Louise Koren
banner
loukoren.bsky.social
Louise Koren
@loukoren.bsky.social
Linguist. Editor. Avid hobbyist.
🇱🇧🇸🇮🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦
Managing editor @talesfeathers.bsky.social with @augursociety.bsky.social
Pinned
I am so honoured to have had the opportunity to be the lead editor of this issue, and am absolutely overjoyed to see it out in the world today! I am so thankful to all the incredible creators and editors and everyone who helped create this lovely piece of art we now get to share. Just, no words 💚🥰😭💕
Hello wonderful readers

big news today

🌟✨TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 3 IS RELEASED!✨🌟

Get ready for fish-gyals, hellhound puppies, food, family, friendship, & more. 💖

Subscribers will find the issue in their inboxes within 24 hours, and 2 pieces are free on our site RIGHT NOW. 😍

(scroll for more 👀)
Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 3
Join us to explore the idea of connection. The way we can be connected to the people around us and to the worlds we live in.
augursociety.org
Reposted by Louise Koren
And HUGE congrats to @ennuinox.bsky.social, whose story A Recipe for Immortality (Serves 2), published in our own Volume 3, is also on the Recommended Reading List!

So well deserved. Follow the link below if you haven't read the story (or just want to read it again; we certainly do!) ✨
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨

Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.

This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.

Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
are you in Toronto or the GTA? do you like soup?

then, come out to the launch of The Iron Garden Sutra on February 28, 3p.m. at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

the launch will also serve as the first-ever live recording of the murmurstations podcast!

*there will be soup, book signing, and treats!
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Genuinely one of the best compliments is when someone thinks your nails are acrylics and asks you where you got them done
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If anyone's been hearing me talk about "the astronaut story" & how much I want everyone to read it, here it is!!! I fell in love with this piece INSTANTLY in submissions & have been talking about it nonstop since. It was such a joy to work with Stefan on this piece and everyone should GO READ IT NOW
We've got a new T&F story for you this Monday! 👀

"After the Astronaut and the North Star Kiss" by Stefan Alcalá Slater is a tale of cosmic longing & the moment where two lonely explorers finally collide! 🌌💫

Read it NOW! 🔗 Link in bio.

P.S. every story in Vol 3 is now on our site, free to read!
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Inside you'll find...
🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest
🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens
🫐 a berry world of grief and awe
& so much more!

🔗 Link in bio!

More details below 👀⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Yall ever read a book and just gone. Hm. If any single person who knows me well reads this they will instantly know who my favourite minor character is huh
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reposted by Louise Koren
✨PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
At long last, my Great Gatsby retelling - a psychological thriller/drama graphic novel filled with vintage glamour - is getting published! #GreatGatsbyIIE
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
this weekend in Ottawa! the ottawa small press book fair! friday night reading + saturday fair,
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Reposted by Louise Koren
less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon,
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:      the ottawa     small press     book fair autumn 2025 : will be held on Satur...
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
❄️🌨❄️
FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW FIRST SNOW
❄️🌨❄️
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
So excited to share this story with the world! And @augursociety.bsky.social is a dream publication - I’m so honored to be among the amazing authors in this issue!
We've got TWO samples available right now!

✒️ “Four Elements of the Affair” by Britt Gillman, a betrayal told through the natural world
✒️ “Mother Tongue” by @poojajoshi.bsky.social, about two tongues across generations

READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them.

Come meet some new reads.
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted by Louise Koren
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
It was great to meet or reconnect with @loukoren.bsky.social @davering.bsky.social @rebecca-b.bsky.social @angrykem.bsky.social Nathan Caro Fréchette @ayshaufarah.bsky.social KM Greyburn and @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social at CanCon 2025 last weekend.

Great to interact with such cool folks!
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now!

Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
#CanCon2025 photo dump!! What a wonderful experience full of long-awaited in-person meetings, new connections, entertaining/enlightening panels, and lots of laughs (also a fair bit of nerves being a first-time volunteer, but hey, I did the thing and it turned out alright 👌)
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
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 6:42 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
New T&F story is NOW LIVE!

Check out “The Last Chance Locksmith” by @niallspain.bsky.social! ☕🔥

Settle in for a cozy fantasy story about an artificer, her coffee, and the unfortunate adventures that keep rocking her bunker!

Read it NOW! 🔗 Link in bio.
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Did I buy too many books at @canconsffh.bsky.social this weekend? Yes, of course, as always.

Did I also very kindly get lent a book to read? Also yes.

Did I get home and immediately start rereading a book I've already read several times? ...well, I shan't say
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I had a fantastic time at CanCon on my very first panel with @andregeleynse.com and @rebecca-b.bsky.social! Yall made it easy and I had an absolute blast! ✨️
Huge shout-outs to fellow panelists @loukoren.bsky.social and @rebecca-b.bsky.social for a great panel on (sustainably) running a magazine.

Also to @moniqueac.bsky.social and @ympang.bsky.social for such a fun talk about submitting short fiction. Could've talked with you all for hours!
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reposted by Louise Koren
The Brookstreet Hotel May Have Been Constructed Over a Hellmouth: a post-#CanCon2025 event report

(1) frequently very nice, but sometimes also unsettling wall art in both the corridors and the rooms

my bathroom had art like a little praying guy being flushed down the toilet!
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Reposted by Louise Koren
I don’t quite know how to capture my feelings about #CanCon2025. Gratitude, joy, relief, hope, fatigue, glitter(!), love, the magnitude of something freed from the past and sparkling brighter toward the future.

Thank you all for coming. For caring. For being kind. 💖💖💖

Now to sleep. 😴
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM