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This reskeet meets my Canadian content requirements for 2026.

Canada Reads This is the home page for Canada Reads, CBC's annual battle of the books.

Congratulations to SiWC 2026 presenter Loghan Paylor, whose novel THE CURE FOR DROWNING came first in this year's CBC Canada Reads, after being championed by Tegan Quin! www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Loghan is teaching some really great workshops and a master class for us in Oct. Schedule coming soon!

Submission Calls Food systems anthology submission callopen September 1st through 14th OverviewAn anthology of food systems horror and Weird fiction. Food systems include all infrastructure involved in the growth, …

Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Donate to Help Author Fight Cancer so she can finish her book, organized by Matthew Beckerleg Hello all, I’m Matthew. I am fundraising for my wife, Lalana (wh… Matthew Beckerleg needs your support for Help Author Fight Cancer so she can finish her book

Please help my friend Piper fight cancer
www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho...

Come join us in New West on April 30th and throw your pennies in the jar to make me or one of my fellow Phantom Players die a melodramatic death live on stage at the end of the show.

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!

Reading Period: April 13th - May 17th Theme: Breaking the Mold Edited by Adam McPhee $33 CAD for both originals and reprints, including non-fiction 1000 to 2500 words

Less than a week away!

And for the first time ever, Saros will be taking essay pitches: Editor @chalicotherex.bsky.social is looking for one essay on any speculative-fiction related topic that aligns with the issue's theme of Breaking the Mold!

The gates open on April 13: sarossf.com/submissions/

Goblins and Galaxies is opening May 7 for open submissions! Read the guidelines here: https://bit.ly/4i2c9QR

Happiness isn't one of the options! Go work on your book or something

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

A reminder that if you had a new book published in Canada in 2025, the deadline to register new titles with PLR for 2027 is MAY 1, 2026.

publiclendingright.ca

Congrats! Can’t wait to hear about your experience!

A noir-toned background image of a rainy city skyscape, birds flying with a backdrop of smeared neon lights, with a detective standing on a rooftop in long coat and hat. Left-justified text on the image reads "open call for novellas, opens: 4.01.26, closes: 4.30.26." The Ruadán Books logo is centered above the text.

We open to novella manuscripts on 4/1! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.

Submission guidelines here: links.ruadanbooks.com/Novellas26

#WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions four weeks from today, from April 19 to 25. It's one of only three weeks this year that Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions.

kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

The Welkin Genre Prize A competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole universe...

Entries open 1st June and close on 30th June.
The winner of each genre wins £30 and the pride of calling themselves a Welkin winner!
All shortlisted pieces (20 in total) will be published in July / August.

Full details here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Get scribbling!!!

Visit onspec.ca for the link to the Shadowpaw Press On Spec Anthology Kickstarter! The magazine has stopped but the name can carry on. Plus you can buy back issues.

Acceptance rates are irrelevant b/c publication isn't a random lottery. All subs don't have the same chance. If you send BCS SF, odds are 0%. If you send a story that makes me cry, odds are high. Writers: ignore acceptance rates b/c they have no bearing on whether YOUR submission may get published.

A promotional graphic for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 3 features pinned moths on a black background. Edited by JW Stebner. Submit your previously published arthropod stories until March 20, 2026.

Only a few days remaining to submit your 2025 short fiction for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 3!

Does your story feature chitinous creatures? Send it our way! 🦞🦀🕷️🐞

Hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf

Don't forget, Goblins and Galaxies will be open for submissions starting April 7. Read the guidelines here: https://bit.ly/4i2c9QR

Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

Hey poets! We'll be open for poetry submissions from March 16 - April 27! Get those poems polished and ready for potential publication! We pay $60 / poem for SFFH narrative poetry, any length.

Here's where you'll go to submit when we open:

Gooseberry Pie Lit-Annual Writing Competition - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata: pexels.com It’s almost April which means National Gooseberry Month is just around the corner. In celebration we are having our third annual writing contest with $1,100.00 in ...

Check out the @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Annual Writing Competition! Very excited to be this year's judge. You can read my prompt and more about the competition. Yay! 🎉🎉🎉
gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...

A noir-toned background image of a rainy city skyscape, birds flying with a backdrop of smeared neon lights, with a detective standing on a rooftop in long coat and hat with one arm raised. Right-justified text on the image reads "open call for novellas, opens: 4.01.26, closes: 4.30.26." The Ruadán Books logo is centered above the text.

We're opening to novella manuscripts on 4/1/26! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.

Submission guidelines coming soon: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky #AuthorSky

The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Fiction

it's march, beloveds

which means we are currently open for

POETRY SUBMISSIONS

read the guidelines and send in those poems 🖤💀

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until May 15! 🚀
We are accepting speculative fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews!
For more information on submitting, including the link to our Duosuma submission manager👇We can't wait to read your work!
www.orions-belt.net/submissions

Great news! I hope to make it out in March.

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction READ VOLUME 1 HERE! READ VOLUME 2 HERE! Presenting the first ever “Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction,” edited by JW Stebner. Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 1 collects the best internati…

Now OPEN for submissions! 🐜🦀🐞

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 3 is looking for the best tales of bug or barnacle or beastie published in 2025!

Submit here: hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf

Closing to subs February 28th Now that our 2026 issues are filled (and our Feb 2027 issue is mostly stocked as well) we’re going to close the submission gates at end of day on February 28th. We’ll be aiming to get responses out to everyone who submits in February (or who already has a story in the queue) by the end of March at the latest. Submissions will re-open on July 1st!

📣📣📣
We've gotten so many great stories that we're now scheduling pieces for our Feb '27 issue (and probably our June '27 issue for at least a couple stories in queue!) so we're going close the submission gates for a few months.

Keep sending us stuff till end of Feb, and we'll see you again in July!

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

My annual reminder to creatives in Canada that it's Public Lending Rights time! publiclendingright.ca
Tip? For tax records: keep a copy of your bank statement showing this was deposited with your PLR statement. Trust me, you may one day need it handy--just to show the flow, as they say.

The Tyee Is Recruiting Our Next Editor-in-Chief | The Tyee Founding editor David Beers is passing the baton to a new leader. Is it you?

Today, The Tyee is strong, stable and trusted. And seeking a new editor to lead our next chapter. #CdnMedia