My creative writing workshop at CNA will be offered ONLINE this Winter term and open to anyone in Canada! Very excited about this new virtual offering—feel free to message me if you have any questions and sign up at the link! Please share ❄️ www.cna.nl.ca/programs-cou...

We’re THRILLED to share our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations 🧡 If you haven’t read these incredible pieces yet, check them out in our latest issue! #litmag #litmaglove #pushcart #pushcartprize

BIG DAY for @hagsband.bsky.social! APPLE: music.apple.com/ca/album/pic... BANDCAMP: girlbandhags.bandcamp.com/track/pick-me SOUNDCLOUD: on.soundcloud.com/iRWR6Fzs2Z9n...

Soooo excited for our LAST SHOW of the summer in one week at Peter Easton!

We'll be tabling at the St. John's Comic Arts Fest this weekend!!! Don't miss this exciting new festival in town (and maybe grab a copy of the new issue of Paragon, and perhaps some heavily discounted back issues 👀)! www.stjohnscomics.com

Good news! WE’VE EXTENDED OUR SUBMISSION DEADLINE! If our summer deadline passed you by, there’s still time! Send your short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, visual art, & anything in between by our new deadline: September 9, 2025! Submission guidelines: www.mun.ca/english/more...

I wrote a review of Emily Pittman and Theresa Dobbin Pittman's exhibit "In Your Hands" for @riddlefence.bsky.social. This gorgeous show is on at the NL Craft Council gallery until September 14! riddlefence.com/review/in-yo...

TODAY!

If you missed the interview live, you can watch the recording on Instagram at @junctionreads.bsky.social 🌸

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

Very excited for our first @hagsband.bsky.social show of the summer on June 27th at the Black Sheep!!! It’s our first show on George Street, and our first time playing with the fabulous Boys Who Think, Redbird, and the Lost & Found 🌞 we are most definitely going to have a good summer! 🌊

Reading on the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers panel “New Trends in Italian-Canadian Literature” this morning with Terri Favro, Daniel Scarcello, & Renee M. Sgroi, moderated by Chrstine Sansalone at Librissimi Toronto Italian Book Festival 🥰 the festival runs all day today and tomorrow! 💙

So honoured to have received the Landfall Trust Award this year at the SPARKS Literary Festival! Thank you to the SPARKS committee, Memorial University Department of English, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, & Landfall Trust for this massive gift of time & space to focus on writing.

THE NEW ISSUE IS HERE!!! We can’t wait to celebrate the brilliant work inside! Come to our launch on April 28, 7pm at Peter Easton to hear readings by contributors & swing by the SPARKS Literary Festival on April 27 to check out the Paragon table & get your hands on a copy of the new issue early 👀

Looking forward to reading at the SPARKS Literary Festival on April 27th! More info: lnkd.in/e4zvJEde

READER PROFILE Andrew Loman is an associate professor in @memorialu.bsky.social Department of English. His articles & fiction have appeared in essay collections & journals. He’s editing an anthology of the E. J. Pratt Lectures to be published by Breakwater & Memorial University Press in Fall 2025.

READER PROFILE Kathryn D’Agostino is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, & researcher living with her daughters in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). Her work is an inward journey to explore identity within community, using visual themes of food, vessels, & nature.

Looking forward to reading at Librissimi Toronto Italian Book Festival in Toronto in May! I'll be speaking on the AICW panel, "New Trends in Italian Canadian Literature," alongside Terri Favro, Daniel Scarcello, & Renée M. Sgroi, moderated by Christine Sansalone. www.librissimi.ca/2025-festiva...

Please join us for the launch of issue 10 of Paragon! Monday, April 28th at 7pm at Peter Easton Pub. Get ready for a fabulous night of readings from contributors to the new issue. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates! This event is FREE to attend! www.facebook.com/share/1C55wM...

COVER REVEAL! We’re so excited to feature visual art by Violet Drake in our latest issue. Don’t miss our Paragon issue 10 launch party at 7pm on April 28th at Peter Easton Pub (the day after Sparks)! @memorialu.bsky.social

So shocked and excited about this! I am endlessly grateful for the generosity and guidance of Lisa Moore while working on this thesis.

Hard to find the words to describe how good this show is but I tried and you can read them on the @riddlefence.bsky.social website! Go see Maiden Voyage (Rising Theatre) at the Majestic Theatre in St. John's right now right now right now!!!!!

While seeking care for pregnancy loss, author @fparker.bsky.social met a doctor who knew her in-laws, information that Parker first thought insignificant. She soon learned that personal connections would be her only way through New Brunswick’s health care system. thewalrus.ca/i-knew-my-pregna...

It’s #ReadInTheBathTubDay! We’ve got some great audiobooks to keep you company while you relax: Jack Tales of various lengths, spooky stories, and Kate Story’s URCHIN (which we recommend breaking up between several baths, but to each their own!) runningthegoat.com/collections/...

I wrote a review of Oderin! Read it on the @riddlefence.bsky.social website!

Maybe you’ve seen this? I’m in way too much pain lately, way too overwhelmed to get through without you: www.gofundme.com/f/help-georg... Even a share helps a lot 💛

Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!

newly posted: Maggie Burton : How does a poem begin? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/magg...

I wrote a review of incendie by Mosaic Dance Company! Check it out on the @riddlefence.bsky.social website 🌸