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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21h

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.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

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

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 10d

Sunsets, I love you 💕

Picture of pink and orange clouds at sunset, reflected in the calm river water below.

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 12d

"One of us always lies and the other always tells the truth. You must solve our riddle to pass" 😆💙

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 13d

"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.

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 24d

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!

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 25d

The search is ooooooooooover!

We're delighted to announce that @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social is our new Poetry Editor! She'll be working with Jess to finish out the issue.

Look how judgey that bonus editor is! You definitely want to impress them by sending your weirdest, best poetry.

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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 14d

✨ 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

Submission Guidelines

Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details

www.heartlines-spec.com

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 14d

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...

NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations

The International Space Station has hosted astronauts and spacefarers continually for 25 years.

theconversation.com

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 16d

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-...

A pile of the book AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES. The cover features a blue and purple bug on a black background.

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 17d

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'

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 17d

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-...

Live Can*Con — Can*Con

www.can-con.org

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 18d

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.

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Sep 19

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...

The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1

by Manuela Amiouny

www.heartlines-spec.com

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · Jan 23

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...

Obsolete Is a Word That No Longer Exists - Small Wonders

At one am, we remember how precious it is / to have lived to forty.

smallwondersmag.com

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23d

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!

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!!😍

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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 23d

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! ✍🏽

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Alt: Gif of Gintoki, as a teacher, from the anime, Gintama, pointing at the screen.

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 24d

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!

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 25d

The search is ooooooooooover!

We're delighted to announce that @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social is our new Poetry Editor! She'll be working with Jess to finish out the issue.

Look how judgey that bonus editor is! You definitely want to impress them by sending your weirdest, best poetry.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

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!

Submit to Augur Magazine

We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.

augursociety.org

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