World Literature Today has published a wonderful review of Tiffany Morris's GREEN FUSE BURNING. I love the last line, highlighted in the pic: "In a 2023 interview, Morris defines her dream job as being “a forest oracle who gives cryptic messages to travelers”: Green Fuse Burning jump-starts her career."
What's everyone reading coming up on this long weekend? I've got two books on the go as I often do! I'm enjoying both of these very much. Premee Mohamed's THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS just came out two weeks ago, and Sydney Hegele's debut novel BIRD SUIT comes in in May. Thanks to Invisible Publishing for the advance copy!
The newest edition of @augurmag is officially out. My story “Wolf Mother” is in it. Here are the opening sentences. You’ll have to get a copy to read the rest! “Long lean legs, a tongue dripping with hot saliva, tail held arrow straight. The timber wolf stands at the edge of the trees almost, but not quite, hidden from me by the penumbral pines. She is grey, white, and black, the colours of snow in shadows, her legs planted as firmly as the trees behind her. She pants, but not from the heat.” https://www.augurmag.com#SpeculativeFiction#Fairytale#wolf@indigenousauthors#Wolves#LittleRedRidingHood#AuthorsOfMastodon#CanLit
Northern Nights is a proposed horror/dark fiction anthology in the vein of previous anthologies of Canadian speculative fiction — Northern Stars (Hartwell & Grant, eds.); Northern Suns (Hartwell & Grant, eds.) — and the 5 volume Northern Frights series (Don Hutchison, ed).
Black glassy lakes. Dark woods. Ancient pines and maples. Abandoned highways. Ghost towns. Preternatural light. The Midnight Sun. Uncanny valleys. An indigo sky spiked with bright white stars. The darkening garden. The sting of the whooshing north wind. The killing cold. A cry in the dark. It’s another night in the Canadian north. Night and all its torments.
I will be at Can*Con 2023 at the Sheraton, Downtown Ottawa, from October 13-15. Here are all the ways you can connect with me there, including a book signing that is free to the public! I’ll also be moderating a panel on Disability in Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Worldbuilding for Disabled Heroes. The panelists will be Melissa Blair, Ada Hoffman, and Anna Sui! #CanLit#Conference#SFF
Your sister is running into the forest. You rush out the door, calling her name, but by the time you reach the treeline, only her light footprints remain on the soft earth.
Recent additions to my TBR pile. Never Whistle At Night, Interzone 295, Moccasin Square Gardens (Richard Van Camp), The Supply Chain (Aaron Schneider), The Pump (Sydney Hegele), Augur volume 5 Collected Edition, The Marigold (Andrew F Sullivan), and Truth Telling (Michelle Good). I leave anthologies scattered around the house so I can read a short story whenever I see one. I’m especially partial to horror stories written by Inuit authors. That’s some scary shit. @InterzoneMag@indigenousauthors@augurmag#horror#anthologies#CanLit#Indigedon#IndigenousMastodon#IndigenousFuturism#Bookstodon
Toronto folks, I have a reading this Saturday! I hope you can make it. The Supply Chain reading by Aaron Schneider. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto in the Living Room. Event starts at 7:00, readings at 7:30. “The Supply Chain is an ambitious swing-for-the-fences kind of novels that revitalizes the form.” -Jeffery Dupuis. Guests: Marianne Apostolides and Shantell Powell. Attendees are respectfully asked to wear a mask. #PublicReading#AuthorsOfMastodon#TorontoEvents#WritersOfMastodon@indigenousauthors#CanLit#CanadianLiterature#bookstodon#MaskUp