Five Rivers at Word on the Street (Western edition)

Senior Editor, Robert Runté, and former staffer (now gone on to full time writer) Barb Gieger, at the Five Rivers table at Word on the Street Festival, Lethbridge. Five Rivers participated in Lethbridge’s Word on the Street festival this weekend and co-hosted a Bluepencil Café with Editors Canada. Small by comparison to Toronto’s, but still just as enjoyable — great guests, 100 vendors, food trucks, and most importantly, a significant proportion of the population coming…

Senior Editor, Robert Runté chosen as Editor GoH

From the Desk of Senior Editor, Robert Runté: I am deeply honoured to have been chosen as the Editor Guest of Honour for the When Words Collide Festival (Calgary), August 12-14, 2016; which is also that year’s Canvention, the Canadian national SF&F convention at which the Aurora Awards are presented. Previous Editor GoHs at WWC have included Adrien Kerr (Editor of Commercial Fiction at Penguin Canada) and super literary agent, Sally Harding, so I feel…

When Words Collide Festival, Aug 8-10, 2014

The When Words Collide Festival, August 8-10, 2014, is an excellent Western Canadian writers conference. Five Rivers has always had a presence at WWC and this year will be launching all six of its Spring Releases at the conference. Three other Five Rivers authors and two staff have already confirmed they will be at WWC. If you are going to WWC this year, make sure you attend the Five Rivers Book Social at 2 PM,…

Why We Published…Susan Forest’s Immunity to Strange Tales

From the Desk of Robert Runte I try to keep on top of developments in the Canadian SF community, and had noticed that Susan Forest was being published in the major short story markets: Analog, Tesseracts, AE Science Fiction Review and so on. Then she won first place in The Galaxy Project a major contest judged by Robert Silverberg, David Drake and Barry Malzberg. That certainly got my attention. Even though I hadn’t had a…