Anathema: Spec from the Margins Relaunches locusmag.com/2026/04...

I think my parents are more excited about my first time travelling on the train in business class, than me going to give my first solo conference presentation lmao. We are a family of correct priorities 😆

New year means new monthly story releases! @pscwillis.bsky.social was an absolute joy to work with and I'm so happy everyone gets to read their incredible story now! This piece is full of heart and humour, and also a regular park 🌳🌌✨️ Go read it 🫵

Dear readers, TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊 Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀 Subscribers can find the issue in their inbox within 24 hours, & we have 2 FREE pieces on our site RIGHT NOW! Click the link below!⬇️

Assigned closing talk at my first solo conference presentation??? Send help and also confetti, but only if you throw it scared

And HUGE congrats to @ennuinox.bsky.social, whose story A Recipe for Immortality (Serves 2), published in our own Volume 3, is also on the Recommended Reading List! So well deserved. Follow the link below if you haven't read the story (or just want to read it again; we certainly do!) ✨

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

are you in Toronto or the GTA? do you like soup? then, come out to the launch of The Iron Garden Sutra on February 28, 3p.m. at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social! the launch will also serve as the first-ever live recording of the murmurstations podcast! *there will be soup, book signing, and treats!

Genuinely one of the best compliments is when someone thinks your nails are acrylics and asks you where you got them done

If anyone's been hearing me talk about "the astronaut story" & how much I want everyone to read it, here it is!!! I fell in love with this piece INSTANTLY in submissions & have been talking about it nonstop since. It was such a joy to work with Stefan on this piece and everyone should GO READ IT NOW

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

Yall ever read a book and just gone. Hm. If any single person who knows me well reads this they will instantly know who my favourite minor character is huh

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

✨PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ At long last, my Great Gatsby retelling - a psychological thriller/drama graphic novel filled with vintage glamour - is getting published! #GreatGatsbyIIE

this weekend in Ottawa! the ottawa small press book fair! friday night reading + saturday fair,

less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon, smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

❄️🌨❄️ FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW ❄️🌨❄️

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...