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Welcome to Flame Arrow Publishing

You've found a home for stories that refuse to look away.We publish speculative fiction that confronts what's broken, celebrates what endures, and imagines futures worth fighting for. Hopepunk. Climate fiction. Queer fantasy. Bilingual voices. Stories of resilience, resistance, and rebirth.If you're tired of dystopias that end in despair, you're in the right place.

Who We Are

Flame Arrow Publishing is a bilingual Canadian indie press rooted in hope and resistance.

We believe stories can change the world. Not by pretending everything's fine, but by showing what's possible when people refuse to give up. Our books explore:

Resilience in the face of collapse
Resistance against systems that silence
Rebirth when the old world fails

We publish in French and English, centering voices that imagine better futures without ignoring the hard truths of now.

If You Love YA Dystopian (The Marrow Thieves, Under This Forgetful Sky)

Start with: Everclear by Jennifer DeLeskie (Coming Summer 2026)

A teenage girl ventures into the Northern Quebec wilderness to find her missing father and uncover the dangerous truths powerful forces tried to erase. Language, memory, and survival collide in a story about reclaiming what was stolen.

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If You Crave Queer Urban Fantasy (The City We Became, Circe)

Start with: L'Égide by Véronique Reed (Coming Spring 2026, French)

Greek gods walk Montreal streets. A grieving bookseller and a restless paramedic join a secret organization to hunt a demigod through murders that echo ancient rituals. Love, myth, and noir collide.

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If You Want Nature-Based Fantasy (Earthsea, Naomi Novik)

Start with: Tonnerre-des-bois by Loui Beaulieu (Coming Spring 2026, French)

A young shaman steps into his calling in a world shaped by spirit animals, ancestral memory, and the living pulse of the forest. A coming-of-age story rooted in tradition, community, and the wild.

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If You Love Oceanpunk & Hopeful Sci-Fi (Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson)

Start with: Amaranth by David M. Snow (Available Now, English & French)

Underwater arks. Memory spheres. A society rebuilt after collapse. The Amaranth series explores what it means to survive, remember, and hope when the surface world is lost.

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If You're Into Polyamory, Activism & Near-Future Resistance

Start with: Invisible Line series by Su J. Sokol (Available Now, English)

A family flees dystopian New York for Montreal. Their sequel follows queer activists navigating love, resistance, and chosen family in the near future. For readers who want hope grounded in struggle.

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If You Read in French & Love Short Speculative Fiction

Start with: Brins d'éternité magazine (Quarterly, French)

Our award-winning quarterly magazine features the best French-language SF, fantasy, and horror. New voices. Established authors. Stories that linger.

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We get it. Download a free digital issue of Flower of Memory (An Amaranth prequel novella) and see what we're about. No credit card. No strings. Just good stories.

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Our 2026 Lineup

Spring: Tonnerre-des-bois (French fantasy) + L'Égide (queer urban fantasy)
Summer: Everclear (YA dystopian)
Fall: Unréal (bilingual anthology)

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