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Writer, poet, editor, reviewer. @anathemamagazine.bsky.social co-founder. Publisher at @huldrahouse.bsky.social. Trans. (She/They) https://kayaskovdatter.wordpress.com/ https://mathesonfreelancing.com/ https://www.huldrahouse.com
Not super sure about post-restructure response times, but CCA writing grants used to get decisions/responses about four months after submission. So I'd expect to hear back somewhere around April if the old response times hold true.
reposting this one cuz this discussion interests me. We have SFF authors that are held up for their lyrical poetic prose and then we have "transparent prose" and I'm interested in the idea that prose style might change according to the story (while voice can still be detectable??? the same)
Of course. :)
And I feel that deeply. I wish I could say it goes away with *getting* grants, but...
Still, definitely worth applying for anything open. Also for the OAC Literary Creation Projects by 09/10, and the TAC Writers Program come 06/16. CCA grant's changed again, but still available.
The things I will offer, having done this a lot: try to get all your applications in within the first week of the window opening. A lot of recommenders make their decisions early and are only assigned a small pool of funds to distribute. (Why most awarded amounts are $1,500. Helps more people.)
Just the way of it some years - only so much money to go round and a great many very talented, highly ambitious applicants with cool projects. Always fierce competition.
I'm sorry you got all 'no's though. But fingers crossed for the next ones for you come September. :)
I've certainly had my fair share of grants over the years, so it's quite fair. This is just a year where it would have been timely to get one.
Same boat on your end?
Sharing again for the afternoon crowd. Still trying to put together the remaining $500 CAD of my March rent for tomorrow (when the grace period ends).
If anyone wants to hire me for some editing (see thread), now's a very good time...
So I'm 1600$ away from being able to pay my rent. I'm trying to take care of a household of 6 people, only two of who can work right now, and with my longterm illness, I'm just not able to make rent this month, as a bunch of unexpected costs hit right in a row.
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Skyla's books are full of female rage and found family and are just magical! If you need something to read that's supernatural horror, thriller, urban fantasy, or mystery, she has you covered! I truly cannot say enough good things about her books.
she’s right and she should say it
there is nothing the white-dominated music industry would love more than to make a minimally marketable approximation of Black music without involving any Black people in any way
Well, that's all my 2025-2026 OAC Recommender Grants for Writers responses in.
Always next year. (Or, technically, September, since that's when applications reopen.)
Me to my clients: sorry for the delay, they’re trying to trigger the rapture
Cover image of a book called The Collected Hulderotica Year One, written by Kaya Skovdatter. Background is a figure in a shadowed figure in a scarf and dress, holding an umbrella. Their face too is covered in shadow, only two unnerving points of light shining out of that darkness. Around the figure is a lush, overgrown forest painted in a variety of greens, and before them is a rock-edged forest pool with the figure's reflection cast in its green-tinged surface. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.
Also, The Collected Hulderotica Year One pre-orders are on sale ($3.95 USD/$5.25 CAD). The book's out 03/17. 160k of deeply queer (trans, pan, poly, etc.) romance/erotica+ in the vein of Lost Girl/Sanctuary/Supernatural.
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Sharing again for the afternoon crowd. Still trying to put together the remaining $500 CAD of my March rent for tomorrow (when the grace period ends).
If anyone wants to hire me for some editing (see thread), now's a very good time...
Dolly Parton is literally the only good billionaire and proof we don't just actively hate people with money simply for having it.
We hate you because you're all fucking monsters.
On the heels of lawsuits by Spotify and several record labels, thirteen publishers and the AAP are suing pirate site Anna's Archive (via @publisherslunch.bsky.social ) www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
At last!
Re-upping for the morning crowd (because I posted this quite late yesterday):
Overdue remainder of March's rent is due tomorrow (when grace period ends). Couple of options for helping in RPed thread.
(It's mostly hiring me for something while I catch up on existing work.)
If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
I keep learning about the coolest upcoming publications from Bluesky and I am so grateful to live in a time with such an abundance of interesting research and literature being published. Peep this one by @chanda.blacksky.app!
Re-upping for the morning crowd (because I posted this quite late yesterday):
Overdue remainder of March's rent is due tomorrow (when grace period ends). Couple of options for helping in RPed thread.
(It's mostly hiring me for something while I catch up on existing work.)
Entirely fair. :)
It was a fascinating night, and looms large in memory because though I've walked through fog here frequently, it's one of the rare times I was out doing so with so few other people on the street. Barring a highly infrequent car I was the only person I could see going about for it.
December of 2015, fog settled heavy across a nighttime Toronto (Somewhere past 1:00 in the morning). Trees and a fenceline separate two distinct tones of light -- red haze on the left, gleaming in from the distant shoreline of the lakefront past train tracks and street and waterfront buildings hidden by the fog; while on the right of the trees the light is pale grey, lit by streetlights. A sidewalk is barely visible along the fence line, just to the right of the centre of the image.
A closer shot of the sidewalk and tree-lined fence to the left, still red-lit, and the pale grey haze to the right illumined by the streetlamps. This shot more akin to venturing along a lone path in a darkened wood.
December of 2015, fog settled heavy across a nighttime Toronto (Somewhere past 1:00 in the morning). Streetlights arcing up over the line of a raised bridge (over unseen train tracks and highway) make it look like the bridge goes on forever into the horizon. (In truth, it stretches out toward the lakefront.) the sky is a pale reddish-grey.
And the remaining photos from that fog walk. By the end, the haze was lessening. Though it was still a vastly different world than you usually see wandering around the city. One of my favourite walks here.
Fog slowly descending over Toronto, near King and Spadina in December of 2015. The photo of a building-lined street is hazy, streetlights haloed, and a distinct blur beginning to settle over the scene.
Fog having settled heavily on Toronto, walking along King, passing Dowling, in December of 2015. The streets are empty (it being 1:00 in the morning), and the buildings in the far background are barely visible. White and blue lights the only thing truly breaking through the fog.
Heavy fog in Toronto, walking along an unmarked street in December of 2015. Cars are parked along the street's edge, but the streets are otherwise empty, save for one car in the distance driving very carefully through the fog (it being 1:00 in the morning). A row of streetlights receding into the distance form a kind of corridor through the darkness and the haze.
The fog settled over Toronto shifts direction with the wind, driving toward the camera. Only streetlights are visible in the grey haze of 1:00 in the morning, in that December of 2015.
Because I was randomly reminded of it while posting something elsewhere just now, who wants to see what it looks like when the fog descends good and *heavy* in Toronto?
All of these photos are from the time I walked home through the fog at 1:00 in the morning back in 2015. 1/2
Following up on talking about the collection today:
If you're curious but aren't sure if Hulderotica's for you, stories 1 and 12 (Tender is her Touch, Killing it on Campus) are both free to read right now on the Huldra House website and our Itchio page:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop
huldrahouse.itch.io
Just saw that come in. Thank you! :D
Done. Looking forward it :)
Anyway. Those are the main ways to help right now. I still have a ton of emails and DMs to get back to people on (it's been a massively overstuffed few weeks; I mean the whole year so far, really), and a bunch of work to get through.
But, you know, trying to figure stuff out in a hurry. So.
Like, I'm not going to say no to people picking up subs to help me out because I'm in a tough spot, and they add up fairly quick (after processing fees, they shake out to a bit over $20/21 CAD per). But I don't feel comfortable not informing people thinking about it that they'll be on discount soon.
I'm fairly certain I'm going to discount the 2026 Hulderotica subscriptions for a bit after the Year One (2025) collection is out on 03/17 so people who read it can launch straight into Year Two's output at a reduced rate.
So, yes, subs are available. But it's only fair to say: maybe wait on those?