Congratulations, Robert!
In Memoriam: Heather Spears (September 29, 1934 – April 15, 2021)
Marion Heather Spears, Canadian writer and artist and long-time SF Canada member, passed away last year in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen, and lived in Denmark and Canada since 1962. An award-winning poet, she published 15 collections of poetry and 5 novels, illustrated numerous books and articles and drew at literary festivals and other live drawing venues. Hundreds of her drawings are collected at the Welcome Trust, London, and the Merrill Collection, Toronto. The Heather Spears archive is housed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
As well as being a long-time member of SF Canada, Heather Spears was a member of PEN, The League of Canadian Poets, The Writers’ Union of Canada, The Society of Authors, and Tegnerforbundet af 1919 (Danish drawing association). SFC member Candas Jane Dorsey and others recall Heather fondly at League of Canadian Poets.
Heather’s daughter has reframed https://www.heatherspears.com as a memorial, combining it with Heather’s blog and putting up an overview of her life and accomplishments.
As her obituary quotes: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
She will be missed.
New Publications from Michèle Laframboise!
SF Canada member Michèle Laframboise has been busy lately!
Her latest accomplishments include:
- Publication of her story Moby Dick’s Doors in the 2022 Space Opera Digest anthology HAVE SHIP, WILL TRAVEL edited by Tracy Cooper-Posey
- Her YA novel “Le secret de Paloma” (Paloma’s Secret) is a finalist for the Alain Thomas Award at the Toronto French Book Fair
- Publication of “Cousin Entropy” in the Rosetta Prize Archives — a prize that rewards translations of a text published in another language. (Thanks to N.M. Roshak for this beautiful work on La Cousine Entropie.) See the Future SF site for more details
- Recent publication of a non-SF novel with Echofictions, “Safe Harbor”. Read more about it! Eco-fiction, friendship and romance
- Publication of a short-story “Essential Maintenance” in Neo-Opsis 33
Congratulations, Michèle!
A Threat Revealed by Tina S. Beier now out!
SF Canada member Tina S. Beier has recently released the second book in her space opera series, The Burnt Ship Trilogy .
Pick up a copy of A Threat Revealed today!
Fairy tale retelling by KT Wagner now out!
SF Canada member KT Wagner’s re-imagining of The Little Match Girl was published by Sylvia Magazine on February 6th, 2022 https://www.sylviamagazine.
Find out more at KT’s website!
New works from Miriam H. Harrison!
SF Canada member Miriam H. Harrison is delighted to share several of her current publications. In the world of fiction, her darkly speculative microfiction “The Stones” is free to read at Pen of the Damned (https://penofthedamned.com/), and her speculative flash fiction “She Drips” appears in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales from Brigid’s Gate Press (https://brigidsgatepress.com/