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POD DROP! A conversation with Seema Shah and Pari Mokradi on Off the Map, an anthology featuring writers from Vancouver with lived experience of mental health issues. @bellpressbooks.bsky.social tiny.cc/5xot001
Off The Map: New anthology features Vancouver writers
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-10-10 · 22m
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October 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Saturday | 10:50 PT A conversation with Seema Shah and Pari Mokradi on Off the Map, an anthology featuring writers from Vancouver with lived experience of mental health issues. @bellpressbooks.bsky.social
Book cover: Collage with text over top. OFF THE MAP: VANCOUVER WRITERS WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, and Kate Bird
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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8/12 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @okaylib.bsky.social @bellpressbooks.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social @pbarmby.bsky.social @anthonyboulanger.bsky.social @gideongregory.bsky.social @adriennejs.bsky.social @mahaila.bsky.social @fleurymarc.bsky.social
Book cover for Weird Wild West by Carter Rydyr (Antoinette Rydyr and Steve Carter) and Ethan Somerville (Bizarro Pulp Press). Six colourful characters, some not entirely human, embark on a perilous journey south from Sunbleached Plains to Kellyville. A dapper dentist, a southern belle, a wealthy madam, a retired banker turned gambler, an orphaned boy and a travelling body-parts salesman all trade their various stories to pass the time. Driving the carriage is one Zeke “the Freak” Sarandon, a retired soldier with more than one strange, nervous habit. Although he is an experienced traveller, and the only one insane enough to take the most direct route south, even he cannot prevent his passengers from each meeting their grisly demise, one by one. Hot on the trail of the coach, astride an ancient mechanical horse blowing sparks and belching out toxic clouds of smoke, is a zombie gunslinger, the risen corpse of a murdered prospector. For on the carriage is the one who killed him, and he must have his horrible, bloody revenge. Comprises Weird Wild West 1 & 2. https://journalstone.com/bizarro-pulp-press/weird-wild-west/ Book cover for Summoning Space Travelers by Angela Acosta (Hiraeth Publishing), with stars and lense flare against a dark sky. Speculative poetry at its finest, with observations on self-discovery, the longing for a better place (hiraeth), the future of humanity, beings swept up in events, and classical romanticism.  Often uplifting, sometimes darker, and here and there a mix of the two extremes, this collection will thrill you, haunt you, and raise your spirits. https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/summoning-space-travelers-by-angela-acosta Book cover for Weird Wild West Part 3: The Freaks of Mojo County by Carter Rydyr (Antoinette Rydyr and Steve Carter) and Ethan Somerville (Bizarro Pulp Press). On the hill overlooking Mojo Town looms the decaying edifice of the county orphanage, home to all the area’s unwanted children. Brother and sister, Sissy and Zak Spindler, are paid to look after them and keep them safe. They seem to be doing a good job, for the youngsters are neither seen nor heard, but Mojo Town’s unwanted youngsters have been transformed into horrific freaks. Only one child has not been affected by the Stuff: a fiercely intelligent boy named Bart. But Sissy considers him a failure, and treats him like a servant. Can Bart’s brilliant mind help him and cat-boy Nate to elude the Spindler's evil clutches? Or will they be dragged back into the horrific plan Sissy and Zak have for the monstrous mutations they have created? https://journalstone.com/bookstore/weird-wild-west-part-3/ Book cover for Stasis: An anthology of retrofuturisms edited by Libby Graham (Bell Press‬‬‬‬), with a person with flowing long hair floating in futuristic scuba gear in a tank filled with liquid, against a backdrop of a space ship and viewing port showing a blue planet. This collection of short stories looks to the future but is inspired by the science fiction of the past. A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico. A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance. A single chess match determines the future of humanity. You’ll never know where you end up as the adventuresome tales of Stasis send you to the far reaches of time and space! Contributors: Roxane Llanque, Harper Walton, Antoinette Rydyr, Anthony Boulanger, Angela Acosta, Gregory Lawrence, Stephanie Osuji, Charles Chin, Adrienne Stevenson, Mélodie Langevin, Pauline Barmby, Mahaila Smith, and Marc Fleury. https://bellpressbooks.com/product/stasis/
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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All set up for @bellpressbooks.bsky.social at @wordvancouver.bsky.social and the day looks promising!
Photo of Bell Press table at Word Vancouver. Books on table include Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues. Photo of Bell Press table at Word Vancouver, looking up the stairs toward the Vancouver Art Gallery.
September 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I’m very grateful to have a story in this anthology and among such talented conpany!
joannemerriam.bsky.social Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Aug 25
1/5 Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books mini-thread about Stasis, edited by Libby Graham @okaylib.bsky.social (@bellpressbooks.bsky.social) (who also edits @thesprawl.bsky.social), & related folks. Stasis contrib Harper Walton is also the editor of Carnival... (Buoy Press).

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Book cover for Carnival at the End of the World edited by Harper Walton (Buoy Press), with a pencil drawing of lines and circles. Photo from Buoy Press's Linked-In account of several copies of the book lined up on a sales table. People metamorphose into birds, vows of silence become clown eras, hallucinogenic visions are plentiful, language and form disintegrates and evolves, drugs unlock psychogeography, sex and gender fluctuate and threaten to explode, bodies open and close, toilet queues stretch on for infinity, and streams of consciousness are polluted. In our contemporary moment of poly-apocalyptic anxiety, can we find a rugged sense of optimism? Or perhaps it is already too late, with nothing left for us to do but dance into the flaming rubble. Contributors Olly Barrett, David Dobson, Jack Houston, Nick Maynard, Alice Musgrove, Luke Reilly, Maria Robinson, Lily Steve, James Tilden, Harper Walton, and Alfie White. https://buoypress.sumupstore.com/product/carnival-at-the-end-of-the-world Book cover for Stasis: An anthology of retrofuturisms edited by Libby Graham (Bell Press‬‬‬‬), with a person with flowing long hair floating in futuristic scuba gear in a tank filled with liquid, against a backdrop of a space ship and viewing port showing a blue planet. This collection of short stories looks to the future but is inspired by the science fiction of the past. A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico. A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance. A single chess match determines the future of humanity. You’ll never know where you end up as the adventuresome tales of Stasis send you to the far reaches of time and space! Contributors: Roxane Llanque, Harper Walton, Antoinette Rydyr, Anthony Boulanger, Angela Acosta, Gregory Lawrence, Stephanie Osuji, Charles Chin, Adrienne Stevenson, Mélodie Langevin, Pauline Barmby, Mahaila Smith, and Marc Fleury. https://bellpressbooks.com/product/stasis/
August 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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1/5 Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books mini-thread about Stasis, edited by Libby Graham @okaylib.bsky.social (@bellpressbooks.bsky.social) (who also edits @thesprawl.bsky.social), & related folks. Stasis contrib Harper Walton is also the editor of Carnival... (Buoy Press).

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Book cover for Carnival at the End of the World edited by Harper Walton (Buoy Press), with a pencil drawing of lines and circles. Photo from Buoy Press's Linked-In account of several copies of the book lined up on a sales table. People metamorphose into birds, vows of silence become clown eras, hallucinogenic visions are plentiful, language and form disintegrates and evolves, drugs unlock psychogeography, sex and gender fluctuate and threaten to explode, bodies open and close, toilet queues stretch on for infinity, and streams of consciousness are polluted. In our contemporary moment of poly-apocalyptic anxiety, can we find a rugged sense of optimism? Or perhaps it is already too late, with nothing left for us to do but dance into the flaming rubble. Contributors Olly Barrett, David Dobson, Jack Houston, Nick Maynard, Alice Musgrove, Luke Reilly, Maria Robinson, Lily Steve, James Tilden, Harper Walton, and Alfie White. https://buoypress.sumupstore.com/product/carnival-at-the-end-of-the-world Book cover for Stasis: An anthology of retrofuturisms edited by Libby Graham (Bell Press‬‬‬‬), with a person with flowing long hair floating in futuristic scuba gear in a tank filled with liquid, against a backdrop of a space ship and viewing port showing a blue planet. This collection of short stories looks to the future but is inspired by the science fiction of the past. A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico. A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance. A single chess match determines the future of humanity. You’ll never know where you end up as the adventuresome tales of Stasis send you to the far reaches of time and space! Contributors: Roxane Llanque, Harper Walton, Antoinette Rydyr, Anthony Boulanger, Angela Acosta, Gregory Lawrence, Stephanie Osuji, Charles Chin, Adrienne Stevenson, Mélodie Langevin, Pauline Barmby, Mahaila Smith, and Marc Fleury. https://bellpressbooks.com/product/stasis/
August 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New (belated) #bookpost from @bellpressbooks.bsky.social

Thank you for a copy of #Stasis a #shortstory #scifi anthology!
Look out for a review coming soon (and sorry for the delay in sharing)!

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A look at a new science fiction short story collection from publisher Bell Press!
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July 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Amazing turnout for today’s launch of OFF THE MAP! Thank you to all of our contributors who read their work and to everyone who showed up to share their support.

#BookLaunch #OffTheMap #YVR #VancouverWriters #WritingCommunity #Writers #Anthology #Books
Betsy Warland speaking to a crowd of attendees at the Off the Map book launch Seema Shah reading at the Off the Map book launch Kate Bird reading at the Off the Map book launch Sign outside the door of the Alice Mackay Room and the Vancouver Public Library advertising the Off the Map book launch
June 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Off the Map launch is today at 1 pm! See you there!
June 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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For #yvr and #booksky folk, readings from the Vancouver writers of Off the Map today at 1!
June 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I talked to Seema Shah, one of the editors of Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues, about the collection and more. Here's the audio: thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...
May 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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#booksky
Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, is out on shelves, and if you’re in #yvr, today would be a great day to stop by @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social to get it!
(You should probably also get Martyr! while there. It’s very good.)
Photo of shelf at Cross and Crows bookstore in Vancouver, BC. On display is Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, along with Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power by Carol Anne Hilton.
May 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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“…[the anthology] reminds the reader: that, buried under the weight of the grey, is hunger and light in each of us…you will find a satisfying and eye-opening foray into others’ truths that will nurture your humanity.”

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Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues
Review by Bryn Robinson
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May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Book launch and reading for OFF THE MAP is June 7 at the VPL Central Branch. Full detail here! #yvr #booklaunch

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Off the Map Anthology Launch and Reading
Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues aims to bring diverse and distinctive voices to the literary landscape. Edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, and Kate Bird ...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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#booksky #yvr
Had the chance to read this during editing and excited for everyone else to read it too! Really wonderful project with lots of great Vancouver writers.
April 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Very exciting new anthology that I’ve been working on for @bellpressbooks.bsky.social. Our biggest yet with 32 contributors. Shares appreciated!

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April 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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✨Coming May 1✨

Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues

Edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah, and Kate Bird

Pre-sale now live!

#SmallPress #VancouverWriters #YVR #WritingCommunity

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Off the Map
PRESALE – AVAILABLE MAY 1, 2025 Nonfiction | Poetry | Fiction 5.25 x 8 inches | 286 pages Trade paperback | ISBN 978-1-7387167-8-4 May 2025
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April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Featuring poetry by:

Angel Leal, Ian Li, Atreyee Gupta, Mary Soon Lee, Megan Cartwright, Salem Paige, Bat Collazo, and Paul Vermeersch

short fiction by:

Clarissa Grunwald, Cait Gordon, and Ziggy Schutz

and visual art by:

Amuri Morris, Payton Surette, and Denny E. Marshall

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Poster announcing the launch of the Sprawl Mag vol. 2.2 Poster announcing the contributors to the Sprawl Mag vol. 2.2
January 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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My first physical contributor copy! The excellent 'Stasis' anthology by the excellent @bellpressbooks.bsky.social, with my story in which a ‘retirement’ counsellor takes on a job at a mining compound near titular 'Coketown, Mars', which changes his view of human and non-human drones–and his life
January 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Though my only contribution was some editing, I do want to yell on behalf of the writers about STASIS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RETROFUTURISMS!
December 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico.

A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance.

Just a few of the stories you’ll find in STASIS, an anthology or retrofuturisms! Available now:
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Stasis
Fiction 5.25 x 8 inches | 128 pages Trade paperback | ISBN 978-1-7387167-5-3 December 2024
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December 17, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Once more for the people of the night!
(Or other time zones)
bellpressbooks.bsky.social Bell Press @bellpressbooks.bsky.social · Dec 3
🪐✨Cover reveal for STASIS! An anthology of retrofuturisms, edited by Libby Graham

Preorder link is up now, books ship Dec 10

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#anthologies #scifi
Cover of STASIS on a light blue background. Cover shows a woman in a cryo pod within a retro spaceship interior. The window in the background reveals a distant view of a blue planet. Cover text: Stasis An anthology of retrofuturisms 13 astounding tales! Edited by Libby Graham
December 6, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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New sci-fi anthology from @bellpressbooks.bsky.social! Stasis: An Anthology of Retrofuturisms edited by @okaylib.bsky.social.
Stasis
*Pre-order, ships December 10!* Fiction 5.25 x 8 inches | 128 pages Trade paperback | ISBN 978-1-7387167-5-3 December 2024
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December 5, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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🪐✨Cover reveal for STASIS! An anthology of retrofuturisms, edited by Libby Graham

Preorder link is up now, books ship Dec 10

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#anthologies #scifi
Cover of STASIS on a light blue background. Cover shows a woman in a cryo pod within a retro spaceship interior. The window in the background reveals a distant view of a blue planet. Cover text: Stasis An anthology of retrofuturisms 13 astounding tales! Edited by Libby Graham
December 3, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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Our next anthology, STASIS, is coming soon! Featuring #scifi short stories by these 13 contributors #indiepublishing
Stasis Contributors Angela Acosta Pauline Barmby Anthony Boulanger Charles Chin Marc Fleury Gregory Lawrence Adrienne Stevenson Mélodie Langevin Roxane Llanque Stephanie Osuji Mahaila Smith Antoinette Ryder Harper Walton
November 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM