Writing advice and commentary from the editors at Essential Edits / SFeditor.ca
My short story, "Hacker Chess" has been reprinted by Metastellar April 18, 2025. You can read it for free here:
https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/hacker-chess/
The story originally appeared in The Playground of Lost Toys, Ursula Pflug and Colleen Anderson, eds. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2015, and was reprinted in ELQ (Exile Quarterly), 39(3) January, 2016, 47-53. It was subsequently published by Centropic Oracle Podcast, Nov 20, 2020, read by Larissa Thompson.
The Reviews were:
Tha Auroras are voted by he membership of the Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Association. Memberships are a modest $10/year.
My thanks to Ian Shaw for publishing my reviews.
My review of Matthew Hughes' "Muscle and Other Stories" is up at the Ottawa Review of Books.
https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/muscle-and-other-stories-by-matthew-hughes
The first 4000 words from my novel, The Assurance has been published by Embark Literary Journal in issue #22:
https://embarkliteraryjournal.com/issues/issue-22-april-2025/the-assurance-robert-runte/
This is not to suggest the novel is near completion—I still have to cut another 24,000 words from the current draft—but I needed a little validation to re-motivate me to finish the damn thing. Thanks to editor Ursula DeYoung of Embark for providing that.
The original artwork is an excerpt from Fred Gambinos wrap-around cover for the novel—Yes, I commissioned a cover before the book was finished.
My poem, "Memory Loss" is Poem of the Month for April, 2025 for the Worchester Public Library Poetry Place (Click "Poem of the Month" on the menu on the right--in April 2025-- to read it.)
My short story, "First Day on Nightshift" was reprinted in The Appraratus Almanacfrom Jayhenge publishing.
