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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
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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All set up for @bellpressbooks.bsky.social at @wordvancouver.bsky.social and the day looks promising!
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!
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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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).

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
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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#bookblogger #books #bookhaul #bookmail
New Book Post from Bell Press
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
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
June 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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.)
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.”

My latest @theseaboardreview.ca

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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
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!

#RecommendedRead #AmReading
April 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
✨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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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
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:
#smallpress #scifireads
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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)
🪐✨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
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
🪐✨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
December 3, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Our next anthology, STASIS, is coming soon! Featuring #scifi short stories by these 13 contributors #indiepublishing
November 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM