As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE (@stelliform.press)

If you like this one, get excited because there’s a whole book of short stories set in this #solarpunk future coming out in May from @stelliform.press 💚🌿

This Wednesday in Madison! I get to read with one of my very favorite writers, B. Pladek, @bpladek.bsky.social, at @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social!!!! We're having a queer/trans open mic! COME ON BY! I'll be reading from What A Fish Looks Like out now from @stelliform.press!

Toronto! Come to the Cecil Centre Sunday Nov 2 for an amazing gathering of small presses! If you're passionate about supporting independent artists and publishers, this is a great opportunity to pick up some quality hard to find literature! Plus there's a raffle to win a basket of indie books!

Happy Halloween from Stelliform Press! From haunted shores to botanical horror, our books explore the strange beauty in what frightens us. Find The Other Shore and Green Fuse Burning and more at stelliform.press. Pick up a scary good ebook for only $5! 🌺🐸🐅🌊

ICYMI, we were thrilled to see The BC Review’s thoughtful look at Rebecca Campbell’s The Other Shore. The review focuses on the collection as stories of transformation, settler haunting, and west-coast futures. Thank you, Dana McFarland! thebcreview.ca/2025/...

Stunning book mail today. So delighted to see a Shimmer story collected in here. 🖤 @stelliform.press @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social

WI/Madison folks: come out to @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social next Wed, Nov 5 at 6 pm to celebrate the magnificent new short story collection from @syr.bsky.social, WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE, out now with @stelliform.press! It includes an OPEN MIC, so come read! <3 roomofonesown.com/event/2025-1...

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

For your weekend reading pleasure, another insightful review of Rebecca Campbell's debut collection, THE OTHER SHORE. Thanks to Jan Priddy for walking into this deep dark forest. We are very glad she lived to tell the tale. www.calyxpress.org/r...

YOU: Hey, Strange Horizons hasn’t had a review of any speculative poetry for a while. But I like reviews of speculative poetry! ME: *I bear good news.* Vivian Wagner on Mahalia Smith’s Seed Beetle from @stelliform.press:

ICYMI, The Seaboard Review posted a new review of Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS here: www.theseaboardrevie... Many thanks to reviewer Lisa Timpf for journeying with Orchid for a time, and sharing her experience!

ICYMI, Zachary Gillian has a wonderful review of 3 weird books, including Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE, over at The Ancillary Review. Full review here here: ancillaryreviewofboo... 1/2

Profane Illuminations II: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social on weirdness and open-ness in Langan's LOST IN THE DARK (@wordhorde.bsky.social), Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE (@stelliform.press), and Catling's A MYSTERY OF A REMNANT (@swanriverpress.bsky.social)

Rebecca Campbell won the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Arboreality; her followup, The Other Shore, is out today from the good folks at Stelliform Press!

I got a star.

It's pub day for THE OTHER SHORE, Ursula K. Le Guin winner Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY follow-up and debut collection. In 10 stories set in dark west coast forests and their ruins, this book is exquisite literary spec fic perfect for spooky season. It got a PW star! www.stelliform.press...

OK LISTEN. Every story in this book is a banger. This book has had me in tears multiple times. Highly likely this is going to be my favorite collection of the year. Get it now, thank me later!

At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday. Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.

Le Guin Prize winner Rebecca Campbell's debut collection is out this week! Three-time World Fantasy Award Winner Andy Duncan says THE OTHER SHORE is “A landmark first collection from an extraordinary writer. Like an autoharpist from the hills, Campbell makes a high lonesome sound all her own.”

Ottawa friends! The 2025 John Newlove Poetry Awards is next week. Bywords.ca will be launching Mahaila Smith’s new chapbook with readings by this year's Award recipient and honourable mentions, and music by Benoît Christie. When? October 14 at 6:30pm Where? Club Saw @ 67 Nicholas

‪I got my first cat review!!! This is Mandy, and Mandy thinks "What A Fish Looks Like," - from @stelliform.press - is good for faceplanting! Mandy, like all cats, is perfect, so there you go.

Brooklyn! Come on by Hive Mind Books for F*cked Up Fairy Tales! Raise a festive autumnal drink (iced because: global warming) and hear from these AMAZING writers: SASKIA NISLOW, Author of Root Rot, SHARANG BISWAS, Author of The Iron Below Remembers, and SYR HAYATI BEKER, with What A Fish Looks Like!

Congratulations @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social! What a spectacular achievement! 🎉

My book Another Life, published by @stelliform.press, won the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards for the Sci-Fi category! Here’s the full list of winners and finalists: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #booksky 🪐📚

November is Trans Awareness Month. But that title seems ill-fit to current politics, so I chose a better one for the Itch book bundle I'm hosting Nov 1-14. Authors, if your MC is trans (yes including nonbinary!) and your book meets the criteria bellow, let me know and I'll DM you the sign up form!

With shoutouts to @syr.bsky.social @fabulistmag.bsky.social and @stelliform.press 📚 💕

ICYMI: a Stelliform newsletter went out this morning with details on the upcoming Little Ghosts Festival, Syr Hayati Beker's amazing interview in Foreword Reviews, and forthcoming Stelliform releases! Check it out here: www.stelliform.press... Not on our list? Sign up here: www.stelliform.press...

The Little Ghosts Festival is coming up this weekend, October 4th & 5th, 12pm-5pm, at the Tranzac Club at 292 Brunswick Ave in Toronto. We'll have old and new spooky books including Rebecca Campbell's new collection THE OTHER SHORE. Plus drop by the eco-horror panel on Sunday!

You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby is a fabulous #Horror novella that makes you question how your collective accumulation leaves a mark on the world. #SSBA2025 semifinals. #BookSky 💙📚 @stelliform.press @rabusby.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (@stelliform.press) by @rabusby.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2025

BOOKS & BREWS is BACK THIS WEEKEND! Sept 27th, we're at Leftfield Brewery in LESLIEVILLE! Come support great local indie literature and grab a beer brewed by some of the best in the game (or one of their great non-alcoholic options). Support local!

Coming up real soon! October 4 & 5 at the Tranzac Club in Toronto: Little Ghosts Festival! Stelliform will be there with authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, and Syr Hayati Beker! Come for the best indie books, readings, and panels, plus indie horror films!

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

Guys!!! I made it!!

Thrilled to see 3 Stelliform authors and lots of friends on the TOC for the Year's Best Canadian F&SF volume 3! Find these works published by Stelliform in this year's Year's Best: "Our Time and Space" by @mahaila.bsky.social, and "Desolation Sounds" by @geoffreywcole.bsky.social 🎉

Reviewer Luke Sutherland loved WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE so much he gave it a star and asked author Syr Hayati Beker for a full interview feature. This interview is smart, funny, and incisive, much like Beker and their debut novella. Find it here: www.forewordreviews....

It means so much to me to share that Green Fuse Burning won the Indie Ink Writing the Future We Need Award for Indigenous Representation by an Indigenous Author!!! 💚🌿

Congrats to my good, good Judy on winning one of the Indie Ink Award for Writing the Future We Need! SORDIDEZ is an amazing piece of literatrue, @boriscrito.bsky.social is an beautiful author/human, and @stelliform.press addresses the changing world with grace and perspective.

What a surprise to discover that two Stelliform books took home top prizes at the Indie Ink Awards this weekend! Congrats to two amazing writers and their incredible books: Tiffany Morris and E.G. Condé for best Indigenous and Latinx/Latine Rep respectively! See more here: indiestorygeek.com/a...

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

THE JAGUAR MASK @stelliform.press by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2025

Orchid and I will be with @stelliform.press at dReadCon in Burlington, this Saturday the 13th at 4:15 p.m. to talk about haunted Canada, and 7 p.m. at the Reading Tent, Hamilton Supercrawl. If you’re in the area, do drop by….Orchid would love to see you! supercrawl.ca/2025/08/supe...

DReadCon is next weekend - tickets only $5 at the door. I've been lucky enough to hear Lynn Hutchinson Lee tell some creepy northern Ontario stories in person - stories like the one at the heart of ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS. Come to the "Haunting Canada" panel at 4:15 in the Red Quill Room!

Tonight! Come to the first Lit Live of the season at The Staircase. Hear Mahaila Smith read from SEED BEETLE, and many other wonderful writers read from wonderful works! Sunday Sept 7-9pm At The Staircase, 27 Dundurn N, Hamilton PWYC $10 INCLUDES BEVERAGE Theme: ✨ Mystery/Clarity/Light✨

Syr's book releases today! I had the pleasure of illustrating the front cover in weird fairytale filligree style! :-)

On this happiest of pub dates, I'm thrilled to share a Junction Reads review, celebrating this book in all its weirdness! "This book contains the stories ... between hope and loss, between love and abandonment, between what we want and what we allow to happen." More here: www.instagram.com/p/...

THE JAGUAR MASK, a beautiful tale by MICHAEL J. DeLUCA via @stelliform.press of working with people not like you to accomplish things that need doing. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Coming up in two weekends: DReadCon, a celebration of horror and dark fiction, indie publishers and authors, plus fun spooky wares. When: Sept 13 Where: Burlington Holiday Inn, 3063 South Service Road, Burlington, Ontario L7N 3E9 For more info: www.dreadconcan.com/ See you there!