February 11, 2026

Deliciously Uncomfortable — A review of Lindsay Wong’s “Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies”

Lindsay Wong’s Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies was deliciously uncomfortable, blending reality with the supernatural to the point where it was impossible to tell the difference between them. The book explores the role of the corpse spouse (or ghost marriage), where a living person is married and buried with a dead person along with the practice of villain hitting...
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November 11, 2025

Call For Papers for a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature on “Speculative Futures in Canadian Literature.”

Speculative Futures in CanLit Call for Papers Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars, and with a submission deadline of 15 May 2026. This issue invites...
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September 1, 2025

An Interview with Nathan Frechette About “Whispers Between Fairies”

I rarely talk about my own work on Speculating Canada, but because I had the opportunity to co-write Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press) with the wonderful Nathan Frechette, I thought this would be a good space to highlight his work. Whispers Between Fairies was written in collaboration with Nathan Frechette. For this collection, each of us would rewrite a fairy...
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August 1, 2025

An Interview with Medieval Monster Studies Scholar Asa Mittman

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Medieval Monster Studies scholar Asa Mittman about his research into medieval marginalia, maps and monstrosity, and the othering of bodies in the middle ages. I don’t often interview folks outside of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy for speculating Canada, but I thought my conversation with Dr. Mittman might be of interest to many...
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July 8, 2025

An Interview with Clifford Samuels

Today, Speculating Canada takes an in-depth look at the Aurora Awards, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) and the CAFFA Hall of Fame with Clifford Samuels. Clifford gives insights on Canadian Speculative Fiction fandom, conventions, and some key authors in Canadian genre fiction. You can find out more about CSFFA at https://www.csffa.ca/ Convention organizer, reader and avid collector, are...
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