ISSUE FIVE WILL BE PUBLISHED FRIDAY IT IS NAMED 💦SEX💦🚫NEGATIVE🚫 IT HAS WRITING IN IT, BY: Kawai Shen, silas denver 🛸, Elena Zhang, MK Zvokel, Erik Whitehouse, molly, AsterionReads, Shivani 🌈, & jules !!!!

It’s been a minute. We have some news! 📢 bedfellows is shifting from a biannual magazine that publishes dozens of writers each year to a press that focuses on longer works in the form of a split-book series. Check out our call for submissions for info. 💋

Happy Labour Day to all workers!! Kick back and relax with my flash fic for 🫀body fluids🦷 - ISSUE05 OUT NOW on the feminine urge for sabotage in an age of capitalist exploitation and climate collapse bodyfluids.org/issue05-better…

We'll be at Open Space's Small Press Fest! Where: Greater Victoria Public Library Central Branch courtyard at 735 Broughton Street When: Saturday September 21 11am-4pm tabling fair 3pm-4pm panel Bring cash! We'll be selling issues from $2-$10 each. openspacearts.ca/small-press-fe…

TᕼE ᗪEᑕᗩᗪE ᖇEᗩᗪIᑎG 🄴🄰🅁🄻🅈 🄱🄸🅁🄳 🅃🄸🄲🄺🄴🅃🅂 🄰🅅🄰🄸🄻🄰🄱🄻🄴 🅄🄽🅃🄸🄻 🄾🄲🅃🄾🄱🄴🅁 1🅂🅃! Join Metatron Press and friends on October 20 for an absolutely stacked and iconic reading to mark and celebrate our 10-year anniversary! eventbrite.ca/e/the-decade-r…

The✨Best Canadian Stories✨ anthology has arrived! Featuring my salty piece about race, class, sex and the occult and many other delightful tales - click on the thread below for 🔗and more details

"That’s really all I've ever done and wanted to do: read good shit and share it and talk about it." —Elle Nash elle nash, editor of wi̷t̷c̷h c̷ra̷ft̷ ma̷g, interviewed over Tarot by Kawai Shen Kawai Shen peachmgzn.com/post/the-beaut…

Today kicks off our new Witching Hour series on the Rose Books Hotline—we have Amanda Killian (Amanda Killian) reading “Dead, or Worse.” And we have new hotline art by Christopher Norris ?. Call 1-844-300-ROSE… if you dare…

Melanie & co-editors are looking for poems for an anthology about how the climate emergency is changing work (all our work is affected!), and they're offering free poetry workshops - first one is Oct 2. Sign up!

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A spooky season reminder that my tarot story for The Malahat Review, The Hanged Man, will be available soon in the latest volume of Biblioasis' Best Canadian Stories ♆🔽

We're ESPECIALLY open to writers who work normal working class jobs, are out of work, or can't work cos of disabilities. Too much short fiction is written by the professional managerial class and caters to centrist liberal sensibilities. We've really got to change it man.

my partner is organizing this go fund me to help a friend of theirs evacuate beirut with their family, please donate and share if you can! gofundme.com/f/help-a-leban…

NEW NEWSLETTER: 🐑 Adriana🍄🌙💫🎠's stunning SILENCE OF THE LAMBS poem 🩸 T.O. Rep Rec: Anders Gatten chats with Designing the Movies programmer @NathAtabout her upcoming DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS screening Revue Cinema! +++ Save the date, Toronto: November 28 at Bampot House 👀

Last chance to snag tickets to our Zoom event with Victoria Festival of Authors tomorrow Oct. 19 at 1pm! Tix on a sliding scale from $0-$15.⁠ ⁠ Featuring: Corinna Chong, Dylan Clark Dylan Clark, Bill Gaston, & Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Moderator: Iain Higgins.⁠ ⁠ eventbrite.ca/e/what-short-s…