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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 1d

Brooklyn! Come on by Hive Mind Books for F*cked Up Fairy Tales! Raise a festive autumnal drink (iced because: global warming) and hear from these AMAZING writers: SASKIA NISLOW, Author of Root Rot, SHARANG BISWAS, Author of The Iron Below Remembers, and SYR HAYATI BEKER, with What A Fish Looks Like!

Flyer for F*cked Up Fairy Tales reading at Hive Mind Books, Tuesday October 7th, 7pm. Introducing all three authors with their books: Saskia Nislow, Root Rot; Syr Hayati Beker, What A Fish Looks Like, Sharang Biswas, The Iron Below Remembers.

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 2d

This is so nice! Thank you for always mentioning the press and our books!

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 5d

Congratulations @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social! What a spectacular achievement! 🎉

Sarena Ulibarri @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social · 6d

My book Another Life, published by @stelliform.press, won the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards for the Sci-Fi category!

Here’s the full list of winners and finalists: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #booksky 🪐📚

NM Writers, supporting and connecting the literary community. NM Book Awards, Fiction -Sci-Fi, Winner, Another Life, Sarena Ulibarri, Stelliform Press

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Sarena Ulibarri @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social · 6d

My book Another Life, published by @stelliform.press, won the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards for the Sci-Fi category!

Here’s the full list of winners and finalists: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #booksky 🪐📚

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 6d

November is Trans Awareness Month. But that title seems ill-fit to current politics, so I chose a better one for the Itch book bundle I'm hosting Nov 1-14.

Authors, if your MC is trans (yes including nonbinary!) and your book meets the criteria bellow, let me know and I'll DM you the sign up form!

Trans People Take on The World Itch Bundle

Background: trans flag

Text: Eligibility & Genre:
At least one Main Character is trans (yes this includes nonbinary!)
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.
Your MC combatting transphobia is welcome, but not required.
MC's who are incidentally trans solving murders, defending their kingdom, curing cancer, fighting a zombie apocalypse etc are very welcome. (So SFF, Thriller/ Mystery/ Crime/ Historical/ Drama etc.)
Romance and NSWF involving a trans MC is welcome.

Categories: Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 7d

With shoutouts to @syr.bsky.social @fabulistmag.bsky.social and @stelliform.press 📚 💕

T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 10d

It's my newsletter! I finally wrote another one

'Oct. 2 reading + Oak story + Oooh, rain'. buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

a cartoon drawing of a tree with a bunch of flowers around it

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a tree with a bunch of flowers around it

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 6d

ICYMI: a Stelliform newsletter went out this morning with details on the upcoming Little Ghosts Festival, Syr Hayati Beker's amazing interview in Foreword Reviews, and forthcoming Stelliform releases!

Check it out here: www.stelliform.press...

Not on our list? Sign up here: www.stelliform.press...

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 7d

The Little Ghosts Festival is coming up this weekend, October 4th & 5th, 12pm-5pm, at the Tranzac Club at 292 Brunswick Ave in Toronto.

We'll have old and new spooky books including Rebecca Campbell's new collection THE OTHER SHORE. Plus drop by the eco-horror panel on Sunday!

Little Ghosts Festival: I'm a Vendor! Saturday and Sunday October 4th & 5th 12pm-5pm Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave

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Kim Novak - The Reading Rx @cfpharmd.bsky.social · 9d

You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby is a fabulous #Horror novella that makes you question how your collective accumulation leaves a mark on the world. #SSBA2025 semifinals. #BookSky 💙📚
@stelliform.press @rabusby.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Book cover of You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby. A China teacup with a hedgehog design against a sporulating backdrop.

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 11d

YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (@stelliform.press) by @rabusby.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!

#SSBA #SSBA2025

The image is of the YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD book cover against a greenish gray faded background. Image reads: Horror Semifinalist YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by R.A. Busby

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 13d

BOOKS & BREWS is BACK THIS WEEKEND!

Sept 27th, we're at Leftfield Brewery in LESLIEVILLE! Come support great local indie literature and grab a beer brewed by some of the best in the game (or one of their great non-alcoholic options).

Support local!

BOOKS & BREWS, Sept 27th, at leftfieldbrewery in LESLIEVILLE. Attending publishers and vendors are: @augursociety @hopelessromanticbooks @stelliformpress @dundurnpress @bookhugpress @aaronmillardillustration

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 16d

Coming up real soon! October 4 & 5 at the Tranzac Club in Toronto: Little Ghosts Festival!

Stelliform will be there with authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, and Syr Hayati Beker!

Come for the best indie books, readings, and panels, plus indie horror films!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 20d

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

Publishers Marketplace announcement for CACIQUES and MAQUECHES with Stelliform Press forthcoming in 2026.

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Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca · 20d

Guys!!! I made it!!

Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 20d

Thrilled to see 3 Stelliform authors and lots of friends on the TOC for the Year's Best Canadian F&SF volume 3!

Find these works published by Stelliform in this year's Year's Best:
"Our Time and Space" by @mahaila.bsky.social, and
"Desolation Sounds" by @geoffreywcole.bsky.social

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 20d

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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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 20d

Thrilled to see 3 Stelliform authors and lots of friends on the TOC for the Year's Best Canadian F&SF volume 3!

Find these works published by Stelliform in this year's Year's Best:
"Our Time and Space" by @mahaila.bsky.social, and
"Desolation Sounds" by @geoffreywcole.bsky.social

🎉

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 20d

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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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 20d

Reviewer Luke Sutherland loved WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE so much he gave it a star and asked author Syr Hayati Beker for a full interview feature.

This interview is smart, funny, and incisive, much like Beker and their debut novella.

Find it here:
www.forewordreviews....

Screenshot from the title page of Foreword Reviews' interview with Syr Hayati Beker, with inset quote that reads: Syr is a very, very special thinker, and this conversation, which is fascinating in a heartbreaking way, will keep you thinking for weeks.

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 23d

It means so much to me to share that Green Fuse Burning won the Indie Ink Writing the Future We Need Award for Indigenous Representation by an Indigenous Author!!! 💚🌿

Announcement page for the Indie Ink Award for Writing the Future We Need: Indigenous Representation by an Indigenous author. On the right is the brilliant and amazing Latine category winner “Sordidez” by E.G. Condé and on the left is Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris.

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to my good, good Judy on winning one of the Indie Ink Award for Writing the Future We Need! SORDIDEZ is an amazing piece of literatrue, @boriscrito.bsky.social is an beautiful author/human, and @stelliform.press addresses the changing world with grace and perspective.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

The Indie Ink Awards category "Writing the Future we need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author", with book covers displaye. Sordidez by E.G. Conde is highlighted as a winner, with a cover that features a pale woman amid leaves in a watercolor bleed of red and blue at the edges.

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 23d

What a surprise to discover that two Stelliform books took home top prizes at the Indie Ink Awards this weekend! Congrats to two amazing writers and their incredible books: Tiffany Morris and E.G. Condé for best Indigenous and Latinx/Latine Rep respectively! See more here: indiestorygeek.com/a...

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 24d

THE JAGUAR MASK @stelliform.press by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!

#SSBA #SSBA2025

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Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social · 27d

Orchid and I will be with @stelliform.press at dReadCon in Burlington, this Saturday the 13th at 4:15 p.m. to talk about haunted Canada, and 7 p.m. at the Reading Tent, Hamilton Supercrawl. If you’re in the area, do drop by….Orchid would love to see you! supercrawl.ca/2025/08/supe...

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · Sep 8

DReadCon is next weekend - tickets only $5 at the door.
I've been lucky enough to hear Lynn Hutchinson Lee tell some creepy northern Ontario stories in person - stories like the one at the heart of ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS. Come to the "Haunting Canada" panel at 4:15 in the Red Quill Room!

DreadCon Canada Schedule of Events
Harvester Room

DreadCon Canada Schedule of Events
Red Quill Room

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · Sep 7

Tonight! Come to the first Lit Live of the season at The Staircase. Hear Mahaila Smith read from SEED BEETLE, and many other wonderful writers read from wonderful works!

Sunday Sept 7-9pm
At The Staircase, 27 Dundurn N, Hamilton
PWYC $10 INCLUDES BEVERAGE
Theme: ✨ Mystery/Clarity/Light✨

Lit Live Readings
Sunday Sept 7-9pm
At The Staircase, 27 Dundurn N, Hamilton
PWYC $10 INCLUDES BEVERAGE
Theme: ✨ Mystery/Clarity/Light✨

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · Sep 4

Syr's book releases today! I had the pleasure of illustrating the front cover in weird fairytale filligree style! :-)

a mermaid and a reverse mermaid in fairytale style

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