We’re having a party and you’re invited! We’ve got some upcoming events in Southern Ontario coming up this weekend. See below for the when and where, plus our 2026 titles announcement.
Books & Brews at Collective Arts in Hamilton: Saturday May 24
Books & Brews is back in the Hammer! This coming Saturday, we’ll be at Collective Arts in Hamilton with a table full of our complete catalogue and bookish merch, along with our pals Little Ghosts books, Aaron Millard Illustration, Dundurn Press, Bookhug Press, Wolsak and Wynn, and Invisible Books.
We’ll also have a new ride-along, Urru the silken windhound, who is making her bookfair debut. She may be a bit nervous, but she loves treats. Come say hi!
Stelliform Party at Little Ghosts Bookstore in Toronto: Sunday May 25
We’re hosting a Stelliform Party to celebrate the launch of Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s Romany dark fantasy/folk horror novella, along with fellow Stelliform authors Mahaila Smith and Rebecca Campbell. Each of these award-winning authors will read from their new and upcoming work, we’ll have a Q&A, book signings, refreshments, and a giveaway of Rebecca’s forthcoming short story collection The Other Shore, which doesn’t come out until October. We’ll have a table full of Stelliform titles amidst the amazing indie-focused section at Little Ghosts. This event will be a treat!
What’s New and Upcoming in 2025?
2025 has been packed with new releases (by very small press standards) and we still have more to come that we’re very excited about. Here’s the full 2025 list:
- Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (April 2025). This novella is part literary fiction, part folk horror revenge plot, and all lush description and feeling. A young Romany woman, having fled racist violence to arrive in northern Ontario, finds herself embroiled in the plot of the mysterious “panni raklies” (or water girls in English) as they seek retribution against the towns mining oligarchs to protect their fen.
- Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (May 2025). A narrative science fiction poetry collection that chronicles the experiences of the women and femmes of small town Ontario as they struggle against the impacts of Utopic Robotics on their community. The story, told in dozens of short emotional vignettes is embellished by interior illustrations and a flip book animation by Julia Louise Pereira.
- What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker (September 2025). Told in margin notes, posters, letters scrawled on napkins, and six retellings of classic fairy tales, this novella gathers the stories of a queer community co-creating one another through the strange landscapes of climate change.
- The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell (October 2025). In ten short stories, Rebecca Campbell’s exquisite prose channels ancient forest spirits, the lost ghosts of unknown fates, biological and technological transformations, and challenges the ways that colonization and extraction have shaped not only landscapes but how we imagine the future.
Don’t Miss our Fall 2024 Titles
- Zebra Meridian and Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole (September), a dark and absurd short story collection that brings science fiction, fantasy, and horror into conversation with environmental issues and a unique examination of the human condition; and
- You Will Speak For The Dead by R.A. Busby (October), a surprisingly tender body horror novella about a troubled hoarder house cleaner
Still to Come in 2026
We’re busy getting our 2026 releases ready. Here’s what we can tell you so far:
- The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex (short story collection; interconnected short stories, solarpunk)
- The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra (novella; weird horror/dark fantasy)
- Caciques by E.G. Condé (Indigenous futurist/science fiction novella; follow up to the award-winning Sordidez)
- The Hunger of Those Who Built It by Wendy Waring (novel, literary solarpunk, Canadian)
We are always interested in chatting with Canadian and/or BIPOC authors about their environmental storytelling projects, so if this sounds like you and your current WIP, please get in touch via our contact page.