Sanna Wani
@sannawani.bsky.social
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poetry, pottery, publishing
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Liz Johnston
11 days ago
On Friday, June 12, I'll be talking to the brilliant
@catebush.bsky.social
about my novel, The Fall-Down Effect, at the Toronto Reference Library, in the newly renovated Jack Rabinovich Reading Room. Please save the date!
tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...
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Author Talk: Liz Johnston’s The Fall-Down Effect — Toronto Public Library
\nAuthor Catherine Bush speaks with authornbsp;and Brick editor Liz Johnston on her debut novel,nbsp;The Fall-down Effect, which looks atnbsp;climate change, activism, and fractured family relationshi...
https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a05fb5f8e677a28001bfa19
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Miaganga
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Tom Snarsky
about 1 month ago
People / are just too attractive! Heather Christle (
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Tom Snarsky
about 1 month ago
Molly Brodak
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hey bsky! this is a really important legal fundraiser for 44 peaceful pro-palestinian protestors wrongfully detained at a scotiabank in montreal last year. please share widely and donate if you can 🩷
gofund.me/09cb0b812
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Donate to legal aid fund for large group of local activists, organized by C E C
Legal aid fund for large group of local activists facing possible criminal cha… C E C needs your support for legal aid fund for large group of local activists
https://gofund.me/09cb0b812
about 2 months ago
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Such a gorgeous essay by
@teresempierre.bsky.social
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add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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New episode, which is really just the audio-version of the latest substack! I love repetition 🩷 happy spring
poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...
about 2 months ago
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I started a Substack! I guess it was only a matter of time. Read "Starlings in Winter" and subscribe if you feel like it:
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3 months ago
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summer farah
4 months ago
my book is coming out SOON you can PRE-ORDER IT and receive a SIGNED COPY as well as SPECIAL ITEMS
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The Hungering Years by Summer Farah
Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...
https://hostpublications.com/products/the-hungering-years-by-summer-farah
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Tom Snarsky
5 months ago
Okay. How to proceed David Dodd Lee
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forgot this account existed...happy new year! i'd love to be more connected w/ folks on here. if u see this, maybe drop me a reply about what you're reading // feeling about the "new" "year" (greg's time is fake...)
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summer farah
5 months ago
my book is out in 50 days ‼️
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Terese Mason Pierre
7 months ago
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
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summer farah
8 months ago
I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by
@sannawani.bsky.social
at
@ex-puritan.bsky.social
🐦
ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...
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"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING"
Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
https://ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-are-calling
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The Ex-Puritan
8 months ago
"Poets love birds." So says
@sannawani.bsky.social
's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live:
ex-puritan.ca/animalia
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Read A Little Poetry
8 months ago
Today’s poem is selected by Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “This Isn't The Life” appeared in The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful, published by McClelland & Stewart, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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The Ex-Puritan
8 months ago
The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new Poetry Editor, Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
)! Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry.
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David Naimon
8 months ago
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Poet Talk about Trees featuring
@farahghafoor.bsky.social
! Tune in for talk about trees, snails, time and more. Available where you listen to podcasts:
poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...
9 months ago
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This Magazine
9 months ago
"Did she strive toward success, the way any artist does, only to accidentally strive too far, primed by her personal privilege and positionality?" asks
@sannawani.bsky.social
in this thought-provoking piece about Chappell Roan, fame, race, and gender.
this.org/2024/12/10/s...
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Star power
My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...
https://this.org/2024/12/10/star-power/
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summer farah
9 months ago
DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK
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Tom Snarsky
11 months ago
You gave me your heart Laura Gilpin
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The Ex-Puritan
11 months ago
"The protagonists shift but maintain an integrity of voice: elegant, incisive, dry, witty." –
@sannawani.bsky.social
reviews
@shashibhat.bsky.social
's Death by a Thousand Cuts:
ex-puritan.ca/futility-and...
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Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
Read Sanna Wani's review “Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
https://ex-puritan.ca/futility-and-betrayal-in-shashi-bhats-death-by-a-thousand-cuts
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The Ex-Puritan
11 months ago
The Ex-Puritan SPECIAL ISSUE Submission Call: Animalia, guest edited by Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
)!
ex-puritan.ca/news/call-fo...
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Call for Submissions: Animalia
We are so pleased to announce this year's Special Issue: Animalia, guest-edited by Sanna Wani!
https://ex-puritan.ca/news/call-for-submissions-animalia
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Tom Snarsky
11 months ago
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This Magazine
12 months ago
This is the first Pride Month 🏳️🌈 we're celebrating on Bluesky, so we *have* to share this excellent story from our Winter 2024 issue here.
@sannawani.bsky.social
discusses white privilege, the pressure of fame, and Chappell Roan—and we're still so obsessed with this article!
this.org/2024/12/10/s...
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Star power
My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...
https://this.org/2024/12/10/star-power/
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stuart
about 1 year ago
this is what they (the normans) took from you
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I am loving Remedios Varo paintings lately (as always) — on the left, Born Again / on the right, Star Maker
about 1 year ago
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Tom Snarsky
about 1 year ago
my cats. my mom. rachel tanner atchley (
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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
about 1 year ago
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Domenica Martinello
about 1 year ago
People who talk during movies named #1 worst audience members by people who record concerts on their phones
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Latest Poet Talk episode out now! Featuring the one and only, Diana Khoi Nguyen. We talk about swimming, speaking, silence, sinking...and lots more. Listen now:
poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...
about 1 year ago
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Vicki Ziegler
about 1 year ago
"There are so many ways we can give ourselves to time. There is only so much of us passing through."
#TodaysPoem
#poetry
from spring by
@sannawani.bsky.social
from My Grief, the Sun (2022
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
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tinyurl.com/4ajjhuu2
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Farah 🌿
about 1 year ago
we're almost at capacity! rvsp soon via
sptl.eventbrite.com
#torontolitup
ft
@sannawani.bsky.social
Furqan Mohamed at Queen Books 🌞 grateful to @festofauthors @torontoartscouncil
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g
about 1 year ago
Happy
#NationalPoetryMonth
day 13 c/o
@sannawani.bsky.social
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Terese Mason Pierre
about 1 year ago
I did a makeup
#booklook
for my debut poetry collection, "Myth"! Part of the reason I chose this cover was because of all the colours! 🥰
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Farah 🌿
about 1 year ago
thank you @sannawani for this splendid blurb! Her beautiful collection My Grief, the Sun won the 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
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rereading my untouched poetry manuscript after 11 months like damn...this is kind of good...
about 1 year ago
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Burgi Zenhaeusern
over 1 year ago
The very slow steps toward you are not what my feet do. A poem for today by
@sannawani.bsky.social
from her collection My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022). 🥰🥰🥰 To love. Be well, you all!
#poetry
#valentine
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Grobian Syboe
over 1 year ago
Seeing an ipad baby - no, this is not good Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
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Three poems up in Seventh Wave’s Community Anthology today~ Here’s 1/3.
theseventhwave.org/publication/...
over 1 year ago
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"personal" "essay" "collection" more like stop I need protection! (from myself ❤️)
over 1 year ago
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What is it about a second poetry collection that makes one want to take 10 years to write and/or publish it…asking for a friend
over 1 year ago
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colour and texture!
#pottery
over 1 year ago
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Normalize giving your own book a 3.5 star rating
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Tom Snarsky
over 1 year ago
Molly Brodak
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Going to Brooklyn for a weekend IS a new personality trait
over 1 year ago
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Laura Kerr
over 1 year ago
a poem effortlessly suspended mid-air BILLOWING
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