10 seasons. Over 150 original stories. Thousands of hours of writing, editing, and recording. This October, Wrong Station celebrates a Decade of Dread. It's a truly disturbing achievement. Listen to our special season 10 announcement and discover the all horrible festivities we have in store.

PRODUCTIVITY HACK: fall asleep in a sunbeam partway through the afternoon

If you’re a #writer or other creative looking for a place to work quietly in the heart of #Toronto, the Toronto Writers Centre has just moved into lovely new digs at Bloor & Spadina. 250/mo, 24hr access, no kids, all the damn coffee you can drink. You won’t find a better deal on a desk in this town!

Recently finished reading ‘As birds bring forth the sun—and other stories’ by Alistair MacLeod. Kicked my ass. Absolute belter. Total classic. Wall-to-wall. All killer no filler. Had me hooting and hollering. Everything people hate about Can-Lit—which is to say everything good about Can-Lit.

Just finished reading ‘the visitors’ (‘79) by Clifford Simak. Not unpleasant but not particularly interesting at first, this one turned into an unexpected banger for me in the last quarter.

Some art I made for the Lore Book we do quarterly over at the @thewrongstation.bsky.social patreon. I think it's pretty radical, twisted, etc.

Having a GREAT day over here. I love writing. I’m listening to synthwave, drinking coffee, writing a story abt laser swords & mummified heads; this is fun as shit. Sometimes easy to succumb to the grind-y part of writing. Important to remember you do it because art makes being alive feel good.

PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR YOUNG WRITERS: forget grammar just get good at moving furniture because your coworking space WILL get priced out of its neighbourhood

Very excited to have a story in this collection by @infestedpublishing.bsky.social ! It’s about an angel steering a meteor into the earth. I actually first wrote this one ~17 yrs ago. Back then it was about cosmic injustice. But these days I’m more of an apologist for The Cleansing Power of Fire.

Playing around with some designs for Wrong Station season 10. Went with a 10-triangle 'Tetractys' device because the roman numeral X has degenerate vibes these days

Do you live in Toronto? Do you think protest should be allowed in places like 'streets, and sidewalks'? Then please fill out this survey & express your outrage & opposition to the proposed 'vulnerable institutions' bylaw. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

‘There’s no money in writing, haha’ Actually, there’s a ton of money—but people get to collect rents on your work before you’re paid. In TV, it’s execs & producers. In podcasting, it’s a Swedish billionaire. As a product, the market value of writing is high. It’s the labour that’s devalued.

//YOU CAN'T CARE FOR SOMETHING FRAGILE //WHEN YOU'RE SHATTERED ALREADY. //CAN YOU BEAR TO BE ANYTHING //BUT THE WORST VERSION OF YOURSELF? "CRITTER." Tonight 9pm EST.

I’m running a workshop right now and these students are all so good. Talent is everywhere.

I think about this interview all the time. I’m constantly trying to emulate the humility & curiosity & generosity of spirit that’s at the core of Stephen’s approach. Sometimes I still just look off into the distance and mutter the word ‘tenderness’ and shake my head

Something that fills me with awe & wonder is that, adjusted for inflation, Rings of Power has now cost almost 3x what the lotr movies cost. And I can’t remember a single line or scene. A billion dollars, and not even a meme came out of it. All that money, just for a bad dream forgotten by morning

Conclave had me HOOTING, but also, HOLLERING.

IT’S ELECTION DAY IN ONTARIO, FOLKSSS. All you need is one piece of ID with your name and address. Remember: if you a work for a living, if you rent, or if you plan to ever get sick in this province, then Doug Ford is your /mortal enemy/. www.elections.on.ca/en.html

Voted for @jillslastword.bsky.social and the Ontario NDP because this province needs a government that cares about people who don't own investment properties. Tomorrow, you should too.

Love an Alistair MacLeod story. Always like, "Our huge bodies are in constant pain. We roam the rugged landscape of Cape Breton Island like the Highland Cattle we once watched our schoolteacher kill with an axe. Soon, like our fathers, we will die." Incredible. We don't do dude-lit like this anymore

Still two days to sign up for this workshop! It’s not just ‘write-something-and-then-everyone-picks-it-apart’. It’s about futzing around with different story writing techniques so you can find what works for you. www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-wr...

Do YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW want to start taking writing more seriously? Then sign up for my FUN & AFFORDABLE 6-week workshop at the Toronto Writers' Centre (starting February 19th!) www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-wr...

In these terrible times, why not spend 90 minutes a week practicing the writer’s craft with this person who will be a fan of your work:

Do YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW want to start taking writing more seriously? Then sign up for my FUN & AFFORDABLE 6-week workshop at the Toronto Writers' Centre (starting February 19th!) www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-wr...

Just finished reading: Orsinian tales, by Ursula K. Leguin. Beautiful, sad stories. UKL’s overlooked as a prose stylist; usually she’s pretty unassuming, but here she really lets it rip. Maybe the collection is best understood as a series of oil paintings.

Very excited for this collection! I love the premise, I think the cover art is fucking sick, I love that it's supporting a great cause, and I'm extremely honoured to have a story in it.

Do you like to play boardgames or tabletop games with your friends? Do you like to come up with little worlds for your fiction? Then you might like this little game I made for you. Here, take it, it's a gift! she-wolf-productions.itch.io/jubilee

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell x the Green Knight Polycrisis Arthuriana. A young knight thinks he’s the next Lancelot. He’s not. He sets off to slay a dragon & fails. He flees through a haunted countryside. Finally the worst happens—he gets to become everything he once wanted to be #2025Pit #A #F

Do yourself a favour and just enjoy something smart and fun and funny and full of joy and curiosity for a little while this week:

Just finished reading: ‘Red Shift’, by Alan Garner. I’m not sure if I liked this book, but it hit me full in the teeth. I remember being confused and unsettled by Garner’s kids books as a kid. They’re hazy in my mind; half-remembered, unsettling. This book felt that way while I was reading it.

Just finished reading; Solidarity, by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social This is a really important book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about politics and the history of an idea, but it’s a super easy read, and the clear prose lets the clear thinking shine through.

Recently finished: The Dragon Waiting, by John M. Ford. Went in with high expectations—people talk about it like it’s the Velvet Underground of fantasy novels— and there’s some undoubtedly cool stuff in here, but the book never really came together for me.

Query rejection #3 on current novel project. That’s okay—I’ve worked in Canadian Television and nothing can hurt me anymore

Just finished ‘THE FEMALE MAN’ by Joanna Russ. A tough, challenging book; defiantly its own thing; extremely fun and funny; goes hard as fuck; prophetic; probably one of the most important books of the 20th century. I think a lot of people would find unreadable. I think everyone should read it.

Just finished reading: MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury. Loved this book profoundly as a teenager—some parts of it hold up very badly; others extremely well. So clear on a re-read that this is a Book About America; about the excitement of the frontier, but its essential tragedy & evil.

Working on a new @thewrongstation.bsky.social script. It’s a space opera. It’s a slasher. It’s called POWER SWORD.

The main thing I’ve noticed coming back to DS9 is—it’s good

Just watched: YEAR, by A.I.M dance company. It absolutely kicked my ass. An apocalyptic vision. Afropessimist Dune. Got under my skin and I will be Pondering it for years to come. vimeo.com/1022975941

Really proud of this story from the new season of Wrong Station. It’s about climate rage, the moral imperative of action, and about how, without a context of solidarity, these righteous impulses can destroy us. Thinking today especially about getting organized. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Really proud of this short story about the unthinkable demands fascism makes of the people it supposedly benefits. A few days & a coin flip from the end of US democracy, it’s striking how little mainstream film & tv acknowledges it. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Just listened to: this phenomenal interview b/w Daniel Denvir & Naomi Klein. Stay for the 2nd half for some of the sharpest imaginable analysis of our unfurling civilizational crisis. I can’t really find the superlatives; this is an incredible conversation. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Just finished reading: MASTER AND COMMANDER. Utter nerd shit in both the most & least pejorative senses. Love how Maturin is way more of a freak & Aubrey is way more of a doofus than in the film. Dillon makes the book though—this doomed creature halfway between the two who can’t maintain

Just finished listening to: Season 5 of ‘Blowback’. A really sharp show about American Empire. Well-sourced, full of revealing primary source audio, punchy & stylish. Continues the project of Mike Duncan’s ‘Revolutions’ into the 20th & 21st centuries. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...

Also really love this episode from the new season of Wrong Station. Anthony’s read really captures the lulling, soporific heat you get drifting along a BC lake in a climate-crisis summer. Almost Stewart McLean-ish at points. Vinyl Cafe, but with searing unknowable karmic retribution

Really proud of this story I wrote for the new season of Wrong Station. It takes place in the same world as Blackflower, the novel I’m querying; plays with some of the same feelings, aesthetics. Theron Cand is hanging around in the background of the book, and features importantly in planned sequels

Sometimes this city is a lot less evil than I think.

Just finished: Red X by @daviddemchuk.com. Lucid, elegant prose; a charismatic monster; a forthrightness about violence & sex that never feels exploitative. ‘Fun’ doesn’t seem right for a book so thoughtful, frightening & sad, but there’s a joy & energy to the storytelling that propels you forward.

Watch until the end.

Spotted at the little free library… SPACE KKKOPS. Lots to unpack here. 1) thinly veiled anticommunist moral panic, 2) copaganda on Republican mars, 3) dbl white hetero male leads, one of whom seems to be a reincarnated medieval welsh king. STATUS: didn’t take home b/c I’m scared of Challenging Ideas

Found this in the little free library. Now I am ready to enter—my mid thirties