Canadians: As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes & the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I have a new flash piece about space crabs in The Future Fire! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀https://futurefire.net/2026.77/fiction/new.html Let me know what you think!!

A New Shell, Mahaila Smith

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Reading Hemlock & Silver which is my first T. Kingfisher book and absolutely loving it.

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last wk.

just finished rereads of the Clocktaur War & Swordheart as preliminary to reading Daggerbound (DO NOT! SAY A WORD TO ME ABOUT THAT BOOK YET) & I'm reading Inventing the Renaissance which is AMAZING, so good, also did not keep me from having to spell out renn- renaissance 2x, WHAT ARE YOU READING???

Favourite typo of the week: “the vortext” Which, as we all know, is the swirl of word soup where the characters from half finished manuscripts twiddle their thumbs.

rivers solomon is my favourite author of all time, everyone should go read this!!

rivers solomon@riverssolomon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

CURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!

✨This is over 2/3 funded, let's get them the rest of the way!✨

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pre-order now in Vol. 7 of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Cindy Phan@cindyphanauthor.com · 2mo ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

If you’re looking to fill up a box of 4 chapbooks during the above/ground press bday sale, why not check out my collection of surreality cover arted by my beloved sister, Leona Smith abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/new-...

new from above/ground press: Enter the Hyperreal, by Mahaila Smith

Enter the Hyperreal Mahaila Smith $5 Put on your shoes or else you need to leave after Barbara Guest Stilted bones for your birthday are an ...

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chris johnson@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

hey, rob's above/ground press is having a sale, so now would be a good time to get copies of my chapbooks with them! Gravenhurst: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2019/06/grav... some of the raccoon poems: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2022/10/new-...

Mark Carney sold out Cuba at the UN. If you are lobbyist for a pesticide company or an oil giant looking for a handout he's got your back but a nation being crushed by an illegal blockade? Well that's another story. Call your Liberal MP and ask why. canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2026/07/07/c...

I have a new dystopian short story up on Short Editions and scattered in their short story machines all around the world. You can read it here for free: short-edition.com/en/story/sho...

50% off all ebooks until July 4th in dishonor of Amaz*n. Use code COMPOSITE at www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks.

The lake blooms with gasoline seams ... -from "In the wake of this decay" by Mahaila Smith ( @mahailasmith.ca ), in April's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poet #horror

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

3!!! More!!! Days!!

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There‘s less than a week left to submit! We accept spec flash fiction (1500 words or under), poems, and visual art. We pay 20$ CAD per accepted piece. Head over to our website for more details and feel free to reply with any questions you have about the magazine. www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

Ready for a completed series? Pick up Favour Fire now! It’s got: 🔥 sword lesbian (bi) 🔥 axe lesbian 🔥 disaster bi 🔥 everything’s on fire 🔥 oh shit! 🔥 shenanigans with a volcano 🔥 intergenerational team-up 🔥 international team-up 🔥 queer firebending dragon riders 🌈📚 #booksky books2read.com/u/mqxAa8

There‘s less than a week left to submit! We accept spec flash fiction (1500 words or under), poems, and visual art. We pay 20$ CAD per accepted piece. Head over to our website for more details and feel free to reply with any questions you have about the magazine. www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Sprawl Mag is open for submissions! Check out our guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

I absolutely love this album! Go support haylee if you like tapes!

hayhay@haylee.garden · 4mo ago

2003TC tapes available now at empyrean records!! go get em!!!

Author copies of “Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance” arrived today, and they look BEAUTIFUL. Grab your copy before the first printing runs out: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @stanchion.bsky.social

Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance | Stanchion

The Jack London/Stephen King mashup you never knew you wanted! SUICIDE VALLEY TRAIL MAINTENANCE is a thrilling horror novella that follows a park ranger as they journey into a remote, ominous valley t...

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Announcing: my next book! THE LAST INFINITY is a time travel novel full of queer characters, wonky timelines, and cute robots. Check it out here! alexisamesbooks.com/2026/05/18/a.... #WritingCommunity #indieauthor #SFF

Announcing: THE LAST INFINITY

If you are subscribed to my newsletter, you have already heard the news, but: my next book is coming out in August! (This is a fake book cover made in Canva and not the real cover. Stay tuned!) The…

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Seed Beetle is one year old today! I am sooo grateful to everyone who has come to my readings, picked up a copy, written a review or recommended it to a friend! You all mean so much to me 🫶

Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · last yr.

Today we're sending this little beetle out into the world. May it burrow into your hearts, in a nice way. Congratulations to Mahaila Smith for this beautiful, innovative and tender collection of narrative science fiction poetry! Now available everywhere! www.stelliform.press...

some above/ground press author activity: Rae Armantrout, rob mclennan, ryan fitzpatrick, Mahaila Smith, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Stephanie Bolster + Misha Solomon / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @mahailasmith.ca ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/05/some...

some author activity: Armantrout, mclennan, fitzpatrick, Smith, Saklikar, Kemp-Gee, Bolster + Solomon,

Rae Armantrout has four poems up at Granta ; rob mclennan is interviewed via Coach House for the On Occasion anthology ; there's also a heft...

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Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Emma Burnett

Writer of stories

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same. except replace the word “tea” with yarn. I am drowning in semi-complete fibre crafts.

Ruthanna Emrys@r-emrys.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am not allowed to buy more tea.

It's a #BOOKBIRTHDAY IGNORE ALL INSTRUCTIONS by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social is now available wherever books are sold #giveaway #thestorygraph buff.ly/tWj1nkj MOST EVERYWHERE #goodreads ENDS TODAY buff.ly/QpydExD US ONLY @hannahnpbowman.com

If you've read @slashnburnett.bsky.social, you're probably hungry to read MORE, and you're in LUCK--she has a book coming out in June! Check it out:

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Guess what weirdos. Adventitious alum @slashnburnett.bsky.social has a whole book coming out in June (it's like a short story but long). It's called Ex Partum, and people are really digging it. Check it out: atthisarts.com/product/ex-p...

Check out the test copies of the eco-horror novella being called a Stephen King & Jack London mashup! Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance by @colincalexander.bsky.social is available from Stanchion on pre-order sale now and everywhere you order books on June 9th! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Still proud of this poem that came out with @penumbricmag.bsky.social!

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag@penumbricmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

She copies out notes on fungi with neon pink gel pen -from "The Busiest Season for a Contemporary Witch" by Mahaila Smith ( @mahailasmith.ca ), in #Penumbric's archives at www.penumbric.com/archives/Feb... and pdf www.penumbric.com/archives/Feb... #poetry #poem #poet #nature #witch

Today! Today is Release Day for my new book, the sapphic time travel fantasy coming of age novella, The Mystery of the Bitten Peach! Get it wherever books are sold... or right from Neon Hemlock: www.neonhemlock.com/...

Continuing #ALUPoetsResist, we speak with @mahailasmith.ca about their poetry collection, SEED BEETLE (@stelliform.press), which follows a community fighting to reclaim its agency & unlearn harmful colonial practices. Learn more and listen to a reading of a poem at alllitup.ca/poets-resist...