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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie)

@kaiewrites.bsky.social
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Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, FACTOR FOUR, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff kaie.space/tree

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 15h
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social · 18h
We're beginning to prepare for a Kickstarter campaign to fund the next two years of new Utopian fiction, poetry, art, and essays. If you enjoy the darker side of the imagination as well as the lighter it's very worth supporting @nightmare-magazine.com and @lightspeedmagazine.com on theirs!
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 21h
*Lightspeed
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 05/10/2026
The Pacific Link pipeline moved another step forward last week, marking an expensive truce between Canada and Alberta, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes. Despite the two governments agreeing it would be financed by the private sector, taxpayers were always going to foot the bill.
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Carney’s expensive Alberta truce: the Pacific Link pipeline
Canadians were always going to foot the bill for the pipeline to the West Coast — despite an agreement requiring private capital to cover it
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 03/10/2026
"...retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage."
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Companies That Dropped DEI Have Nothing To Show For It
Corporate America has spent the last year and a half pulling back from DEI programs. But retreating from DEI has not produced a clear financial advantage.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canadian indies: anybody have a Canadian printer to rec? Specifically one that's managed to supply a delivery of UNDAMAGED books recently? (I was hearing good things about Bookvault, but now it sounds like they're struggling too?)
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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bookstores & bookish retailers! I've been working toward direct sales &... Faire is up now, Fybe coming soon! Stock up on gothic-dystopian dark fantasy for🎃! faire.com/direct/westcoastweirdkawiggins (Q: anyone want handmade chapbooks/zines? IDK logistics, but I'll figure it out if there's demand...)
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West Coast Weird / K.A. Wiggins Wholesale via Faire
West Coast Weird features Canadian speculative fiction and bookish goods by multi-awarded Comox Valley, BC author K.A. Wiggins and friends. Find genre fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, myste...
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our title reveals to China +100 begin today, join us in celebrating Sinophone creativity during ESEA Heritage Month, as we count down to publication day @commapress.bsky.social , which happens around the wonderful time of Mid-Autumn Festival! 1/ #books #sff #chinese commapress.co.uk/books/china-...
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China + 100 | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Lu Hang, Zhou Dedong, Ling Chen , Dan Shi , He Zun and others
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.
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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it
New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10 charts from the Economic Policy Institute showing the impacts of 50 years of wage suppression. www.epi.org/publication/...
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Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's (almost) time: On October 1, BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5 submissions open! 📣BNW is a reprint-only antho, of pieces published—indie & self—in the previous calendar year. Full instructions to come 10/1📣 Wanna get in the Weird mood early? Vol. 4 is 33% off now in our webstore🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/46pvw69b
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BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Four (print + eBook)
Twenty-three creators converge to deliver the Bravest, Newest, and Weirdest fiction of 2025! You are the nexus of evolution. You have reached the ideal. A grateful humanity gazes upon you in admiratio...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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maasslitagency.bsky.social @maasslitagency.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Starred Review: CHILDREN OF OWL by Darcie Little Badger Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe…
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Starred Review: CHILDREN OF OWL by Darcie Little Badger
Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe to the dead. In a desert trailer park in Mockingtown, Tex., three Lipan Apache cousins battle with both personal and real ghosts.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haha, I was just at a Medieval fair and had the same realization🫠💀
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daniel? @danielgoulden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Doomsday may be slower and more boring that the AI companies want you to believe, but accelerating already existing crises may well spell our doom...not Skynet, but Shitty Skynet." www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...
powermapmag.com
Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am remarkably lazy talking about my own books. I'd much rather yell about how great my friends' are, or the polycrisis, or any of my special interests (mostly books again, TBF) However: I wrote 🇨🇦 books! Gothic-dystopian dark fantasy x ecohorror for teens & up! Book 1 is free! books.kawiggins.com
Trope graphic; gold text and accents on a mottled dark background surrounding a 3D rendering of the third edition of Blind the Eyes by K.A. Wiggins. Text reads: Threads of Dreams #1: Blind the Eyes. YA+ Dark Fantasy that dives into the nigthmare-ridden depths and comes up fighting. Trope list includes: gothic-dystopian dark fantasy, upper YA coming-of-rage, haunted girl x nightmare boy, is everyone actually following the rules or am I just neurospicy???, don't put that in your mouth!, human sacrifice, everyone is lying, drowned city, ecopunk apocalypse, more blood than kissing, monster-infested (future) Vancouver, slow-burn, threadwitchery, alexithymia, the novel
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Find full details for this & all the fantastic (& frightening!) fall programming coming up at the Parksville Museum: parksvillemuseum.com/events 🎃👻 (4/4) #Horror #Gothic #PNW #CoastalHorror #folklore #cryptids #events #bookevents #readerevents #authorevents #halloween #samhain
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Nicola Kapron surrounded by nearly 20 covers. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Nicola Kapron. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Shanon Sinn surrounded by nearly 4 covers and his publishing logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Shanon Sinn. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The feature antho + titles by @kimberbannerman.bsky.social @kaiewrites.bsky.social Nicola Kapron & @shanonsinn.bsky.social will available for sale & signing on-site, at the Mystic Market (come early to browse from 2pm!) & in advance from local booksellers incl. Fireside & Bellflower Bookshop (3/4)
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Kim Bannerman surrounded by 16 of her book covers and logos for her publishing businesses. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Kim Bannerman. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of K.A. Wiggins surrounded by more than two dozen book covers and her logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. K.A. Wiggins. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
4 island authors will share scary stories from Canadian horror & dark spec antho The Kindread Coast in separate, seasonally decorated historic-&-haunting buildings 5-7pm Oct 17 (starting fresh every 30min, so those of you with nerves of steel can catch them all!) parksvillemuseum.com/events (2/4)
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Terrifying tales of supernatural beings—shapeshifters, water monsters, black cats, undead cyborgs... They inhabit misty forests, murky depths, ominous city streets, deadly mountain vistas—the haunting landscapes of BC—evoking your darkest fears... Welcome to the dreadful coast—may you walk out unscathed! Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Macabre, mystic & morbid mid-islanders, your time is near! Kick off your Halloween festivities on Saturday, Oct. 17 with a spine-tingling storywalk featuring creepy coastal tales of BC cryptids, ghosts & eerie imaginings at the Parksville Museum (Parksville, BC, Canada) parksvillemuseum.com/events
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Step inside our seasonally decorated heritage buildings where island authors bring the darker side of the coast to life. Every half hour, in select buildings, hear dramatic readings of local authors' own creepy coastal stories from BC-based horror and dark fantasy anthology The Kindread Coast. Anthologies and books by mid/north island author and Bear West Books publisher Kim Bannerman, mid/north island author K.A. Wiggins, mid-island author Nicola Kapron, and south island author and Black Cat Books publisher Shanon Sinn will be available for purchase and signing onsite. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly blue smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Mystic Market. Friday, October 16, Saturday, October 17, Sunday, October 18, 2-7pm. A thoughtfully curated gathering of local makers, artisans, and mystical creators, offering beautiful treasures, unique creations, and meaningful experiences. Admission by donation. Special additional activities: Friday: 4-4:35 Spirit Seekers film screening, 7pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show film screening ($25 tickets). Saturday, 5-7pm Creepy Coastal Storywalk through the heritage buildings featuring local authors reading their scary stories. 7:15 pm Demonstration of mediumship ($25 tickets) Sunday: Halloween themed scavenger hunt. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am remarkably lazy talking about my own books. I'd much rather yell about how great my friends' are, or the polycrisis, or any of my special interests (mostly books again, TBF) However: I wrote 🇨🇦 books! Gothic-dystopian dark fantasy x ecohorror for teens & up! Book 1 is free! books.kawiggins.com
Trope graphic; gold text and accents on a mottled dark background surrounding a 3D rendering of the third edition of Blind the Eyes by K.A. Wiggins. Text reads: Threads of Dreams #1: Blind the Eyes. YA+ Dark Fantasy that dives into the nigthmare-ridden depths and comes up fighting. Trope list includes: gothic-dystopian dark fantasy, upper YA coming-of-rage, haunted girl x nightmare boy, is everyone actually following the rules or am I just neurospicy???, don't put that in your mouth!, human sacrifice, everyone is lying, drowned city, ecopunk apocalypse, more blood than kissing, monster-infested (future) Vancouver, slow-burn, threadwitchery, alexithymia, the novel
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 25/09/2026
It’s provincial election time. Did you know funding for public libraries in BC has been stagnant since 2010? The NDP has not increased it in 9 years in power. Will any political parties be so bold as to propose funding libraries in their platform? buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #bcpoli
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Well... We're Waiting Meme
Alt: Gif. A scene from the movie Caddyshack. A man says “Well... We're Waiting!”
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ugh, thank you, yes! I was sure I’d missed some (…dozens😭). I meant to get Tiffany Morris in there too!
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy to dial it in a lil if you wanna specify your tastes 😂 I could’ve gone on for a dozen posts—so many amazing writers, so many genres & subgenres to choose from!
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🇨🇦 arts+culture are so easily drowned out by larger population (& budgets) across the border, but there’s tons of amazing, award-winning folks you never realized were 🇨🇦 hiding in plain sight. Really our moment to invest for sure. There are also economic benefits—it’s not a low productivity sector!
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YUP. so many of my faves are 🇨🇦. Aurora awards are great starting place for reading lists. & some 🇨🇦SFF/H folks who come to mind: -premee mohamed -eden Robinson -waugbeshig rice -Suzan palumbo -Kim Bannerman -Sylvia Moreno Garcia -Kelley Armstrong (Also me, but I lean more short fic these days)
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DON’T FORGET.
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Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
dlvr.it
B.C. attorney general seeks Criminal Code change after Tumbler Ridge AI chat report
Niki Sharma says the changes need to "ensure a clearer pathway for human and corporate accountability for the actions of AI."
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
IDK where they rank in volume but Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith did a ton of IP back in the day, between assorted pen names and franchises
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026
hating ai is a pro-social activity
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...
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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"After its run in cinemas, the film will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free, as part of the news organisation’s commitment to the dissemination of independent journalism."
theguardian.com
Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
don't tell anyone this, but when you get stuck in a story, you can just make up stuff, you just make it up
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A fun side effect of doing markets all summer is the local stores keep selling out of *book 2* in my trilogy. (Not factoring in TBR length,) average reading speeds seem to range from 2 weeks to 2 months?
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is getting close to its goal with a week of left to go. Help them cross the finish line!
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shoutout to that one person who bought my book in ppb in SWEDEN (?!??!) this month; hope you like it👻😂
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026
Out of curiosity I ran one of my texts (which is already available online) in Pangram, the AI detector thing. It thinks it's 75% likely to be AI. I obv didn't use any AI whatsoever in writing it. So yeah, miss me with "we are SO reliable in detecting AI".
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 22/09/2026
The best thing Canadians could do right now is hold a general strike #cdnpoli
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Allister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, here's something pretty darn neat, being recognized by the Toronto Urban Book Expo group for my efforts as an acquisition editor to promote and amplify the voices of Black Canadian writers. I'm quite moved to receive this! tubookexpo.com/awards
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for general submissions. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under. We ask that you read the submissions page carefully before sending us anything. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
translunartravelerslounge.com
Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have zero faith that most Canadian politicians are taking this seriously or preparing for it in any significant way.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Find full details for this & all the fantastic (& frightening!) fall programming coming up at the Parksville Museum: parksvillemuseum.com/events 🎃👻 (4/4) #Horror #Gothic #PNW #CoastalHorror #folklore #cryptids #events #bookevents #readerevents #authorevents #halloween #samhain
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Nicola Kapron surrounded by nearly 20 covers. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Nicola Kapron. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Shanon Sinn surrounded by nearly 4 covers and his publishing logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Shanon Sinn. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The feature antho + titles by @kimberbannerman.bsky.social @kaiewrites.bsky.social Nicola Kapron & @shanonsinn.bsky.social will available for sale & signing on-site, at the Mystic Market (come early to browse from 2pm!) & in advance from local booksellers incl. Fireside & Bellflower Bookshop (3/4)
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of Kim Bannerman surrounded by 16 of her book covers and logos for her publishing businesses. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Kim Bannerman. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Photo of K.A. Wiggins surrounded by more than two dozen book covers and her logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. K.A. Wiggins. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
4 island authors will share scary stories from Canadian horror & dark spec antho The Kindread Coast in separate, seasonally decorated historic-&-haunting buildings 5-7pm Oct 17 (starting fresh every 30min, so those of you with nerves of steel can catch them all!) parksvillemuseum.com/events (2/4)
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Terrifying tales of supernatural beings—shapeshifters, water monsters, black cats, undead cyborgs... They inhabit misty forests, murky depths, ominous city streets, deadly mountain vistas—the haunting landscapes of BC—evoking your darkest fears... Welcome to the dreadful coast—may you walk out unscathed! Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Macabre, mystic & morbid mid-islanders, your time is near! Kick off your Halloween festivities on Saturday, Oct. 17 with a spine-tingling storywalk featuring creepy coastal tales of BC cryptids, ghosts & eerie imaginings at the Parksville Museum (Parksville, BC, Canada) parksvillemuseum.com/events
Poster, mostly purple smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Storywalk of Creepy Coastal Tales, Saturday, October 17, 5-7pm. Step inside our seasonally decorated heritage buildings where island authors bring the darker side of the coast to life. Every half hour, in select buildings, hear dramatic readings of local authors' own creepy coastal stories from BC-based horror and dark fantasy anthology The Kindread Coast. Anthologies and books by mid/north island author and Bear West Books publisher Kim Bannerman, mid/north island author K.A. Wiggins, mid-island author Nicola Kapron, and south island author and Black Cat Books publisher Shanon Sinn will be available for purchase and signing onsite. Admission by donation. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.Poster, mostly blue smoke with line art/graphic accents. Parksville Museum logo. Text reads: The coven is gathering. Mystic Market. Friday, October 16, Saturday, October 17, Sunday, October 18, 2-7pm. A thoughtfully curated gathering of local makers, artisans, and mystical creators, offering beautiful treasures, unique creations, and meaningful experiences. Admission by donation. Special additional activities: Friday: 4-4:35 Spirit Seekers film screening, 7pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show film screening ($25 tickets). Saturday, 5-7pm Creepy Coastal Storywalk through the heritage buildings featuring local authors reading their scary stories. 7:15 pm Demonstration of mediumship ($25 tickets) Sunday: Halloween themed scavenger hunt. Full details: parksvillemuseum.com/events.
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