Hey friends, my garden just got its own #Instagram! It's very empty right now, but we're hoping to post lots of nice pictures and cool gardening tips and info about plants and insects soon! If you have Insta, give us a follow @comeunityrootsgc @waterlooregion#instagram#victoriapark #willowriverpark […]

Fantastic event with Natalie Haynes at the Kitchener Public #Library tonight! I am so excited to read these books! Thanks for going with me @crystalsmusings.bsky.social and @arielkroon.bsky.social! #booksky #newbooks

Hey #ontario friends, take this chance to do something nice for the environment that is simple and fast! Right here is a petition to look into alternatives to road salt, which is toxic and polluting the Great Lakes. Given current #water issues, this is pretty important, I think […]

Still looking, sadly. I desire the unborn but, y'know, ethically. #CSA #localfood #buylocal #eggs #Farmfresheggs

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

My Calvinist ancestors are rolling in their graves because I am considering conversion to Rave Catholicism.

ccla.org/press-releas... My first thought was of an Atwoodian "Torching the Dusties"-style situation.

Our final Guest of Honour for 2026 will be author @chuckwendig.bsky.social! Chuck is a NYT bestselling author, writes games, comics, film and TV, and we are so excited that he will be joining us in the fall!

We are very excited to announced that our 2026 Agent Guest of Honour will be @hel-no-wai.bsky.social! Hana is a Literary Agent and Rights Manager at Cooke McDermid and a co-founder of BIPOC Publishing in Canada. We are super thrilled that Hana can join us next fall!

We are HYPED to announce that our 2026 Editor Guest of Honour will be @jenralbert.bsky.social - Jen is an acquiring editor at ECW Press, won a British Fantasy Award for her editing work and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards. So excited to have Jen with us next fall!

We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week! First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade was released in June from ECW Press.

Tremendous news. Solidarity forever!

You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.

No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this

Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly... #rememberremember #guyfawkes #vforvendetta #iykyk

Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first

"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."

Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]

It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

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 💙📚🪐

Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)

This bus is extremely nice but the seats are just a TINY bit off the ground and there is no footrest in front of me D:

Someone forgot their mug at #CanCon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social !

My brain was definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to energy. Thankfully I avoided saying anything embarrassing, and I'm told I actually was able to provide mildly interesting facts about historical Canadian SF and publishing!

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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.

#CanCon2025 'fit for the last day!

Gotta resist going off on a tangent about Canadian Literary nationalism and academic slapfights about thematic criticism tomorrow. I mean, it's relevant but I also don't want to speak in paragraphs. #CanCon2025 #CanLit

Prepping for my panel tomorrow ("Just let me sell a Canadian story, dammit!") and also packing up to check out in the AM. Although I plan to call and see if I can store my things up at the front desk, because they call it "luggage" for a reason.

I have changed my profile pic and banner here about three times now, and apparently they have not stuck. What gives? I feel very silly.

@sillysyntax.bsky.social I was hoping to run into you this year ar Can*Con by the way! How are you?

So busy that I took a pic of my con lewk of the day and then didn't post it XD #CanCon2025

Being at Can*Con always makes me think about being a writer. A writer of what? Sure don't know. It's been years of having the best intention to publish my thesis as a nonfic but for that to happen I'd have to... work on it. Kind of would rather do #solarpunk flashfic tbh.

Guess what I just picked up... #CanCon2025

It is #CanCon2025 Day 2 and today we have Robot Lovers, we Deal with Self-Doubt, and we Explore Space *and* the Biology of Zombies! The Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) has something for all! We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long! Come and CAVORT!

I now have had to consult 2 different hotel staff about how to turn off the light behind my headboard so I can actually sleep tonight. There is a third one on the way. Hopefully this does it. I am so tired and I cannot find this stupid lightswitch. I feel like it should be intuitive... #CanCon2025

Note to self: bring a larger piece of luggage next time. I have insufficient outfits. I also forgot a bathing suit and a hairbrush. This is slightly mitigated by the fact that I am quietly enjoying myself, although dealers' room interactions are never not awkward for me #CanCon2025

Hey @canconsffh.bsky.social folks - dining tip! There are more (cheaper) options available if you scan the QR code on the menu!

Stoked for this, also very pleased I do not have any panels to mod or present at today, because I'm going to be very tired after a day on the bus. (regretting not booking a @viarailcanada.bsky.social ticket but hey, it wasn't in my budget when I was booking to Kanata like 3 months ago) #CanCon2025

Omw to #cancon2025 and have a "layover" in Toronto and the bus terminal change is kind of blowing my mind. It used to be so terrible in the late 00s, I'm so glad it's no longer a grungy, half-abandoned hole. It's so clean and nice in here! I can sit down and plug in! #bus #transit

"Rebellions are built on hop." - Jyn Erso (probably)

@canconsffh.bsky.social, is there an official hashtag for the event next weekend?

bitch what

Suddenly, from nowhere, a dancing frog fortells the future.

Oh also I am modding two panels on Saturday (about not doing a space colonialism and then one about the end of the world, natch), and I'll be giving my insight on genre fic pub history in Canada on Sunday. @canconsffh.bsky.social

Getting hype for @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend, enough to use this account, maybe? I prefer the quietitude of #Mastodon but I shall emerge into the light amongst the peoples for the occasion!

We will be celebrating Canadian Small Presses at the Small Press Party Friday Night! This is going to be a great event for readers and writers who love our precious small (but shiny!) publishers and want to show them the love! Presses are awkward to hug but the people who run them ... less so!

It's @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend! I'm excited for: snazzy new venue; time with friends old & new; dope panels & events + fave Toronto bookstore @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social; the thrill of enthusiastic readers; copious beers; etc. Thankfully, I have a slim schedule this year. See below!