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Kelly Robson

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100% human science fiction, fantasy, & horror writer. Stories galore. Books: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, Alias Space kellyrobson.com/books Trans rights are human rights ffs she/her in Toronto, Canada

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10h
Study for kikakaskihtân (You Can Do It) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 10h
Where does Canada actually stand on truth and reconciliation? Former special interlocutor Kimberly Murray speaks with Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair about government funding shifts, systemic delays, and the rising tide of denialism: ow.ly/Pzby50ZSWJk
On the left: Photo of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, displaying an orange overlay which reads Every Child Matters. On the right: text that reads “Under Carney, Canada is cooling on reconciliation. Three experts on the need to keep challenging denialism.”
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 9h
I wrote this poem about Orange Shirt Day last year. We demand truth & reconciliation & get this instead. wordflowerpoetry.com/2026/02/08/i...
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I Am Pretty Sure Those are the Same Cops I Saw Dragging a Disabled Woman Across the Pavement By Her Dislocated Arm A Few Years Ago
Armed cops are basking in orange glory on Truth and Reconciliation Day. Squad cars are looking demure in their festive “Every Child Matters” vinyl wraps, and officers are smiling while I’m whisperi…
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eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As someone who works on telemetry systems, this brings me joy. 👇
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026
hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickersmy story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 27/09/2026
Toronto! Word on the Street is happening outside Roy Thompson Hall. Go, buy books! Talk with authors, publishers, and booksellers about how much you LOVE BOOKS
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can snap up tickets now to join me and the wonderful Sangu Mandanna at the Enchanting the Fae Queen paperback launch party this November, hosted by Cardiff's first romance bookshop, Love Stories Bookshop! Grab your tickets now: www.lovestoriesbookshop.co.uk/events/p/aut... #romancelandia
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Author Event Conversation with Stephanie Burgis and Sangu Mandanna — Love Stories Bookshop
Join us for an in-person event with author Stephanie Burgis to celebrate the paperback release of Enchanting the Fae Queen , chaired by Sangu Mandanna! Event date and time: Wednesday 18th November, ...
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 27/09/2026
I think this is what we call a horde
With a skyscrapers in the background, a zillion trillion people crowd a public square. The tiny white tents cannot restrain them.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 26/09/2026
Toronto’s Word on the Street is an absolute mosh today! So many people buying so very many books. This is the world I want. toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca
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The Word On The Street Toronto – Canada's Largest Literary Festival
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 25/09/2026
Spent a happy half hour in a fab bookstore (A Different Drummer in Burlington.) Bought a book on Shakespeare, chatted with the owner about it. Did I mention I am a novelist whose recent book is Shakespearean? No I did not, because when my book is not already on the shelf I cannot. Do not be like me
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 25/09/2026
Someone needs to make a white noise track of a running dishwasher and cat scratching in the litterbox, because that's what I'm hearing right now and it's zZzzzz
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show @skiffyandfanty.com · 24/09/2026
On the blog, @pematson.bsky.social talks about the new book by Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road. "Science fiction, academia, research, and history are all interests of mine ... I was quite satisfied..." skiffyandfanty.com/b...
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 24/09/2026
This is your reminder that Bill Nighy was only 52 when he played the Bad Grandad of Rock and Roll. Also, his podcast is delightful podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
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ill-advised by Bill Nighy
Arts Podcast · Updated Weekly · A podcast for people who don’t get out much and can’t handle it when they do. A refuge for the clumsy and the awkward. Join Bill Nighy to squander some time as he attem...
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can't believe my son's first R-rated movie in a theater is gonna be... Godzilla Finally we find out where baby Godzillas come from!
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 23/09/2026
Thinking again of The Possession of Barbe Hallay by @historianmairi.bsky.social, a scholarly microhistory of diabolical events in Quebec City in the 1660s. It give SUCH a vivid impression of what life threw at the French settlers. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/book...
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The Possession of Barbe Hallay - Canada's History
Book Review: Mairi Cowan, an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, has scoured religious and civil records to track the life of Barbe Ha...
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 23/09/2026
As I and many, many others (okay mostly just @msatris.bsky.social) have been saying, we are in the midst of HOT PUPPET SUMMER and entering, surely, into COZY PUPPET FALL. Puppets are IN people, update your spreadsheets!!!
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 23/09/2026
The Surrey International Writers' Conference is a pretty darn special event, I must say. And it's Canadian!
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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Story day! A would-be serial killer manages his violent impulses by ‘capsizing’ himself—projecting his consciousness into a nearby object—whenever they arise. All goes well—until he encounters another man with the same ability… @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/not-...
Text excerpts of a short story
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Jordan @aafghjn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I believe Jonathan Strahan has *four* anthologies coming out this fall (Revolution in the Heart, The Book of the Dead, Vaster than Empires, and Locus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1) and they all look excellent.
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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join the @sfwa.bsky.social Emerging Tech committee tomorrow, 4pm EST, for Humanizing Assignments, a discussion of how AI pressures are impacting teachers and what we can do to push back: sfwa.org/events/?even...
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 23/09/2026
Behold this beauty! The Book of the Dead, edited by Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by Galen Dara, out October 6. Includes my story "Time is a Liquid." @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Two copies of a hardcover book like on a teal and black cloth. The covers say THE BOOK OF THE DEAD edited by Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by Galen Dara. The cover has an image of a spooky ghost-like figure with trailing hair and smoke in front of a full moon. It has a skull face and roses in its hair. Perhaps it is a ghost bride. The silhouette of a headstone is in the background.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 21/09/2026
"This is the place Blackfoot and Cree women are lost, never found. Here, Harley Davidsons share billboards with pregnant silhouettes screaming: human from the start. Tinny and chaste, echoes of untilled fields, of horses, of homesteads from the seventies. Not far from the place they were taken." 🔥
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 21/09/2026
My delightful Uncle Tom and Auntie Mary at the recent family wedding. Queer wedding, awesome elders! Love them so much.
In front of a friendly crowd sits a white-haired couple, both with big smiles. He is in a grey jacket and blue shirt, and has blankets covering his lap. She is in a blue dress and black leather jacket. They look very happy and friendly.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 21/09/2026
This past weekend, Alyx and I: Ate an Ethiopian feast with @davidnickle.bsky.social and @madelineashby.bsky.social Saw John Green rock a 1700-person book event with some truly inspired, simple, sincere crowd-interaction strategies Continued my hunt for a decaf black tea that doesn't disappoint
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 20/09/2026
Suzan Palumbo’s story RED RIDING WOLF @morningtransport.bsky.social is terrific! Short and not at all sweet. @sillysyntax.bsky.social @franwilde.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/red-riding...
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Red Riding Wolf
Author Suzan Palumbo returns to The Sunday Morning Transport this week to invite you on an adventure with several unexpected twists.
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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👇💯💯💯!!!!!!!! #canpoli
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Homeward Books @homewardbooksco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The incomparable @zenaldehyde.bsky.social talking THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO on The Historical Romance Sampler podcast: katherinegrantromance.com/historical-r...
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Zen Cho Samples The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo (a 20th Century Bloomsbury-Set Novella) — Katherine Grant Romance
Zen Cho reads from her 20th century epistolary novella, THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO, and we talk about her inspiration from Virginia Woolf and H. G. Wells, plus what it means to write cross-cultural...
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
This is the non-fiction ghost book I've always wanted. No pretentions or pretending to have all the answers, just lots of curiosity from people who've spent their lives pursuing ghosts. A CURIOUS PRESENCE by Margo MacDonald, out October 6! ecwpress.com/products/cur...
Cover of A Curious Presence, an exploration of ghosts and the people who haunt them, by Margo MacDonald, foreword by Amal El Mohtar. The cover is black and gold, with a spooky cemetery border around a ghostly image of a clothed torso in light teal
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 17/09/2026
Clearly laid out specifics of how the US — officially — has been attempting to take over Canada. Unofficially, of course, plenty of dirty tricks especially in Alberta
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That @mark-carney.bsky.social speech was absolutely phenomenal. My 3 take-homes: 1. The goal is mutual resilience not self sufficiency 2. What we aim for is the power to be free not the power to dominate 3. Freedom of movement for the young And that oak tree leitmotif was superb. I’m in awe. (1/2)
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 17/09/2026
This is so freaking huge. Honestly, never been happier with a Prime Minister. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney nods to Trump, says Canada, Europe not 'fair-weather allies' in speech to European Parliament | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says a "deeper partnership" between Canada and Europe is necessary to hedge against great powers encroaching on the sovereignty of smaller nations.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 17/09/2026
Canada sticking ourselves to Europe. Yes please. Pass the superglue. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 16/09/2026
Can*Con is October 16-18 @canconsffh.bsky.social! Here's my schedule: Friday 5:30: moderating a panel -- Better Book Pitches Saturday 5-5:30: signing in the dealer's room Sunday 10AM: panel -- The Static Protagonist
A photo of a notepad with handwritten notes and a tiny iridescent dragon figurine sitting on it. It says: 

Kelly Robson's Can*Con Schedule

Friday 5:30 Better Book Pitches (moderator)
Saturday 5:00-5:30: signing in the dealer's room
Sunday 10: The Static Protagonist
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 16/09/2026
Happy Slow Horses day to all who celebrate. Forever grateful to @marthawells.com for recommending this series and its immaculate writing
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 16/09/2026
Greetings from sunny, warm Toronto.
A redheaded white woman with braids is wearing tortoiseshell sunglasses and smiling at the camera. Her head is tilted on an angle   she is wearing a gray and black striped shirt, Behind her is a non-descriptive blue building.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 15/09/2026
Lorenzo would like his share of the lettuce, please. He does not understand that it is not lettuce, but escarole, and he does not like the bitterness.
A photo of a tabby cat with a very handsome face, white stripe on the nose and half white on the cheek. He is looking expectant while standing on the arm of a chair overlooking the kitchen counter.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 15/09/2026
This past weekend Alyx and I: Fixed the door of our shoe cabinet using wood glue & clamps Installed a new shower head (the old one fell on my face) Fixed our dearly beloved old clock by installing a new mechanism Fished out the toilet paper bin from behind the washer and dryer *Flex flex*
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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 15/09/2026
escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/... We open to general submissions in a little under 30 mins. Don't self-reject Do read the guidelines
escapeartists.moksha.io
Moksha
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 15/09/2026
Happy book birthday, @freyamarske.bsky.social!!! Read this, get this, everyone!!
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 14/09/2026
The University of Toronto is offering a course on Science Fiction for Engineers. "We will be looking at a large number of stories and seeing how they relate to engineering – how they inspire us, how they warn us, what they tell us about where we will go and about where we have been."
3. Science Fiction for Engineers
Science fiction has long imagined technologies that later became reality. But what can engineers learn from the genre today?

This course, offered by the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, unpacks the connections between engineering and fiction through topics ranging from AI to terraforming.

"Science Fiction for Engineers is a course for everyone who has read a story that makes them want not just to travel to the stars, but to help build the spaceship to get us there," says Shai Cohen, assistant professor, teaching stream, who teaches the course alongside sessional lecturer J. Coplen Rose. "It is also for anyone who sees a technological innovation being abused and wants to yell out, 'Haven't you read this book? Didn't you watch the movie? This is dangerous!

"We will be looking at a large number of [science fiction] stories and seeing how they relate to engineering – how they inspire us, how they warn us, what they tell us about where we will go and about where we have been."
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 14/09/2026
As a historic transfer of wealth approaches between generations, join us in Toronto or online for Oxfam Canada presents The Walrus Talks The Billionaire Problem for an increasingly urgent conversation about the impacts of extreme wealth concentration. ow.ly/ME6I50ZN3kq
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I published a short story this year in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social that I'm really proud of. It's about the attention economy, flavors of provocation, and what a superhero would even look like if it was invented today. It starts with a dare.
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Welcome to Heroism - Uncanny Magazine
Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...
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This is the content I crave🐄
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you something about Alberta: Not all of it is mirror-universe evil in lockstep with the worst of the worst We went to a big queer wedding. We saw many trans people. We bought art from a Metis artist who is proudly reclaiming her heritage with the guidance of knowledge keepers. Alberta!
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TITLE AND COVER REVEAL: My next novel, Painting With A Dead God's Blood, will be published on 22 June 2027. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Painting With A Dead God's Blood by Eddie Robson. The cover shows a mural of alien beings in a street in Kyoto.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My latest essay on depictions of disability on film/television is now up on Uncanny. Alas, I don't think it's as much fun as my previous essay about Amazon's Wheel of Time was....but you can still read it here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/port...
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Portrayals of Disability and Anxiety in NBC Peacock’s The Copenhagen Test - Uncanny Magazine
The man has to run. Has to. He will die if he doesn’t. Others will die if he doesn’t. Possibly thousands of other people.  He needs to run.  And yet he collapses on the ground, screaming in pain, bare...
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 10/09/2026
Saddle Lake Cree Nation defies Alberta conservatives, setts up safe haven for gender-affirming care 💜💜💜 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta First Nation wants to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care | CBC News
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says its aiming to defy Premier Danielle Smith's government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming care. Chief Dale Steinhauer described the law as dehumanizing and ...
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