Ken Basarke sold a short story, "Mind Food," to Crux Magazine for its premiere issue, and an article, "What is My Writing Worth?," to The Canadian Writers' Guide, 13th Edition.

Mark Anthony Brennan's short story "The Garden of Syr" will be featured in Hadrosaur Tales #15, coming out this fall. Another story, "Loyalists," will appear in Hadrosaur Tales in the spring of 2003. The debut issue of Crux magazine (summer 2003) will include his short story "Drot Detail," and his story "Return of the Native" will appear in Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine in February, 2004.

Mark is also the fiction editor for the on-line fantasy magazine, Sintrigue, which was just launched this past August.

E. L. Chen has been awarded the 2001 Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize by On Spec. Her story "More Than Salt" is forthcoming in their Shakespeare theme issue.

Alyx Dellamonica's story "A Slow Day at the Gallery," appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2002.  "Living the Quiet Life," will appear in Oceans of the Mind, Winter 2002; "The Children of Port Allain" is coming to On Spec in 2003; "Cooking Creole" will appear in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson, next spring; "The Illuminated Heretic" will be in Alternate Generals III, edited by Harry Turtledove, in summer, 2003, and "The Riverboy" will appear in the upcoming anthology Land/Space: speculative fiction on prairie themes edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCrosky.

Candas Jane Dorsey's book A Paradigm of Earth will come out in trade paperback in November from Tor. Judy McCrosky and Candas have also edited an anthology, Land/Space: speculative fiction on prairie themes, which will come out in October from Tesseract Books.

Dave Duncan's SF novel West of January, winner of the 1990 Aurora Award, will be reissued in November by Red Deer Press with a foreword by Candas Jane Dorsey.  This is one of the Bakka Collection of outstanding SF titles.

Paragon Lost, A Chronicle of the King's Blades, due out October 1, won starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.  In addition, it was included in PW's list of the 50 most notable hardcovers due out in October. Dave will be signing Paragon Lost, A Chronicle of the King's Blades on October 27 at 11 a.m. at McNally Robinson in Calgary, on November 2 at 3 p.m. at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver, and November 5 at 7 p.m at Bolen's Books in Victoria (where Sean Russell will be signing Isle of Battle, too).

Matt Hughes has sold a third funny fantasy novel set in the same milieu as Fools Errant and Fool Me Twice to David Hartwell at Tor

Jan Lars Jensen's story "The New Production Lines" will appear in the Autumn, 2003, speculative fiction issue of Descant (a Canadian literary magazine).

Nancy Kilpatrick's novel Bloodlover, the fourth book in the "Power of the Blood" series will be released the fall of 2002, in French, from Quebec's very own Editions Alire, the publisher of SF/F/H in French in this country.

Nancy has just sold the dark fantasy novel Eternal City to Thorndike Press in the US, and has just handed in a (massive) non-fiction book on the gothic culture. The book, as yet untitled, is to be published by St. Martin's Press in the fall of 2003.

Claude Lalumière's fiction debut, "Bestial Acts," the first tale in his "Lost Pages" fantasy series, appeared in Interzone #178 in April. A self-contained sequel to that story, "Let Evil Beware!" appeared on a webzine, Other Dimension, in July.

Forthcoming stories include "The Ethical Treatment of Meat" in The Book of More Flesh, edited by James Lowder (October 2002, Eden Studios); "A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens" in Interzone; and "The World's Forgotten Boy and the Scorpions from Hell" in Redsine #11 (sometime in 2003): the first in his Vinny Demon series.

The anthology he co-edited with Marty Halpern, Witpunk: Stories With Attitude, is due out from Four Walls Eight Windows in spring 2003. It features 22 stories in all (11 originals, 11 reprints), including three stories by SF Canada members: "Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" by Laurent McAllister (aka Jean-Louis Trudel and Yves Meynard); "I Love Paree" by Cory Doctorow and Michael Skeet (a reprint) and "Tales from the Breast" by Hiromi Goto (also a reprint).

Claude is a review columnist and contributing editor at both Black Gate and Locus Online, and writes the "Fantastic Fiction" capsule review column for The Montreal Gazette. Other recent/upcoming SF-related nonfiction includes the guest editorial in The Third Alternative #31 (Summer 2002), "Fear of Fiction: Campbell's World and Other Obsolete Paradigms"; lengthy critical essays on Paul Di Filippo, Scott Bradfield and Kim Newman for Supernatural Fiction Writers, 2nd edition, coming out this autumn from Scribner's, a "Curiosities" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and "Richard Lupoff at Shorter Length", a critical essay on Richard Lupoff's short fiction that appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction # 166 (June 2002) and online at Infinity Plus.

Nicole Luiken's supernatural thriller Running on Instinct is now out in paperback. It's listed as Tor Suspense, which puts it in the fiction section of bookstores instead of the SF section. It's published with the byline N.M. Luiken to distinguish it from Nicole's young adult titles.

Sally McBride sold a story to Descant (a Canadian literary magazine) for its Autumn, 2003, speculative fiction issue. The story, “Szabra’s Souls," is about religion and death (in an upbeat way, Sally says).

Derryl Murphy's story "Wasps at the Speed of Sound" will be in the Winter 2002 issue of Oceans of the Mind (the Canadian Writers special issue). "Blue Train" should be appearing this fall in the Tesseracts anthology Land/Space: speculative fiction on prairie themes.

Mark A. Rayner's short story "The Gallant Captain Oates" appeared in Would That It Were (July/August 2002). He's also sold "Un Port dans la Tempête" (translation of "Any Port in a Storm")  to Solaris, to appear sometime in 2003, and "Hounding Manny" to Oceans of Mind for its all-Canadian issue, due out in December.

William "Bill" Antony Swithin Sarjeant, author of the fantasy quartet The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse, died July 8, 2002, in Saskatoon. Read his obituary.

Douglas Smith's short story, "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down," a 2002 Aurora Award finalist, will be included in Stephen Jones's upcoming The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #13.  "The Red Bird," another Aurora Award finalist this year, will be in an upcoming issue of infinity plus.  As well, Doug recently sold a novelette to the U.S. anthology Low Port.

Doug's short story, "Symphony," which originally appeared in the Canadian literary journal, Prairie Fire, will be reprinted in The People's Republic of China in the digest World of English, which has a circulation of over 400,000 and presents featured stories in both the original English as well as translated into Chinese.  The same story will also be reprinted in '9', the weekly magazine supplement in the second largest newspaper in Greece.  Translated versions of some of Doug's other stories will be appearing in upcoming issues of magazines in France, Poland, Finland, and Lithuania.

Jean-Louis Trudel's young adult novel Les Transfigurés du Centaure (The Centauri Transformations), published by Médiaspaul in Montréal, garnered this year's Aurora Award for best long-form work in French. His next scheduled book is a speculative fiction collection tentatively titled Jonctions impossibles (Impossible Junctions) and slated to come out early in 2003 from the Franco-Ontarian press Les Éditions du Vermillon.

The Summer 2002 issue of the Franco-Ontarian literary magazine Virages featured his latest short fiction sale, a dark fantasy take on the fate of Dollard des Ormeaux and his companions, "Ce sang qui désaltère" ("That Thirst-Quenching Blood"). Meanwhile, his story "Le dernier jour du silicium" ("Silicon's Last Day") appeared in the French SF magazine Galaxies at long last, though the hoped-for publication of his young adult English-language story "Tether" was delayed by the takeover of the publisher by another.

Another short story, "Les jardiniers du monde" ("The World's Gardeners"), will be reprinted in the French anthology Utopiae 2002, put out by the publishing house L'Atalante for the Utopiales convention held this coming October in Nantes (France). Trudel also translated for the same anthology an English-language story by Brazilian author Roberto de Sousa Causo, rendering "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" (also known as "A Mulher Mais Bela do Mundo") as "La plus belle femme au monde". Also on the translation side, Trudel's translations of two celebrated young adult books by Monica Hughes, The Keeper of the Isis Light and The Guardian of Isis, will be published shortly by Montréal publisher Médiaspaul as Le Phare d'Isis and Le Gardien d'Isis respectively.

Earlier this year, the Laurent McAllister novelette "En sol brûlant" ("In the Land of Burning"), written by Trudel and Yves Meynard, was reprinted in Solaris 142. In English, Laurent McAllister's story "Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" has been accepted for publication in the Witpunk anthology edited by Marty Halpern and Claude Lalumière. Finally, Trudel's paper on "La rencontre de l'Autre dans la science-fiction pour jeunes au Canada" ("Meeting the Other in Canadian young adult science fiction"), which was read at the May meeting in Toronto of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures as part of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, has been accepted by Solaris.

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Le roman pour jeunes Les Transfigurés du Centaure de Jean-Louis Trudel, publié par les éditions Médiaspaul à Montréal, a obtenu le Prix Aurora 2002 pour le meilleur livre en français. Le prochain livre que Trudel espère voir paraître est un recueil de nouvelles provisoirement intitulé Jonctions impossibles (Impossible Junctions) qui doit être publié début 2003 par la maison franco-ontarienne Les Éditions du Vermillon.

Le numéro d'été 2002 du magazine littéraire franco-ontarien Virages a publié une nouvelle fantastique inédite qui fera partie du recueil, "Ce sang qui désaltère". Entre temps, "Le dernier jour du silicium", une nouvelle de science-fiction par Trudel, est enfin parue dans la revue française Galaxies, tandis qu'une nouvelle pour jeunes qui devait sortir dans une anthologie canadienne-anglaise, "Tether", a connu des retards lors du rachat de l'éditeur par une autre maison.

Une autre nouvelle, "Les jardiniers du monde", sera reprise dans l'anthologie française Utopiae 2002 publiée par L'Atalante à l'occasion du congrès des Utopiales à Nantes en octobre prochain. Trudel a également traduit pour cette même anthologie une nouvelle en anglais de l'auteur brésilien Roberto de Sousa Causo, "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" (aussi connue sous le nom "A Mulher Mais Bela do Mundo"), qui paraîtra sous le titre "La plus belle femme au monde". Du côté des traductions, deux romans de science-fiction pour jeunes de l'auteure canadienne-anglaise Monica Hughes ont été traduits par Trudel et seront publiés incessamment par les éditions Médiaspaul de Montréal. The Keeper of the Isis Light et The Guardian of Isis deviendront respectivement Le Phare d'Isis et Le Gardien d'Isis.

Cette année, un récit de Laurent McAllister, "En sol brûlant" (rédigé par Trudel et Yves Meynard), a été repris dans Solaris 142. Une nouvelle en anglais de McAllister, "Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" ("Kapuzine et le loup: un conte d'exhortation"), a été acceptée en vue d'une publication dans l'anthologie Witpunk réunie par Marty Halpern et Claude Lalumière. Enfin, la communication de Trudel sur "La rencontre de l'Autre dans la science-fiction pour jeunes au Canada", qui a été lue lors de la réunion en mai à Toronto de l'Association des littératures canadienne et québécoise dans le cadre du Congrès annuel des sciences sociales et humaines, a été acceptée par Solaris.

Allan Weiss spoke on Judith Merril's early days in Canada at a workshop on SF called "New Angles on Science? Fiction?" held at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia September 13-14.

Edward Willett sang selections from the Donald Swann settings of songs by J.R.R. Tolkien at the Aurora Awards banquet in Calgary in August. Ed is currently working on a children's biography of Tolkien for Enslow Publishers, part of a series called "Authors Teens Love," and has been asked to do a future book in the series, as well, on another fantasy or SF author (yet to be determined).

Ed will be touring school libraries in southeast Saskatchewan the last week in October, as part of Saskatchewan Library Week.