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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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

1. 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
2. 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:

1. The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex (short story collection; interconnected short stories, solarpunk)
2. The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra (novella; weird horror/dark fantasy)
3. Caciques by E.G. Condé (Indigenous futurist/science fiction novella; follow up to the award-winning Sordidez)
4. 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.

The first book of our 2024 season is out now: the beautiful, surreal, and tender magical realist novel The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca.

Check out some of the high praise this book is getting:

“This fascinating political fantasy … [is] poignant and lyrical … [and] will entice those seeking fantasy dealing with serious topics like resource draining and climate justice.” – Publishers Weekly

“An explosive work of magical realism … The Jaguar Mask is an arresting novel about constant upheavals and fights against oppression in which a few people make a difference.” – Foreword Reviews

“The Jaguar Mask is a gorgeously capacious novel. It is sophisticated, playful, frightening, leaping from hardboiled murder mystery to family biography, telling tales of revolution and magic along the way.” – Rebecca Campbell, 2023 Ursula K Le Guin Prize Winning author of Arboreality

Read more about the book here and grab your copy of this uniquely compassionate and fierce fantasy today.

What’s Next in 2024?

After The Jaguar Mask, we have two more books coming out in late 2024:

• 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.

Forthcoming Books Acquired During Our Open Call

At the end of 2023 we were open to general submissions. During that open call we acquired the following books:

• Origin of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (novella; dark fantasy; Canadian)
• Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (poetry collection; science fiction; Canadian)
• What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker (novella in short stories; science fiction fairy tales)
• The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell (short story collection; speculative fiction; Canadian)
• The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex (short story collection; interconnected short stories, speculative fiction)
• The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra (novella; weird horror/dark fantasy)

We’re still working out agreements and reading manuscripts from the call, so will have more acquisition announcements soon! 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.

We are so excited to share the news that Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality has won the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin $25,000 Prize for Fiction. We were astounded to have another title land on the shortlist, after Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons made the UKLGPF shortlist last year. To have a Stelliform Press book win the big prize this year is such a thrill and an honour.

Thank you to the judges William Alexander, Alexander Chee, Karen Joy Fowler, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Shruti Swamy, and to the shortlisted authors for their incredible work. Please check out their shortlisted books, especially if they’re published by a small press.

Check out the virtual awards ceremony recording, where you can hear author readings from all the shortlisted books and a touching acceptance speech from Rebecca Campbell. We are currently in the process of printing a special edition of the Arboreality paperback that will include a refreshed cover with gold foil title and and interior cover featuring botanical drawings of the science fictional tree arbutus aurum.

Join Tiffany Morris, Suzan Palumbo, & Stelliform Press to chat about Morris’s highly anticipated debut novella, the Indigenous swampcore Green Fuse Burning. The event is part of Can*Con programming on October 14th. If you’re a Can*Con attendee, the launch is accessible via Sched. If you are not at Can*Con, grab a ticket for free, or pick up a copy of Green Fuse Burning a discount.

Click here to reserve your ticket and receive Zoom login info.

Come to the launch for Octavia Cade’s You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, a new eco-horror to solarpunk short story collection. Cade will be in conversation with Arthur C. Clarke winning author Laura Jean McKay, whose collection Gunflower is out in Australia and the UK early October. The conversation promises to be exciting and attendees have a chance to win a copy of Gunflower and other goodies.

Grab a free ticket or a ticket + discounted book here.