 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Odin Chronicles Episode 16: Dreams of Another World,” Page & Spine. April 16, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Up the River, Over Mountains, Across the Sea,” Wyngraf. April 14, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “From Soulless to Soulful,” Stupefying Stories. April 5, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Sounds of Space and Silence,” Drabbledark II, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 69.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Ocean’s Choice,” Maelstroms: Tales of Dark Fantasy on the High Seas, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 23-27.
Jenna Hanchey, “Were We to Waver, My Love,” Martian Magazine. March 21, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing Back the Stars,” Page & Spine. March 18, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Odin Chronicles Episode 8: A Friend for the Machinist,” Page & Spine. March 18, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Old Friends, Across Galaxies and the Space Between,” Stupefying Stories, December 31, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “Like Any Other,” Apex Patreon, September 20, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Daily Science Fiction, August 20, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Dream Trainers,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, September 23, 2021. (Also listed as Journal Essay)
Jenna Hanchey, “Boughs of Holly,” Daily Science Fiction, December 24, 2020.
Poetry
Jenna Hanchey, “Our Love is a Fiction Demanding to be Future,” Strange Horizons. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “AITA for Killing All the Humans?” Asimov’s Science Fiction March/April (2026), 57.
Jenna Hanchey, “Of Plagues and Possibility,” Worlds of IF #179 2, no. 2 (2025): 170.
Jenna Hanchey, “Would the Sea Still Sing to Me,” New Myths 19, no. 71 (2025).
Jenna Hanchey, “After,” Worlds of Possibility. April 2025 Double Issue, Version 2. (Also listed as Artwork)
Jenna Hanchey, “so much energy,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 2, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Each Bite a Cleansing,” StarLine 48, no. 1 (2025): 20.
Jenna Hanchey, “Ars Poetica,” Haven Speculative. November 20, 2024. Jenna Hanchey, “Time Cannot Contain Me,” StarLine 47, no. 3 (2024): 5.
Theatrical Scripts
Pablo Ramírez and Jenna Hanchey, “Antigrief Hotline,” Electronic Brain, no. 2 (2026): 2-16.
Reprinted Fiction
Jenna Hanchey, “Come Away from the Fire, My Love,” The Cosmic Background. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “After,” Worlds of Possibility – Poetry, ed. Julia Rios (Worlds of Possibility, 2025), 99-101.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Locked Box, Bound with Chains, Buried Six Feet Deep,” Simultaneous Times. April 15, 2025.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love Planted in the Night Sky,” Amazing Stories Best of 2023, ed. Lloyd Penney (Experimenter Publishing Company, 2024), 320-322.
Jenna Hanchey, “It’s Time to Write Your Lesson Plan—Choose Your Own Future: Fascism Series #8,” Radon Journal. May 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve for You Today?,” Simultaneous Times. September 25, 2023. Finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Audio Fiction.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello This is Automatic Antigrief,” Radon Journal. September 15, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Answers Beyond Garden and Sky,” Stupefying Stories. August 29, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Our World Between Their Lines,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 2, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 1, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Ocean’s Choice,” Stupefying Stories. October 8, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Up the River, Over Mountains, Across the Sea,” in The Little Cozy Book: The Best of Flash Fiction from Wyngraf, ed. Nathaniel Webb (Young Needles Press, 2023), 35-39.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing Back the Stars,” Stupefying Stories. July 31, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Friend for the Machinist,” in The Odin Chronicles, eds. Pete Wood and Jonathan Sherwood (Rampant Loon Press, 2022), 45-50
Jenna Hanchey, “Dreams of Another World,” in The Odin Chronicles, eds. Pete Wood and Jonathan Sherwood (Rampant Loon Press, 2022), 90-95.
Jenna Hanchey, “Boughs of Holly,” in Holiday Leftovers, eds. Alicia Hilton and Bob Brown (B Cubed Press, 2022), 81-82.
Jenna Hanchey, “Dreams of Another World,” Stupefying Stories. August 12, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Friend for the Machinist,” Stupefying Stories. July 25, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Bullet Points. June 1, 2022. Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Shacklebound Books Newsletter. May 1, 2022.
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