Oh also here is the other pen I got in France, it is a mournful sardine

Create something beautiful out of the rubble of the past. Five of Us by Jayasri Sridha is a meditation on building, recovering, and loving. Coming to paid subscribers November 30th! $18CAD gets you a full-year subscription with the full issue on release day

If there's gotta be an apocalypse, let's make it a cosy one. On Time We Have Spent by Holly Easton focuses on maintaining friendships and community during the worst times Issue 9 coming to subscribers Nov 30!

My last poem released today is called "writing letters in our sleep" inspired by a recurring dream I have of meeting my father as a trans woman after so many years of him being in prison, and the dream letters we send to introduce ourselves #queer #poetry twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...

For me, it's probably my poem 'To Be the Change', which was released this spring from @strangehorizons.bsky.social! This was my first explicitly trans piece to enter the world; it tackles familial expectations and ancestral prophecies through a fantasy lens. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Keep Trying #art

Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !! Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨ Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞

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/

Hey kids, you know what’s really scary? 👀 Loving something with your whole heart 🖤 Yeah that’s right, Heartlines has scares too! Cosy up and let’s get spooky:

@manuelaamiouny.bsky.social hit it out of the park with The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1 in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. In the opening section a returning pilot notices something off about the person greeting her. We are on a wild ride. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

Poetry by: @brokenswanquill.bsky.social Holly Easton @mernadyerskinner.bsky.social Leah Duarte Jayasri Sridha Nonfiction by: Monique Cuillerier Laura DeHaan

It's Issue 9 and we're feeling fine! It might even be our first nature-y issue, there's zombies, sheep, all types of flora, and the slow decay of time. Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬 Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀

Hark! The skies darken, there's the chill in the wind, and figures loom on the horizon 👀 We called the corners because the Editor's are assembling tonight. West(ish) 🍃: @emilyyu.bsky.social North(ish) ☁️: @rebecca-b.bsky.social South(ish) 🔥: Jess Cho East(ish) 🌊: @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social

would be great to see more countries doing something similar www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Millie has never looked so pleased with herself.

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted 🎉 stay tuned - winners to be announced next week 👀 Check out #AugurMicros2025 to read the AWESOME subs!

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

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.

🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus 🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

Hey guys, @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social only needs a little bit more to reach their fundraising goal. They pay pro rates for fiction and $100 (!!!) for poetry and authors get an amazing piece of art for their published work www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

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.

Short Poem Winners First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146 Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1 Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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...

Sunsets, I love you 💕

I really do recommend writing poetry, because if you write it (even if you aren't satisfied with your own poems as: whom amongst us) you will start to _read_ other people's poetry with more excitement and focus and appreciation, and that is a joy.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE. No stamp necessary! Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

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.

I WANT TO READ YOUR POEMS!! Give me all your spec poetry with established relationships. My (extremely flexible) wish list: 💜Aro/Ace QPRs 🌌Cosmic Phenomena 🫀Cannibalism (IYKYK) Subs are open until Sept 30!

✨ 1 more week to go for submissions at @heartlines-spec.com ✨ Send us your SPEC fiction WITH a long-term relationship (familial or platonic or romantic)! Be sure to read the full guidelines here: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g... Happy writing! ✍️ #sff #spec #fantasy #scifi

Everything becoming privately owned and for profit is one of the things 80s/90s dystopian SF seems to have gotten right. How fucking bleak. theconversation.com/nasa-will-sa...

AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers. 🔗 AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

If you want in-person editing feedback, sign up for the Blue Pencil Cafe with @rebecca-b.bsky.social. Plus she'll be at the 'How to Start a Magazine and Keep Your Mind Intact' panel (where she'll be laughing through the tears) and moderating 'Best Friends on a Long Arc'

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social's schedule is officially out! Heartlines will be stationed in the vendor room for the weekend! Come say hi and talk about short fiction! www.can-con.org/events/live-...

Working on edits for a short story and slowly realizing that I'm probably going to have to change the POV character to make it work how I want......😩 Top 10 writing betrayals.

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.

If at first you don't succeed, try try try try try try try again. The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1 by Manuela Amiouny is now free to read! Travel through space with Terese as she tries to find home. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-long-way...

If you need a vision of a future that isn't dystopian, read this poem by Manuela Amiouny. It helps me find hope, sometimes, when we're in dark places: smallwondersmag.com/piece/obsole...

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

It's Sept. 15th, and you know what that means? It means it's halfway through September and Heartlines Spec/@heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions! What are we looking for? ✅ Spec! 🪄👽🧝🏽🐲🌌👾⚔️ ✅ A long-term relationship at the core (familial/platonic/romantic) 🫂 Send us your stories now! ✍🏽

I WANT TO READ YOUR POEMS!! Give me all your spec poetry with established relationships. My (extremely flexible) wish list: 💜Aro/Ace QPRs 🌌Cosmic Phenomena 🫀Cannibalism (IYKYK) Subs are open until Sept 30!

Got a short story, flash fic, or poem sitting in your drafts? 👀📖 Submissions for Augur Magazine Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5 are ✨ OPEN! ✨ Visit augursociety.org/submissions/ to read our guidelines and submit!

Peter Weir's Master and Commander (2003) has come to be recognized as a masterful historical epic. It's also not so different from an excellent Star Trek movie: #StarTrek reactormag.com/master-and-c...

This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories." Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤 Preorders and contributor list at the link below! houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30! THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows! More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!

Our intro thread has been going around again, but we've been busy since March... so, it's time for a new pinned thread! We are OTHERSIDE, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! We open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for more! 🪐🗡️🌈 (1/5)