With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

Deleted my previous post bc those images live in my body and I am trying to reduce stress. Sharing this instead: two pages of a found poem I wrote in tribute to Palestine and their past and future freedom. Full poem to be published in a magazine sometime soon; honorarium already donated to a fund 💚

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Wow wow wow wow WOW! A very happy start to October was had by all this weekend at LITTLE GHOSTS 1st (ANNUAL!) FESTIVAL! You all really showed up for panels, vendors, author readings, and horror short films. We can’t say how much this community means to us- may this free event speak for us. 🙏😭🖤👻📚

HWA members and other awards readers: just a reminder that The Butcher’s Daughter is eligible for a number of awards and nominations this year, including for the Stokers. If you’ve read it and enjoyed it, please consider adding it to your lists! horror.org/awards/curre...

Tomorrow! Kick off your spooky season with @elliottgish.bsky.social and @daviddemchuk.com bringing grace and gravitas to the gorey and gothic... Monday, October 6th @ 7pm @ Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Halifax

Today! @peterbcounter.com and I ask whether anything we write is scarier than real life and if we should just pack it in. FUN AT THE LIBRARY!

Tomorrow!!!

If there's one thing I wish I'd been taught in school, it's basic labour law and standards for workers.

Is there life on Saturn's mooooooonnnn www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus is available for pre-order! The ebook officially launches October 16th, with the paperback to follow on October 30th! Pre-order the ebook here: books2read.com/u/baOyM6

The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus is available for pre-order! The ebook officially launches October 16th, with the paperback to follow on October 30th! Pre-order the ebook here: books2read.com/u/baOyM6

Countess ebook is 33% off in Canada atm (it's $5.99 down from $8.99)...so if you been waiting and have a kobo you can save a bit! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Cover reveal for The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus! A stunning original cover by Avery Daisy Book Design that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the series! #BookSky

Cover reveal for The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus! A stunning original cover by Avery Daisy Book Design that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the series! #BookSky

I am so excited that the Kjipuktuk/Halifax/Maritime community has our first speculative writing conference coming this May!! Check out the details on @tricon-hfx.bsky.social or tricon-Halifax.com!

Canada better get its arm back

Everything becoming privately owned and for profit is one of the things 80s/90s dystopian SF seems to have gotten right. How fucking bleak. theconversation.com/nasa-will-sa...

Have you heard? LITTLE GHOSTS FEST is only a month away! Packed with vendors, panels & readings, you’ll want to come to this FREE celebration of indie horror! BONUS: Horror Short Film Fest after hours on Sunday night! Don’t miss this great October treat www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

Happy Hobbit Day! Today's Classic Cover of the Day is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a cover illustrated by Tolkien himself

Five years ago I published this essay in my first book. It's about the way big companies like Disney control our dreams. Feels appropriate now! invisiblepublishing.com/2020/11/30/c...

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

Stay tuned for some exciting news about the Patch Project series! #BookSky

Stay tuned for some exciting news about the Patch Project series! #BookSky

How you doing? Need a little break? Maybe some cute and cozy stories would help. Totally free at alhessbooks.itch.io and set in a soft and overgrown post-post-apocalyptic world inspired by the song (Nothing But) Flowers by the Talking Heads 🤖🪻

Pentiment was a magnificent game and everyone who likes story-based games should play it, especially if: - you like choices-matter games - you play games to process heavy topics like grief and engage with questions like what gives life meaning

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!!! 💚🌿

Our extended call for work from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators closes TODAY!! Don't wait! Get those stories in now!

I’m so honoured that “Born Against Teeth” is nominated for a Rhysling Award! If you like it, are an SFPA member, and want to vote for it today is the LAST DAY!! Vote here: forms.zohopublic.com/scienceficti...

Haven't gotten your subs in yet? 👀 We're STILL OPEN for submissions from marginalized creators until SEPT 15th! Don't self reject‼️

The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30! THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows! More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!

Looking to join the Augur team? 👀 Now's your chance! We are looking for dedicated, experienced, and compassionate folks to join our all-volunteer Editorial team! 💫🖋️ If you want to help shape the future of Augur magazine--APPLY NOW! DEADLINE to submit your application is Sep 21 🗓️ 🔗in bio!

Take Me To Knives Out Church I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of Benoit I'll tell you my sins And you can show me the trailer reactormag.com/wake-up-dead...

2025 SLF Working Class Writers Grant Applications Open

If you're trying to find your book a home, Little Ghosts is a delight to work with and is the most rad group of folks! Send them your stuff!

If you're trying to find your book a home, Little Ghosts is a delight to work with and is the most rad group of folks! Send them your stuff!

Just in time for Labour Day, our list of stories depicting labour unions in science fiction and fantasy has reached 250 entries. Thanks to @joachimboaz.bsky.social for all the help on this. List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... List as Google Doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

Finds from the Halifax Art Book Fair, including titles from @conundrumpress.bsky.social ! Let the Good Times Roll by Veronica Post, Endsickness by @sofi-see-sofi-drew.bsky.social, and We See Stars Only at Night by @tundrawizard.bsky.social ✨📚

here i am, do your worst!

FYI: The good news? Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN will have a theatrical release later this year. The bad news? It's only hitting select theaters.

Sinners was a true cinematic experience, I'm excited to watch it again!

IT'S SO GOOD If you don't preorder it you will be SAD

Behold! My debut collection of short stories, KAYFABE, is available for pre-order from @filthyloot.bsky.social. 6 tales of wrestlers, kaiju, pageant queens and bodybuilders facing off against the sublime and surreal. Kitsch horror! (Pre-order link in reply)

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

Lower Decks’ win is the first time in 30 years that a Star Trek story has won a Hugo Award. The last one was “All Good Things” in 1995.

Sometimes I forget that the incomparable @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social published my weird little novella, and then I remember and freak out all over again!

Hey, I'm doing drugs and reading subs. If you have something Literary and your process is last minute and chaotic and you missed the window, email it to me or shoot it through our secret TBQ8 Straggler submittable opening. We pay $150.