The Seaboard Review of Books October 8, 2025
Volume 2, Issue 42 of The Seaboard Review of Books, October 1, 2025
In this issue:
The Ignis Psalter by Danny Jacobs (Fiction)
Habs Nation: A People’s History of the Montreal Canadiens (Non-Fiction)
Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War by Brandon Marriott (Non-Fiction)
The Undesirables: A History of Rockhead Prison by Katie Ingram (Non-Fiction)
Goose by Melanie Dennis Unrau (Poetry)
In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom (Poetry)
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The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais.
Moonshyne Manor is a distillery and the hereditary home of the Sisterhood—six octogenarian witches, one of whom has been in prison for 33 years for a heist that resulted in the death of another of their number, who lingers as a ghost, communicating through her familiar, a crow named Widget. A mob of angry men want to demolish the manor and build a men’s fantasy retreat. Another man, a relative of Ivy, the ostensible owner of the manor, wants what he believes was stolen from him. Behind on their mortgage payments—the reason the mob is using to validate their destructive scheme—Queenie, has made a dire deal with Charon. The fates of the manor and the Sisterhood hang on the release of Ruby, who knows where the stolen goods are hidden, but when she returns to the manor, she is not the woman she used to be. Enter Persephone, a young feminist who wants to save the manor and the Sisterhood, if she could just understand the web of relationships and betrayals that binds the sisterhood together. (Contributed by Melanie Marttila)
TSR Team News
Melanie Marttila is pleased to announce that her poem “Vasilisa,” originally published by Graeme Cameron in Polar Borealis 30 is in the Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 3, publishing October 14, 2025.
She is deeply honoured to be among such stellar company.
And….
She will be on two panels at this year’s Can-Con (October 17 to 19, 2025 at the Brookstreet Hotel, Kanata, Ontario)!
The first will be “The Art of Rest” at 8 pm on Friday, October 17, and the second is “The Taste of Sadness: Writing Emotional Dysregulation” at 2:30 pm on Sunday, October 19.
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