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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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May 17, 2025

An Interview with Aphy Ray

I had the opportunity to interview up-and-coming author Aphy Ray about their first book Saffron and Honey. We explored the importance of representing Queer characters, the essentialness of having asexual representation, the role of independent publishing, genre-defying books, and the need to tell stories. Aphy Ray. They/them. Queer Canadian Canadian queer fiction writer. I have other qualifications but they’re not...
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October 27, 2019

Cosmic Horror and Challenging Ableisms

Cosmic Horror and Challenging Ableisms  A review of Ada Hoffmann’s The Outside (Angry Robot, 2019). By Derek Newman-Stille   There aren’t enough narratives about autism by autistic people. This, and their powerful style of writing and brilliant science fiction, is why I keep coming back to the works of Ada Hoffmann with adoration. Hoffmann’sThe Outside, with its autistic, queer narrator, is...
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