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Why does a character exist in a story? To further the plot, of course, say all the literature undergrads out there. Most of us have read dreadful, self-serving fanfiction and horrible “debut novels” whose characters are floating in a miasma of interior thought, activity and poseurship. A character’s presence in these stories serves only one…
Though it is important to be well-grounded in facts and have a reasonable understanding of limitations, it is only through pushing those limitations and facts into a more beautiful arrangement that we achieve the Future. -T.S.
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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…
