Forthcoming
"The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home" – Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) [2025]
"The Crumbs of My Body" – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite - Stars & Sabers [2025]
"Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" – Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) [2026]
2025
"Plucking Flowers from My Garden of Poison" – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 88
"The Doglady and the Rainstorm" – Bright Green Futures 2024
"We are Burnout" – Phano Magazine #2
"Wish You Were Here" – Of Shadows, Stars & Sabers - Stars & Sabers
2025 Reprints
"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" – Nebula Awards Showcase #59
Originally published in Samovar Magazine (2023)
"Five Questions for the Monthly Routine Check of FTL Drive Chief Operators" – Archive of the Odd #5 - Cogito Error
Originally published in OnSpec #120 (2022)
2024
"Fill my Heart With Galaxies" – Frivolous Comma - Children of Imagined Futures
"Maitake-by-the-Sea" – Tractor Beam
"Dermatillomania" – Skull & Laurel #1
"Wet Socks Drying in the Tide" – Solarpunk Magazine #17
"A Theory of Missing Affections" – Clarkesworld Magazine #216
"The Plasticity of Being" – Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com)
"Complete Log of Week 893819 - Dana's Story" – Apex Magazine #143
"Premium Resurrection Pack - $99" – Worlds of IF #177
Previously published in audio-only format at Simultaneous Times, Ep. 45
"The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds" – Diabolical Plots #109B
"The Wattled Goddess" – Andromeda Spaceways #93
2024 Reprints
"Anticipation of Hollowness" – Beyond & Within - Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures
Originally published in World Science Fiction #2: Reloading the Future (2021)
"Curselifter" – Tales to Terrify #638
Originally published in Dark Recesses Vol. 6 #16 (2022)
"The Walking Mirror of the Soul" – Escape Pod #932
Originally published in Apex Magazine #134 (2022)
"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" – Podcastle #852 (split in part one and two)
Originally published in Samovar Magazine Feb. 27th (2023)
"The Plasticity of Being" – Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition
Originally published in Reactor Magazine (2024)
2023
"A Lifeline of Silk" – Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience
"Rift" – Crepuscular Magazine #1
"Faster Than Light Can Carry You" – Simultaneous Times Vol. 3
"The Throat of San Dante" – Planet Scumm Magazine #15 - Arcana Major
"Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital" – Solarpunk Magazine #8
"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" – Samovar Magazine (Feb. 27th)
☆ Nebula Finalist for Best Novelette
☆ Ignyte Nominee for Outstanding Novelette
☆ Listed in the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List
☆ Argos Award Finalist (Brazil)
"The Dog Star Killer" – Life Beyond Us
2023 Reprints
"Look to the Sky, My Love" – 2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction
Originally published in Solarpunk Magazine #1 (2022)
"The Whittler" – Gwyllion Magazine #6
Originally published in Translunar Travelers Lounge #6 (2022)
"The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge" – Etherea Magazine #17
Originally published in Podcastle #737 (2022)
"When It's Time to Harvest" – Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Originally published in Imagine 2200 - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (2021)
2022
"Great-Granny Bethany's Memories of Space" – Future Science Fiction #17
"A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity" – Escape Pod #863
"The Walking Mirror of the Soul" – Apex Magazine #134
"You Blossoms of Their Seeds" – Wyldblood Magazine #10
"Days of Bedlam and Rebellion in Vilerma" – Mafaverna in partnership with the National Democratic Institute
"Five Questions for the Monthly Routine Check of FTL Drive Chief Operators" – OnSpec Magazine #120
"Curselifter" – Dark Recesses Press Vol. 6 #16
"The Small Shop of Me" – Daily Science Fiction
"The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge" – Podcastle #737
"The Norms From Up Here" – The Dread Machine #2.2
☆ Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
"The Whittler" – Translunar Travelers Lounge #6
"Look to the Sky, My Love" – Solarpunk Magazine #1
☆ Utopia Award Finalist for Best Utopian Short Story
2022 Reprints
"Callis Praedictionem" – Etherea Magazine #15
Originally published in Dark Matter Magazine #5 (2021)
"Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives" – Apex Magazine - Year 2021 Anthology
Originally published in Apex Magazine #128 (2021)
"時間旅行者の宅配便" / "The Time Traveler's Delivery" (reprint and translation to Japanese) – Rikka Zine #1
Originally published in The Simultaneous Times Vol 2.5 (2021)
"Anticipation of Hollowness" – Escape Pod #834
Originally published in World Science Fiction #2 - Reload the Future
2021
"Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives" – Apex Magazine #128
"Premium Resurrection Pack - $99" – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 45 (Audio)
"When It's Time to Harvest" – Imagine 2200 - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
"Callis Praedictionem" – Dark Matter Magazine #5
"Anticipation of Hollowness" – World Science Fiction #2 - Reloading the Future
"The Time Traveler's Delivery" – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 38 (Audio)
2021 Reprints
"Even Though You're No More" – Three Crows Year Two: Anthology of Weird Science Fiction and Fantasy
Originally published in Three Crows Magazine #8
"The Time Traveler's Delivery" – The Simultaneous Times Vol. 2.5
Originally published in Simultaneous Times, Ep. 38 (Audio)
2020
"Even Though You're No More" – Three Crows Magazine #8
"Different Kinds of Defiance" – Short Story Collection, Android Press, 2024
Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital
Originally published at Solarpunk Magazine #8
A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity
Originally published at Escape Pod #863
Soil of Our Homes, Storm of Our Lives
Originally published at Apex Magazine #128
Different Kinds of Defiance
Anticipation of Hollowness
Originally published at World Science Fiction #2 - Reload the Future
When It's Time to Harvest
Originally published at Imagine 2200
Even Though You're No More
Originally published at Three Crows Magazine #8
To Remember the Poison
Look to the Sky, My Love
Originally published at Solarpunk Magazine #1
The River that Passed Through My Life
Originally published in Portuguese by Editora Dame Blanche
2024
"Ancient Aliens, Clones, and Growing Up as a SFF Reader in Brazil" - Apex Magazine #146
"Fiction writers and the climate emergency" - Writing the Occult: Connection to Land
"Writing and Publishing Beyond the English-Speaking World"- 59th Nebula Conference
"Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author Renan Bernardo" - Bright Green Futures Ep. 6
"Interview with Renan Bernardo by Jean-Paul Garnier" - Vector Magazine
2023
"Reading - The Small Shop of Me" - Flash Science Fiction Night by Space Cowboys
"Hopepunk - Zoom Talk with Renan Bernardo, Brianna Castagnozzi, Susan Kaye Quinn, and T. K. Rex" – Watertown Free Public Library
"Conversation about Environmental Fiction and Cli-Fi with Cécile Cristofari, Susan Kaye Quinn, and Deborah L. Davitt" – Shining Moon Podcast #22
"Micro interview" – Crepuscular Magazine
2022
"The Exophonic Writer's Journey" – SFWA Blog
"The Building Materials of Stories with Renan Bernardo" – Miss Navigator (Simone Heller website)
"Writing Utopian Science Fiction in a Dystopia" – Simultaneous Times Newsletter
"Interview with author Renan Bernardo, by Marissa van Uden" – Apex Magazine #134
"CliFi & Art in the Global South" – CliFi Con 2022
"Reading - Five Questions for the Monthly Routine Check of FTL Drive Chief Operators" - Flash Science Fiction Night by Space Cowboys
"Reading - Different Kinds of Fury & The Small Shop of Me" - Ephemera 33: Refuge
2021
"Interview with author Renan Bernardo, by Marissa van Uden" – Apex Magazine #128
"Reading - Different Kinds of Fury" - Flash Science Fiction Night by Space Cowboys
"Posthumous Humanity: What's Beyond the Human Species?" - Futurecon 2021
2020
"Future South America: The Melting Pot of Creativity in Brazil" - Futurecon 2020
2024
"Um Vínculo Inquebrável" – Além do Véu da Verdade: Uma Antologia Space Opera
"Breve Biografia de uma Cadeira Lúcida" – Fantástico Guia
Originally published in Samovar Magazine (2023)
"Uma Pequena Loja de Mim" – Fantástico Guia
Originally published in Daily Science Fiction (2022)
2023
"Um Poema de Anas" – Revista Humanos #2
"Presságio de Solidão" – Editora Plutão
Originally published in World Science Fiction #2 - Reload the Future (2021)
Also published in English, Italian, and Italian Comics
"Breve Biografia de uma Cadeira Lúcida" – Samovar Magazine
Also published in English
2022
"Dias de Balbúrdia e Rebelião em Vilerma" – Mafaverna
Also published in English
"Lamentos de uma Vida Servil" – Faísca, Sixth Season
"時間旅行者の宅配便" / "The Time Traveler's Delivery" – Rikka Zine #1 [reprint and translation to Japanese]
Originally published in Simultaneous Times Vol 2.5 (2021)
"Boden unserer Heimat, Sturm unseres Lebens" – Future Fiction Magazine #2 [German]
Originally published in Apex Magazine #128 (2021)
2021
"Cinco Perguntas para a Auditoria de Operadores de Unidades Supraluminares" – Faísca, Fourth Season
Also published in English
"O Rio que Passou em Minha Vida" – Editora Dame Blanche
Also published in English
"O Unboxing de Pandora" – Faísca, Third Season
2020
"É ela" – De Pontapés, Itaú Cultural
☆ 2020 Arte em Respiro Winner
"Previsione di Vuoto" – Solarpunk - Come Ho Imparato Ad Amare Il Futuro, Future Fiction, edited by Fabio Fernandes and Francesco Verso, translated by Stefano Ternavasio, 2020 [Italian]
2019
"A Norma Aqui de Cima" – A Taverna #1
☆ 2020 Odisseia Award Finalist
☆ 2020 Argos Award Finalist
2017
"QR" – Vilões, Editora Wish
2016
"Defeito na Cama Gelada" – Fogo de Prometeu, Editora Andross
☆ Nominated for the 2017 Strix Award
"Sol em um Mundo de Trolls" – Amazon KDP, Self-Published
"A Sala do Tempo" – Editora Madrepérola