Devouring Tomorrow

Devouring Tomorrow

Fiction from the Future of Food

An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food-insecure future.

Our lives, our culture, our community all start with and revolve around food and eating. Sharing meals with family and friends has been a hallmark of human society from our earliest beginnings. But we are entering an era of unprecedented change.

Climate, technology, the global spread of crop diseases, droughts, and the loss of pollinators threaten to change not only how much food we eat, but what we eat and how we eat it.

Devouring Tomorrow explores this strange new menu through the eyes and palates of some of Canada’s most exciting authors.

See a world with no bees left to pollinate our crops. Encounter lab-grown meat so advanced that it becomes sentient.

Visit a land where diseases wipe out a common fruit and the society of a nation changes around its loss. This is not the world of the distant future — this is tomorrow.

Featuring stories from:


Sifton Tracey Anipare • Carleigh Baker • Gary Barwin • Chris Benjamin • Eddy Boudel Tan • Catherine Bush • Jowita Bydlowska • Lisa de Nikolits • Dina Del Bucchia • Terri Favro • Elan Mastai • Mark Sampson • Ji Hong Sayo • Jacqueline Valencia • Anuja Varghese • A.G.A. Wilmot

About the author

Eddy Boudel Tan

Eddy Boudel Tan likes to consider himself a literary escape artist — he places his heroes in impossible situations to writhe and thrash their way out of.

His novels After Elias and The Rebellious Tide have been finalists for awards he didn’t end up winning, but his husband is proud of him anyway.

He’s grateful to have been named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021.

His short stories can be found in Joyland, Yolk, and various literary journals and anthologies. The Tiger and the Cosmonaut is his third novel. 

Follow Eddy on Instagram (@eddyautomatic) and at eddyboudeltan.com

Carleigh Baker

Finalist for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award, BC and Yukon Book Prizes
Finalist for the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for Fiction

CARLEIGH BAKER is an author and teacher of nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân (Cree-Métis) and European descent.

Born and raised on Stó:lō territory, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwəta (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil Press, 2017), won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction.

Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and anthologized in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Baker’s newest collection, Last Woman, has been shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes at the BC Yukon Book Prizes.

Dina Del Bucchia

Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Tell Me What to Do and of five collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, Rom Com, the latter written with Daniel Zomparell, It’s a Big Deal! and You’re Gonna Love This. 

She is looking for a wealthy patron of the arts to support her because she is so tired. Will also show ugly feet for money.

An otter and dress enthusiast, she lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia).

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