a list of my published work:
novels and novellas; short stories; poems; essays and reviews
novels and novellas
Amgalant One: Against Walls (self-published, 2012, 2018)
Amgalant Two: Imaginary Kings (self-published, 2012, 2018)
also issued in a four-set (payhip.com/Amgalant)
#1 Of Battles Past
#2 When I am King
#3 Me and Atrocity
#4 The Sheep from the Goats
Waste Flowers: A Tale of Goatskin (Brackenbury Books 2025)
What Rough Beast? A Tale of Goatskin (Brackenbury Books, June 15 2026)
short stories
‘The Last Play’ (No Holds Bard: Modern LGBTQ+ fiction inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, Manifold Press, 2018; reprint self-published)
‘Ill Spirits’ (The Knot Wound Round Your Finger: An Anthology on Memory, History & Inheritance, ed. Devon Field, Bell Press, 2021 the-knot-wound-round-your-finger; reprint self-published)
‘Fellowship in Hell’ (ergot. https://www.ergot.press/authors/Bryn_Hammond/Fellowship_in_Hell)
‘Women who lie Alone in Tombs’ (self-published)
‘A Visit from the Scythians’ (self-published)
‘Love and Conquest at the Gates of Samarkand’ (blog)
‘Spirit Writing’ (self-published)
‘A Truce with Evil’ (Queer Weird West Tales, LIBRAtiger, 2022; reprint self-published)
‘The Grief-Note of Vultures’ (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #0, 2022)
‘Goat Against the City God’ (A Book of Blades II, Rogues in the House Presents, 2023)
‘Sister Chaos’ (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1, 2023)
‘A Day in Irighaya, or The Invention of Love’ (Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes, Brackenbury Books, 2025)
‘The Change’ (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5)
‘Horse and Boar’ (campaign exclusive for Swords Against! magazine, 2026)
‘Half-Wild She Chased the Song’ (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #8, expected Nov 2026)
poems
‘Scapegoat’ (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 63 Scapegoat by Bryn Hammond)
‘And He Swiped Off His Wife’s Head’ (Old Moon Quarterly issue 10: Dark Arthuriana, expected 2026)
‘Sword & Sorcery I: It belongs to you’ (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5)
‘A Monster to Fight Monsters’ (Green Splotches; blog)
‘My Subject is Death, or am I His?’ (self-published)
Four Mongol Poems: ‘The Naiman Court Incurs Malfortune’, ‘Doromji’, ‘Jamuqa Leaves the Sun’, ‘Grave-Tree and Tuq’ (campaign exclusive, Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery)
essays and reviews
Voices from the Twelfth-Century Steppe (Rounded Globe 2016; second edition self-published)
review: “Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire” by Anne F Broadbridge
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/women-and-the-making-of-the-mongol-empire-by-anne-f-broadbridge/
review: “Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art” by Roxann Prazniak
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/sudden-appearances-the-mongol-turn-in-commerce-belief-and-art-by-roxann-prazniak/
review: “Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants and Intellectuals”
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/along-the-silk-roads-in-mongol-eurasia-generals-merchants-and-intellectuals/
review: “The Mongol World”, edited by Timothy May and Michael Hope
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-mongol-world-edited-by-timothy-may-and-michael-hope/
review: “The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China” by Shao-Yun Yang
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-way-of-the-barbarians-redrawing-ethnic-boundaries-in-tang-and-song-china-by-shao-yun-yang/
review: “Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East” by Aubrey Menard
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/young-mongols-forging-democracy-in-the-wild-wild-east-by-aubrey-menard/
review: “The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World” by Marie Favereau
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-horde-how-the-mongols-changed-the-world-by-marie-favereau/
review: “Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today” by Baasanjav Terbish
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/sex-in-the-land-of-genghis-khan-by-baasanjav-terbish/
All the Horses of Iceland: An Interview with Sarah Tolmie by Bryn Hammond
https://suebursztynski.blogspot.com/2022/04/an-interview-with-sarah-tolmie-by-bryn.html
Chevalier Mal Fet—Thevin Galois edition: A review of ‘The City of Tears’ by Molly Tanzer
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/chevalier-mal-fet-thevin-galois-edition-a-review-of-the-city-of-tears-by-molly-tanzer-beneath-ceaseless-skies-429/
Sonja, Sex, and the Armour Bra. A few thoughts on Gail Simone’s Red Sonja: Consumed
https://swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/sonja-sex-and-the-armour-bra/
profile: Jessica Amanda Salmonson: Amazon (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3)
profile: Raw: Janrae Frank and Chimquar the Lionhawk (New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6)