Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

It's Native American Heritage Month. I'm not American, but if you wanna read some Inuk/Mi'kmaw/Canadian writing, here's where you can check out my words. They must be pretty ok, because they keep getting published. shanmonster.dreamwidth.org

+1 to all of these that I've read (A Necessary Chaos in particular is brilliant), and also throwing in there Alex Jeffers' A Mourning Coat, which is seriously one of the most subtle, light touch pieces of fiction (speculative or otherwise) I've read in ages & more people should read it.

Former PC Education Minister Dave King was at the cabinet table when notwithstanding was devised. His devastating view of what the UCP has done. Don't miss this piece. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abed #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg

Hey if y'all have ever wondered why educators are so pissed about AI, disproportionately, Decoder did a great podcast about this, and I'm not just saying that b/c I'm quoted in it, haha www.theverge.com/podcast/8154...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

@premeemohamed.com This is not an ACCUSATION but I'm just, uh, wondering if you have any familiarity with this development www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

“The thing is,” my father says, when I finally get up the courage to tell my parents. “Your daughter is not actually a bear.” In our first @flashfictiononline.bsky.social FamPunk story, @emlinden.bsky.social gives us Ursula, who is perfect as she is. #fampunk #fantasy #flashfiction

This is my only story coming out in 2025 thanks to some publishing date weirdness elsewhere, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. l have a soft spot for fiction & film about stage magic, and it was fun to play in that playground.

Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for including Stone and Steel!!!

Two signed and personalized paperbacks from me (I will ship) currently going for a song in the Pulp Literature auction, which goes until the end of November. They would make nice gifts. app.galabid.com/kpr2025/item...

Remember that only work on the eligibility list can be nominated for the Auroras, so list your work today!

SFWA’s Writing Dates Program runs every Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 PM PST, offering dedicated sessions to help authors meet their word counts and other creative goals. Volunteer to lead a writing date! You don’t need to be a SFWA member to apply as a guest host. Learn more at sfwa.org/volunteer

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025. If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

It’s been a while since I hopescrolled

I *AM* waiting for the entire story! What, it's out? Today? Wooooooooooooo

*Stands outside of google's offices in the rain hoisting a boombox above my head blasting Nine Inch Nails' "I Do Not Want This" at top volume*

Celebrate Alberta Book Day with your favourite Alberta stories! Here are some of ours from NeWest, what are yours?? #newestpress #albertabookday #readlocal #buylocal #albertapublisher

Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Congratulations to Eugenia Triantafyllou! Eugenia's “Loneliness Universe” won the Best Short Story 2025 British Fantasy Award! You can read it here! buff.ly/lY0VAZC

Today, peeps!

We are open and would love to read your work!

OH MY GOD @foxesandroses.bsky.social !!! WOOOO

3. The Drowned Man's Daughter by @cjlavigne.com. A lyrical and haunting journey about the nature of belief and how it's constructed, and at the same time a very personal story about one girl's struggle to survive. One to reread and discover more! bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the... 💙📚

I can vouch for Mike, an actual person doing actual things--you can help him raise money for sick kids.

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

Cate wanted to let you all know that my debut poetry book, Confirm Humanity, has arrived in the world today! She only gave it 2 stars, but honestly, she can't read, so you might want to check it out for yourselves! 💜💀💜 wildskiespress.com/our-books/#c... #BookBirthday #Poetry

It hasn’t always been obvious when buying a book meant investing in a Canadian business. The Certified Canadian Publisher program is a bid to change that. 📚🇨🇦 #TyeePresents #Sponsored

Call for recs! Have your put your favorite SFF media and artists into the Hugo rec sheet yet? :D #HugoAwards

There's no need or excuse for any of this. Alberta needs to make vaccines freely available again.

Tired of reading books full of violence against women? Tired of reading books where everybody is BORING and law abiding? Run With the Hunted! help support women's wrongs!

Toronto friends, we'd love to see you at Meet the Presses. November 2nd at The Cecil Community Centre on 58 Cecil Street. We'll be there from 12 to 5 along with many other brilliant small press publishers. You'll find books you won't find anywhere else.

This week on Planetside… Weekly writing sessions, friendly hosts, and zero pressure. Read “SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our Writing Dates Program,” an interview with @kristinosani.bsky.social, @cjlavigne.com, @meagenvoss.bsky.social, the volunteers who run the program: www.sfwa.org/2025/10/23/s...

Celebrate women's history this month and every month with some of our favourite NeWest reads. Available now at at a bookstore near you 💕 buff.ly/XtBZV7g #NeWestPress #WomensHistoryMonth #ReadLocal #BuyLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian

still looking for #submissions to for chapbooks for this spring!!! each of our editors want slightly different things but I'm still really hoping to publish some #sff from #canadian writers. Do hashtags work anymore even lmao it's been years you can reach out on here or at [email protected]

Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply. podcastle.org/2025/10/17/a...

New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...

I'm still working on this proposal. But before I get back to it: I want to follow my annual tradition of sharing this essay I wrote about my grandfather's favorite Halloween tradition in 2019 - (I always miss him more this time of year!)

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

Well @extralife4kids.bsky.social is only a few weeks away and the t-shirt from arrived today. The color is not really my style, but you know what is? Gaming for 24 hours to raise money to help sick kids get better - please visit this link and donate to help! www.extra-life.org/participant/...

SFWA’s Writing Dates Program runs every Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 PM PST. Volunteer to lead a writing date and connect with fellow creators in a friendly, supportive environment. You don’t need to be a SFWA member to apply as a guest host. Learn more at sfwa.org/volunteer

Tonight, Monday, October 20 at 9 PM ET / 8 PM CT / 7 PM MDT / 6 PM MST and PT, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will be joining @poisonedpen.bsky.social for a virtual launch party for Apprehension and Red Star Hustle. Please join us! Free + viewable on FB and YT: calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/pos...

HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES! The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!

My Edmonton book launch info!

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Release day for Castoff!! Three years in the making, we return to a fractured world for the conclusion of the Aspects of Aelda duology. Available wherever you get your books! www.atthisarts.com/p... #Booksky #newrelease @atthisarts.com

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually. By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.