Starry Starry Night by celebrated Canadian author Shani Mootoo is forthcoming on September 23, 2025 with Book*hug Press! Request a review copy. ✨ www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @bookhugpress.bsky.social #canlit

I have four new poems in the just-launched Summer Issue of Blackbird, link below:

Tonight in #Berlin #shewhohasnomasters #movingpoets #poetry #movement #sound She Who Has No Master(s): #AngieChau #AnhHoaNguyen #BarbaraTran #DaoStrom #HoaNguyen #MyLoanDinh #PhuongTVuong #SophiaTerazawa Guests: #BichNgocLuu #CarmenVolpe #HanyTea #ThiMinhHuyenNguyen #canlit #authors #booksky

This mighty micropress produced a Griffin longlister before 10 years of existence. KFB is phenomenal. And fun. Let's celebrate her with the 10th anniversary season she deserves. #kfb10 #4ertile #fertilefest #canlit #canpoetry #poetrybooks #chapbooks #readings

“Are you laughing or crying?” I asked. “Laughing,” she said as she wiped tears from her eyes. The Mockler. On point. @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/father-say...

Just dropped. Happy Pride darlin's. #softie #KFB

"Performing the role of 'body' for you has been akin to participating in an irreparably toxic workplace environment. One where management actively ignores the research and trauma-backed warnings I issue on a regular basis."

Have you submitted? June 30 deadline. #capilanoreview #callforsubmissions #canlit #hybridwriting #litjournal #booksky #authors #writers

8PM TONIGHT MY QUEERS! #threedollarbill #parkdale

Before Los Angeles was an American city, it was a Mexican village named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula." Yet the only "invasion" the GOP talks about concerns modern-day immigrants, not the US military invasion of 1846.

Thinking of Greta Thunberg and the other brave people aboard the relief ship Madleen. And of course the starving kids they’re trying to help Justice is justice is justice

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Tonight, pick your genre. Poetry, YA Fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, short fiction. Martha Bátiz, Shade Lapite, Marvyne Jenoff, Caitlyn Galway, Derek Webster & me. 7PM. #AngelReadingSeries Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street. FREE. #canlit #reading #booksky #poetry #writers #books #fiction

LMCC has a new #writingcontest page! Check our site for 2025 contests run by #litmags in Canada. Contact us to add your magazine's details. litmags.ca/contests/

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

⏰ There are SIX DAYS left to submit your application to the 2025 Tin House Autumn Online Workshop! Don't miss out on this magical experience curated just for speculative writers, apply today! Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...

Attention writers! The annual Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Contest closes in one week! Be sure to get your submissions in by June 10th! ⏰ For more information, visit: tnq.ca/tnq-contest-...

Attention nonfiction writers! Submissions are now open for regular nonfiction until June 30, 2025. Note: Although there is a deadline, the total submission cap for nonfiction is 50 submissions. Be sure to submit your essays as soon as possible: tnq.ca/submit/ #litmagsubmissions #nonfiction

Do you love language? "Listen & Be Heard" is a podcast for you. The host, Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social, is a sheer delight. Her love of books is palpable. And you can feel her nurturing oasis of a garden coming through the mic. #booksky #books #poetry #podcast #literature #writers #canlit

I don't know about you, but poetry and literature in general are what bring me back into balance and remind me what my goals are and what really matters. Join Martha Bátiz, Shade Lapite, Marvyne Jenoff, Caitlyn Galway, Derek Webster & me. Fri, June 6, 7PM. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street. FREE.

Okay, these two 'debutant' poets, JESSICA BEBENEK No One Knows Us There @bookhugpress.bsky.social + CHRISTINE WU Familial Hungers #brickbooks are on the road making an appearance Thursday night at Imperial Pub, then off to London (31) & the Hammer (01). I know they're bringing it. Meet them there.

I think I was in my element talking spiritual life writing, memoir as art, and being the children of immigrants with acclaimed Winnipeg author and all around lovely human being, Linda Trinh. Listen to our @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-spirit #memoir

Deadline: May 30. Poems in dialogue with other poems. Edited by Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social & @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social planetearthpoetry.com/after?ss_sou... #canpoetry #canlit

Hurry! Bids close on Sunday. 1-on-1 consult, advance copy, handwritten poem, a voice recording just for you, autographed book bundles ... Any of these could be yours. #authors4esims #gaza #canlit #authors #writers #booksky

Hurry! Bids close on Sunday. 1-on-1 consult, advance copy, handwritten poem, a voice recording just for you, autographed book bundles ... Any of these could be yours. #authors4esims #gaza #canlit #authors #writers #booksky

Such a wonderful book. The Seventh Town of Ghosts by @faitharkorful.bsky.social #canpoetry #canlit #booksky

Don't sleep on the poetry consultation from Brandi Bird! I worked with them on my chapbook and it was amazing.

Come celebrate! The League of Canadian Poets' Book Awards reading. Tomorrow (Tues), 8PM EDT. Thank you, jurors! Congratulations, poets! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Thank you @canadianpoets.bsky.social #CanadaCouncilfortheArts @ontarioarts.bsky.social #canpoetry #canlit #poetryreading #booksky

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social should get a prize simply for making the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A phenomenal achievement for any press, let alone a young micropress. Get your copy of Dale Martin Smith's stunning "The Size of Paradise" and celebrate #canpoetry on the world stage. #canlit

An excellent poet is visiting Toronto from Poland, so I've organized a reading to introduce him to our community. I will host, and Michał will be joined by local poets Terese Mason Pierre and Patrick Woodcock. Please come out, and please spread the word. www.westendphoenix.com/events/poetr...

This book should be on shortlists. Crying Dress is wide-ranging and witty, and the language and imagery lush. #canpoetry #canlit #booksky

We're one week away from our next application deadline! Writers, visual artists, and composers looking for a Spring 2026 (❄️ January thru April 🌸) residency at VCCA's #MtSanAngelo in Virginia should apply before midnight on May 15, 2025. vcca.com/apply

Two poems from Myth (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) by @teresempierre.bsky.social on Send My Love to Anyone

So looking forward to diving into @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social's #Fieldwork Yet another gorgeous publication by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social #canlit #booksky

Thank you to The Fiddlehead and to Rob Colman for reviewing #PrecedentedParroting. Thank you @canadianpoets.bsky.social and jurors! Congrats @manahil.bsky.social and @roblucastaylor.bsky.social! Much gratitude to Canada Council for the Arts and @ontarioarts.bsky.social for supporting my creations.

Congratulations to Matthew Walsh, Finalist for the Trillium Book Award! #Terrarium #canpoetry #canlit

I’m participating in the Authors for eSims for Gaza auction fundraiser. Bid on over 110 autographed books and special prize bundles, including having a character named after you! Open until 18 May. Funds go directly to Crips for eSims for Gaza. #canlit #esims4gaza app.galabid.com/authors4esim...

She knows to make plans on such occasions as Mother's Day. Next Sunday, I'll be reading SHE, cover to cover, for the very first time, seated here with a few listeners (perhaps you?) in my home where I wrote it. That, & instead of a 'go fund me,' she'll read for her supper.

Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti prevented from travelling to speak at Dublin festival

"Imagination—not intellect—has saved my life. It has saved the lives of the people, animals, and lands to which I belong, those I hold most beloved. Imagination, I believe, is the way we dream into the future ..." --T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social #creativity #activism #dreaming

Some things are right in the world.

So well deserved!! This collection ✨ Congrats, Canisia Lubrin!!

Long lists! So much gratitude to @canadianpoets.bsky.social and to the jurors. It's been a long haul getting "Precedented Parroting" into book form. I feel so honoured seeing it listed alongside all these fine books. Thank you @palimpsestpress.bsky.social and Jim Johnstone. poets.ca/longlist2025/

Looking forward to reading "Becoming Ghost." And seeing Cathy Linh Che's award-winning short film "We Were the Scenery." Congratulations, Cathy! @cathylinhche.bsky.social #poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican

Did you know? In Canada, if need be, you can register to vote at your polling station on Election Day. www.elections.ca #election #electionday #canadavotes

if, once again, the griffin shortlist disappoints and/or irritates, may i remind you of my 'best of' list of 2024 Canadian poetry books; the wealth of publishing these days is incredible, dusie.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-be...

Call for reviews of spring Canadian poetry books. #canpoetry #canlit #bookreviews #booksky

Vinh Nguyen will be in conversation with Monique Truong this Thurs, 7PM, Yu & Me Books, NYC. The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse is poetry disguised in paragraphs. These 2 writers, stars. #canlit #booksky #memoir #literature #vietlit #read @cousinvinnhy.bsky.social @moniquetruong.bsky.social

“What we are clearly seeing is that with this administration, they are not responding to congressional inquiries,” said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, who wrote to Trump after hearing that ICE was pressing tribal citizens for their immigration status. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social