So excited to share this story with the world! And @augursociety.bsky.social is a dream publication - I’m so honored to be among the amazing authors in this issue!

It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them. Come meet some new reads.

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

It was great to meet or reconnect with @loukoren.bsky.social @davering.bsky.social @rebecca-b.bsky.social @angrykem.bsky.social Nathan Caro Fréchette @ayshaufarah.bsky.social KM Greyburn and @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social at CanCon 2025 last weekend. Great to interact with such cool folks!

Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now! Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.

#CanCon2025 photo dump!! What a wonderful experience full of long-awaited in-person meetings, new connections, entertaining/enlightening panels, and lots of laughs (also a fair bit of nerves being a first-time volunteer, but hey, I did the thing and it turned out alright 👌)

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 💙📚🪐

New T&F story is NOW LIVE! Check out “The Last Chance Locksmith” by @niallspain.bsky.social! ☕🔥 Settle in for a cozy fantasy story about an artificer, her coffee, and the unfortunate adventures that keep rocking her bunker! Read it NOW! 🔗 Link in bio.

Did I buy too many books at @canconsffh.bsky.social this weekend? Yes, of course, as always. Did I also very kindly get lent a book to read? Also yes. Did I get home and immediately start rereading a book I've already read several times? ...well, I shan't say

I had a fantastic time at CanCon on my very first panel with @andregeleynse.com and @rebecca-b.bsky.social! Yall made it easy and I had an absolute blast! ✨️

The Brookstreet Hotel May Have Been Constructed Over a Hellmouth: a post-#CanCon2025 event report (1) frequently very nice, but sometimes also unsettling wall art in both the corridors and the rooms my bathroom had art like a little praying guy being flushed down the toilet!

I don’t quite know how to capture my feelings about #CanCon2025. Gratitude, joy, relief, hope, fatigue, glitter(!), love, the magnitude of something freed from the past and sparkling brighter toward the future. Thank you all for coming. For caring. For being kind. 💖💖💖 Now to sleep. 😴

Can we close the gap? Can we help the global writing community? ko-fi.com/africantrans...

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We are pleased to share that Manahil Bandukwala's Heliotropia has been named the 2025 Archibald Lampman Award winner! This year's jury says, "With form and language that surprises and delights, Manahil Bandukwala has crafted a perfect set of love poems for our current moment." Congrats, Manahil!

it's #portfolioday! I'm Dan, I'm a concept artist/illustrator that often posts dailies, but I also do environments, character concepts, and commissions. & I'm available for work, email or DM me if you're interested! ✉️ [email protected]

Ey up #PortfolioDay I'm a Comics Artist and Writer, and Illustrator, from the UK. I mostly make historic vibes work and enjoy working with bright colours and bold shapes. Available from November. Folio - fionacreates.net Comic - ladiesoftheknightcomic.com email - [email protected]

Hello again #PortfolioDay ! I'm Anya. I am a freelance illustrator with a love for patterns and historical themes. I am always open for work and would love to find some new illustration projects! ✉️ [email protected] anyachalina.myportfolio.com

INTO THE DARK's Kickstarter has only 67 hours left! You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's upcoming dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters'. Back now for early copies, exclusive art, & more! "Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster." 💙📚🩸📚🤏

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

He's SO good. Also the only letterer that I recognize on sight.

I'm on a panel with some of the coolest people ever! These folks are so knowledgeable and I'm so excited to learn from them! (and to talk about how much I love Elden Ring 😆) Come see us talk about ways to tell stories in video games 🎉✨️

Tabbouleh for breakfast 💪

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 3:00 pm. Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Dunton Tower 1811, the Gordon Wood Lounge Email: [email protected] bring writing to share

Just thinking about how great Kendra Saunders is.

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers So cool that I got to go in such different directions with all of these.

don't forget the fall edition of the ottawa small press book fair Nov 22nd! + pre-fair reading the night prior at Anita's Cafe in Vanier, / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @thesedayszine.bsky.social @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

B: I think I'm turning into a mushroom. Me: extant... B: ... Me, with nothing: ... B: "Decay exists as an extant form of life" is that what you were looking for??? Me, dying laughing: yeah...

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Trying to find a citation for the origin of a specific linguistic theory and every single source I can find is in German, a language I cannot read 😭😭😭

Here are my top 10 dog sneezes!

Me: I should return some of these university library books, I'm not actively using ALL of them, and it's getting hard to find the ones I need Also me: But what if I have a party when I hit 30 books

✨ Augur Editor update ✨ The application deadline has been extended to SEPT 26th! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to apply!

Hey this is the one I have! It's so beautiful

very nice! my first ever shortlist for the Ottawa Book Awards, for On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press); ; congrats to Manahil, Nina, Paul and Chuqiao for also shortlisting! / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social ; ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

HEADS UP folks, there is ONE WEEK LEFT in our extended call for submissions from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators! ✨ We want to see your wonderful words! Please don't self-reject. 💚

We've got another @talesfeathers.bsky.social story for you this Tuesday! 😻 “Galina" by Carol B. Duncan is a mythical tale of a fish-gyal, rising tides, and ancestral memory! 🧜🏾‍♀️🌊 Read it NOW! ⬇️ augursociety.org/galina/

The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30! THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows! More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE! 💫 Check out... 🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot 🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star & plenty more! & you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW! 🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

ok this is super exciting. The two Kurdish novels I’ve read — Every Fire You Tend and The Last Pomegranate Tree — were both terrific. Maximum support to Henar Press

"There is so much power in making space for how another person moves through the world—or in letting new people unlock something in you. You never know what might come of it." @mollytempleton.com reviews EK Johnston's YA sci-fi Sky on Fire: reactormag.com/book-review-...

GTA Augurians, you're invited to celebrate the LIMITED EDITION print run of Augur Magazine Vol 6! 🎊 🕐 Thursday, August 21st from 7-9:30PM 📍 Society Clubhouse, 967 College St, Toronto You can expect... 👇

New T&F story NOW LIVE! Check out "The Shape of Life" by @jotelle.bsky.social 🐌🦋 It's a story of love, grief, and the act of changing forms to hold on and to let go. Read it NOW! 👇 augursociety.org/the-shape-of...

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I'll be coming down to Toronto 💥just for this💥! Come to our launch, get some cool stuff, hear some cool people read, and perhaps experience a rare Toronto Louise sighting 👀

Doing a signing at Nefarious Comics in Ottawa on August 16!

@talesfeathers.bsky.social submissions are open! Send us your tales, I'm so excited to read them 💚💐📚