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Holly Schofield
@hschofieldfic.bsky.social
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Writer of skiffy hopepunk. Confident introvert. She/her
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hschofieldfic.bsky.social
Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)
ourmankoto.bsky.social Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 23d
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
Text mounted on a screen reads as follows: WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? 1. DOESN'T MATTER 2. WHO CARES 3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM 4. NOT YOURS
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ourmankoto.bsky.social
I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
- John Muir

Very Big Tree amongst regular big trees at Sequoia National Park

#SaveOurParks
#ThickTrunkThursday
#SequoiaNationalPark
large sequoia tree at the edge of a meadow at Sequoia National Park, surrounded by pines from my July 2025 trip
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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animalsrus.bsky.social
The beautiful Great Grey Owl.. 🦉
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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natewaltonwrites.bsky.social
Our Paperback version is now live.
Launch date was not an accident.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGQGLP9V
Rights At Risk: 19 Amendments To Liberation
Rights At Risk: 19 Amendments To Liberation [Vega, Tiffany, Deluca, Jude, Volle, Adam, Schofield, Holly, Wilson, Mike, Squier, Harriet, Crate, Linda M, Hollman, Dr Laurie, Anand, Pulkita, Caraveo, Vanessa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Rights At Risk: 19 Amendments To Liberation
www.amazon.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
So great to see this fundraiser doing well. But it can do even better. There are some pretty great stretch goals that remain locked. Chip in if you can, share either way. Go Canada!
ourmankoto.bsky.social Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · Apr 8
We did it! Stretch goal #6 unlocked: we'll have two new pieces of b&w artwork by Canadian SFF artist, Paul "Creyates" Yates. Now, on to stretch goal #7: if we hit this stretch goal, we will include 10 of the very best speculative poems by Canadians from 2024! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kot...
Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 3
Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
My story about an aging cyberpunk adapting to a solarpunk world is now up at @escapepod.org! It originally appeared in @press-android.bsky.social's Fighting for the Future anthology. You can read it or listen to it at escapepod.org/2025/03/06/e...
March 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
The big impact of small stories! Lots of great stuff in Myna's roundup, keeping company with my own "Conflict Resolution"!
February 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children."

- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)

[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]
February 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
This story about siblings is Flash Fiction Online's February SF reprint! Do read right to the end because...well, you'll see!
February 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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premeemohamed.com
Absolutely please do this but also be aware that it helps if it's a new book! Some libraries will not buy books older than 12-18 months old. 😬

(This particularly helps Canadians due to how our PLR system is set up by the way! Thank you!)
January 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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lianabrooks.bsky.social
Quiet Moment Of The Day:

Wherever you're at I hope you find some peace today.

#QuietMomentOfTheDay
A pair of pale jellyfish with barely visible blue dots drifting against a blue background with light coming down from above.
January 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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aliennextdoor.bsky.social
I reposted this slimemold Stemonitus axifera for #SlimemoldSunday today because it deserved a second curtain call... :) #NaturePhotography
December 2, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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2wsphotography.bsky.social
A Pearl-spotted Owlet on a mission…

📍Akagera National Park, Rwanda.

#birds #NaturePhotography #Wildlife
A Pearl-spotted Owlet on the wing. This image is one of a burst I managed to get of this bird in flight in Akagera National Park. This species is one of a few diurnal owl species, which makes it a lot easier to photograph than others!
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
I've got a story in here! It'll be out Dec. 31st.
Preordering is available now!
lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social · Nov 14
Just off the press from Exile Editions, a new anthology 'Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia', edited by Nina Munteanu and me. Over 30 gorgeous stories that explore strange new terrains, quiet morphing landscapes, dark and terrifying warnings, and lush newly-told folk and fairy tales.
Books in a cardboard box, Through the Portal - a woman's brown eye looks from the darkness, green vegetation, trees, and a bluish shimmering light.
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
Still chuffed four years later that I have a story in here!
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
Have you read "What You Sow", by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social ? It's a lovely piece about rebellion and loss and what flowers you'd choose to grow on your head.
What You Sow - Small Wonders
Your earliest memory is of your mother's brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head.
smallwondersmag.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Oh my joodness...
Screenshot of a social post by @AbbyHiggs that says: 'Actually it's pronounced "jaslight" — you've been saying it wrong the whole time'
October 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Best reason to go off the record.
A highlighted excerpt from a news story, apparently about a new washroom in the city bus terminal: "A second person who checked out the women's restroom and who asked not to be identified because she has always wanted to be an anonymous source - reported her findings by email: "Black shiny granite..."
October 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
Canadian SFF readers! Only 1 more day to get lots of award-nominated fiction! The Aurora Awards package can be downloaded for a measley $10. Sign up or log in at www.csffa.ca
Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, and more, all by Canadians!
P.S. I've got 2 stories in the nommed works!😀
July 5, 2024 at 2:54 AM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
Chuffed to have a story in here!
aanpress.bsky.social Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · Jun 20
"Moving Across the Landscape in Search of an Idea" has arrived and Tiny Forklift and the Crew are busy packing up pre-orders and author copies. Order your copy today - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... (Stories with verbose titles, concise narratives, and copious notes, in multiple genres)
A tiny forklift and HO scale warehouse figures are standing on a plain of books as if they are sized for reality and the books are just extra huge.
June 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
And since I'm doing that promo thang today 😀, also please consider supporting this Kickstarter to raise awareness of neurodiversity.
The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters anthology asks: Would neurodivergence be an advantage in an encounter with aliens?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters - A Sci-Fi Anthology
A diverse anthology of empowering, hopeful sci-fi stories, poetry, and art by and for neurodivergent folks
www.kickstarter.com
April 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM
hschofieldfic.bsky.social
Wow, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction continues to soar! It's now been nominated and is on the shortlist for the Prix Aurora Awards, Canada's top SFF awards!
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I'm delighted to have a story in it.
Voting opens soon!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
April 26, 2024 at 4:11 PM