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Forthcoming 2026 Titles are on Netgalley<\/a><\/h2>\n

We’re publishing three books in 2026 and two of them are currently available to download on Netgalley.<\/p>

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T. K. Rex’s The Wildcraft Drones<\/em> is an interconnected short story collection that explores the co-evolution of drones and a rewilded world.<\/p>

In The Wildcraft Drones<\/em>, machines, ecosystems, and human lives collide across a climate-altered future. From AI-animal communication to rogue drones and fragile communities, these stories trace shifting boundaries between nature and technology, asking whether intelligence\u2014artificial or organic\u2014can help humanity adapt, reconnect, or survive.<\/p>

Download The Wildcraft Drones<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>

Find more information about the book and preorder on our website<\/a>.<\/p>

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Caleb Sierra’s The Wetworks Miracle<\/em> is a weird horror\/dark fantasy biopunk novella with elements of portal fantasy and religious esoterica.<\/p>

In The Wetworks Miracle<\/em>, humanity survives in a new world by harvesting an alien plant they call the Root. When a brutal accident creates a being who can hear its voice, dependence becomes transformation as the plant\u2019s will reshapes bodies, beliefs, and the miracles survival demands.<\/p>

Download The Wetworks Miracle <\/em>here<\/a>.<\/p>

Find out more about the book and preorder on our website<\/a>.<\/p>

To Netgalley users, we appreciate all reviews. Thank you for taking a chance on our books. If you would like to become a regular reviewer of Stelliform titles, please find our reviewer form on our contact page<\/a>. You will receive an email any time a Stelliform book becomes available to reviewers.<\/p><\/div>\n

SMiddleton<\/a><\/span> \/ <\/span> forthcoming<\/a>, netgalley<\/a>, Novella<\/a>, Press News<\/a>, Short Stories<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Upcoming events in Southern Ontario<\/a><\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>

Books & Brews at Collective Arts in Hamilton: Saturday May 24<\/h2>
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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.<\/p>

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!<\/p>

Stelliform Party at Little Ghosts Bookstore in Toronto: Sunday May 25<\/h2>
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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<\/em> Shore<\/em>, 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!<\/p>

What’s New and Upcoming in 2025?<\/h3>

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:<\/p>

  1. Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens<\/em><\/a> 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.<\/li>\n\n
  2. Seed Beetle<\/em><\/a> 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.<\/li>\n\n
  3. What a Fish Looks Like<\/a> <\/em>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.<\/li>\n\n
  4. The Other Shore<\/em><\/a> by Rebecca Campbell (October 2025). In ten short stories, Rebecca Campbell\u2019s 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.<\/li><\/ol>
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    Don’t Miss our Fall 2024 Titles<\/h3>
    1. Zebra Meridian and Other Stories <\/em>by Geoffrey W. Cole<\/a> (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<\/li>\n\n
    2. You Will Speak For The Dead <\/em>by R.A. Busby<\/a> (October), a surprisingly tender body horror novella about a troubled hoarder house cleaner<\/li><\/ol>
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      Still to Come in 2026<\/h3>

      We’re busy getting our 2026 releases ready. Here’s what we can tell you so far:<\/p>

      1. The Wildcraft Drones <\/em>by T.K. Rex (short story collection; interconnected short stories, solarpunk)<\/li>\n\n
      2. The Wetworks Miracle <\/em>by Caleb Sierra (novella; weird horror\/dark fantasy)<\/li>\n\n
      3. Caciques<\/em> by E.G. Cond\u00e9 (Indigenous futurist\/science fiction novella; follow up to the award-winning Sordidez<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n
      4. The Hunger of Those Who Built It<\/em> by Wendy Waring (novel, literary solarpunk, Canadian)<\/li><\/ol>

        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<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

        SMiddleton<\/a><\/span> \/ <\/span> Acquisitions<\/a>, All<\/a>, Hamilton<\/a>, Press News<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

        The Jaguar Mask is Here! (and more Summer Updates)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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        The first book of our 2024 season is out now: the beautiful, surreal, and tender magical realist novel\u00a0The Jaguar Mask\u00a0<\/em>by Michael J. DeLuca.<\/p>

        Check out some of the high praise this book is getting:<\/p>

        “This fascinating political fantasy \u2026 [is] poignant and lyrical \u2026 [and] will entice those seeking fantasy dealing with serious topics like resource draining and climate justice.” – Publishers Weekly<\/p>

        “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<\/p>

        “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<\/p>

        Read more about the book here<\/a> and grab your copy of this uniquely compassionate and fierce fantasy today.
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        What’s Next in 2024?<\/h2>
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        After The Jaguar Mask, we have two more books coming out in late 2024:<\/p>