Coming up SOON, past GoH Kate Heartfield and Bringer of Snacks @kevinhearne.bsky.social at a mighty assemblage of local authors! Come FORTH!

Coming up SOON in Montreal - Can*Con Co*Chairs @mariebilodeau.bsky.social and @brandoncrilly.bsky.social IN CONCERT at Livre and Let Livre! Come on out for a night filled with THINGS!

For those in the Ottawa area, there will be a celebration of the life of Jean-Louis Trudel - astronomer, physicist, science historian and frequent contributor at Can*Con - at the Sir John A. Macdonald Pub on Elgin St., beginning at 7pm. Details at the link below. www.facebook.com/share/1DLTp7...

We are *franjous* with excitement for our Vice-Admiral!!

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has announced a two-week residency with Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Sheree Renee Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, and Joshua Whitehead. Yes you DO want to do this. banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Little Ghosts has become a precious resource for the SFFH community and we love them dearly! Help them do even more of the great work they do!

Goodness! Julie Czerneda and @cclim.bsky.social in the same place? Shenanigans guaranteed!

Somehow it feels even weirder to promote a non-fiction piece, go figure. Anyway, I wrote this for @heartlines-spec.com about volunteering at @canconsffh.bsky.social & it's now widely available: www.heartlines-spec.com/volunteering...

This is such a cool project from @jayodjick.bsky.social - excited to see this series! www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Wishing the very best for our past GoH @sheilawilliams.bsky.social, currently in hospital. Sheila has been a mighty force in the community for years and we hope she recovers quickly. locusmag.com/2026/01/shei...

Happy Birthday to 2025 GoH @kateheartfield.com! Kate is a wonderful member of our community and we hope she has a splendid day! If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!

Finally (for now), rounding off with my Can*Con (@canconsffh.bsky.social) 2025 retrospective: buttondown.com/SHSenhaji/ar... So glad and grateful for the community I've found there, and for the amazing experiences year after year.

Clown music, you say? Only (roughly) 100 minutes remain! DO NOT MISS!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

We are not sure how feral Avi will get if this hits 100 backers bu it would probably be fun to find out? Also this audiobook is going to be SO GOOD, friends - jump aboard!!

Congratulations to friend of the con @suyidavies.com for his 2025 Nommo Award win! Suyi's work is amazing and you should read all of it.

This is going to be great! Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe! TUNE IN!

Our final Guest of Honour for 2026 will be author @chuckwendig.bsky.social! Chuck is a NYT bestselling author, writes games, comics, film and TV, and we are so excited that he will be joining us in the fall!

We are very excited to announced that our 2026 Agent Guest of Honour will be @hel-no-wai.bsky.social! Hana is a Literary Agent and Rights Manager at Cooke McDermid and a co-founder of BIPOC Publishing in Canada. We are super thrilled that Hana can join us next fall!

Fun video interviewing some authors @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, including yours truly! 😀📚 youtu.be/gHaEtTlCWuE?...

We are HYPED to announce that our 2026 Editor Guest of Honour will be @jenralbert.bsky.social - Jen is an acquiring editor at ECW Press, won a British Fantasy Award for her editing work and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards. So excited to have Jen with us next fall!

We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week! First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade was released in June from ECW Press.

We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week! First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade is forthcoming this summer from ECW Press.

In one week, LIVE ON THE INTERTRON, join 2025 GoH @premeemohamed.com, @gregoryawilson.com, Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, and @valerievaldes.bsky.social as they engage in a rare and perilous cross border communique! 9 pm EST on Nov 25th on the Arvan Eleron Twitch channel!

TOMORROW! @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social hosts @thescreambean.bsky.social and Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and we have been promised things will get WEIRD!!

One week from NOW! You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else? WHO KNOWS? YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!

Much beloved friend of the con Sienna Tristen is bringing out an audiobook of their 'Heretic's Guide to Homecoming'! If you had a chance to listen to the sample in our vendor's room, you know this is going to be AMAZE! If you didn't - it's going to be AMAZE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

CONGRATUMALATIONS to 2025 Guest of Honour Premee Mohamed for pillaging another award! Huzzah!

As #CanCon2025 comes to an end, we'd like to thank all our amazing volunteers who made the whole weekend possible, all the vendors who brought wonderful things for us to take home, and all the guests who came to be a part of our community's weekend! Thank you for supporting us, and see you in 2026!

Day 3 of #CanCon2025 is about to begin! Today on the Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) we have Queercoded Villains, Enticing Gamers, Speculative Songwriting, and Indie Platform Publishing! We've also got more pitch sessions and author signings firing off as we pack in 1 more day of SFFH treats!

Folks who are at @canconsffh.bsky.social : if you would like to find the panelists, vendors and volunteers on here, behold a starter pack for just that purpose: go.bsky.app/UXVrVHZ

Come say hi in Newbridge (vender room) at 2.00-2:30 today. I'm next to my fav bookstore @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @canconsffh.bsky.social

It is #CanCon2025 Day 2 and today we have Robot Lovers, we Deal with Self-Doubt, and we Explore Space *and* the Biology of Zombies! The Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) has something for all! We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long! Come and CAVORT!

Later today at @canconsffh.bsky.social : @gianttourtiere.bsky.social @stephanneauthor.bsky.social and I host Maggot Story Hour. This should be memorable.

It is #CanCon2025 Day One! What to do today? WE HAVE IDEAS!

We're going to be at @canconsffh.bsky.social this weekend! Stop by our table to say hello and find out about our bid to bring Worldcon to Edmonton. We're planning to make 2030 #NorthOfOrdinary!

It is #CanCon2025 Eve, which means leaving out a plate of cookies in case @derekkunsken.bsky.social visits in the night and getting ready to hang stockings on @brandoncrilly.bsky.social! We are so looking forward to seeing you this weekend! A few last minute reminders!

Wanna grab some exclusive Augur merch or meet the team? 👀 Find us in the Vendor Room this weekend at @canconsffh.bsky.social! Check out our tabling schedule ⬇️ -October 17th (5pm-8pm) -October 18th (10am-6pm) -October 19th (10am-4pm) We can't WAIT to see you there! ✨

Hey @canconsffh.bsky.social folks - dining tip! There are more (cheaper) options available if you scan the QR code on the menu!

It is #CanCon2025 Eve, which means leaving out a plate of cookies in case @derekkunsken.bsky.social visits in the night and getting ready to hang stockings on @brandoncrilly.bsky.social! We are so looking forward to seeing you this weekend! A few last minute reminders!

LAUNCH DAY for the latest book from our intrepid Vice-Admiral, Brandon Crilly! Buy his book and he won't plunder your cargo and send your ship to a watery grave.

Just a reminder that the @canconsffh.bsky.social vendors room is open to the public this weekend, so you don't need tickets to pick up some sweet fantasy, science fiction, and horror merch from Canadian authors and artists!

A salute from our Chair as we teeter on the precipice of #CanCon2025! See you all soon! (Except Evan. He'll be in the cave.)

It's @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend! I'm excited for: snazzy new venue; time with friends old & new; dope panels & events + fave Toronto bookstore @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social; the thrill of enthusiastic readers; copious beers; etc. Thankfully, I have a slim schedule this year. See below!

If you're coming to @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend, I hope you like stickers! I'll be leaving some on the freebies table and will have them on me to give out too. Really happy with how these turned out.

There is also still space in our Friday Master Class sessions! We have: 'The Plot Toolkit' with Kim Abrahamse of Firefly Creative, a Zine Workshop with Derek Newman-Stille, and you can Write a Story in a Weekend with David Schultz and Brandon Butler! Register: www.can-con.org/master-classes

Gosh we're all going to learn so much next weekend!

In case you missed it earlier, GoH Kate Heartfield has also created a Can*Con 2025 Starter Pack so you can get inextricably linked with all your favourite Can*Con minds and gestalt consciousnesses!

If you’re going to @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, we’d love if you joined us for the first launch of our first book! The emcee will be Derek Newman-Stille, multiple Prix Aurora Award–winner of Speculating Canada. It should be a blast! #SFF #CanLit

The Little Ghosts are at @canconsffh.bsky.social ! Oct. 17-19th in Ottawa, come visit us and attend a whole list of great panels and programming. We’ll also be set up in the dealer’s room with our usual array of local books, in house publications, & merch You don’t want to miss it, see you there!

What else is happening this weekend at Can*Con? SOME things are TOO SECRET to tell you - even now - but we're gonna have a play-as-you-wish Star Trek Adventures RPG experience run by our friend 'Nathan Burgoine! ... try not to get thrown in the brig.