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StarkLight Press is an independent Canadian Publishing House devoted to printing and promoting the best in Speculative and Science Fiction, Immersive Fantasy and History writing available today. We believe that each story written is a doorway into another world. StarkLight Press opens and expands the reader’s view to those worlds through an in-depth approach we…
I’m proud to announce the launch of our new, non-fiction imprint, Arras Books. At Arras books, we will be accepting submissions of biographies, historical accounts, photographic journals and family sagas, especially those that have a spiritual, supernatural flavor. Though we focus on those stories in Western Canada, Arras Books welcomes submissions and outlines from…
Here is StarkLight Press’ interview with “AstroHal” Hal Friesen, author of The Afterscience. His remarkable short story won StarkLight Press Short Story Contest #2 and is published in our new compendium, due to hit shelves the last week of July. Congratulations to Hal! Interview With Hal Friesen regarding ‘The Afterscience‘. Do you have any sources…
Dalton’s Daughter, the Autobiography of Sasha Wheaton, is due to be released later this fall. It’s release has been pushed back due to a variety of factors, some very good, some dreadful, some disturbing. Check here at StarkLight Press for blog entries by its author, Virginia Stark, for her Dalton’s Daughter Saga series- first…
Hmmmmm…. it appears that every single trace of our third short story contest postings has evaporated. So here it is again, for everyone’s perusal. Thanks to Alexandra-Marie Kiyawsew for bringing this error to our attention 🙂 StarkLight Press Third Short Story Contest Rules Submission Length: 10 000 words maximum, flash fiction accepted. Submission Content:…
Here is our text interview with Will Norton, one of the winners of our StarkLight Press short story contest. Interview With Will Norton about his upcoming short story and winner of the Starklight Press Literary Award. Do you have any sources of inspiration for your world? I’ve had experience working in the oil industry. I…
An official congratulations to the winners of our StarkLight Volume 2 short story contest! (Graphic courtesy Marquiss Productions 2014) The lucky authors will be featured in the second volume of our compendium of speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy available later this week in ebook version, and in fine bookstores across Western Canada…
Announcing the publication of our newest reference guide- the Encyclopaedia Galactica! This is the one stop, handy reference guide for all things in the GAF universe- including updated entries on Verily Wrought, Sasha Wheaton, the HSD epidemic and the mysteries of Bluestone Academy and Brandenburg. This is a completely annotated, updated version of the old…
Many thanks to our 30+ contest entrants for StarkLight’s third short story contest! The contest still has a bit of time left in it, so don’t be shy- fire off your short stories, flash fiction, poetry and really anything creative, not bogged down by copyright and even vaguely edited to our contest email: starklightdesk@gmail.com today!…
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Robert Marquiss, author of Kingdoms of Magic, was one of our winners of StarkLight Press’ Short Story Contest this spring. We are honored to be able to include Mr. Marquiss amongst our contest winners- a longtime producer and director in California, he is a font of amazing creative ideas and energy. Included here is Virginia…
