We have RE-OPENED for short story and poetry submissions from Canadian/Turtle Island writers 🍁🍁🍁 Our extended period will be open until October 18th. We'd love to see: ❣obvious Sci-Fi or Fantasy elements ❣ relationships shown on-the-page heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...

I'm looking to make art! Anyone need a pretty cover for one of your upcoming books/Anthologies/chapbooks/etc? I love working with indie authors and also with presses. Here are a few Science Fiction examples I've worked up recently. Either DM me here or contact me through addi.studio And please RT!

Hey, friends. You home today? You hangin? Join us on twitch.tv/csecooney from 3-4:30 today, to hear some of our great SFFH readers give you snippets & drams of their incredible novels/novellas. Sort of a Halloween feeling... AND ALL THE OTHER FEELS TOO! Let us keep you company on a Sunday afternoon!

If you see this, recommend a short book Twice Spent Comet by @ziggyschutz.bsky.social I absolutely loved the blend of fantasy storytelling and gritty prison space vessel.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you see this, recommend a short book The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed

I’ve got some time, so here’s a thread about this painting, its story and why it’s one of the greatest Canadian modern art stories 🧵

Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Canadians of a certain age will understand.

Also: “A New Shell” by @mahailasmith.ca (art by L.E. Badillo), #ecoSF flash fiction, moral dilemma and environmental pillaging. futurefire.net/2026.77/fict...

A New Shell, Mahaila Smith

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Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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 mo.

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 · 2mo 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 · 3mo 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

Sinners Phan@cindyphanauthor.com · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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 · 5mo 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 · 6mo 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!

haylee@haylee.garden · 5mo 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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