Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
SSHRC funded PhD in English at UCalgary.
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
Pinned
Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
· Oct 1
Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
Weird Science Fiction Submission Call
Submit before 01/01/2026
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction
open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
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Passing on the “Elon’s FinDomme” crown to a new queen 👑
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Passing on the “Elon’s FinDomme” crown to a new queen 👑
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
THE THINGIE
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
THE THINGIE
I can't believe this goddamn website added a thing to hide "rude" like come on get fucked u wimps
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I can't believe this goddamn website added a thing to hide "rude" like come on get fucked u wimps
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“This book was on the Giller Long List!”
Your mom was on the Giller Long List
Your mom was on the Giller Long List
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“This book was on the Giller Long List!”
Your mom was on the Giller Long List
Your mom was on the Giller Long List
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dumb "AI can help do your job" motherfuckers coldcalling my work line at 5PM, unable to form a coherent pitch and shocked at my annoyance.
all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing.
I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs.
You're next
all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing.
I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs.
You're next
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
dumb "AI can help do your job" motherfuckers coldcalling my work line at 5PM, unable to form a coherent pitch and shocked at my annoyance.
all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing.
I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs.
You're next
all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing.
I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs.
You're next
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As Bluesky's general functionality continues to improve, there are times you may find it difficult to search for the content you need. So as a public service announcement here's the video clip you are trying to find to post when discussing the death of Dick Cheney today apnews.com/article/dick...
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
As Bluesky's general functionality continues to improve, there are times you may find it difficult to search for the content you need. So as a public service announcement here's the video clip you are trying to find to post when discussing the death of Dick Cheney today apnews.com/article/dick...
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:
For the second time this year, I’ve finished writing a novel.
That in itself is a pretty insane thing to say.
That in itself is a pretty insane thing to say.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
For the second time this year, I’ve finished writing a novel.
That in itself is a pretty insane thing to say.
That in itself is a pretty insane thing to say.
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Breaking: The Darkness Returns
Breaking: The Darkness Returns
WASHINGTON—With deep unease and outright horror haunting millions of Americans as a great shroud enveloped the land, late-breaking reports confirmed Monday that the darkness had returned. Bystanders f...
theonion.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Breaking: The Darkness Returns
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UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!
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Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
We lost because I forgot to post this during the game
a man in a niners baseball uniform is standing on a field
ALT: a man in a niners baseball uniform is standing on a field
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We lost because I forgot to post this during the game
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Heartbreaking.
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Heartbreaking.
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"[baseball] is designed to break your heart"
November 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"[baseball] is designed to break your heart"
Show up for ppl in your life like Vladdy Jr leaping onto the field
November 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Show up for ppl in your life like Vladdy Jr leaping onto the field
This guy. Man. Haven’t seen anything like it in my lifetime. The rizz of Obama, the politics of an actual leftist. It’s crazy
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This guy. Man. Haven’t seen anything like it in my lifetime. The rizz of Obama, the politics of an actual leftist. It’s crazy
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lol. Lmao, even
The worst thing about the city of Toronto is that it wants to kill you (You are a victim of late state capitalism general)
The best thing about the city of Toronto is that it wants to KILL you (LA Dodgers specific)
The best thing about the city of Toronto is that it wants to KILL you (LA Dodgers specific)
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
lol. Lmao, even
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A wonderful review of Benjamin Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is up at the Fiddlehead:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...
thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...
thefiddlehead.ca
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A wonderful review of Benjamin Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is up at the Fiddlehead:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...
thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...
I guess I’m putting up that call again asking around: I have a book coming out next summer! I’d love to start figuring out who to read with and where to go! So if you have a book coming out next summer in Canada, and do you think us reading together would be fun, let me know!
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I guess I’m putting up that call again asking around: I have a book coming out next summer! I’d love to start figuring out who to read with and where to go! So if you have a book coming out next summer in Canada, and do you think us reading together would be fun, let me know!