Announcing the #AuroraAwars2026 finalists! Check out the full ballot at our Current Ballot page: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

We're currently working on the voters’ package which includes digital copies of nominated works. We hope to release it in mid-May. Voting for the awards will begin in June.

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Congrats!!

Thrilled to share that "the love song of house and lake" is nominated for this year's Aurora Awards for Best Short Story!!

Congrats to all my fellow nominees ❤️

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I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

Wu Ying’s journey isn’t over yet! The First Stop will be available July 14, and The First War arrives November 10, 2026.

These hardcover editions have updated covers and interiors, along with the maps, world-building, martial arts, and spirit beasts you know from Book 1.

Preorders in my bio.

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THRILLED @kickstarter.com has chosen Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 as a #ProjectWeLove. PWL status is Kickstarter's way of “highlighting brilliant examples of creativity.” Far be it from me to argue. ;)

We're $50 from our next stretch goal of interior art! Maybe YOUR pledge will put us over??

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4 Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.

It's live! IT'S LIVE! The Kickstarter for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four is now LIVE! Award-winning series, best of 2025, and (with your help) the biggest volume yet. Can you back early enough to land The Canucklehead tier and get to choose the dedication for the book??

Pls SHARE WIDELY!

Obsessed with how this photo looks like someone has poorly photoshopped the moon onto a photo of earth.
Light in space is truly weird, I love it

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Canadian Friends! Nominations are currently open for this year's Aurora Awards, and my short story "the love song of house and lake" is eligible for the shortlist.
If you need a spooky summer romance to get you through the rainy days of April, this story is for you ❤️

'90s Book Fair Kids Rejoice: Disney+ Is Adapting Animorphs Into a TV Series - Reactor The noted lack of television shows involving teens transforming into horses will finally be addressed

A new generation of children is ready to be traumatized?

#animorphs

actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides

the nytimes:

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human Alex Preston has admitted to using AI to write a New York Times Book Review. He has not only embarrassed himself, but broken the trust of his readers.

I have a lot of respect for critics, but if you ever use the plagiarism machine to have opinions about a book for you, I will never stop making fun of you.

Bro got caught because his "review" stole whole chunks of a review from The Guardian. Because AI doesn't think! It just plagiarizes!

Wow who could have predicted this? Except for, I dunno, decades worth of sci-fi .......

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you. The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

Read cursive? The Newberry Library in Chicago is looking for “living Rosetta stones” to decipher its handwritten collection.
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I worked hard to become a writer. And I enjoy being a writer. I'm not here to let techbro robots take that shit away from me.

Canadian Friends! Nominations are currently open for this year's Aurora Awards, and my short story "the love song of house and lake" is eligible for the shortlist.
If you need a spooky summer romance to get you through the rainy days of April, this story is for you ❤️

I could probably have phrased this better! We have our preferences but we also enjoy a variety and like to be surprised. Send us your stories! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Art by Jake Thompson.

Nova Scotia Cut Arts Funding by 32%. Speak Up. $14M slashed. 72 programs gutted. 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Send your MLA a message in 60 seconds.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32%.

The 2026-27 budget slashes $14M from arts and culture—closing museums, killing or gutting 72 programs, and putting nearly 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Musicians, theatres, festivals—all on the chopping block.

Tell your MLA to reverse course

#Halifax #HaliSky

I'd really love to experience a month that will be lost to the history books. A whole month. What paradise that would be.

Want to support The First Step but can't preorder? You can still help the book reach more readers!

Share it with friends, ask your library to add it to their shelves, add it to your Goodreads collection, or tag @acebookspub in any posts about it.

Four Years In, Little Ghosts Books Is Just Getting Started - 6ix Retail Chris, owner of Canada's first horror bookshop, sits down with 6ixRetail at the brand's new Union Station pop-up to talk four years of building Little Ghosts Books into a publisher, festival, and comm...

So grateful for an amazing article in @6ixretail.bsky.social featuring all the work Little Ghosts has done in the past 4 years and what we look forward to doing in the future!

It’s a treat to look back and see how many great activities we have done in Toronto 👻🖤📚

6ixretail.com/2026/02/litt...

What Not Reading Does to Your Writing More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.

This can't be said often enough: what your prose will look like if you learn all your storytelling from TV and movies instead of from READING. @thelincoln.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...? #writingtips #writinglife #writingcommunity

The only thing I'm conflicted about on this is whether I am more jealous that Stanley Tucci got to hang out with the USA women's hockey team, or that the USA women's hockey team got to hang out with Stanley Tucci. 😄

A woodcut of an owl above the text "holy fuck my brain is tired"

I was surprised to learn that this is the all-time most popular Effin' Birds comic over the nine year run (so far).