If you’re a fan of stories about WWII, Angela Antle’s The Saltbox Olive is a brilliant story of the history of Newfoundland and Italy, and how lives intertwined when soldiers from Canada went across the Atlantic to help fight fascists. Published by the brilliant @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social 📚❤️📚

This. ❤️

October is a state of mind

Happy to have my review of Rebecca Salazar’s antibody up at periodicities this month! Such a great collection of work! Thanks to @periodicities.bsky.social and @robmclennan.bsky.social @rsalazar.bsky.social

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : antibody, by Rebecca Salazar ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/kim-...

My next reads! First up is @kimfahner.bsky.social’s latest, The Pollination Field (w/Turnstone Press). I don’t know how to say it except: Kim is the best - so thoughtful and generous, thinking and feeling - and I can’t wait to spend some time with this bee-book!

Have a few of these titles on order (Joseph Dandurand, Randy Lundy) and one to pick up: if: prey, then: huntress by @christinashah.bsky.social. Congratulations! www.cbc.ca/books/34-wor...

Books I’ve read, loved deeply, and learned from…for today and everyday. Grateful for the writer friends and colleagues (here and away) on this list.

Given what’s happening in Alberta with book censorship, it was timely for me to read On Book Banning by Ira Wells. It’s part of Biblioasis’s Field Notes series of books. You can order it through their Windsor bookshop! @biblioasis.bsky.social

Oh! This was a really lovely thing to find out about today! Honoured to have my essay, “Searching for Maud,” shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and lovely to be in such fine writerly company! Thanks to Nicole Breit for her time in reading all of our pieces!

So the news is out: I will be the Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, from October 1 to April 30th. Being WiR has always been a dream of mine, so I am honoured to have been selected for this role!

TWUC members—check out this new program!

If you haven’t read it yet, Heather O’Neill’s new novel, Valentine in Montreal, is stunning. It also features lovely drawings by Arizona O’Neill. Thanks to @gsplibrary.bsky.social for having such a great collection of books!

Can’t remember if I signed up for the Loblaws bread thing whenever it happened. Maybe I’ll get a coupon or something…

City of Winnipeg Library (Henderson Branch) via /r/winnipeg

'President Michael D. Higgins this afternoon received the newly appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction 2025 – 2028, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, at Áras an Uachtaráin.' #SpeirGorm @president.ie

Writers ages 16-19! We have a workshop for you! Learn how to go deeper in your writing! Facilitated by Carrie Hatland with Ben Paulic. www.prairiefire.ca/w...

I strongly recommend new authors join a well-run book club, when possible. Not only does it encourage analysis of storytelling from different perspectives, the range of “loved it—>hated it—>meh 🤷” in the room is a great reminder to write the book that speaks to you and let it find your audience.

Celebrate story collections by reading the opening lines of two books included in our latest #PageOne installment: Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail and The Dilemmas of Working Women by the late Fumio Yamamoto, translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom. at.pw.org/PageOne2025x5

It's a quintessential right of passage for small press poetry books to be reviewed by @robmclennan.bsky.social and we're ever so grateful to him for bringing MA|DE's debut collaborative collection into the fold. Rob calls ZZOO "layered, and sharp” and remarks on its “smart and engaged language."

Brenda Fricker- Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

The Grievous Angels return to mining country with a special one night performance at the Cobalt Classic Theatre Saturday Oct. 18. Book your tickets here: app.arts-people.com?show=298501&... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPt...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Goodbye, Disney+!

very cool to see this billboard for FIFTEEN DOGS at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, the play based on André Alexis’ novel; you know he’s from here, yes? even used to live a few blocks from the theatre, // @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

Can’t really believe a year has gone by since Latitude 46 published my first novel, The Donoghue Girl. A year ago tonight, we celebrated at Knox Hall here in Sudbury! Thanks especially to Heather Campbell and Hollay Ghadery. @latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ❤️🙏📚❤️✨

My friend, Kern Carter, wrote his novel, And Then There Was Us, and it was published last year by Tundra Books. He was up in Sudbury for Wordstock last year, which was fantastic! This story is beautiful, heart wrenching, and I’d recommend it for kids and their parents! @kerncarter.bsky.social 📚❤️📚

Thnx to Sheelagh Caygill at On Creative Writing for inviting me to share two of the poems from my latest book of poetry, The Pollination Field. I chose to read two of my favourite poems, “Man, Sleeping on the Living Room Floor” & “Attic Colony.” You can listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7K01...?

Whodunnit? Rebecca Campbell 2014

The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.

The Grievous Angels are thrilled to be bringing the Revolution tour to the Classic Theatre in Cobalt. Saturday Oct 18. Tickets are going fast. Book yours here: app.arts-people.com?show=298501

Come out!! Sept 22nd at Massy with @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @christinashah.bsky.social and Natalie Lim! www.eventbrite.ca/e/huntress-i...

This recipe makes a satisfying vegetarian main course or a hearty side dish for roast chicken or sausages. Serve in shallow bowls with toasted country bread to mop up the garlicky broth.

Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true? www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Hangers #photo #photography #photograph

“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”

I loved Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records. So many layers of time, philosophy, story, identity, and meaning. (The storyline with Hannah Arendt, in particular, is so fascinating…) A beautiful, really thought provoking book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!❤️📚

The brilliance that is #KateSiklosi #Conjure #PaperViewBooks paperviewbooks.pt/books/conjure/

I’ve loved Kaveh Akbar’s poetry for a long time now, so his first novel, Martyr!, was on my reading list. I can’t even explain how beautiful this book is…so you should just borrow it from your local library, or a friend, or buy it and find out for yourself. So well done!

newly posted: Kim Fahner : Flight Problems: The Amelia Earhart Poems, by Paula Eisenstein / @kimfahner.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social @pparriseisenstein.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/kim-...

Thank you so much to @kimfahner.bsky.social for such a thoughtful reading and response to ‘Flight Problems: The Amelia Earhart Poems!’

The Pollination Field has made its way down to Guelph, to buzz around the banks of the Speed River. Thanks to Brigitte and Matt for this photo. 📚🙏❤️🐝

Insomnia, I think we need to take some time apart. It’s not you. It’s me.

“I’ve always made it a policy to never question good fortune.” -- Lyle Lovett @thebeliever.net

Call for submissions to Issue 22 of Last Stanza Poetry Journal can be found at the blog: laststanzapoetry.blogspot.com Send in your best works before Sept. 30th. Awards a single $100 for best poem of this issue. Publishes worldwide in ebook, softcover, and color-illustrated hardcover. #poetryjournal

I knew a looming teacher strike and a looming book ban would make the start of the school year quite the time, but I've never expended so much mental energy before kids have even shown up

✨Starting on Monday!✨ #SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿 Post on your own schedule. Post new work, old work, work-in-progress. Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞) - #SciArt #SciComm #Nature

ANNOUNCING: the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025 / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

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