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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦

@undertow.bsky.social

Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly) https://undertowpublications.com/

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 19h ago

Hey @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com the president had 300+ Capitol One accounts closed for money laundering. Seems like it should be news. Got anything?

Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 21h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

The real enemy isn’t your buddy who is using AI to make a book cover; the enemy is the Powers-That-Be who thrive on dividing everyone, especially in the United States. Look at how divided everyone in the US got over politics over the past ten years, and it’s now trickled to other countries. No more, are you a fellow human? Nope, it’s who did you vote for? Well, then you must be a hateful asshole. Instant block.

But who’s the asshole?

Every week, the gatekeepers of horror writers have some new witch hunt. Sometimes it’s a good thing to suss out shitty publishers, editors, and agents. Yet, not ALL shitty ones are sussed out because, you know, there are consequences to getting all the shitty people shut down. Some people still like the opportunities to get published or represented even if it means going with the most despicable people because the gatekeepers didn’t get them shut down, or sometimes, don’t even notice. It all depends on who is buttering the toast.

The past few weeks have been so tedious with all the gatekeepers out in full force. They are whipping people up into a frenzy, and more division is happening when it comes to AI. Of course, the irony is that the gatekeepers are denouncing AI, yet they are doing it on Facebook, which uses AI. They are likely typing their pretentious screeds on their phones, which also use AI. They likely sell their books on Amazon, which also uses AI.

AI is here. It’s been coming since I was typing on a manual typewriter. You can let the robots win by becoming less human by cutting out all your friends, fans, family, and readers because they dared to try out AI, or you can be a human being and let people explore and figure things out for themselves.

Hollywood is already embracing AI.

Many companies use AI.

AI can be useful for tedious tasks such as creating listings on eBay or Poshmark. Do you shop or sell on those platforms? They totally use AI now, so you’d better boycott them too.

I went to the AI panel at Stokercon, and of course, most of the panelists were vehemently anti-AI. An audience member stood up and pointed out that they learned about the panel because they saw it on Sched, which is the app that the HWA/Stokercon uses, and THAT is AI. Doesn’t HWA have an anti-AI stance? Oh, but of course, THAT is okay; it’s all the other AI stuff that isn’t.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · yesterday

Many thanks to the judges @annvandermeer.bsky.social @chikodili.bsky.social @richardthomas.bsky.social Tamsyn Muir, and Madeleine E. Robins for all their time and effort.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · yesterday

Completely stunned. @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons is a World Fantasy Award finalist in Collection, and Long Fiction. Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 is a finalist in Anthology, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls is a finalist! bit.ly/4fS9xoP

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · yesterday

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · yesterday

5 buy books where? @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social little bubblegum @portersqbooks.bsky.social bookmoon @weightlessbooks.bsky.social direct from presses like @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @cursedmorsels.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social many more

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d ago

In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.

PM deal: Joe Koch's "Dead Boys Don't Cry" a cosmic-erotic slasher and queer anti-murder mystery told through interlocking stories pitches as "Cruising" meets Robbe-Grillet's "The Erasers" to Clash Books for publication June 2027.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3d ago

The latest @locusmag.bsky.social — which you should subscribe to — has interesting book deal news, including forthcoming titles from @elliottgish.bsky.social @zinrock.bsky.social and @horrorsong.blog

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Folks, Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines need your support. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Announcement: We're Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! - Lightspeed Magazine

On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3d ago

New issue of @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social 's The Dark is always a treat. Especially with new work from @seanbirnie.bsky.social www.thedarkmagazine.com

The Dark Magazine

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror, with stories selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 4d ago

Gotta love libraries.

Me holding a paperback copy of The Vorrh, by B. Catling. Cover is black and white line art depicting the moon in increasing crescent shapes circling a full moon.

Larry Blamire @larryblamire.bsky.social · 4d ago

New issue, dropping any minute now... I'm in here, along with Schow, Bissette, Winter, Zahler and... not sure who else yet. But, do you need more?

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 4d ago

From @nicholasroyle.bsky.social one of our finest writers and editors. nightjarpress.weebly.com/news

News

With one or two exceptions, individual titles used to sell out in two to three months. Now, in many cases, it takes two to three years. I don’t know what the reasons for this are. (Titles are...

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 5d ago

ICYMI, our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is available to read right this very moment! Subscribe or buy a copy and support small presses! And please, spread the word! Issue: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Subscribe: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag... Buy: ko-fi.com/s/99e6ef7ea8

Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 24, published July 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by R.L. Meza, Lora Gray, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dan Peacock.

Poetry in the issue is by Arden Baker,
H.V. Patterson, Christopher Leigh Silverberg, and Anna Madden.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

Subs for our next issue close TONIGHT! Polish it up and get it IN 🔥⏳

FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

One week left for our last submission cycle of the year! If you have a Black magic school story this is your time to shine! Don't self reject ⏳

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 5d ago

So many things are exhausting these days. I need to remind myself to stop and take a breath.

Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 2w ago

28. Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha horrific creatures / uncertain fathers (OK, well a couple of them have some certainty) / sharing whiskey with the woman-thing

The cover shows some humanoid heads against a red backdrop. But the heads are filled with dark....something. Wires? Bones? Chitinous materials?

Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 6d ago

*takes deep breath* *ululates* WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 6d ago

Former @post-gazette.com workers went on strike for 3+ years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social “owned and democratically run by its workers and members.” therealnews.com/worker-owned...

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · last wk.

Not that we needed any more reason to despise AI.

Cass Morris@cassmorriswrites.com · last wk.

Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · last wk.

Ah, 3am and wide awake. Hello darkness, my old friend.

Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · last wk.

Can't wait can't wait can't waaaaaaaaaaait!

Story Hour@storyhour.bsky.social · last wk.

This Story Hour is one for the books! Much-lauded authors Tobi Ogundiran and Isabel J. Kim return—and Isabel is even reading her Hugo-nominated “Wire Mother”! Don’t miss this one. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @tobiogundiran.com @isabel.kim www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of author Tobi Ogundiran, a Black man with hair worn curly, short, and partly shaved on the sides. He wears a tan barn jacket over a black shirt and black trousers. He leans against a brick building on a sunny day; the quality of the light and the tall, leafless trees behind him suggest that the photo was taken in autumn or winter. He has one hand in his pocket; with the other he cups his chin as if stroking his short, neat beard. With his face in three-quarters view, he looks directly into the camera, smiling like a man who knows all the secrets.

Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · last wk.

Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is locked! Subscribers get it Wednesday, July 29th, and everyone else can read it August 5th! Subscribe now and be the first to read it! havenspec.com/subscribe/

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · last wk.

AI "writer": I'll input *my* ideas and prompts in the style of Famous Writer. LOOK WHAT *I'VE* CREATED! Me: Customizing a pizza order. Look what I've created. Chef's kiss.