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On Spec Magazine @OnSpecMagazine

Aurora Award-winning quarterly journal of fantastical literature from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Follow us for news on SF, Canadian and otherwise!

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Canada in Conversation – SFF from the Global South to the Meeting Point of all Worlds By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD onspec.ca/2023/05/14/canada-…

Canada in Conversation – SFF from the Global South to the Meeting Point of all Worlds By Emad...

We are pleased to update our web site with  something of interest to readers of Canadian SF & F novels and short fiction. Emad El-Din Aysha was formerly an adjunct assistant professor at the Am…

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Awards! onspec.ca/2023/05/11/awards/

Awards!

We are thrilled to announce that an On Spec story, “Bottom’s Dream” by Glenn Clifton ( Issue #121) has won Gold in the Short Fiction category at tonight’s Alberta Magazine A…

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Paypal Problems? onspec.ca/2023/05/10/paypal-…

Paypal Problems?

A potential subscriber alerted us to a problem with the PayPal link on our website. We will look into this, and hope it gets solved soon. Meanwhile you can go through your own PayPal account and se…

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On Spec Issue #123 onspec.ca/2023/05/01/on-spec…

On Spec Issue #123

Here it is, the cover of our new issue by artist Judy Helfrich. It’s at the printer now, so subscribers should see their copies in the next couple of weeks. If you know that you subscription …

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Changes at On Spec onspec.ca/2023/04/27/changes…

Changes at On Spec

Recently, one of our Poetry editors, Charlie Crittenden, resigned from his gig with On Spec to pursue his own writing ventures. Charlie has been a great asset to the group and we wish him well. We …

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Ask the Editors April 1 Edition onspec.ca/2023/04/07/ask-the…
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Issue #120 revewed onspec.ca/2023/03/31/issue-1…

Issue #120 revewed

We are pleased to see a review of Issue #120 in The Supplement, a blog post edited by British author DJ Tyrer. DJ’s poem, “Garbage Moon” will be published in upcoming issue #123.

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Alberta Magazine Awards onspec.ca/2023/03/23/alberta…

Alberta Magazine Awards

We are proud to announce that two On Spec stories from 2022 have been named as finalists for this year’s Fiction category in the Alberta Magazine Awards. Congratulations go out to Glenn Clift…

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Locus Poll Now Open onspec.ca/2023/03/04/locus-p…
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Writers’ RX is launched! onspec.ca/2023/02/27/writers…

Writers’ RX is launched!

If you are an emerging writer, you will be very interested in Susan MacGregor’s new video series, Writers’ RX.  As she explains, it’s a prescription for new writers, to show what …

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From a happy reader onspec.ca/2023/01/30/from-a-…

From a happy reader

We recently received the following from a new reader of On Spec in regard to our current issue #122.  With their permission, we quote: I absolutely loved the story “I’ll have my toast w…

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Aurora Awards- celebrating excellence in Canadian SF&F onspec.ca/2023/01/26/aurora-…
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New Feature onspec.ca/2023/01/19/new-fea…

New Feature

From time to time, we will be posting non-fiction articles from SFF writers, many of whom have been published on the pages of On Spec. This is the first of those articles. When we received Andrew K…

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Issue #122 gets a review onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com/2…
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Ask the Editor Begins in January onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com/2…
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