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Realizing I have a bad habit of writing the things I don’t know about a manuscript INTO the protagonist of the manuscript 🙀😭 What a wild way for my ADHD to take the wheel (it would be too boring to stop and figure it out)

Today I witnessed the strangest interpretation of As You Like It that I think I will ever see DYSTOPIAN As You Like It By intermission, I was ready to walk out By the end, I was delighted I am confused and baffled

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

I hath been blessed by the softest pillow ever

This year I’m building the writing soft skill of ✨ gratitude for the imperfect draft of work that will get you to the version you imagined all along ✨

I have found a hat that looks good on me I am now a Hat Guy 🧢

New day, new stretch goal! @othersidespec.bsky.social is only $800 away from unlocking reprints of no-longer-online or out-of-print queer stories. (No solicitations ever, $100 flat fee for reprints.) If you’re as excited about the thought of bringing back lost queer stories as we are, check it out!

Absolutely! If I didn’t believe anyone could—maybe should—start a zine, I never would have started Kaleidotrope. (I’m just this guy, y’know?) I’d like to think I’m a better editor and publisher than I was two decades earlier, but it’s an ongoing learning experience.

Piggybacking on this thread (read the whole thing btw, lots of great points) to say how important this is. If you want to start a mag, you only need 3 things: 1) the time and spoons to give it the energy it deserves 2) the desire to support writers and the writing community 3) the audacity!

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine. There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself. Many of these people are amazing— But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love. Just people.

Why did I think there were 31 days in September 😭

Why must my body remind me I am, in fact, disabled?

So many novelettes and novellas await me in the press slush 👀👀👀 I can’t wait to find the most enchanting ones ✨✨✨✨

Another day, another round of revision notes

A little problem solving for the novel before I head to WOTS today We’re fighting out why a death cult cares so much about trees 👀👀

Board game date night 💜

Spending the day tabling for Augur 💜✨ One of my favourite things to do !!

HADES II IS SO GOOD 😭

Hades II is downloading 👀✨

It may be time for me to find a graphic designer for Augur who isn’t me (They say with a resigned sigh, 6 years later than they should)

SOUP NIIIGHHHHHHTTTTTTT 🥫🥫🥫

read this story after @aijiang.bsky.social recommended it to my residency cohort and immediately started crying

I understand the desire to run solicitation-based magazines. Submissions are exhausting, a core burnout driver. But without subs-based mags, there’d be no one new to solicit 👀✨ The work doesn’t go away—it is redirected to other editors in the ecosystem, who are critical to finding new writers.

LinkedIn makes me sad

The stories I’ve heard through the years speak of so many entitled people who think the world owes them publication and are baffled by any rejection. Giving an editor crap for not buying your precious story is the peak of unprofessional.

Don't! Respond! To! Rejections!! Most definitely don't abuse submission staff for it!!

I understand the desire to run solicitation-based magazines. Submissions are exhausting, a core burnout driver. But without subs-based mags, there’d be no one new to solicit 👀✨ The work doesn’t go away—it is redirected to other editors in the ecosystem, who are critical to finding new writers.

Not me WEEPING for five full minutes of the Demon Slayer movie 😭😭😭

I am so excited that the Kjipuktuk/Halifax/Maritime community has our first speculative writing conference coming this May!! Check out the details on @tricon-hfx.bsky.social or tricon-Halifax.com!

Returning from the peace of Banff, I am realizing it is in fact hard to both work and write Shocking Unheard of

CANCEL a streaming service, SUBSCRIBE to a print zine. Doooooooo itttttttttttt.

"Growing up I didn't know anyone diagnosed with _____" It is possible that you, a literal child, would not be informed about other children's medical diagnosis or challenges.

Not me sticking my printed manuscript in the freezer because I soaked the first 10 pages of edits 😭❄️🥶

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

Came back to work today to find 99+ slack messages 😎😎😎😎😎 I refuse to give up my peace (I have not opened email yet)

Back in Toronto !!! rolling up my sleeves to get started on edits for my first 25,000 words 💪🖋️☕️ Then the NEXT 25k shall be written

I'm still taking a social media break for now (it's been great for my brain meats). But here's an announcement. I can finally announce that I will be in Volume Three of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ebooks can be preordered now. www.amazon.ca/Years-Canadi...

If I buy enough cute water bottles I’ll start spontaneously drinking enough water right That’s how it works??

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

Back in Toronto !!! rolling up my sleeves to get started on edits for my first 25,000 words 💪🖋️☕️ Then the NEXT 25k shall be written

It's a tremendous honour to have my prose poem included in Year's Best Canadian F&SF alongside all these incredible Canadian writers I admire!

Thank you for featuring The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune by Anna Bendiy in Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! This story is from our Issue 4.1 and you can read the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

A final picture from my Banff office before I hand in my key—and all 104 pages of freshly-written words ready for me to read on the long flight home. I don’t think I can describe what this experience has been.

It is the last day of Banff and this residency was everything I wanted and also I am completely not ready for it to end 💜🙏

MY WIP HAS HIT 100 PAGES !!! 🎉🙀💜😌✨🥲

As The Earth Dreams is featured in @thewalrus.ca Best Books of Fall 2025!!! 🤯🥹

Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 looks TERRIFIC!

Delighted to see my Aurora-finalist trans Bildungsroman fairytale, “And When She Shatters” included in this years Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by @ourmankoto.bsky.social 🚀🧝 ✨ & this little @heartlines-spec.com tale gets to appear alongside many friends & Augur creators !!