frankie hagg
@frankiehagg.bsky.social
writer of science fiction, essays, book reviews, & more. senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social. translator in my day job. history MA. montreal | tiohtià:ke. they/them. https://frankiehagg.carrd.co/
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· Aug 4
for this month's newsletter–blog post, i churned out a treatise of the ways AI will never replace human storytellers by heavily quoting much better writers than me buttondown.com/frankiehagg/...
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag
OH haha also I forgot, I wrote a guest blog for @brocktonwriters.bsky.social and it went live a while back!
Basically when you ask me "Does this idea have legs?" the answer is:
- Probably!
- If not we can fix it
- If they're wonky we can fix that too
With examples!
Basically when you ask me "Does this idea have legs?" the answer is:
- Probably!
- If not we can fix it
- If they're wonky we can fix that too
With examples!
Brockton Writers Series 12.11.25: Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed is a multiple award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence,…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag
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Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
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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.
Come meet some new reads.
🎊 Special thanks goes to our whole editorial team:
Lead editor: @litgalz.bsky.social
Editors: Julia Bortolussi, @conyerclayton.bsky.social, @andregeleynse.com, Louise Koren, @suntorya.bsky.social
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Lead editor: @litgalz.bsky.social
Editors: Julia Bortolussi, @conyerclayton.bsky.social, @andregeleynse.com, Louise Koren, @suntorya.bsky.social
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Augur Issue 8.2 Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 - Augur Literary Society
Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 asks you to exist in the in-between, in the cycles where yes, all things grow and die–but all things also live, vibrantly, exquisitely, and unapologetically–in revolutions whe...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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.
Come meet some new reads.
as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
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CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
Seundruls
2022
Seundruls
2022
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
Seundruls
2022
Seundruls
2022
I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals:
1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time
2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything
3. walk daily
4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)
1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time
2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything
3. walk daily
4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals:
1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time
2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything
3. walk daily
4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)
1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time
2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything
3. walk daily
4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)
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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-...
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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
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-...
🧵
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-...
🧵
very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...
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Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape.
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#redpopnews
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#redpopnews
13 Must-Read Indigenous Horror Books That Will Haunt You Long After the Last Page
Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their righ...
redpopnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape.
redpopnews.com/13-must-read...
#redpopnews
redpopnews.com/13-must-read...
#redpopnews
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ANNOUCEMENT: Rotting Leaf Magazine
A new literary magazine for eco-fiction
www.briefecology.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work
Have you heard the good news about tasks
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October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work
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i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong
hat is also a glove
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
hat is also a glove
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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.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
this is not a complaint because it is my preferred way to be on this website, but sometimes i log on and spend the next three to five hours backward engineering why the discourse has taken a turn for the, for example, pasta
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
this is not a complaint because it is my preferred way to be on this website, but sometimes i log on and spend the next three to five hours backward engineering why the discourse has taken a turn for the, for example, pasta
i think this is so common among learning writers focusing on sensory descriptions. you SEE how it moves; it also LOOKS unsettling. both are about how it looks, so they go together, right? takes longer to learn that sensory and comparative components need to have a direct relationship for it to scan
weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
i think this is so common among learning writers focusing on sensory descriptions. you SEE how it moves; it also LOOKS unsettling. both are about how it looks, so they go together, right? takes longer to learn that sensory and comparative components need to have a direct relationship for it to scan
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weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.
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Finally, Shohei Ohtani will be on a plane to Toronto.
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Finally, Shohei Ohtani will be on a plane to Toronto.
the problem is that I believed the mariners could beat the dodgers. the only people more aware of toronto's sports curse than toronto fans are canadians who aren't usually toronto fans, and I don't believe, even as a jays fan now, that toronto can beat anyone. it's toronto
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
the problem is that I believed the mariners could beat the dodgers. the only people more aware of toronto's sports curse than toronto fans are canadians who aren't usually toronto fans, and I don't believe, even as a jays fan now, that toronto can beat anyone. it's toronto
some book-buying woes from recently. tried to preorder an indie paperback from a canadian publisher; it has been out for over a month but is still stuck in limbo at the US border. wanted to preorder a new hardcover but, alas, it is forty-one entire canadian dollars.
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
some book-buying woes from recently. tried to preorder an indie paperback from a canadian publisher; it has been out for over a month but is still stuck in limbo at the US border. wanted to preorder a new hardcover but, alas, it is forty-one entire canadian dollars.