Stelliform books are at the forefront of conversations about culture and climate change.
We’re a small press publishing out of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We focus on genre (SFFH) and literary fiction and creative non-fiction which takes up the conversation around the climate emergency and an intersectional view of environmental justice. We invite you to join us in reshaping nature/culture relationships through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. Welcome. We’re so glad you’re here.
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Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
This past month, I (Selena Middleton, Stelliform Publisher and EIC) read Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians alongside my friend and invaluable Stelliform helper and fellow English PhD, Kristen Shaw. Since our conversations often fall into fairly nerdy literary analysis, we thought we would share our thoughts about The Only Good Indians in the form of the conversation that we might have had if the pandemic had not prevented an in-person meeting. What follows is our conversation-review of SGJ's novel, which was published by Saga Press in July 2020.
Climate Change and Fantasy Worlds
It's important to carve out these spaces where the reader can sit for a moment — within a bigger problem always, but for a moment focusing on a small world that the fantastic creates for us. The feelings around climate change are big and oppressive and overwhelming and I'm not entirely interested in recreating that experience in Stelliform books. The world is doing that for us already. Instead, I've been delighted to read stories that shape a smaller but still inter-connected experience. Read more about that in this post.
Announcement: Stelliform Acquires Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons
We're delighted to welcome Cynthia Zhang to the Stelliform family with a debut novel. She comes to us with previous fiction and non-fiction published in Lunch Ticket, Leading Edge, Orca Literary, and Coffin Bell. Read more about After the Dragons in this blog post.
Review: Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
Kathleen Jennings' Flyaway is an Australian gothic novella that scales up the haunted house trope to encompass a landscape. In this review, I'll focus on some of the book's ecological themes which are largely presented to the reader in the form of fairy tales.
Publishers Weekly Reviews for Kern and DeLuca
Both our forthcoming 2020 titles, Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern and Night Roll by Michael J. Deluca have received Publishers Weekly reviews. Read the reviews here.