I am signatory # 244, paired with Ismail Abu Hatab. I wanted to learn more about Ismail. He has a Wikipedia page, and I found an article about how he and his friend were killed at an internet cafe frequented by artists and writers. Please read and share. coastsalish2palestine.ca/2025/09/16/c...

Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join our kid in helping Collin in Jinja, Uganda, to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/ur...

Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)

Are you BIPOC and an emerging author in Canada? Arsenal Pulp Press is taking submissions for a mentorship with Lindsay Wong. arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA... #CanLit #BIPOCAuthors #WritingCommunity

Always worth checking Writer beware if something seems iffy.

Once again, a seasonal PSA to by all means support your friends at the big bookstore preorder sales **but also** preorder indie books direct from small publishers who don't have the resources to lay their catalogue out with long runways.

Launching today! The Kickstarter campaign to support Enkidu the film. The amazing John Hedderwick and co are raising $4,200 over the next month to make a fantasy/psychological horror film based on The Epic of Gilgamesh. Please share! www.enkidufilm.ca/kickstarter

Why don't I believe the secure and age appropriate part?

www.gofundme.com/f/2hbpx-save... Fundraiser for writer Lynn Crosbie. Please share.

In setting up Meidas Canada we chose a microphone that carried historic weight. We picked the altec 639 b. If it was good enough for Edward R. Murrow and Buddy Holly, it was good enough for resistance to gangster fascism. This is an original mic and has never been used. @meidastouch.bsky.social

A brilliant selection. My review is in the current Locus, so probably won't be online in full until some time in September, but here's the thrust of it

Lovely @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is open to speculative poetry this month

Should be everywhere, also Canada. Notice it's working!

Some stuff I personally would love to see subbed: 🗞️ weird formats! speculative events described in articles, interviews, letters! 🥲 complicated emotions about the unknown: wonder and sorrow, fear and elation 🏃 a driven protagonist who wants something as weird as the world they find themselves in

BREAKING: Four active forest fires, three out of control, are burning in the Kawarthas region. Three of the fires are located in #KawarthaLakes and one is located in #Hastings County. kawarthanow.com/2025/08/09/f...

CBC Books: Nalo Hopkinson and Canisia Lubrin among the authors shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/nalo-h...

Please back @flamearrowpub.bsky.social's Kickstarter to obtain FIVE POINTS ON AN INVISIBLE LINE (the unplanned sequel to Cycling to Asylum), INVISIBLE LINE, and Rich Larson's illustrated collection, THE SKY DIDN'T LOAD TODAY AND OTHER GLITCHES. Thanks you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

A close friend, Jewish, is expecting her first grandbaby. Not a New Yorker but loves NYC. I am sorely tempted by the onesies.

📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣 We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-... #SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

This sounds good—including submission policies. #Novella and #Novellette #SFF writers, check it out!

Signing petitions, making phone calls, writing letters, going to demos. Often we don't, suffering from overwhelm, wondering what difference these small acts will make. But if you start, before you know it, sending letters has become a part of your routine.

@thenarwhal.ca has the best environmental writing in Canada. Their research often goes a step beyond. Their fact finding missions and reportage have instigated real world change. Started by surfer chicks from Vancouver Island. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Some people take it to heart.

Highbush Cranberry from my walk. I'm grateful folks are standing up. Here in Canada it makes a difference to us. Thank you. So many of us are worried about our US families. Be safe.

Looking forward to reading this. If I repost I'll see it again myself and it won't end up going down the rapids of too much information before I get to it.

Check out my new Substack post, The Milky Away. ursulapflug.substack.com/p/the-milky-...

If you know Nan Goldin fans who want to help the trans community... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com @cherylmorgan.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1019335/nan-...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Some old faves on this list plus some that are new to me

Fundraiser tee for Jal Support LA from @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social

Day 2 update: moving up the thermometer. Grow the future and spread #solarpunk and #climatefiction with us! Link in bio for the goods - magazine subscription only, bonus content only, and combo tiers. Proceeds help ensure continued 8 cent per word author payments #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

Integrity commissioner finds #Ptbo mayor contravened city council's code of conduct. While absolving Mayor Leal of 'private advantage' in pickleball controversy, Guy Giorno concludes he intimidated councillor Alex Bierk and bullied councillor Joy Lachica. kawarthanow.com/2025/05/29/i...

For our latest critical bookclub, A Meal of Thorns, Roseanna Pendlebury joins ARB editor Jake Casella Brookins to talk about all the novels & novellas on the 2025 Hugo ballot, with lots of opinions, further recommendations, and musings about the awards.

A story written by AI in the style of Ursula Pflug open.substack.com/pub/ursulapf...

Great review of @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social debut novella Orchid Fens @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Of course whales are persons.

Online Bid Party to support Canadian WorldCon bids. (Montreal and Edmonton).

Absolutely! It's so great to have resources that celebrate diverse voices in both CanLit and SFF. 📚✨ Keep shining a light on these amazing works! #BookLovers #SFF #CanLit

Thanks to Augur for maintaining sub lists for both CanLit and SFF

Sometimes I do a run of reviews and other times... I mean to but time slides by. I reviewed for print pubs for years so I tend to think a few words on the big A isn't worth much but it makes a difference and doesn't take long.

Support human translators and indigenous language projects.

Debut novel by Ann Cavlovic from Guernica, continuing to publish environmental fiction. Good to see.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

www.gofundme.com/f/help-them-... This fundraiser for a Gaza family is organized by Ptbo author and activist Margaret Slavin. The family are friends of our late mutual friend, award-winning Canadian artist and author Heather Spears, who met Said in Jerusalem after the first intifada.

Love this! I've left books and magazines in Ontario Parks washrooms and hostel and library shelves in Japan and Mexico. Guerrilla marketing at its best!

It's Mary Anning's birthday! Love Mary AND Kate!

#sustainableag #veganprotein kawarthanow.com/2025/05/20/t...