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Grateful to Ruthanna Emrys for this wonderful blurb for THE WILDCRAFT DRONES:
“Rare as morel mushrooms, sweet as acorn bread, and unexpected as BBQ-flavored crickets…” Rex's stories root themselves in transformation, resilience, and the small, surprising seeds of change already growing in our lives.

Blurb for T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES from Ruthanna Emrys. "The Wildcraft Drones presents a fascinating future: hopeful, flawed, and ever-changing as characters continually fight for something better. Rare as morel mushrooms, sweet as acorn bread, and unexpected as BBQ-flavored crickets, it will provoke you to imagine new possibilities and find their seeds in roadside blackberries." Ruthanna Emrys is the author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. She also writes radically hopeful short stories about religion and aliens and psycholinguistics.

If you're a Netgalley user looking for your next favorite read, T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES is available now to download. Filled with humor and heart, Rex's debut is 14 linked stories exploring the evolution of sentient drones and a rewilded world.

Download here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/792496

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Heads up: for anyone who stopped by to chat with us at the book fair this weekend, if you're feeling poorly you may want to test for Covid and/or stay away from vulnerable friends and family. I tested positive this morning. So far it's stuffy nose/head, sneezing, fever, and quite painful body aches.

The Locus Recommended Reading list dropped yesterday and we were so excited to see Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in great company! Congrats Rebecca and all the other authors!

We couldn't fit the whole list in this image, so be sure to check out all the recommendations here: https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/

Screenshot collage from the Locus Recommended Reading list, featuring a partial excerpt from the recommended collections list and showing the cover of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE

TODAY! Sharp Words is at the Bridgeworks, with a wonderful series of panels, author readings, and more. Find us at the book market with so many other incredible Southern Ontario indie presses, bookstores, and lots of information about how you can get involved in Ontario's lit scene.

#SharpWords2026 #bookmarket #bookfair #indiebooks #indiepress #smallpress #shoplocal #ontarioevents #hamontevents

This interview with Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a beautiful reflection on how ecological fiction grows from attention, entanglement, and daily life. “The world is ever-present… events, stimuli are always bombarding us,” she says, describing the layered consciousness behind Orchid’s world. We’re also thrilled to see her new book coming soon from Assembly Press - that cover is absolutely stunning! Southern Ontario Gothic! Highly recommend the read.

https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/fens-tobacco-fields-and-hopeful-cli-fi-e1e592878fea

#ClimateFiction #EcoFiction

A screenshot collage of the "Fens, Tobacco Fields, and Hopeful Cli-Fi" Interview with Lynn Hutchinson Lee, published by Interstellar Flight Press. The interviewer is Lisa Timpf. The excerpt reads: "in my daily life, the kinds of issues you mention are continuously teeming around inside me. For me, the world is ever-present. We don’t move along life on one single narrow track: events, stimuli are always bombarding us. In my own life, I can’t separate them from each other. As I answer this question, I’m looking out at the garden, seeing the changing leaves, nudged by the grocery list I need to write, or the text messages I have to respond to, remembering the headlines I just read in the paper, thinking about the world events behind the headlines. They’re enmeshed, all part of a whole. So, as I relate to the world in this complex way, this is also how I wrote Orchid’s world."

We're so excited to see two Stelliform titles make the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

See the full list here: https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

#BSFAAwards2026 #BSFA #bookawards #literaryawards #bestshortstory #bestshortfiction #bestnovella #shortfiction #shortstories #shortstorycollection

BSFA LONGLIST 2026 announcement: Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

We’re grateful to Redfern Jon Barrett and Reckoning for this generous, thoughtful review of WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE by Syr Hayati Beker. Thank you for reading the book with such care and for articulating so beautifully how its form, queerness, and ecological urgency speak to one another. We’re honored.

Check out the full review here: https://reckoning.press/review-what-a-fish-looks-like-by-syr-hayati-beker/

Sharp Words Winter Book Fair is coming! We'll be there on Saturday, January 31st from 11 to 5 pm, down at Bridgeworks at 200 Caroline Street North. Come by for panels, artists, authors, and the best selection of indie books to top up your winter TBR. Check Sharpwords.ca for updates!

#BookFair #IndieBookFair #BookMarket #SmallPress #BookEvents #OntarioEvents #HamOnt #HamOntEvents #CanadianLiterature #CanLit

SHARP WORDS. Hamilton's Winter Book Fair. January 31, 2026. Presented by Supercrawl.

Friday Night Poetry returns to Russell Books on January 16. Join poets Mahaila Smith (Seed Beetle) and Lorne Daniel (What Is Broken Binds Us) for an open mic and readings. 7pm sign-up, 7:30 start. See you there!

#FridayNightPoetry #PlanetEarthPoetry #RussellBooks #VictoriaBC #YYJEvents #OpenMicPoetry #PoetryReading #CanadianPoetry #CanLit #IndieBookstore #LiteraryEvents

The City & The City posted their 2025 bestsellers and we love to see a Stelliform book on the list! Also of note: the book is on the list because it is great, yes, but also because The City & The City read and loved it and recommended it and made it a bookclub feature. Indie bookstores are THE BEST.

#indiebooks #indiebookstores #bestseller #lynnhutchinsonlee #originsofdesireinorchidfens #bestof2025 #canadianbooks #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianauthor #books #bookstodon #booklover

Repost of Top 11 bestsellers from The City & the City books

We're a bit late with our new year's wishes. It takes time to muster up the optimism these days, but what else can we do but face the year with love and creativity and good books to support us? Resistance and transformation are hard work. May you find the stories and the courage you need this year.

#happynewyear #newyears2026 #smallpress #indiebooks #books #bookstodon

Happy new year post featuring the covers of the 2025 books: Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS, Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE, Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE and Rebecca Campbells' THE OTHER SHORE. Plus 2026 book T.K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES, and two not yet announced titles.

ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news - not just what's happening but also what we can do. It's definitely worth checking out.

Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: https://www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-data-centers-climate-impacts

#rebeccacampbell #theothershore #shortstories #shortstorycollection #canlit #canadianliterature #canadianauthor #speculativefiction #sffh #bookstodon #books

On a black and white forest background, the cover of Rebecca Campbells short story collection THE OTHER SHORE. The text reads: Eco-fiction Review: The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell, from Stelliform Press. The places in The Other Shore don’t sit stationary, but drift across distances and into pasts, presents, and futures. There’s a lot to think about in these pages and I recommend picking up this collection if you like speculative fiction that skews to the literary.

ICYMI: Both Stelliform books that were in the running for a Small Spec Book Award have come out ahead! R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD is the winner for the horror category and Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a fantasy finalist! We're thrilled to be recognized by small press readers!

#smallspecbookawards #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #fantasyfiction #horrorfiction #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #sfbooks #sffh #smallpress #indiepress #bookstodon #books

Small Spec Book Award Horror Winner announcement. R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD wins the horror category.

Small Spec Book Award Fantasy Finalists announcement. Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a finalist in the fantasy category.

ICYMI, The Woodlot published a thoroughly delightful review by Pearl Pirie of Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE. If you still haven't picked up your copy, you truly can't miss with this debut collection.

Read the whole review here: https://the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/29/seed-beetle-poems-by-mahaila-smith-stelliform-press-2025/

#poetry #canlit #canadianauthor #speculativepoetry #sfpoetry #poetrycollection #debutcollection #books #bookstodon

"How can you not love a poem which is entitled “Hi! I am your Cortical Update!”? It is gratifying to read what you haven’t read before. I can open at any page and find something striking, unforeseen and deftly worded." - Pearl Pirie, for The Woodlot

ICYMI: a wonderfully detailed and insightful review of Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE dropped over at The Ancillary Review of Books last week.

Check out the full review here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/06/spd-the-thing-you-do-when-crying-isnt-enough/

#bookreview #novella #smallpress #sciencefiction #whatafishlookslike #syrhayatibeker #ancillaryreviewofbooks #books #bookstodon

Screenshot collage of the WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE review by Roseanna Pendlebury for the Ancillary Review of Books.

On Reactor today, reviewer Alex Brown recommended 5 underrated novellas, including Sarena Ulibarri's ANOTHER LIFE!

"Anytime I want something interesting, weird, and environmentally focused, this publisher is where I start first ... Ulibarri offers no easy answers or quick condemnations; this is a novella full of questions the reader must grapple with about your personal actions and choices."

Find all the recommendations here: https://reactormag.com/backlist-bonanza-5-underrated-novellas/

#novella #bookstodon #books #climatefiction

Screenshot collage from the Backlist Bonanza article by Alex Brown, featuring Sarena Ulibarri's ANOTHER LIFE

Stelliform Press boosted:

"Between cresting waves, the silence you hang onto for just a moment when someone hangs up, before you go onto the next call because there is, temporarily, a respite from the tyranny of the queue."

#SundaySentence is from "Thank you for your patience" in The Other Shore: Stories by
Rebecca Campbell @StelliformPress

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f70be989-bc7b-429e-8133-1b31e4e1c292

Toronto! Come to the Cecil Centre Sunday Nov 2 for an amazing gathering of small presses! If you're passionate about supporting independent artists and publishers, this is a great opportunity to pick up some quality hard to find literature!

Plus there's a raffle to win a basket of indie books!

#meetthepresses #indielitmarket #bookfair #bookmarket #toronto #torontobooks #torontobookevents #tifa #canlit #canadianauthors #smallpress #indiepress #books #bookstodon

Meet the Presses Indie Lit Market poster
Nov 2, 12-4
Cecil Centre, 58 Cecil St, Toronto

Happy Halloween from Stelliform Press! From haunted shores to botanical horror, our books explore the strange beauty in what frightens us.

Find The Other Shore and Green Fuse Burning and more at stelliform.press. Pick up a scary good ebook for only $5! 🌺🐸🐅🌊

#HappyHalloween #Bookstodon #SpecFic #EcoHorror #ClimateFiction #WeirdFiction #IndiePress #SmallPress #AmReading #BookRecommendation #SpookySeason

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