@robertrunte.bsky.social
Editor, author, sociologist, educator. (he/him)
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
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The Epstein Ballroom it is
22.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 4892 🔁 1317 💬 42 📌 67
My short story, "Schrodenger's Train," is up today at Metastellar Science Fiction.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/schr...
My review of Starship Librarians, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, from Tyche Books is now up at Ottawa Review of Books.
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
My 50-word story, "The Experimental Writer," is up at Sudden Flash.
(And yes, he's an example of an unreliable narrator.)
yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Michael Antman’s Cherry Whip: the 20th Anniversary Edition is now available from Donovan Street Press!
Michael Antman's prose is superb and incisive, conveying the reader smoothly into the depths of young jazz prodigy Hiroshi's neurotic but charming mind.
#bookrelease
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My short story, "Split Decision", has been reprinted and is up for free reading at Twin Flame Literary as of Sept 14.
twinflameliterary.com/split-decisi...
The story originally appeared in Tesseracts 15, 2012.
This is the story's fourth appearance, but the first time available online for free.
Pleased my flash fiction, "Iceberg" has been reprinted in Polar Borealis #35. PB is available for free download from polarborealis.ca/currentback-...
27.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, happens sometimes. I forget the science but read up on it when happened to my family. Lovely bowel, just kaboom. But it's uncommon..
19.06.2025 04:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BREAKING:
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
2025 Sunburst Award Longlist locusmag.com/2025/06...
19.06.2025 01:45 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My Review of Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Celebration of Canadian Life Through Story, edited by Shawn Bird, is up at Ottawa Review of Books.
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
My drabble, "The Perfect Storm," was reprinted today in Flash Flood (an annual online event in which a piece of flash fiction is published every 15 minutes for 24 hours) flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/search?updat...
14.06.2025 22:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Robert Runte
@DrRunte
My flash, "Fami's Dissertation Defence" is out today on AntiSF Radio Show. This is the 13th appearance of Fami. My thanks to editor Ion Newcombe and narrator Ed Errington.
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Fami's Dissertation Defence originally appeared in Ripples in Space, Spring 2020.
My drabble, “Perfect Storm", will be reprinted on National Flash Fiction Day at 5:10 a.m. (BST) on 14 June 2025. You don't have to get up then to see it, though: the posting is permanent.
"Perfect Storm" was previously published by Fatal Flaw (2020) and ScribesMicro (2022).
My drabble, Perfect Storm," has been accepted by Flash Flood for publication on National Flash Fiction Day, June 15, 2025.
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...
Part One of a blow-by-blow account of the evolution of Donovan Street Press Inc. so far, including numbers. Adventures in Publishing: The Early Days.
mahoneyj.substack.com/p/adventures...
#publishing #books #culture #arts
Absolutely brilliant book.
18.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Robert Runte @robertrunte.bsky.social
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My short story, "Hacker Chess," has been reprinted by Metastellar, April 18, 2025. You can read it for free here:
www.metastellar.com/fiction/hack...
This is my ninth short fiction publication so far in 2025 .
I'm honoured to be on this year's Aurora Award ballot for my 2024 speculative fiction reviews in The Ottawa Review of Books.
My thanks for editor Ian Shaw for publishing my reviews.
My review of Matthew Hughes' "Muscle and Other Stories" is up at the Ottawa Review of Books.
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Politico had to bring up how we all laughed at Frank Graves in January and now we might owe him a fruit basket if the Liberals win.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Excerpt from the original cover by Fred Gambino for novel, The Assurance
The opening 4000 words of my WIP has been published by EMBARK Literary Journal #22 this morning.
embarkliteraryjournal.com/issues/issue...
(ART: excerpt from the original cover art for The Assurance by Fred Gambino)
Very pleased that my article "The Writer/Editor Relationship: What Should You Expect" is out today in Westword (April-May, 2025) pp.13-14 (the magazine of the Writers' Guild of Alberta).
02.04.2025 00:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oops, forgot the link
www.mywpl.org?q=article/po...
My poem, "Memory Loss", has been published as "Poem of the Month" for April by the Worchester Public Library for "The Poet's Place".
(Reprinted from Forgotten Fragments of Time, Adam Shove, ed. Dark Thirty Poetry, April 15, 2024, pp25-26 and originally appeared in Impspired #23, June 1, 2023.)
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27.03.2025 00:09 — 👍 105 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 2
Very pleased that my short story, "First Day on Night Shift," has been published in The Apparatus Almanac" a Jayhenge reprint anthology. My story originally appeared in On Spec Magazine #123. (Should also be up at Kobo, etc,
in next couple of days) www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F2J9L6BH/
A new online horror magazine (read for free). First issue includes my short story, "The Ghost in the Casement"
26.03.2025 05:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
