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Hello Friends,
I hope this newsletter finds you as well as can be. When the world is this
difficult, I often find myself working even harder both to feel helpful and to
use my focus to prevent me from seeing the full extent of the horror. Reading submissions and editing new books has been a great escape over the last six years, but this year I’ve needed more time away from screens. I’m really valuing time spent with family, friends, and dogs, volunteering at local organizations, guerilla gardening trees onto pipeline land, and doing a bit of my own writing.
I hope you have something that is helping you to feel like a whole human. If books and book events are a part of that, please read on!
This Weekend in Toronto: Pride Bookfair at Left Field Brewery
We’re returning to one of our favourite breweries with our favourite people this weekend for a special rainbow edition of our Books & Brews bookfair for Adults. We’re stocking our table with all our LGBTQ+ reads (and we have a lot!). Come by, grab a drink, and stock up on the best stories to energize you for a weekend of Pride festivities.
When: June 27, 12-5pm
Where: Left Field Brewery, 36 Wagstaff Dr. Toronto, Ontario
I hope to see you there!
The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex: An Interconnected Short Story
Collection for Our Times
One of the books featured at our Pride bookfair will be a fabulously queer short story collection that envisions a beautiful future for us all. Last month we released this debut collection, The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex. It’s getting some great buzz. Readers are embracing this book for its positive outlook that doesn’t ignore the very real systemic problems we are facing. They also love how the overarching narrative of this collection reads more like a novel.
What Authors and Reviewers are Saying about The Wildcraft Drones
“Full of hard-won hope and bittersweet joy, this is climate fiction with heart.” — Publishers Weekly
“Gorgeous, hopeful, and strange, The Wildcraft Drones is a history of the next four millennia that will make you cry — in mourning, and for joy. This is the future that cyborg oak trees and pirate drones want. I do too.” — Annalee Newitz, bestselling author of Automatic Noodle and The Terraformers
“A much-needed vision of how things could turn out well, despite the many
dangers we are facing.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, bestselling author
of The Ministry for the Future
“The Wildcraft Drones weaves the many realities of a world where the soil, technology, wild creatures, and wild people collaborate on communicating through and past the bounds of language. When evolution is the only constant, these stories insist on centering the protection of those on the margins of power concentration. A reminder that if we do not see ourselves as part of the collective, we lose the tools to save ourselves.” — Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Ignyte award-winning author of & This Is How To Stay Alive
“These tales take us from the first successful inter-species communication forward into a future where life and machine have become so entwined it is no longer possible to know when one ends and the other begins. The world of Rex’s stories is intricate, complex, deeply imagined and utterly transporting. Impressive work.” — Karen Joy Fowler, multiple award-winning author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
More Forthcoming Stelliform Press Titles Currently on Netgalley
Stelliform is publishing three titles in 2026 and two of these upcoming titles are available for download on Netgalley. Click the links below to be taken to the Netgalley download pages for each book.
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The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra (July 30
2026) is a dark fantasy biopunk headtrip by a brand new Latino author from the Seattle area. After a catastrophic accident that births a new being, one question remains: What if the only thing
keeping humanity alive is also changing what it means to be human?
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The Hunger of Those Who Built It by Wendy Waring (Sept 17 2026) is a literary solarpunk novel that asks who gets to inherit the future — and who pays the price of building it. When the search for her missing activist sister collides with an ambitious urban renewal project, Diane Griffith is forced to confront the human costs of the sustainable future she is creating.
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Upcoming Fall Events
We’re thrilled to be back at Word on the Street in 2026. We’ll have eight new books on the table as well as other bookish merch like T-shirts, totes, and stickers. Be sure to put the fair on your calendar:
When: Saturday, September 26 – 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM & Sunday, September 27 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario
Thank you for your time and for your love of the written word. Take care of yourself and others!
Selena Middleton
Publisher & Editor
Stelliform Press
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