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What a wonderful, magical, personal way to connect with the authors of some of Canada’s most innovative and imaginative fiction! Before a live audience, Canadian authors sit in an accessible, comfortable chair and share a passage from their new releases. Steampunk-inspired Harry Houdini fiction to dystopian futures to magical forest fables to cthonic sagas were…
Once landed at VCON 39, Virginia had a multitude of difficulties with poor organization that included, but were not limited to- a) the complete lack of registration forms or passes, despite the very real presence of their fees on our StarkLight Press Accounts b)the organizers’ refusal to provide a table for our wares, despite more…
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October 3 dawned bright and clear, and Virginia Carraway Stark started her journey to Surrey, B.C. to attend VCON 39. It’s theme was Military Might, a fitting one for the Galactic Armed Forces universe, StarkLight Press’s flagship franchise. Armed with copies of all three of our new books, ebook links and more merchandise than one…
Well, brave StarkLight Press soldiers, you only have until midnight PST on September 30 to send us your short story submissions and win a spot in our third anthology! It’s a hard mission, and I won’t lie to you- there may be some underpants on your heads before you’re through. However, those of you…
Bravo to all our brave short story contributors who overcame their own desires to hide and sent us such awesome stories! At this rate, we will have to start up an e-zine to post some of these, as our printing press can only publish so many anthologies at once- thoughts? Should StarkLight Press start an…
-which is how we feel at StarkLight Press while we read over all the stunning, imaginative and innovative short stories we’ve gathered for our third short story contest! Thanks to our brilliant fan base, this is the best turnout for our short story contest yet! As the contest was extended to September 30 by…
Don’t sweat over the details of your short story submission- send in your short story before the deadline August 31 at midnight PST! Join the ranks of our other illustrious authors like Hal Friesen, Robert Marquiss, Will Norton, E.L. Caine and more! Visit our standing page http://starklightpress.com/official-short-story-contest-rules/ for guidelines and submission addy
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…
We are pleased to announce the beginning of our series of StarkLight Press interviews with the winners of our short story contests! Starting this Saturday, July 5, we will begin posting our interviews with our contest winners, where we discuss the inspirations for their work, their own impetus to write, and their favorite authors and…