Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...

DreamForge enters its Pledge Drive next week, and that means a new Kickstarter. The first thing you can do to support us is visit our Preview Page and click to follow.  That will help the algorithm push out the message. So, follow if you can!  And Thanks. kck.st/3XupZ6W

William Anders took the photo from which Little Blue Marble’s name is inspired. What I didn’t know is that he spent his last years in Washington state, and died only a few miles from my home across the Canadian border. We only have one home for all of us www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Climate Imaginarium is a new consortium of climate organizations with a center for the arts on Governors Island, NY. They are seeking previously published climate fiction, non-fiction or climate poetry. To submit, fill out this form by May 6: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Little Blue Marble caps off 2023 with "The First and Last Concert of Avalonia Jemison's Peace Lily" by Matt Bliss littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/29/t...

Our last Friday poem of the year is a haiku by Lisa Taylor. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/22/h... #poetry #haiku #climatecrisis

This New Fiction Friday asks you to "Pity the Squonk," by Kathryn Yelinek. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/15/p...

LBM is featured this week on @deborahldavitt.bsky.social's Shining Moon podcast! Find out all about editor Kat's process. shiningmoon.buzzsprout.com/2222860/1403...

This Friday's feature proposes the idea of "Extinction Memorials." By Christopher Mark Rose. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/08/e...

New Fiction Friday takes entrepreneurs to a different kind of venture forum, the "Snail Tank" by Monica Joyce Evans littlebluemarble.ca/2023/12/01/s...

This Friday's poem laments a "Shipwrecked Earth" by Wade Thiel littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/24/s... #ClimateCrisis #ClimatePoetry

Today's new fiction reminisces about the one that got away (or did it?) over a "Martian Blue" by Keira Reynolds littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/18/m... #ClimateFiction #SFF #ShortStories

In this Friday's poem, Mike Morgan asks you to "Choose Your Own Extinction" littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/10/c...

Fiction Friday's desert enclave is "Drawing the Line" by Gustavo Bondoni littlebluemarble.ca/2023/11/03/d...

New Fiction Friday provides new perspective in "The Prairie School" by Christopher R. Muscato littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/27/t...

New poem now up at @littlebluemarble.bsky.social, featuring what happens when the ridiculous pirate show you're fixated on makes you think about lighthouses, and then lighthouses move out into the rest of your life with the things you love and fear for most. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/13/a...

Fiction Friday takes to the desert with "The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza" by Masimba Musodza littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/t...

Friday poetry sends out a beam of light in "A poem for retired lighthouses" by Catherine Rockwood. littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/13/a... #ClimateCrisis #Poetry

I'm so grateful to see 'Catastrophizing' up at Little Blue Marble! This story includes a lot of things that are close to my heart, including climate anxiety and my home city of Edinburgh 💚 💙 please give it a read and let me know what you think!

In the face of all the latest climate news, New Fiction Friday tends towards "Catastrophizing" by Katie McIvor (@mckatie.bsky.social) littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/06/c...

LBM's last September poem is "Rising Death" by C. J. Carter-Stephenson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/30/r... #ClimatePoetry #poetry #ClimateCrisis

New Fiction Friday answers the question "Is anybody out there?" in "Returnal" by Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/22/r...

It's Friday, which means we have new poetry for you! "120° in the Shade" by Susan Lee Simpson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/15/1...

New Fiction Friday remediates "A Lot Full of Weeds" by T. K. Rex littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/08/a...

We're kicking off our new *weekly* publishing schedule with "Veni Vidi Vici," a poem by Patrick Johnson littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/01/v... #ClimatePoetry #ClimateCrisis #poetry

There is now less than a month to go until our Sept 22nd deadline for submissions to Reckoning 8! The theme, in a word, is resistance. We pay 10c/word for prose, $50/page for poetry and art. Guidelines: reckoning.press/reckoning-8-...

This New Fiction Friday luxuriates in the meticulously plotted dismantling of "Microclimates of the Rich and Famous" by R. K. Duncan littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/25/m...

Since Meta is blocking news links in Canada, I'll just post this here, shall I? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism

New Fiction Friday by Dan Peacock wonders what "The Smiling Virologist" has to be happy about. https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/11/the-smiling-virologist/

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This Fiction Friday, Louis Evans throws "One Last Bash before We All Hit the Road" https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/07/28/one-last-bash-before-we-all-hit-the-road/

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