I’m tired of hearing talented authors being slapped down for being “voicey” while the blandest commercial prose is being elevated. I swear that “reads like chatGPT barfed it up” is a requirement for some of these gatekeepers. Write the book only you can write. Readers want that.

HOPE ALL YOU CUCUMBER GARDENERS HAVE YOUR NAKED YOUNG MEN HARD AT WORK RIGHT NOW

Holy smokes

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

Announcing the #AuroraAwars2026 finalists! Check out the full ballot at our Current Ballot page: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor... We're currently working on the voters’ package which includes digital copies of nominated works. We hope to release it in mid-May. Voting for the awards will begin in June.

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Thrilled to share that "the love song of house and lake" is nominated for this year's Aurora Awards for Best Short Story!! Congrats to all my fellow nominees ❤️ @csffa.bsky.social @onspecmag.bsky.social www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

Wu Ying’s journey isn’t over yet! The First Stop will be available July 14, and The First War arrives November 10, 2026. These hardcover editions have updated covers and interiors, along with the maps, world-building, martial arts, and spirit beasts you know from Book 1. Preorders in my bio.

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THRILLED @kickstarter.com has chosen Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 as a #ProjectWeLove. PWL status is Kickstarter's way of “highlighting brilliant examples of creativity.” Far be it from me to argue. ;) We're $50 from our next stretch goal of interior art! Maybe YOUR pledge will put us over??

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

It's live! IT'S LIVE! The Kickstarter for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four is now LIVE! Award-winning series, best of 2025, and (with your help) the biggest volume yet. Can you back early enough to land The Canucklehead tier and get to choose the dedication for the book?? Pls SHARE WIDELY!

Obsessed with how this photo looks like someone has poorly photoshopped the moon onto a photo of earth. Light in space is truly weird, I love it

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Canadian Friends! Nominations are currently open for this year's Aurora Awards, and my short story "the love song of house and lake" is eligible for the shortlist. If you need a spooky summer romance to get you through the rainy days of April, this story is for you ❤️

A new generation of children is ready to be traumatized? #animorphs

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

I have a lot of respect for critics, but if you ever use the plagiarism machine to have opinions about a book for you, I will never stop making fun of you. Bro got caught because his "review" stole whole chunks of a review from The Guardian. Because AI doesn't think! It just plagiarizes!

Wow who could have predicted this? Except for, I dunno, decades worth of sci-fi .......

Read cursive? The Newberry Library in Chicago is looking for “living Rosetta stones” to decipher its handwritten collection. buff.ly/sBOHDKL

I worked hard to become a writer. And I enjoy being a writer. I'm not here to let techbro robots take that shit away from me.

Canadian Friends! Nominations are currently open for this year's Aurora Awards, and my short story "the love song of house and lake" is eligible for the shortlist. If you need a spooky summer romance to get you through the rainy days of April, this story is for you ❤️

I could probably have phrased this better! We have our preferences but we also enjoy a variety and like to be surprised. Send us your stories! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Art by Jake Thompson.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32%. The 2026-27 budget slashes $14M from arts and culture—closing museums, killing or gutting 72 programs, and putting nearly 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Musicians, theatres, festivals—all on the chopping block. Tell your MLA to reverse course #Halifax #HaliSky

I'd really love to experience a month that will be lost to the history books. A whole month. What paradise that would be.

Want to support The First Step but can't preorder? You can still help the book reach more readers! Share it with friends, ask your library to add it to their shelves, add it to your Goodreads collection, or tag @acebookspub in any posts about it.

So grateful for an amazing article in @6ixretail.bsky.social featuring all the work Little Ghosts has done in the past 4 years and what we look forward to doing in the future! It’s a treat to look back and see how many great activities we have done in Toronto 👻🖤📚 6ixretail.com/2026/02/litt...

This can't be said often enough: what your prose will look like if you learn all your storytelling from TV and movies instead of from READING. @thelincoln.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...? #writingtips #writinglife #writingcommunity

The only thing I'm conflicted about on this is whether I am more jealous that Stanley Tucci got to hang out with the USA women's hockey team, or that the USA women's hockey team got to hang out with Stanley Tucci. 😄

I was surprised to learn that this is the all-time most popular Effin' Birds comic over the nine year run (so far).

One of my unfounded conspiracy theories about generative AI is that to fake the "intelligence" they simply packed in a very high unpredictability factor. Rogue actions feel like a choice, a decision of intellect, while predictability does not; predictability is already served by non-AI software.

My novel-in-progress Guildwood Hall has been awarded a Literary Creation Grant from the Ontario Art Council! Thank you so much @ontarioarts.bsky.social and @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social for believing in this weird, murderous, metatextual little novel 🥹

psychopomp.com/next/ Some news: Issue 99 of Fantasy will be the last issue... (For now) Read our publisher, Sean's statement for more. As heartbreaking as this news is, I'm incredibly proud of the work we've put out this year & I'm grateful for our team, esp. my co-editor @arleysorg.bsky.social!

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

It is honestly hilarious to watch all these high-dollar professionals wring their hands over something that literally does not matter even a little. It’s James Bond. He’s been nine different middle-aged dudes for 70 years with no explanation. No one is asking for one now and no one cares.

Hard same. Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.

I just read it this afternoon, after the event at Bakka. Loved it! It’s my favourite story in the anthology so far.

This is today!!! C'mon out and support some awesome Canadian SFF

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025. If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/

Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!

Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!

Hehe. Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social

They literally ruin everything they touch