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🛸 (Cyber-)feminist, anti-colonial speculative fiction, poetry and visual art 🛸 Banner by Amuri Morris https://linktr.ee/thesprawlmag?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaa2UQ-3X9X-71v4ihy4CWKyi_4idxsOsO0C_ItDcYsgsFIl5-JQT36VsLY_aem_Uq7zKlwqz5ilZu8g-MjcvQ
New Volume www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
I’ve been so excited to share this one!
My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social
You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
My poem "Apocalypse, Yesterday" is now available in issue 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social 💧🌱
It's a phenomenal issue, I'm very pleased to be included in it and I think you should all go check it out
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
Happy to have a lovely little poem, "Roots of Resistance" in the latest issue of @thesprawl.bsky.social! Check it out (along with a bunch of other great pieces) here:
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
I'm so happy to have my springtime ghost story flash fiction piece in the latest issue of The Sprawl Mag (@thesprawl.bsky.social)! Read it here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1 🌱
What's this? A little anti-capitalist fable from yours truly in the newest issue of @thesprawl.bsky.social you say? With a little easter egg nod to one of the best Canadiana songs of all time?
Read "Bought But Not Yet Paid For?" FREE at the link!
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
Poster announcing the release of the Sprawl Mag 3.1. Featuring cover art by Pablo Andrés Palo of two stones surrounded by whirlpools with geysers shooting up into an orange sky
The newest volume of The Sprawl Mag is now out, read it if you dare! www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1
My poem “Apocalypse, yesterday” is coming soon in the lovely @thesprawl.bsky.social ! It’s got July heat, grapefruits, climate anxiety and side-eye for golf courses in times of drought! Stay tuned 👀
My flash story “The Dispatches of Dr. Clara Weber and Sgt. Andres Ramírez” will be out soon in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social alongside some really stellar writers!
Two envoys, two planets, one decision, told in one-way dispatches. It was fun to write and hopefully will be fun to read!
And even more stellar writers!
@manuelaamiouny.bsky.social
@lynnesargent.bsky.social
@salenacasha.bsky.social
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
Elizabeth Wanjiku
@authortrsteele.bsky.social
Teresa Milbrodt
Thank you all for being part of The Sprawl 🪐
Poster announcing the contributors in the upcoming Sprawl Mag volume, featuring a fairy with wings and blue hair, a rabbit and stars.
Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring:
Pablo Andrés Palo
Viviana De Cecco
@francesboyle19.bsky.social
@themaust.bsky.social
@sidellwrites.bsky.social
Ivan Ndoma-Egba
@lucienrstarchild.bsky.social
I'm honored and delighted that my poem "What Moon Rabbit Reads" was nominated for the Best of the Net by The Sprawl Mag :-)
N.B. The poem may be read here:
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-2#moon...
Announcing our Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social @salempaige.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social
So happy that the folks in Seattle got to see this excellent poem! Read The New Knights here or in our inaugural issue 🗡️🗡️🗡️
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/
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
Ottawa folks, we will be here from 11-5 come say hi!
Poster announcing submissions for The Sprawl Mag are open from June 14th until July 12th
Poster announcing the introduction of paid expedited submissions at the Sprawl Mag. For 2$ you can expect a response from your submission within one week. This will not effect the outcome of submissions and all funds will be put towards paying contributors and maintaining the website.
Some suggestions for what the Sprawl Mag is looking for: linguistic viruses, talking animals, Y2K tech, Cryptids and UFOs, anti-corporate screeds, and alchemy
Dear Sprawlers! We are now officially open for submissions in all genres! For the first time we are offering paid expedited submissions. For more information please check out our website: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions
The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to submissions. #amwriting
Poster with images of planets and a UFO announcing that submissions for the Sprawl Mag are opening soon from June 14-July 12 2025
Mark your calendars! The Sprawl Mag is going to be open for submissions of speculative poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and visual art on June 14 until July 12. We are looking forward to reading your work 🪐 You can check out our submission guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions
Go check out the newest book by Sprawl Mag contributor @marysoonlee.bsky.social 🐉
My first poem of the year "Hermanas de Andrómeda" is free to read today!! :') It is dedicated to my friend Angela Acosta & the impact her chicanafuturism poetry has had on me. it is also about queer sisterhood & the safer futures we wish for each other. thank u so much @thesprawl.bsky.social 💜
Hey guys, I'm in this one! Mine's the one with the space exorcist. Also, this entire issue slaps, so you should read the whole thing. My favorites were Spare Change by Ziggy Schulz and What The Moon Rabbit Reads by Mary Soon Lee.
I wrote a thing, and these authors published that thing! You can read my flash fiction, REBIRTH, by clicking the link provided! I am so honoured to have my work be amongst all these other amazingly talented creatives!
@angelvleal.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social
@salempaige.com @caitgauthor.bsky.social
Poster announcing the launch of the Sprawl Mag vol. 2.2
Poster announcing the contributors to the Sprawl Mag vol. 2.2
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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The Sprawl Mag is a Canadian spec mag :)
First is the shortest thing I’ve ever written: “Something that Bites” from @thesprawl.bsky.social Issue 1!
I giggle anytime I remember how much fun I had with this horrible story of a guy trapped in his apartment while he slowly turns into a vampire.
www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-1-1
In the poetry category: The Rot by Erin Jamieson, Poor Unfortunate Souls by R. Thursday, (Multi)Lingual.io by Angela Acosta, Mother Maple’s Children by Crystal Sidell, The Person in the Moon by Avra Margariti, and the time travel treehouse takes its final bow by Claire McNerney
In the fiction category: Extant & Stasis by Yamille Moss and Tombstones to the Wind by Ali Abbas
In the visual art category: Across Lands by Amuri Morris and Illumination Finds the Android Promise by Christopher Collingwood
Very excited to announce this year’s Best of the Net nominations!!
Two more years of Tales and Feathers and a new SFF press! Whats not to love? Go support Augur! 🪐
Poster announcing print copies of The Sprawl Mag Vol. 2.1 are available for 10$ on Ko-fi. Image of the cover featuring a black woman in a Renaissance era gown with a castle in the background and a crown and scissors on the ground.
Go check out the link in our linktree for our Ko-fi page 📖 happy reading!
