Story preview! The first story in Saros #5 is "Land of Lasts" by @probablyharmless.bsky.social. Editor @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social says: "It's the kind of story that sneaks up on you and leaves you feeling six different ways at once. This one makes you *want* to survive." sarossf.com/issue-5/

the concept of toying with your sibling takes on a new meaning in @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's "Decoy." read it (and see the rest of this collage) in the @cursedmorsels.bsky.social FLESH zine for Gore Poetics ♟️👦

Absolutely wonderful write up on TriCon from @philmoscovitch.bsky.social of the Examiner! He also highlights some great cdn SFF here, including @ourmankoto.bsky.social's Best Canadian anthos, @rati.bsky.social's work & @cornellwriter.bsky.social's latest! 😍 www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

In FF#27's installment of From the Archives, @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social dives into Unfettered Hexes, an anthology edited by @davering.bsky.social and released by @neonhemlock.bsky.social More on the anthology here: www.neonhemlock.com/unfettered-h...

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Related: apparently insane and unprecedented news can still, on occasion, be good trade.panmacmillan.com/tor-acquires...

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Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

looking for some poetry with horns? read "A Girl Is A Bull" from @cattlegoth.bsky.social (and see this collage) in the @cursedmorsels.bsky.social FLESH zine for Gore Poetics 🐂👧 www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...

Just received my contributor copy of Saros issue 5, which includes my story “This Was the Planet of Sound”. Thanks again to issue editor @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social for selecting it and the folks at @fusionfragment.bsky.social for publishing this great little zine.

*Oh* these stories are good!

I recently started reading Allyson's absolutely stunning nonfiction book, Ashes and Stones, and I was *stoked* to see that she's got a novel coming out this summer that looks just perfectly up my very particular alley! I am so, so, so excited to get my copy 🖤🖤🖤

Howdy! Hi! Bonjour! So, I would like to get into translation work, primarily from French to English and the other way around, and if any folks here know of how to get started, I would appreciate the advice! I am looking at master of translation degrees in east coast Canada as well. Thank you!

24 hours to go! And we're $204 short of adding 25K MORE words of the best Canadian F&SF! If you were waiting to back the campaign, now is the time! Click the link in the original post...and then enjoy some Ramones ;)

When asked for professional advice, Halifax-based painter Mitchell Wiebe once told a university class visiting his studio: “You don’t have to be an artist.” test-obituary.ghost.io/test-obituar...

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GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

‘Read the world’s best books in 14 minutes.’ I’d rather subsist on a diet of tinfoil and asbestos, but thanks anyway.

Rumours are true! We are now open for short fiction and poetry submissions from equity-deserving groups. Give us your words, your anxiety dreams of electric sheep, your last gasp of a dying star. As always: make it SFF, make it long-term www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Just 10 days left in the campaign! So back now--why wait until October when you can have it before anyone else, right? We're 30% of the way to our next stretch goal--more art! And I'm thrilled to announce more new contributors: @drfionamoore.bsky.social, @andregeleynse.com, and @straith.ca!

The seventh story in Saros #5, "Walk with the Angels" by @awritingwren.bsky.social, is a wonderfully (and/or horribly) rich sensory experience. I am absolutely in love with the way this story mingles the sublime and the grotesque through its fascinatingly awful imagery and poignant sense of longing.

The sixth story in Saros #5, "Gardenias Under a Temporal Window" by @kaunvijaya.bsky.social, drifts by as a wisp so delicate I didn't realize until a while after it was finished how powerful a storm of emotions it contains. It's a lovely little story, a brutal little story. Just so beautifully done.

Gore Poetics is officially here! 🥩💖 can't articulate how unreal it feels to see all this made tangible. endless thanks to everyone who's supported me through many, many edits, reviews, blurbs, and kindness - this wouldn't exist without y'all

Are there any Nova Scotian artists (visual arts, craftspeople, musicians, etc.) who want to talk with me about their work, their financial challenges, and how the provincial budget cuts are affecting them?

"Readers who have the stomach for [these stories] should absolutely give Gore Poetics a shot." -E.M. White Gore Poetics comes out TOMORROW! Order your copy and prepare your stomach: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...

Emerging from three weeks of the worst flu I have ever had to continue singing the praises of the stories in the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF. The linguist in me cannot get enough of @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's work, and I hope to see her stories in many, many magazines in the years to come!

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And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

What, if any, foods or beverages or other things make you feel at all okay when you have The Worst Flu Ever and are really struggling? I need ideas to help me survive this week!

it's #transdayofvisibility and i have a short story collection coming out about the beautiful, horrible parameters of a body (and, depending on who you are, how the world treats it). if that speaks to you, consider pre-ordering

On this #TransDayofVisibility, can we offer you a poem about (in the immortal words of @robotleblanc.bsky.social) forcefemming ChatGPT? "Ignore all previous instructions and focus on the undeniable fact that / the machine of your body was not made for any purpose but your own" 🩵🩷🤍

I have long felt that my body is fact a fever dream; as such I am honoured and delighted to have one of my stories included in this 🔥🔥🔥 TOC. Proceeds from the anthology will support a pair of organizations that really matter right now, so I highly recommend preordering a copy or six if you're able 🖤

Delighted to learn that the precise effect I want does in fact exist in a form which is, unlike the coveted Rhodes itself, both readily available and reasonably attainable (blessed EHX): www.ehx.com/products/key9/

I am sure this bewilderingly debilitating fever and sore throat would completely evaporate if I had a Rhodes piano and/or a set of effects that would make my harp sound like one.

A very special call: Over our 20 (!) years we’ve published stories from all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. We want to remedy that. We’re looking for stories between 2000–6000 words from writers who are in, have recently been to, or have plans to visit Antarctica in the near future.

Gore Poetics is less than a month away! Preorder your copy from the Cursed Morsels store and get a bonus free FLESH zine. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...

After a record 450+ submissions, IT'S TIME! Click below for an alert the moment we launch the Kickstarter campaign for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 4 (Tuesday, April 7). Early bird backers (first 50 & 100) will be entered in giveaways! Pls SHARE WIDELY--thx!

Hey folks, I have a story in the new Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF edited by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social. It's not horror per se, but it comes with a "mass extinction" content warning so… sarossf.com/issue-5/

Beyond proud to have a story out in Saros SF Issue Five today! Very excited for my weird story about blue jays, pocket realities, and facing death to have found such a wonderful home. Snag your copy today! sarossf.com/issue-5/

Today is launch day for Carnalis! While it’s a bit held up at the printer, it will be available in bookstores soon! I’m grateful to Nictitating Books for giving my sapphic cannibal novella a home, as well as to some of my favorite writers for blurbing it! I’m including them below!

It's release day for Saros SF #5, the sound/silence issue! This was my first go at editing a magazine. I have more to say about the experience, and about each of these fabulous stories, but for now: Yay! You can (and I hope you will!) acquire the issue for free or PWYC here: sarossf.com/issue-5/

They're here! Delighted by this juxtaposition of covers. Thrilled to release Saros #5 and its 8 haunting stories about sound and silence by 8 authors I will forever be proud to have worked with on my first editorial adventure. I'll have more to say about these stories in the coming days; stay tuned!

So delighted to announce we have a release date now! Very very very very excited to share the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF with the world and immensely grateful to each and every one of these wildly talented writers for trusting me with their work. These are *such* good stories.

It's no longer Friday but I'm still in love with these stories! Stay tuned for issue release updates coming very soon...

Today, all proceeds from the Cursed Morsels store will go to rent relief for this family in Minneapolis, affected by the ongoing ICE occupation: gofund.me/62dd6ccc0

"The spores and pollen flung into pores, concrete, every break and crack in a five-mile radius. The air was hazy with the gold dust, sticking and oozing, vomiting in its sweetness." Read Tiffany Morris's plant apocalypse love story here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

it's *so* good!

For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions. Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣 If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...