"how ordinary life is not separate from what is often thought of as the life of the mind, which is important for the life of the society, culture, economy, politics and realms beyond" Canisia Lubrin.

🔥 Hot Take: There’s Magic Here Too: A Trans Woman’s Guide to Being Monstrous by Skylar Kay. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #CanLit #Poetry #Reviews #WritingCommunity

Two recent reviews/reactions by yours truly in @theseaboardreview.ca. 📝 Review: Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal by the Black Community Resource Centre. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/where-they... #CanLit #NonFiction #Reviews #WritingCommunity

THE UNRAVELLING OF OU (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) by Hollay Ghadery explores how we find and keep connections when everything is coming unspooled. Check out our interview with the author! #AmReading #Fiction #Novel #CanLit open-book.ca/News/Hollary...

Safe Parkside is reporting another high speed crash today. Doug Ford’s Ontario &, apparently, the one Ontario voters want. Tho Toronto not off hook here - city & local councillor did nothing long before Ford’s meddling despite pleas for them to act.

I'll be at VerseFest in Ottawa this March. This is just a teaser, so please follow @versefestottawa.bsky.social to keep updated on all the festival's news and programming!

I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

Pulls no punches. That’s how it’s done. Watch this video.

PRINCE HENRY How does the king? GLOUCESTER Exceeding ill.

TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social talks to poet Anna Yin about her poetry book “Breaking Into Blossom” (Frontenac House) & @hollay.bsky.social talks to Caitlin Galway about her book of short stories “A Song For Wildcats” @dundurnpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TONIGHT!

These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.

Is it still the holidays when you're reading posts from when it was actually the holidays? What about if it's still snowing and you're still drinking cocoa? Yup, yup, yup. More #bookish news from @bookjotter.bsky.social Winding Up the Week #453 bookjotter.com/2025/12/27/w...

At a CAJ event not long ago, I wandered into the Indigenous reporting breakout group. I was the only non-Indigenous journalist there. Dan welcomed me with (literal) open arms and then proceeded to make fun of me for the rest of the hour. An absolutely lovely person.

“This newspaper had done a series of articles on Kristen Adams, who was working for the Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services (CFMWS) when she was sexually assaulted by a NATO soldier in 2022…”

Military officers fumed about Ottawa Citizen's report on sexual assault in internal emails ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Poetry!

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Nonfiction!

I was stalked for over a decade by an abusive ex and it took yeaaaars for me to call him a stalker. The reality was wayyyyyy too terrifying to say with my full chest, so I'd minimize it. "If I tell myself and others that it's NBD, then it'll stay NBD." This is a super common reality with stalking!

Ice hockey and then some: Heated Rivalry is a worldwide hit – and no one is happier about it than us Canadians | Sue Carter

"What does it mean if your ex-boyfriends love Anna Karenina?" - a question another Heather has posed and I most definitely have not. www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...

Footage of Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Russo and an orchestra recording their version of “San Francisco” for STARFLEET ACADEMY is a real treat 🖖🏼

Most Anticipated: Our Spring 2026 Fiction Preview with titles from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01... #CanLit

Canada Reads 2026 longlisted author PP Wong joins us for #writersblock & talks about her second novel, SLICE THE WATER (@gooselane.bsky.social), the grounding power of nature, & the impact of spending years writing one protagonist. Read the full interview at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...

If you're looking for your next favorite #smallpress book, make sure to check out @electricliterature.com's winter reading list which features @adamalsirgany.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, and our 2025 Literary Awards Runner-Up, Terese Svoboda! buff.ly/2MV0xvC @susanschulman.bsky.social

May Minnesota's business leaders someday find the courage of our high school journalists: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here’s part 1 of this week’s 4-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis Special. I walk you through stage 4 of enshittification, when companies decide to enshittify shareholders, and the concept of stock itself. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

💭I think it’s time we stopped believing in the divine right of techbro kings.

Goldmine at Redlake, Ontario A.Y. Jackson 1945

Ken and Robin Consume Media: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Night Patrol, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

My latest -- did you hear the one about high school libraries throwing out Harry Potter or the Diary of Anne Frank? What is with this INSANE CENSORSHIP, to borrow the reaction of one National Post columnist. The scandal is austerity, not censorship noraloreto.substack.com/publish/post...

An excellent question.

🌷Hello Spring! 🌷Check out our spring-tacular titles! LEARN MORE:👇️ guernicaeditions.com #poetry #fiction #shortfiction #translations #novella #nonfiction #memoir

I've waited more than a decade to be able to say this: hell yeah, new Elizabeth Bachinsky!!! @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social harbourpublishing.com/products/978...

In this NBN episode, I chop it up with Paul Vermeersch about his fascinating new collection of poetry, NMLCT (ECW Press, 2025). Listen in. 🖤 newbooksnetwork.com/nmlct @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Tuesday poem #668 : Farah Ghafoor : Excerpt from "The Last Poet in the World" / @farahghafoor.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/tues...

Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*! Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.

Congratulations to Karen Solie for winning the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 with WELLWATER! 🎉 🔗 tseliot.com/prize/karen-...

"For me, writing is not only a matter of expressing my thoughts through words, but an inherently embodied process." Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There, chats with interviewer Hanna Chernoff for @the-wood-lot.bsky.social. the-wood-lot.ca/2026/01/15/n...

COMING FEBRUARY 2026: THE LOST QUEEN from Heidi von Palleske — a gripping tale of love lost, hope renewed, and the search for truth that will leave you questioning what it means to be truly found. Pre-order THE LOST QUEEN today: buff.ly/VWzohvW

Today in the ARB: Melanie Ho reviews “Oxford Soju Club” by Jinwoo Park @dundurnpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/oxford-soju-...

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Here's why no one likes "mainstream" journalism. If you saw video it's not "according to" it's they did it. Your job isn't to fucking both sides EVERYTHING, your job is to go out into the rain and say "look, it's fucking raining". Jesus fucking christ.

"I am at home in a high-rise where at night the voice of being human is a siren blare or a drunk crying fuck something or other on Sherbourne Street." #TodaysPoem #poetry On Sherbourne Street by @richardgreene.bsky.social from Crossing the Straits (2004) rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/sher...

It’s time to lace up your skates! ⛸️ Two fun take-aways from this video: Montrealers love skating, and dark pea coats were very popular in 1902!

I got a hand written birthday card and it made me so happy - write cards to loved ones, people! [You can also keep them for yourself and don’t have to pay for cloud storage and have it harvested by AI. 😉]

Some of the awesome books on The 49th Shelf’s Spring Fiction Preview! 📚 You can request review copies of all of them through us. www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Not shown here (cover reveal pending!) but still on the list is David Ly’s Not All Dragons! #litfic #books