Nicole Zelniker (she/her) is a writer, activist, and podcast producer at The Nasiona. Nicole is also the author of Mixed, a non-fiction book about race and mixed-race families, and Last Dance, a collection of short stories. Dress Rehearsal, another short fiction piece, appears in the award-nominated Nothing Without Us anthology. You can check out the rest of … Continue reading
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2020: Year in Review
How is it already December in a year when March alone felt like it lasted a decade? But it has arrived and with it, time to review what happened over the past 12 months! There have been some major changes to the SpAN over this span (not sorry), and the biggest being that Canadian fantasy … Continue reading
Call for Submissions – Artificial Divide
Originally posted on Presses Renaissance Press:
DEADLINE EXTENDED!!! Artificial Divide is an own voices anthology by Blind and visually impaired writers. It’s a multi genre anthology with visually impaired protagonists. It will feature a diverse array of short stories with protagonists that are visually impaired. For this anthology, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey,…
Featured SpAN Author: H.E. Casson
H. E. Casson (they/them) is a queer poet and performer whose words have been shared by Cast of Wonders, Lunate, The Quilliad, Serotonin, and Taco Bell Quarterly—among others. They are a Best of the Net nominee and have been selected for the Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2020 anthology. H. E.’s voice can be heard in the Moonbase Theta Out and … Continue reading
Managing Spoons in 2020, featuring Nicole Zelniker
Week Five of Managing Spoons in 2020 features Derek Newman-Stille. I found myself nodding throughout this interview! Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Derek Newman-Stille
Derek Newman-Stille is the nine-time Prix Aurora Award winning creator of Speculating Canada. They are completing their PhD at Trent University, researching representations of disability in Canadian speculative fiction. Derek is the anthology editor of Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales From the Margins and the Prix Aurora Award nominated We Shall Be Monsters. Derek has published in fora … Continue reading
Managing Spoons in 2020, featuring Derek Newman-Stille
Week Five of Managing Spoons in 2020 features Derek Newman-Stille. I found myself nodding throughout this interview! Continue reading
Managing Spoons in 2020, featuring April Laramey
Editor’s note: As promised, this Fall season brings us a new series called Managing Spoons in 2020. It’s been a heck of a year for many of us, so I decided to ask fellow Spoonies how they’ve been handling it. Thanks for doing this! Please let our audience know a bit about you, your sensitivity editing … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: April Laramey
Despite her day job as a bureaucrat, April Laramey is an artist and a writer who dabbles in photography, spends too much time on the internet, paints, and occasionally gets some exercise. Her favourite colour is green, she wants to work in a bookstore when she grows up, and when she dies she wants her tombstone … Continue reading