Kerry C. Byrne
@kercoby.bsky.social
SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me via www.kerrycbyrne.com
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me via www.kerrycbyrne.com
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Kerry C. Byrne
@kercoby.bsky.social
· Nov 17
✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…
It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.
ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !
Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !
go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
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This is my work visibility post!
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
There Be Monsters
From mermaids to spies and everything in between, May’s Sunday Morning Transport stories are ready to entice you.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is my work visibility post!
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
Some people are audhd with one of the dials turned up
I fear I am audhd with BOTH of the dials turned up 🙀
I fear I am audhd with BOTH of the dials turned up 🙀
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some people are audhd with one of the dials turned up
I fear I am audhd with BOTH of the dials turned up 🙀
I fear I am audhd with BOTH of the dials turned up 🙀
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Red alert: I changed my profile pic
I AM STILL ME THO
(Commissioned from the incredible @yellghoul.bsky.social)
I AM STILL ME THO
(Commissioned from the incredible @yellghoul.bsky.social)
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Red alert: I changed my profile pic
I AM STILL ME THO
(Commissioned from the incredible @yellghoul.bsky.social)
I AM STILL ME THO
(Commissioned from the incredible @yellghoul.bsky.social)
An A/B gender test as someone gender fluid who’s looked mid-late twenties for the last ten years:
When you’re skinny and femme, you get “miss”
When you’re skinny and masc you get “he/him’d”
When you’re mid-size and femme you get “nice lady”
When you’re mid-size and masc you get “ma’am”
When you’re skinny and femme, you get “miss”
When you’re skinny and masc you get “he/him’d”
When you’re mid-size and femme you get “nice lady”
When you’re mid-size and masc you get “ma’am”
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
An A/B gender test as someone gender fluid who’s looked mid-late twenties for the last ten years:
When you’re skinny and femme, you get “miss”
When you’re skinny and masc you get “he/him’d”
When you’re mid-size and femme you get “nice lady”
When you’re mid-size and masc you get “ma’am”
When you’re skinny and femme, you get “miss”
When you’re skinny and masc you get “he/him’d”
When you’re mid-size and femme you get “nice lady”
When you’re mid-size and masc you get “ma’am”
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
In this newsletter, I talk about other things about the INCREDIBLE Kickstarter for @siennatristen.bsky.social 's Orchestrated Audiobook for HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING.
To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...
To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In this newsletter, I talk about other things about the INCREDIBLE Kickstarter for @siennatristen.bsky.social 's Orchestrated Audiobook for HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING.
To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...
To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...
Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨
Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞
Being a middle millennial is wild because you can remember when businesses had to cater to consumers but you came up in a time when customers became no more than amalgamated data for capitalism
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Being a middle millennial is wild because you can remember when businesses had to cater to consumers but you came up in a time when customers became no more than amalgamated data for capitalism
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
75 physical ARCs of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA are up for grabs in my #goodreadsgiveaway!
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
Book giveaway for The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1) by A.D. Sui Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025
Enter to win one of 75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025. Richly layered and intensely compelling from start to finish.” —K...
www.goodreads.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
75 physical ARCs of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA are up for grabs in my #goodreadsgiveaway!
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
I fear I have unlocked a new psychosomatic stress symptom I deeply wish I had not:
ITCHING 🙀😭
ITCHING 🙀😭
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I fear I have unlocked a new psychosomatic stress symptom I deeply wish I had not:
ITCHING 🙀😭
ITCHING 🙀😭
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
So honoured to see my story “Of Blood and Pomegranates” published in Issue 8.2 in @augursociety.bsky.social. Please do take a look!
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So honoured to see my story “Of Blood and Pomegranates” published in Issue 8.2 in @augursociety.bsky.social. Please do take a look!
Why is everyone SO bad on this season of Love is Blind
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Why is everyone SO bad on this season of Love is Blind
Reposted by Kerry C. Byrne
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
I thought as I aged I’d get more sophisticated but instead I just want to be comfy all the time
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I thought as I aged I’d get more sophisticated but instead I just want to be comfy all the time
A hill I’ll die on:
“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.
Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.
It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.
“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.
Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.
It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A hill I’ll die on:
“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.
Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.
It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.
“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.
Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.
It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.
I went to Spirit Halloween and all I got was overstimulated
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I went to Spirit Halloween and all I got was overstimulated
Tonight: Death Becomes Her watch party, ft. Halloween bloody sangria & charcuterie for days!
More importantly:
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?!
More importantly:
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?!
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Tonight: Death Becomes Her watch party, ft. Halloween bloody sangria & charcuterie for days!
More importantly:
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?!
More importantly:
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?!
I always knew that my anxiety could increase how anxious people around me were
What I didn’t expect, tho 👀
Was that as I became a more regulated, generous, centred person, I would see that show up in the people around me, too
And what a gift that is 💜
What I didn’t expect, tho 👀
Was that as I became a more regulated, generous, centred person, I would see that show up in the people around me, too
And what a gift that is 💜
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I always knew that my anxiety could increase how anxious people around me were
What I didn’t expect, tho 👀
Was that as I became a more regulated, generous, centred person, I would see that show up in the people around me, too
And what a gift that is 💜
What I didn’t expect, tho 👀
Was that as I became a more regulated, generous, centred person, I would see that show up in the people around me, too
And what a gift that is 💜
The degree to which I’d love to publish something like this glorious movie
It is so completely my shit
It is so completely my shit
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The degree to which I’d love to publish something like this glorious movie
It is so completely my shit
It is so completely my shit
Frothy hot chocolate to go with my annual rewatch of Practical Magic ✨🧙♀️
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Frothy hot chocolate to go with my annual rewatch of Practical Magic ✨🧙♀️
Dream that woke me up at 6:30 —
Isekai. You (& your cat) are dropped into an apocalypse where cybernetic terrors conquered superhero-mecha ‘boyfriends’ meant to beat off the terrors and maintain morale of the people.
Now long gone, you charge & don their protective gear, & enter the abyss.
Isekai. You (& your cat) are dropped into an apocalypse where cybernetic terrors conquered superhero-mecha ‘boyfriends’ meant to beat off the terrors and maintain morale of the people.
Now long gone, you charge & don their protective gear, & enter the abyss.
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Dream that woke me up at 6:30 —
Isekai. You (& your cat) are dropped into an apocalypse where cybernetic terrors conquered superhero-mecha ‘boyfriends’ meant to beat off the terrors and maintain morale of the people.
Now long gone, you charge & don their protective gear, & enter the abyss.
Isekai. You (& your cat) are dropped into an apocalypse where cybernetic terrors conquered superhero-mecha ‘boyfriends’ meant to beat off the terrors and maintain morale of the people.
Now long gone, you charge & don their protective gear, & enter the abyss.
Do I buy a kobo with which to mark up press manuscripts or do I save my money and work just ever so slightly more slowly
An eternal question
An eternal question
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Do I buy a kobo with which to mark up press manuscripts or do I save my money and work just ever so slightly more slowly
An eternal question
An eternal question
Absolute peak Ontario fall weather out there today 😭
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Absolute peak Ontario fall weather out there today 😭
If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum.
If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.
This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.
Passion is high, but so is burnout.
If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.
This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.
Passion is high, but so is burnout.
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum.
If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.
This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.
Passion is high, but so is burnout.
If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.
This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.
Passion is high, but so is burnout.