If you’re reading Nightshade along with us, here’s what’s in store: July 7 – We chat with the book’s publisher Assembly Press, and share an excerpt from the book. July 14 – We interview author Lynn Hutchinson Lee about her novel. July 21 – The ALU team sits down to discuss the book.

We've got all the new @stelliform.press titles! Catch up on your essential climate fiction and poetry from @tkrex.bsky.social, @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social, @syr.bsky.social, @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...

New Nightshade interview with Rob McLennan just dropped. I loved his questions. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/12-o...

Come to the Nightshade launch, Toronto, April 8th. “Zelda’s desires lure her away from the safety of her family and into the sinister orbit of her bosses, who want something from her that she cannot give. Nightshade is as dreamy as it is unnerving.” – Jadine Ngan, Literary Review of Canada

Little Lit Fest is a one-day Little Wren Books literary festival. Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 1-9 PM The Drewlo Lounge at The Grand Theatre Free I Accessible This event is produced by Little Wren Books in collaborative partnership with Western's Department of English & Writing Studies

📣 Nightshade is here! 📣 Happy pub day to the amazing @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and Nightshade—we love this novel, and we hope you will too! Get a copy from your favourite bookstore or library branch today! 📚

Nightshade is out - - find it in your local indie bookstore!

Reviewed by Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews - "Amid an entrancing undertow of natural beauty and seductive materialism, the novel Nightshade is a story about identity, longing, and a unique cultural heritage." www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/nigh...

Thanks, Lisa Timpf and Seaboard Review of Books!

My blog with @alllitupcanada.bsky.social just dropped today. Many thanks, All Lit Up. alllitup.ca/under-the-co...

Great review of Orchid from Ben Lockwood at benlockwood.substack.com/p/from-soil-...

This interview of Orchid with Lisa Timpf @lisatimpf.bsky.social just dropped on @interstellarflight.bsky.social - thanks, Lisa and Interstellar! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/fens-tobacco...

Thrilled to be part of this festival! From Little Wren Bookstore: "Very happy to share our beautiful lineup of poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and more!" Little Lit Fest is a one-day Little Wren Books literary festival, March 14, at the Grand Theatre, London, Ontario.

Thanks for this post from my publishers at Assembly Press. I'm thrilled to be in excellent company in the 49th Shelf list of most anticipated books for the spring of 2026.

I'm delighted to be on Quill and Quire's spring preview of books they're most excited about!

Bone broth cooling in the snow while I read Han Kang's deliriously beautiful haunting terrifying novel We Do Not Part.

From Terri Favro: ".. a novella and very long novel that were two of my top reads in 2025... female focused, full of rage, magic and weirdly mystical flowers. "Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens” by Lynn Hutchinson Lee, published by @stelliformpress Sensuous, poetic, violent and mysterious."

Oksana Marafioti on Nightshade, my forthcoming novel from Assembly Press: "Zelda’s desire to be seen—by wealth, by power—meets the fierce love and warning of Romany women who know the cost. This is a novel about work and hunger, inheritance and passing, and the thin veil between rescue and trap."

A stellar review of @undertow.bsky.social's Northern Nights. So many wonderfully terrifying stories. I was thrilled to be part of it. www.goodriverreview.com/post/the-lan...

Happy Halloween! This is the last day of our October $2 eBook sale. Come the morrow, Nov. 1, you'll be out of luck.

Happy Halloween from @stelliform.press! 🎃 This season calls for stories that haunt, unsettle, and linger. From eerie houses and ghostly futures to botanical horror and ecological grief, these books explore the strange beauty in what frightens us. www.stelliform.press

My Bed Over the Tar Sands, from my 2015 installation metanoia, at Hamilton Ontario's Workers' Arts and Heritage Centre.

Orchid in The Seaboard Review of Books, Monday, October 20th. @stelliform.press

The Seaboard Review of Books just published Lisa Timpf's review of Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens. "..... this book skilfully blends the real and the fantastic, spending some time in the borderline between the two." www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/origins-of...

Notes from #CanCon2025 10. You can have a coming of age story at any age! Just ask @lydiamhawke.bsky.social @cclim.bsky.social @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social In fact, you can't fit all the crones and baby crones in the meeting room to share this. And yet somehow it happens. Baba Yaga knows how.

The Little Ghosts are at @canconsffh.bsky.social ! Oct. 17-19th in Ottawa, come visit us and attend a whole list of great panels and programming. We’ll also be set up in the dealer’s room with our usual array of local books, in house publications, & merch You don’t want to miss it, see you there!

Herein is contained a SUMPTUOUS BUFFET of all things Can*Con! Apply to be a vendor or panelist! Buy tickets! Bring your ponderations to the FAQ! Sign up for the newsletter! canconsffh.carrd.co

Nina Munteanu's @aliennextdoor.bsky.social interview with Simon Rose about the lovely stories in our prize-winning anthology. simon-rose.com/nina-muntean...

sometimes a teeny tiny micro hits me jussssst right, and today's from Tania Ravaei is exactly that. hope it hits a bunch of you just right too. https://www.havehashad.com/994qo

Following his involvement in Tai Shani's The Spell or The Dream at Somerset House, Mo'min Swaitat of the Palestinian Sound Archive tells Rob Corsini about how the project is preserving #Palestine’s musical and cultural history Mo’min Swaitat interviewed buff.ly/oCN45Bl

Thank you, @stelliform.press

Orchid and I will be with @stelliform.press at dReadCon in Burlington, this Saturday the 13th at 4:15 p.m. to talk about haunted Canada, and 7 p.m. at the Reading Tent, Hamilton Supercrawl. If you’re in the area, do drop by….Orchid would love to see you! supercrawl.ca/2025/08/supe...

This just arrived from @pressassembly.bsky.social - - Very much looking forward to reading Susanna Crossman's The Orange Notebooks, "a fiercely-observed novel of shimmering beauty and loss...."

Congratulations to all the stellar Through the Portal authors!

From the FF Vault: "Morpho" by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social in FF#19 If you're in the mood for: -butterflies -billionaires getting their comeuppance -underground bunkers -stolen children -poking robots in the eye www.fusionfragment.com/issue-19/

WOOHOO! "Through the Portal" edited by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and me is shortlisted for the BC Sunshine Coast Writers Book Award for 2025! #BookAward #ThroughThePortal www.scwes.ca

"Through the Portal" edited by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and Nina Munteanu is shortlisted for the 2025 BC Shunshine Coast Writers Award for #fiction #wriringaward

Thanks for posting this, @aliennextdoor.bsky.social

Orchid is on the Hamilton Review of Books Independently Published Bestsellers List - thanks, Hamilton Review of Books and the always wonderful @stelliform.press

This from dear @aliennextdoor.bsky.social....we had a blast! It was a treat to read @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social alongside @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social and Mahaila Smith. Many thanks, as always, to lovely @stelliform.press.

Late spring chaotic garden

A sumptuous, extraordinary review of Orchid Fens here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Great launch at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social, my new favourite indie bookstore....it was like a gorgeous afternoon salon. Lovely to meet @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social and @mahaila.bsky.social - very much looking forward to reading their books. Many thanks, as always, to @stelliform.press.

Toronto and GTA friends, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social is having a @stelliform.press party this coming Sunday, May 25th. Come for a beautiful, eerie afternoon. I'm reading with @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social and @mahaila.bsky.social.

So looking forward to this! Drop by to hear some brand new and not yet released spooky stuff. We'll be doing a giveaway - pick up a copy of @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social's Orchid Fens and/or @mahaila.bsky.social's Seed Beetle for a chance to win Rebecca Campbell's The Other Shore, not out till Oct!

Thanks to Linda Raedisch and the New Providence Memorial Library in New Providence, New Jersey, for bringing Orchid to the library bookshelves and to the Roma Words, Roma Worlds Book Club. @stelliform.press @romanistanpodcast.bsky.social #orchidfens #riverspirts #Romany #ecohorror #ecofiction

From The City & The City bookstore: Way Out East Series is happening in just 2 days! Rest up as it will be an exciting one! We have Greg Rhyno and his newest book, WHO BY WATER and Lynn Hutchinson Lee with ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS. Come on out to Jordan's Homeside Pub 7-9!

Gonna head to this wonderful book launch this Wednesday ... Gonna listen to some cool readings ... Gonna buy me some books ... #BookLaunch #authorreading #ecofiction #books @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social @stelliform.press