Mark Anthony Brennan's story "March on the New Gomorrah" appears in Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction. The latest issue of Descant (the speculative literature issue) includes his story "Beneath the White Layer." Over the next few months Mark will have short stories published in Crux, Shadowland, Here & Now, Hadrosaur Tales, Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine, and in the anthologies Monsters Ink, In the Outposts of Beyond, and Once Upon a World.

Among many other SF-related things, Mark is the fiction editor for the on-line mag SDO Fantasy.

Leslie Brown has won an honourable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. She is the third member of the Lyngarde Writers Group (of Ottawa) to win one of the awards.

The movie La Peau blanche, which Joël Champetier co-wrote, based on his novel of the same title, will hit Quebec's screens in February 2004.  Meanwhile, a  new edition of the novel La Peau blanche is on the stands. This is a revised reprint of the original paperback published in 1997. A larger trade paperback edition will be in stores in January. Joël did a one-week promotional tour in Saguenay Lac-St-Jean's schools, and presentations of the movie at Boréal and at ConCept, this autumn.

Joël is writing the screenplay for Obscura, an one hour animated Halloween special for Teletoon, which he describes as "Vampires in Venice, that kind of Gothic stuff."  He has received a grant from the Canada Council to write his next fantasy novel.

Solaris 147, edited by Joël, features his reportage on the dark fantasy Quebec movie Sur le seuil, and stories by SF Canada members Jean-Louis Trudel and Cory Doctorow.  Solaris's free  Internet supplement features a Wiscon 27 convention report by Élisabeth Vonarburg and Daniel Sernine's movie critiques. There's also lots of good stuff by non-SF Canada members, of course, including a story by Eric Gauthier and an interview with him.

E. L. Chen has two publications forthcoming this fall: a short story ("White Rabbit Triptych") in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet  no. 13, and a short comic ("The New Girl") in Say...aren't you dead? She has also sold a short story ("The Moment of Truth") to On Spec.

J. Brian Clarke's novel The Alphanauts, which is an expansion of a couple of stories which previously appeared in Analog, will by published by Edge early in 2005. His short story "In Spare" has been accepted for Analog. It is a sequel to the previously published "Wet" and is his 16th sale to that magazine.

Alyx Dellamonica has a short story, "The Children of Port Allain," in the Summer 2004 issue of On Spec. She has sold two stories to anthologies: "Origin of Species" to The Many Faces of Van Helsing, edited by Jeanne Cavelos and "Faces of Gemini" to Girls Who Bite Back, edited by Emily Pohl-Weary.

Dave Duncan's next novel, Impossible Odds, A Chronicle of the King's Blades, is due out in November, 2003.  Dave has turned in the manuscript of The Jaguar Knights, the sixth swashbuckler in the series,  to editor Diana Gill at HarperCollins Eos, via agent Richard Curtis.

Donna Farley has signed the contract with Cicada magazine for publication of her young adult science fantasy "Egg." It is now slated for publication in the March/April issue of the magazine.

Matt Hughes's novella, "A Little Learning," is now in print in an anthology from Silver Lake Publishing called Fantasy Readers Wanted -- Apply Within. You can order the book from the SLP site or at a 30 percent discount from Amazon.com.

In the past four months, Matt has sold three stories to the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. All are set in the Archonate milieu. One is the novella "A Little Learning" referred to above. The other two are "Mastermindless" and "Falberoth's Ruin"; they concern the investigations of Henghis Hapthorn, the "foremost freelance discriminator" of the city of Olkney in Old Earth's penultimate age. Matt describes them as "Sherlock Holmes gets mugged by Jack Vance with P.G. Wodehouse driving the getaway car."

Tor has asked Tom Kidd, the artist who did the painting for the cover for Gullible's Travels, to come up with artwork for Matt's next Archonate novel. Because of editor David Hartwell's health problems this summer, publication of the new book has been pushed back to the fall of 2004.

Aaron V. Humphrey's short story "The New Paranoia Album" appeared in the Open Space anthology.

Eileen Kernaghan's Aurora-winning young adult  novel The Snow Queen (Thistledown Press) has gone into a second printing. Meanwhile, Eileen has completed her third young adult fantasy, The Alchemist's Daughter, set in Elizabethan England a year before the Armada. Planned for 2004 release is a new adult historical fantasy, Winter on the Plain of Ghosts: a novel of Mohenjo-daro. It will be published in limited edition by Flying Monkey Press sometime in 2004.

Eileen's poem "Running Out of Time" appears in Sandra Kasturi's new anthology of speculative poetry, The Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She read with fellow contributors Mary Choo and Donna Farley at a west coast launch of the anthology, August 26 at Tyger's Cafe in Vancouver.

Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, is taking one of Eileen's poems, "Henge Dream," for a 2004 issue.

Claude Lalumière has launched a new monthly webzine, Lost Pages. The new anthologies of all-new Canadian SF and fantasy he edited, Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Véhicule Press) and Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction (Red Deer Press), have both shipped from their respective publishers.

Claude's new story in his Lost Pages series, "The Lost and Found of Years" appeared in Intracities, a chapbook anthology edited by Michael Jasper. "The Wizard of North America" appears in Fiction Inferno #3:009.

Joe Mahoney's short documentary on science fiction aired on CBC Radio One's The Current.  The documentary featured clips from Margaret Atwood, Robert J. Sawyer, Cory Doctorow, Tanya Huff, John Clute, John Scalsi and more. A Spanish version, translated and produced by Paloma Martinez, was later aired on Radio Canada International.

Sally McBride sold fantasy novel Indigo Time to Edge Publications, and an as yet unnamed short story collection to Tesseract Books. No release dates have been announced yet.

Steven Mills' short story "Chasing Goodbye" appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of On Spec.

Nina Munteanu's short story "Arc of Time" appeared in Issue #1 of the webzine  Imagikon in September.

Derryl Murphy's new story "More Painful Than the Dreams of Other Boys" has just appeared in the anthology Open Space, and his story "Island of the Moon" (his 20th original sale) will be in the premiere issue of Canadian magazine Neo-Opsis. He just recently returned from a trip to Scotland where he was doing research for his first novel, Napier's Bones.

In non-fiction news, his university research paper "Interstellar Conflict Across Time: Military and Structural Similarities and Differences Throughout the History of Space Opera" appeared at Strange Horizons in July. As well, he continues work at On Spec, but no longer as fiction editor; he is now the art director.

John Park had a short poem, "Alice L. and Charles D.," in the collection The stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night, edited by Sandra Kasturi, and has a long story, "The Image Breakers," in the anthology Open Space, edited by Claude Lalumière (both from Red Deer Press).

Holly Phillips's story "The Gate Between Hope and Glory" appears in the anthology Low Port, launched at TorCon; it's published by Meisha Merlin, and edited by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

Two stories, "In the Palace of Repose" and "Variations on a Theme," were bought by the new magazine HP Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, and "In the Palace..." should be in print this fall. Also appearing this fall is Holly's story "A Beggar in Shadow," in the second issue of Alchemy.

Sherry Ramsey's short story, "On The Road With Fiamong's Rule," is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of the new Canadian magazine Neo-opsis, edited by Karl Johanson. Her poem "Upload" appeared in the June issue of Aiofe's Kiss.

Mark A. Rayner reports that The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle is published and on sale through the emilychesley.com website (And in London and Toronto, if you live in either city.  See the listing of bookstores at the website.)

Mark's story "Close to the Wind" appeared in the October issue of Far Sector SFFH (and through them, fictionwise.com). The story is the sequel to "Any Port in a Storm" (nominated for an Aurora in 2000). 

Mark has also sold another flash fiction, "The rush of heaven downward" to Flash Me, a monthly flash ezine.  It appeared in October as well.

Kate Riedel recently sold two short stories, "The Pear Orchard" to Not One of Us, and "Words and Music" to Realms of Fantasy. No publication dates have been set yet.

Simon Rose's novel The Alchemist's Portrait, published in May by Tradewind Books of Vancouver, has already received a second printing. A time-traveling thrill ride for young readers ages eight to 12, The Alchemist's Portrait is receiving great reviews from children across Canada. Some of the reviews are posted on Simon's website; you can also hear a radio interview Simon did on CKUA in Calgary in August.

Steve Stanton's story "Mark of the Beast" will be graduating from e-pub Issue #7 to print Issue #6 of GateWay S-F Magazine in September. His story "On the Edge of Eternity" will appear in e-pub Issue #8.

"In Defense of Angels" will be available online for a year in the September issue (#16) of Dragons, Knights and Angels, also in the USA.  "Timestealer" is in the first issue of Neo-opsis, a new Canadian SF magazine, edited by Karl Johanson.

Jean-Louis Trudel will be at the Salon du Livre de Montréal on November 13 to 17. He will be signing (printer willing) his new young adult novels Le perroquet d'Altaïr (The Parrot from Altair) and La Lune des jardins sans soleil (The Moon of Sunless Gardens), from the Éditions Médiaspaul in Montréal. His mainstream children's story "Rick et le moustique géant" (Rick and the Giant Mosquito) sold to the magazine Les Débrouillards and will appear in the December issue. After earning an honourable mention in the Prix Solaris, his short story "Nitchevo Prospekt" appeared in Solaris 147.

In non-fiction, Jean-Louis's pieces on science fiction were published in the Spring issue of Lettres québécoises and in the Summer issue of Québec français. His piece on Canadian-born astronomer Simon Newcomb, possible model of Conan Doyle's Moriarty and occasional SF writer, is tentatively scheduled for the Christmas issue of The Beaver.

In July, Jean-Louis was invited to the Université de Nice (France) to give a talk on the futures of biotechnology in science fiction, "Lorsque nous aurons le pouvoir de nous transformer" (When We'll Have the Power to Transform Our/Selves). In August, he delivered a shortened version of his work on French-Canadian utopias, "Utopias in French-speaking Canada, from Saskatchewan to the Sahara," at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science and Fantasy in Toronto.

In translation, the young adult novel Les Visiteurs d'Isis, Jean-Louis's rendering into French of The Isis Pedlar by Monica Hughes, finally came out from the Éditions Médiaspaul this Fall. And his young-adult novel Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (Fomalhaut's Revenant) from Médiaspaul won this year's Aurora Award for best long-form work in French at the Canvention held at Torcon 3.

Jean-Louis Trudel sera au Salon du Livre de Montréal tenu du 13 au 17 novembre. Il y sera pour dédicacer ses nouveaux romans pour jeunes, Le perroquet d'Altaïr et La Lune des jardins sans soleil, parus chez les Éditions Médiaspaul à Montréal. Sa nouvelle pour enfants "Rick et le moustique géant" a été achetée par la revue Les Débrouillards et paraîtra dans le numéro de décembre. Après avoir obtenu une mention honorable du Prix Solaris, sa nouvelle "Nitchevo Prospekt" est parue dans Solaris 147. Dans le genre de l'essai, des textes de sa plume sur la science-fiction sont parus dans le numéro printanier de Lettres québécoises et dans le numéro d'été de Québec français. Son article sur l'astronome d'origine canadienne Simon Newcomb, modèle partiel du Moriarty de Conan Doyle et auteur de SF à ses heures, devrait sortir dans le numéro de Noël du magazine d'histoire The Beaver.

En juillet, Jean-Louis était invité à l'Université de Nice pour y donner une conférence sur les futurs biotechnologiques envisagés par la science-fiction, intitulée "Lorsque nous aurons le pouvoir de nous transformer". En août, il lisait une version abrégée de son travail sur les utopies canadiennes-françaises, "Utopias in French-speaking Canada, from Saskatchewan to the Sahara", dans le cadre de l'_Academic Conference on Canadian Science and Fantasy à Toronto.

Pour ce qui est de la traduction, le roman pour jeunes Les Visiteurs d'Isis, qu'il a traduit en français du roman original The Isis Pedlar par Monica Hughes, a enfin été publié par les Éditions Médiaspaul cet automne. Et son roman pour jeunes Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (Médiaspaul) a obtenu cette année le Prix Aurora dans la catégorie du meilleur livre en français dans le cadre de la Canvention tenue en conjonction avec Torcon 3.

Dreams of the Sea, the first book of Élisabeth Vonarburg's five books' series Tyranael, co-translated with Howard Scott, is out from Tesseract Books. The rest of the series will be published by Edge Publishing, who has bought the Tesseract imprint; the goal is one book a year.

Élisabeth's fifth collection of stories in French, Le Jeu des coquilles de Nautilus, was published in September by Alire. Her second collection of poetry in French, Ailleurs ici, will be published by Les Herbes Rouges (Montreal), in November. She will be at Salon du Livre de Montréal in support of both. A collection of short-shorts in all genres (except whodunit and porno), Vraies histoires fausses (Vents d'Ouest)  is due out in September, 2004.

Finally, Élisabeth says, "my big uchronic fantasy novel in two volumes, Reine de Mémoire, has been derailed to the end of 2004--if all goes well writing-wise, which it should."

Edward Willett's young adult novel, Spirit Singer (Awe-Struck E-Books/Earthling Press) won the young adult category of the Dream Realm Awards for best electronically published science fiction and fantasy. The Dream Realm Awards are presented annually to recognize excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in electronically published books. The winner was announced at ArmadilloCon 25, a literary science fiction convention, August 8-10 in Austin, Texas.

Ed's short story "Je Me Souviens" (Artemis, Summer 2002) received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (St. Martin's Press), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Ed recently launched a new blog, Hassenpfeffer, featuring "meanderings, missives and musings" with an SFnal flavour.

In non-fiction, recent books by Ed include Ebola Fever (Enslow Publishers), and The Microsoft Office 2003 Bible (John Wiley & Sons). Coming up in 2004 are his children's biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Imaginary Worlds, for Enslow Publishers, plus two children's books for Rosen Publishing Group, The Iran-Iraq War (War and Conflict in the Middle East),  and Ayatollah Khomeini (Biographies of Arab World Leaders).