Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.) @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for her chat with me earlier this week for On Creative Writing. (I’ll share that link once it’s published). Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝 www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...

Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit

Congratulations to Kim Thúy, winner of the the $25,000 Writers’ Trust #EngelFindley Award, supported by the Estate of Timothy Findley and the Writers’ Trust prize fund. #WTAwards #canlit

Julie Flett wins the $40,000 #VickyMetcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Writers’ Trust is extremely grateful to the Metcalf Foundation for generously increasing their longstanding commitment to this award and the Book to Schools program. #WTAwards #canlit

Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit

The $12K #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers goes to... Roza Nozari for All the Parts We Exile! The prize was founded by Robin Pacific and is supported by the Dayne Ogilvie Endowment Fund, Anuja Varghese, and the Writers’ Trust Prize Fund. Published by Knopf Canada. #WTAwards #canlit

It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it. guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse

some above/ground press author updates: The Nelson Ball Prize, Pushcart Prizes, the bpNichol Chapbook Award + the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading, and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed, abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...

CBC Poetry Prize longlist announced #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : UNMET, by stephanie roberts / @biblioasis.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/kim-...

Answering my own question :) A little cross-socials sleuthing and I found the details on Facebook.

My book launch (for The Pollination Field) is online tonight at 8pm EST. You can register to get an invitation to the Zoom session by checking out Turnstone’s FB page or website. Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!

Thanks to Bryn Robinson for her review of The Pollination Field in The Seaboard Review. 🙏❤️📚 @theseaboardreview.ca www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-pollin...

Archipel Alumni #2: 5 writers making waves: Featuring: @kimfahner.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, Virginia Ryan, @kevinspenst.bsky.social & Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf #Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity

Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia / @manahil.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/mana...

hey! im launching my new poetry book, the book of sentences, this saturday 5pm at plan 99/the manx pub w zane koss! you should come! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection: robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

Maggie Helwig wins $20K Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work Encampment #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/maggie...

My book babes. ♥️ ✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award. 🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023. 🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards. #canlit

I’m having an online launch for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, on the evening of November 5. It will be hosted by the brilliant Alice Major. ❤️📚More details to come. Sudbury folks—have to delay my in person launch until early 2026, once I’m past my surgery & recovery, but it’ll happen!

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

After a summer of wildfires, heat & toxic air, 250+ city leaders urge Ottawa to fund “nation-building, not nation-burning” projects. Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

For the @halifaxexaminer.ca, I wrote about the federal government launching its own AI translation service, our credulous minister for AI, and how we are deskilling and undervaluing labour in the name of progress (with a nod to @techwontsave.us). www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

Halifax friends—don’t miss seeing Zilla Jones when she visits your town on Friday, October 24th!

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. ❤️

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.