Here they are as promised! A new batch of prompts for 2025 from me to you with love & gratitude. 🎁 Give 15 minutes a day to your writing during this busy season and start 2026 with 15 fresh drafts or at least some glimmers. Use January to polish and send off. ❤ open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

My husband brought home a newspaper and the smell of it has made me feel so happy and nostalgic.😊 #HappySaturday

Bridges. Intriguingly interpretive! 🤔

Great micro writing class tonight with @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social at @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Thank you! 👏

Emma Thompson really hates AI as a #writer and I love her for that. 🔥

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🍁

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Fox Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2021

Check out the webpage for our upcoming print anthology. We have added story teases from our twenty-seven amazing contributors to tantalise your readerly appetites🦝💜 trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

“Oh, you’re Canadian? How do you spell centre, colour, defence?” I could go on...

So freaking cool to see my book in a bookstore. Every single time. Like, never gets old.

#Kayaking at night. The red lights under my boat were a bit eerie...

Our second spotlight today 🦝 We loved the quiet tension in @leighaplin.bsky.social's piece, the sense of longing amidst danger, the beautiful connection to death and renewal. Read here: trashcatlit.com/when-the-riv...

She Waits by the Lake Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe 2025

So happy to have a flash piece out. Read it here: trashcatlit.com/when-the-riv... Thanks to @trashcatlit.bsky.social

We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝 Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!

At 384 pages with a perfect binding and no ads, our September issue isn't really a magazine, it's a book! www.lunastationquart... www.amazon.com/dp/19... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

Corns, Beans, Squash - Sisters Leah Dorion ~ Métis 2021

Join TNQ for a weekend of impressive Canadian literature, in-depth discussions, and immersive writing workshops at the 2025 Wild Writers Literary Festival! Check out the program today: wildwriters.ca/2025-program/ #wildwriters2025 #canlit #literaryfestival

HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝 @leighaplin.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social 1/3

Interesting discussion here... What makes a "serious" writer?

A beautiful storm in Ontario would be great right about now. We need rain! 🌧️

"we live on a ball of art" 💚 And yes, cool fuckin' boulders!

‪Well this was a trippy adventure! Spot the bird nest at the start of the clip. #kayaking

A Place to Return to Jeff Dillon 2025

Get your manuscripts ready for the third annual Pinhole Poetry chapbook search. Guidelines up now on our website! Read them here: pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-con...

"For once, I don’t want to know what you’re thinking." #flashfiction

I really needed to hear this today. 😌 "So what is real success? Doing the work. Staying in the game. Still writing. Still learning. Still having something to say."

Great post on how to roll with the slow moments of the #writinglife.

Congratulation to the writers on our Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlist! We're fighting over the shortlist now! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

** deep breath ** ✨ I am now accepting novella & novelette submissions for Augur Press — launching 2027! ✨ Nine years in the making, we’re making the leap to print books. Guidelines are on our site. Questions? AMA in the comments and I’ll answer.

Owl's Bouquet Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2007

It’s about time! Our next issue arrives July 4th. We can’t wait for you to read it!

So many fantastic reads to explore. 😍

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

Just finished reading Haruki Murakami's book, Novelist as Vocation. Highly recommended, especially if you like to free write.

If you need incentive to create art in any form this is an inspiring watch." #writing #poetry “In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to art is a rebellious act.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ9...

An absolutely beautiful day on the river today. 😊 #kayaking

You know us and numbers. But we do know today is Monday (we checked). So here's a helpful writer countdown calendar for getting your entry in for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 before Saturday's deadline of midnight, NYC time. You're welcome. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

A #UofG project to build a genetic reference library of all life on Earth has reached a milestone. The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics now has 15 million specimens, positioning it among the top natural history archives in the world. @uofgcbs.bsky.social news.uoguelph.ca/2025/04/worl...

Moth resting on the outside of my window with the light filtering through its wings. Wingspan is less than an inch. Nature is beautiful.

What I thought was a decent draft yesterday feels like a hot mess this morning. It's like going to a party and then waking up the next morning like 🥴. Grateful for the full day to fix this. @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2daypoemcontest

"Once you've truly seen the sea you'll never look at earth in the same way again." #EarthDay 🌎

Reverence for Life Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2013

Yes, this ⬇️

Swirl Emily Carr 1937

In poet Sue Sinclair’s “Darlings,” the image of lupins standing tall and vibrant along the side of a road becomes a summer tableau: thewalrus.ca/darlings/