Derek Newman-Stille is an academic, reviewer, interviewer, and Canadian SF commentator who runs the 7 time Aurora Award-winning website Speculating Canada (www.speculatingcanada.ca), which examines Canadian speculative fiction. Derek teaches and researches at Trent University, but believes in the importance of sharing ideas and research in openly accessible ways. Speculating Canada is a platform for exploring the complexities of Canadian SF, fantasy, and horror (and all of the genres in between), and giving a voice to Canadian genre writers while exploring the worlds they create through reviews that look at the nuances of a writer’s work. The reviews, interviews, and commentaries Derek provides on Speculating Canada are meant to be a jumping off point for readers and writers of Canadian Spec Fic to imagine new possibilities, think outside the box, and take a deeper look into the Canadian speculative imagination.
Derek is also the editor of the upcoming anthologies Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile) and We Shall Be Monsters: Frankenstein at 200 (Renaissance Press) and has published in anthologies like Accessing the Future and The Playground of Lost Toys, in Quill & Quire, and in academic collections like The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, and Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography.
Derek also runs the websites Dis(Abled) Embodiment ( https://disabledembodiment.wordpress.com ), and co-runs Through The Twisted Woods ( https://throughthetwistedwoods.wordpress.com ) with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman.
Panels: A Seriously Folked Up Panel on Fairy Tales, Borderlands: Migration in Fiction, Dreamtime: Dreams and Dreamers in Spec Fic, Frankenstein: An Assemblage of Flesh, Horror and the Problematic Portrayal of Madness, Speculating Canada Live!