If you missed the conversation and a reading from @jacobwren.bsky.social last night, you can watch the video here. Like and subscribe while you're there (if you want). youtu.be/0iQspcj8aHc?...

SEASON 12 virtual launch!!!! Today at 6:00pm ET, I get to sit and chat with @jacobwren.bsky.social about his incredible novel, DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM. Register now. PWYC. All proceeds supportiur authors this season. @bookhugpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2zndxu3x

October 5 In person launch at TYPE Books Junction 6:30pm Season 12 With @catebush.bsky.social Caitlin Galway Michelle Winters Live-streamed

Kathryn Mockler! 🖤

21 SEPTEMBER 6:00pm ET Junction Reads welcomes @jacobwren.bsky.social author of DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM a beautifully crafted anti-war novel that is nothing you’d expect and everything you want. VIRTUAL LAUNCH SEASON 12 @bookhugpress.bsky.social

21 SEPTEMBER 6:00pm ET Junction Reads welcomes @jacobwren.bsky.social author of DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM a beautifully crafted anti-war novel that is nothing you’d expect and everything you want. VIRTUAL LAUNCH SEASON 12 @bookhugpress.bsky.social

This book is a statue in the literary town square we’re erecting where future generations will safely sit and write their own stories... Read my review of Saeed Teebi's YOU WILL NOT KILL OUR IMAGINATION. Coming 30/09/2025. junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

Registration is open for ALL our events in Season 12! Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors. Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful! junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...

Every year I hope people will stop supporting this f*cking stupid, waste of time, planet-killing, soul-destroying, celebration of militarism & war, and every year...I hope people will stop supporting this f*cking stupid, waste of time, planet-killing, soul-destroying... nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

FIFA and UEFA took action within months of Russia invading Ukraine. The double standard is clear. Sign the petition. @bdsmovement.bsky.social @canadasoccer.bsky.social @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

Tonight!! Sneak over to Instagram at 7:00pm ET 8:30pm NT for a writerly chat with @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social

Registration is open for ALL our events in Season 12! Grab your free ticket, or pay what you can to support our authors. Reserve space for us in your calendars. We'd be so grateful! junctionreads.ca/upcoming-sch...

Next Thursday I get to chat with Nicole Haldoupis about writing, starting her PhD program and what’s next after her beautiful novella TINY RUINS was published in 2020. Join us @junctionreads over on Instagram. 7:00pm ET. @radiantpress.bsky.social @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social

Link to our website, where I am going to try and post all my reviews. Reem Gaafar's debut novel, A MOUTH FULL OF SALT from @invisibooks.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

Please sign. The lies and loopholes need to stop! nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Noura Erakat & Nyle Fort & hosted by Art Forces: an urgent and inspiring virtual gathering that brings together artists, thinkers, and organizers to explore how art confronts injustice. bit.ly/WallsThatSee

Again not a fan of sharing this website as a link, but if it means just one of you picking up this book (from your local indie bookseller) it’s worth it. Such an incredible book and a magical reading experience. @amandaleduc.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I know this might just blow your mind, but would you look at who I get to talk to about writing this season!? The First Thirty is a writerly series where I not only get to read amazing books, I get to talk about HOW and WHY and WHERE they got written!

Next season’s line up!! So excited!!

Thinking about writing is better than writing....right? Kidding. I had to get all these preoccupations out of my head. open.substack.com/pub/alisonga...

I really hate sharing reviews from this site, so you should understand how much I want you to read THE IMMORTAL WOMAN by Su Chang! @houseofanansi.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.” I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion. Part I

In knowing BB was scum in the early 80s. In asking Jews to consider why they're willing to sit by and allow a genocide to happen in their name. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/m...

Next Thursday Instagram Live with Pratap Reddy! @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

Working on the schedule for next season and while it feels impossible when you only have half the spots for all the amazing authors, it's coming together. I wish we had more Sundays, and more time. <3

COVER REVEAL!!! - It is surreal and joyful and likely a single moment among many time to come but this is my first book so you will all be suffering all of my giddy self promotion for the next 8 months!! Thanks to @guernicaeditions.bsky.social anotherstory.ca/item/AS48k97...

A criminal investigation!?!?!? Their visas have been canceled!?!? This is dystopia level shit! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I also think The Break is one of Canada's very best novels! "Today, amid the buy-Canadian craze, I wonder why people are so quick to rally around Canadian beef, Canadian alcohol and Canadian clothing brands, but not Canadian novels." macleans.ca/society/cana...

Thank you @chaudierebooks.bsky.social and @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me about being part of Ottawa’s writing community. When I started writing I thought it was a solitary, isolated activity - I was wrong! It has been a joy to meet so many talented writers.

A really great conversation with Nina Berkhout about writing: the stunning visuals, the poetic language, the themes and history in her latest novel, THIS BRIGHT DUST from @gooselane.bsky.social Check it out. youtu.be/yV7QiSa_b3E

Not live, but a recording of an earlier conversation . I’ll post my chat with Nina Berkhout over on the gram at 7:00pm ET tomorrow. @gooselane.bsky.social

Feeling grateful. Thanks to the authors who shared readings & great insights from their books! Thanks to TYPE Books Junction for another great season! Martha Baillie @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Sara Flemington @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Rachel Phan @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

TODAY!! 6:30 PM IN PERSON and LIVE-STREAMED!

AI is an apocalypse. It ruins writing. It ruins reading. It erodes cognitive ability. It steals from artists. It destroys the planet. It's a serpent eating its own tail, and it's taking literacy and intelligence and culture and thought and art and humanity and the entire future with it.

SUNDAY! 6:30pm ET TYPE BOOKS JUNCTION 2887 Dundas St. W. Join us for readings, donuts and book raffle! Martha Baillie @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Sara Flemington @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Rachel Phan @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/1355134015...

Season Finale Sunday June 22 Martha Baillie, Sara Flemington & Rachel Phan. Type Books Junction 2887 Dundas St. W. 6:30pm Doors open all day!

What the ?????

Did you miss the event yesterday with Zilla Jones? If you want to cozy up to a reading and conversation, here you go. Also grab a copy of THE WORLD SO WIDE from @cormorantbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/3E02hqk-b9s

@cbcnews.ca Madleen boarded and innocent civilians abducted. Why are you not covering this?

I pray that all aboard the Madleen will be treated humanely in Israeli captivity, but I've been praying for that for Palestinians for years now so my expectations are low 😑 Don't look away. Don't let it get buried in the Western newscycle.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

Choosing silence because you’re afraid you don’t know enough about the subject? Do some research.

TODAY 6:0OPM ET ON ZOOM Zilla Jones reads from THE WORLD SO WIDE and we talk about memorable female characters, writing about opera, writing about a revolution, the Grenadian diaspora, and so much more! @cormorantbooks.bsky.social #canlit #books www.eventbrite.ca/e/1374693016... PWYC.

You can join us in person too if you’re in Toronto!! It’s going to be great!