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Thrilled to see Trinary by @amabilisohara.bsky.social on the longlist! You can read this amazing poly love poem RIGHT NOOOOW! www.heartlines-spec.com/trinary-by-a...

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ONTARIANS: ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW (Feb 27th) YOU CAN AND SHOULD VOTE EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T GET A VOTER CARD IN THE MAIL. IT'S EASY AND TAKES FIVE MINUTES. FIND YOUR VOTING LOCATION HERE: www.elections.on.ca/en.html

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You can only conquer the Deadline Beast for so long. This nugget of wisdom is from the Editor who missed the nomination period for the only Canadian SFF award I'll see myself to the shame corner 🫠

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New venue drop 🥰: Issue 1-6 are now available on DriveThruFiction!!! www.drivethrufiction.com/browse/pub/3...

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There is no greater thrill than working with an artist!!! 😘

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COMMON BONDS is back!! We will be putting together a second anthology, with at its heart: 💚 aromantic characters 🧡 science-fiction & fantasy 💚 platonic relationships Aromantic love is queer, beautiful, and takes countless forms. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... 🌈📚 💙📚 #QueerAdultSFF

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

As an international writer, contributor copies aren't always on the table (understandable). That makes it extra special when one arrives. Thank you, @heartlines-spec.com #writing #writingcommunity

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AWARDS time! Support your favorite authors, artists, publishers, and more...! SFWA members can vote in the Nebula Awards nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne... Worldcon members can vote in the Hugo Awards seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... Anyone can vote in the Locus Awards locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

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Thanks for everyone's patience as we finish reading through submissions! Our editor meeting is booked soooooooo....one way or another, the gavel comes down on Feb 27th

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Some indie Canadian bookshops to check out before the GST/HST holiday ends on Feb 15:❤️📚 @anotherstoryto.bsky.social @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @mcnallyrobinson.com @thebeguiling.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @pfbvan.bsky.social @tridenthalifax.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for a Canadian pin designer! We'd love to commission a small enamel pin sometime this year 👀 Send us recs for some of your fav designers! 🧷🧷🧷

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Today I received my copy of issue 6 for Heartlines Spec / @heartlines-spec.com which I will also remind you is Canadian, independent, and SFF-focused, so please support and subscribe if you can! I'm proud to be part of this great team behind the scenes. 😊

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

It's awards season! We published 3 Issues and all works within are eligible for nomination, that's: 22 original stories 14 poems 5 essays Everything is free-to-read online www.heartlines-spec.com

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If you patronize Canadian businesses who use Shopify to sell their merchandise, you might want to rethink that.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Wasn't expecting my author copy of @heartlines-spec.com to arrive today but here it is! There's always something special about seeing your own words in print. Today has been a whiplash sort of a day, so this was a good note to end it on.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Do you identify as Canadian, trans, and part of the Asian diaspora? Participate in an upcoming exhibit at The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives! Deadline: 7 March 2025 Details and sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (Please reshare, thanks!)

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Canadians (or anyone) feeling sad about not being able to attend WorldCon, I wholeheartedly recommend Can*Con. The virtual con in April features Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the GOHs in-person in October will include Premee Mohamed, Stephen Kotowych and me. Follow @canconsffh.bsky.social for details.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

“Made in Canada” products must be made of a minimum 51 per cent Canadian material or content, while “Product of Canada” is the gold standard, with the product needing to be 98 per cent Canadian to get the certification.” www.cira.ca/en/resources...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Canadians: If you care about a single queer person you NEED to vote against the conservatives in any and every election They've always been bigots & it's so much worse now because they're taking their cues from MAGA freaks Stand against hate or we WILL see the things happening stateside here

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

3 days left in our submission period! We'd especially love to see more: 🍁Canadian writers 🖤Gothic vibes (banging on your dead mother's grave/puffy black sleeves/yearning for the void) 🪆More weird -- like a nesting doll of weirdness, a multi-layered skin suit of weirdness heartlinesspec.moksha.io

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Interested in judging for the next cycle of the Ignyte Awards? Applications to join our longlist judge cohort are now open thru Feb 14. No prior experience as a judge is required, but we do need you to be well-read and familiar with what we do. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

It's hard out there for a semi-pro zine! If you're a weirdo writer, they are the perfect place for strange story structures or genre-breaking conventions. If you find a mag you love, help them out! Money is always great but so is cheering them on and spreading the word 💓

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

One week to go! Keep sending us your fantasy and sci-fi stories focused on any kind of long-term relationship!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Never done an eligibility post before, but looking back on 2024, I have quite a few poems published that I'm proud of, so I'd love to share them with more readers. Eligible for Rhyslings/Hugos/Auroras/Ignytes! 1. "Astrometric Love" in @heartlines-spec.com: www.heartlines-spec.com/astrometric-...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing issue (I may be biased 😏).

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Issue 6 is now fully free-to-read! This issue focuses on transformation, whether in the form of a flower or a spider-alien. Read some of these works and tell the author's how incredible they are! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-6/

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jennifleck.bsky.social is now free-to-read! Venture deep into the forest, don't get lost, don't trust the spiders. www.heartlines-spec.com/legs-scopula...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

What a fantastic opportunity! 💖✨ I love the focus on long-term relationships within SFF. Can't wait to see the creativity that unfolds! #SFF #WritersCommunity 🌌📚

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Friends! 📣📣📣 We're open until the end of the month for short fiction (500-3500 words) and poetry! Make it weird, make it grotesque, make it cozy, just make us FEEL something. We want all your SFF words that focus on long-term relationships. www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written. But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written. psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu... +

submitted 44 days ago • 22 comments

If you’re fleeing the other site(s) and looking for the ace and Aro writers to follow, here’s a great starting point!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨ For more info, check out our submissions guidelines: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I think this also goes for many of the editors in the short fiction magazine space. We're weirdos who love stories, and often writers ourselves who've been in the submission trenches. I think a lot of us got into this game just because we wanted be able to get more of your stories into the world.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Keep sending @heartlines-spec.com your submissions until Jan. 31st! 🧙 We want to read your SFF stories featuring long-term relationships (platonic, romantic, familial). 📖 Transport us to magical worlds ✨ or aboard spaceships 🛸 Explore the weird 🤔 the wondrous 🐉 the mysterious 🌌 Happy writing! ✍️

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Visiting Birds by Jen Tombs is now free-to-read on our site! What will you do to better the world? This story has cli-fi, friendly little birds, a tense relationship, and nostalgia www.heartlines-spec.com/visting-bird...

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