SO lucky to have been an asst. editor for this dreamy and limina issue for @quratdar.bsky.social 's poem about everyone's favourite destroyer Godzilla 🦖🔥💞 go check it out along with many other amazing pieces ✨

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-... 🧵

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... 👇

📌 FYI... -Aug 1st-31st: We'll be open to subs from all creators. -Aug 1st-Sept 15th: We'll be open to subs from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators and creators residing in Canada/Turtle Island. Visit augursociety.org/submissions/ for more sub guidelines! We can't WAIT to read your works! 📚

📣 Calling all SFF writers... We're now OPEN for submissions of 🌟 Short fiction 🌟 Flash fiction 🌟 Poetry for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5! Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

So stoked to have my experimental Wikipedia superhero article featured in this issue!! Eavesdrop and its lovely team + contributes do AMAZING work, so please check out all their issues 🤩🤩

Issue 4 is here! ✨ Shadows from beyond. Heroic comics. Mothers upon mothers. Betta fish. Girlhood romance. Jackasses. Best friendships created and dissolved. All this and more in the Echoes issue of Eavesdrop. Check it out at eavesdropmagazine.ca/issue-4 Cover image: “Flowers” by Rotem Diamant

Outside of Augur, Lois enjoys giving her dog furcuts, going on foodie adventures, and browsing antique shops! 🛍️

Lois began as a First Reader for Issues 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 3 (check out the new stories on our site 👀)! She'll also be an Assistant Editor for upcoming Issues this year! 📚

Meet @loislkchan.bsky.social, our incredible Assistant Editor! 😻

Always find it absolutely wild when I see people reading a little life in public .... 😨

I've got a story coming out in the next issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!! LAST TRAIN FROM DEADWALL is what happens when a tired reanimated skeleton just trying to escape an eternity of indentured servitude in his capitalist empire finds himself in the midst of a battle between warring gods. 💀💀

Vancouver friends! ✨️ I'm launching Myth next week at Iron Dog Books with Natalie Lim and Lois Chan! Would love to see you there! 🌸💐❤️ Also I have stickers! 👀

🌸 Ravens in bloom

🎙️ MURMURSTATIONS EP 6 with @premeemohamed.com is NOW LIVE! 🚨 Join Sonia Urlando & @premeemohamed.com as they chat about the connection between horror & intimacy in her two stories, Some Solace For Thy Woes & The Youngest Son Misses His Boat To The Crusades! 🔗 Link in bio!

Augurians!🚨 Murmurstations podcast Ep 6 DROPS on April 17th!🎙️ Join Sonia Urlando & @premeemohamed.com as they talk about unforgettable characters & apocalypse in her stories, Some Solace For Thy Woes & The Youngest Son Misses His Boat To The Crusades! 📚✨ Subscribe to Murmurstations on Spotify! 🎧

CANLIT & SFF OPEN CALLS ⬇️ Augurians - submit your work!

doing a writing project w friends rn and responded to the accusation that my egregious use of em dashes in dialogue is NOT bc I used to write fanfics (I did) but bc whenever i dont know how to finish a sentence I'll just give up halfway and pass it off as an em dash cutting off the words 😌😌😌

found this absolutely gorgeous 1988 edition of beloved at the used bookstore AHHH

Our next free piece is ONE, TWO, WE, OUR, by @marisca.bsky.social. The coziest witchy cottage filled with the quiet noise of creatures and the life of the natural world. Take a deep breath, and relax into the beauty of it. Check it out here: augursociety.org/one-two-we-o...

Our first free piece is THE WINDKEEPER by @srinivassimo.bsky.social. Dusty plains, new connections, and a very good doggo. Featuring this GORGEOUS piece of art from Jacob Tonellato! Check it out here: augursociety.org/the-windkeep...

Hello wonderful readers big news today 🌟✨TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 3 IS RELEASED!✨🌟 Get ready for fish-gyals, hellhound puppies, food, family, friendship, & more. 💖 Subscribers will find the issue in their inboxes within 24 hours, and 2 pieces are free on our site RIGHT NOW. 😍 (scroll for more 👀)

I have a new story out today in Singapore Unbound, about the superstition surrounding the number 4 in Chinese culture and the avoidance of bad luck singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

made the mistake of drinking coffee ytd and stayed up until 3:30am but hey at least I came up w two new story concepts while trying to sleep ✨✨✨

thinking again of this work of art. this work of shattering grief, of enduring love. a work that is somehow, at the same time, a kind of magical play

Not me buying 4 discounted books the past week on two separate trips to the bookstore... But 4 books for $50? And no GST?? kinda worth it 🥴

Reading log: finished Ducks by Kate Beaton!

Finished parable of the talents. Not okay but also awed by butler's geniussssssssssss

🪶 Augurians! Augur Issue 7.3 is 🌟 NOW LIVE! ✨ Check out... 🚀 Extraterrestrial discoveries 💫 Celestial ancestors 🪸 Oceanic tragedies 🦾 Cyborg operations & more gothic, complex tales 🔮 Subscriber copies arrive SOON... & you can read 3 FREE pieces on our site NOW! augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

Increasingly becoming more and more obsessed with Octavia Butler. I need to buy and read all her books!!!!

maybe I'll use bsky as my reading log... goodreads and storygraph was always too much work lol

DID YOU KNOW! If Augur Press opens to long form submissions, we'll take subs from AROUND THE WORLD of: ✨ Novellas ✨ Novelettes ✨ Poetry Books That's right! We're not JUST a Canadian press! But we need: 💵 $19k CAD / $13.7k USD - Poetry subs 💵 $21.5k CAD / $15.5k - Fiction subs We're at $16.1k !

AUGURIANS !! ✨ 🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🚨 Back us on Kickstarter to fund -> 🪶 TWO more years of @TalesFeathers 📚 A NEW SFF press from Augur 🎙️ Podcast production There's TONS of rewards—incl. EARLY BIRDS! But if you can't give 💰, shares are JUST as good! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

Augurians! It’s day 19! & YOU FUNDED A NOVELLA!!! 😭🤯 We hit GOAL 4 & will solicit @thesuiway.bsky.social! THANK you!! Now—what’s ahead?! If we make… $1.8k CAD / $1.3 USD - Podcast $2.8k / $2k - Poetry book 2 + poetry subs $5.8k / $4.1k - Novella 2 + novella subs aka. Longform subs are IN REACH!

JOIN THE AUGUR TEAM✨🤩 We need 4-6 First Readers to help find glorious new work for both @TalesFeathers AND @augurmag We want to hear from folks across intersections & experience—especially Black, Indigenous, & Latinx applicants. Don’t self-reject! www.augurmag.com/join-augur-m...

Augurians, here's a year-end 🎁 for you... Augur 6.2, The Vast Fantastic, is LIVE! It includes... 🐉 righteous defender dragons 🪶 poet creatures ✨ neighbourly gods and friendly myths Read 8 free samples here: augurmag.com/augur-issue-... Subscribe for 22 new pieces here: augurmag.com/subscribe/