Congratulations once again to Rona Altrows, winner of this year's Prairie Grindstone Prize. Here she is at a wonderful celebration at Shelf Life in Calgary (L: Rona / R: Lisa Murphy-Lamb). https://bit.ly/3zoWZAk Photo credit: Carol Gauzer. @ronaaltrows.bsky.social ‪@shelflifebooks.bsky.social‬

This fine figure of a cat has just turned 3. Thank you for adopting us, Benny. You are the best, in both your MOs, regal & goofball. #cats #catsofbluesky #Bennythecat #KingBenny

please meet Alex the Great, a therapy bunny who works at the San Fran airport and now Giants games to help people who are overwhelmed LOOK AT HIS TINY BALLCAP. LOOK AT IT.

Lately I've been asked a lot, what's your main feeling about winning The Prairie Grindstone Prize for 2025? My answer: deep gratitude. Judges cited my "body of work and commitment to supporting emerging & established writers." Honoured. #writers #writing #gratitude www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca

Congratulations to @ronaaltrows.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Prairie Grindstone Prize! www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca

The only king I bow to is Benny. #Caturday #blackcats #BennytheCat #NoKing #NoKingbutBenny

A little levity for my Bluesky friends.

Happy Mother's Day to all Bluesky friends who are mothers, foster mothers, surrogate mothers, mother figures, cis, trans, human, feline, canine, you get the idea. May your day be filled with positives. #Mother'sDay #mothers

When he was crowned, King Benny opted for a scaled-down coronation ceremony. King Charles did the same. Charles plans to visit Canada later this month to deliver the Speech from the Throne. Benny has not yet announced his plans. #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky #royalty

On my third reread of Moby Dick a couple years back, I skipped the cetology chapters as my recollection as I had previously found them boring. But on this fourth reread, I am finding the cetology chapters to be the most interesting of all. Go figure. #Melville #writers

From the comfort of his bunthouse, Benny oversees delivery of new catio furniture. #Caturday #cats #blackcats #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky

feeling of lostness after finishing a big project #writing #writers

Heard Islanders convene to discuss what they guano do about those tariffs. #Trumptariffs #tariffs #HeardIsland #penguins

So glad to see manifestations of continuing friendship between sane Canadians and sane Americans on border-spanning bridges etc. We can't let ourselves be brought down morally or politically by the actions of a guy behaving like a dictator. Also,well done, Sen. Brooker! #IwillnothatemyUSfriends

Benny: She'll NEVER find me now. #BennytheCat #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky

Cats are the inscrutable aliens of the pet world.

Benny has always nurtured his green housemates. Here's a memoryshot of him as a kitten administering heartfelt TLC to his spiderplant friend. #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats #Sundaycats

Please Don't Interrupt an anthology coming this fall 30 diverse writers on the theme of interruption co-edited by @uumez.bsky.social & me Preorder now: griotslounge.ca/product/plea...

Benny: You call this SERVICE? #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats

March 22 Benny says this is no time for bullshit. #caturday #cats #BennytheCat

As preoccupied as he is with critical matters of state, Benny nonetheless takes the time, sceptre by paw, to wish you, his followers a happy Saint Gertrude's Day. #cats #cats #catsofbluesky #blackcats #BennytheCat

a little levity #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #blueskywriters

Join us next Thursday, noon. Register here: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english... @wordsweaver.bsky.social

Mel & I crush it in our early-spring berets. #berets #hats #fashion #fashionismylife

Dear progressive friends in the US, Be assured, I have heard you and I know you don't want this tariff war any more than we in Canada do. You are not personally responsible for this destructive move by 47 or for that matter for any of his destructive moves. #tariffs #tariffwar

Happy to have my short fiction in Beyond Touch Sites, new anthology published by Laberinto Press. Narrator of my story, mere hours after her death, undergoes the tahara ritual while communicating, somehow, with her living sister. #writingcommunity #amwriting #shortstoryreaders

"Do you wanna do it the easy way or the hard way?" -Benny when he was a kitten. #cats #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #blackcats

Mark Carney 🇨🇦 "In America, diversity is now an insult and it soon will be a crime to promote it. That's not a lie. That's a reality. That's what's happening in America." #cdnpoli #peipoli

Dear friends, Am I the only person who identifies as female and is a fan of the book Moby Dick? #MobyDick

Dear #19thcAmericanLit Scholars, especially #Melville ones, I've read Moby Dick (or Moby-Dick, yr choice) 5x. The analyses, commentaries, etc., that I see are all by men. Is this b/c almost every character in the bk is a guy, or what? Am I the only fan who identifies as female?

And as writers sometimes it's good to remind ourselves that doing the work has innate value, as does the work itself. #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting

And Benny also says that to be loved, you don't need to do anything specific. You can just be. #BennytheCat #cats #catsofbluesky #philosophercats

And Benny also says that to be loved, you don't need to do anything specific. You can just be.

Benny, unaccustomed to playing with catnip-filled toys, is now stoned out of his gourd. #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky #cats

Dear progressive American friends, I am Canadian, but not a nationalist of any kind. Never, even if 47 hadn't in his imperial munificence delivered us an 11th hour reprieve (sort of), would I hold his actions against you. Booing of the US anthem at sports events is descending to his level.

And on #Caturday, Benny chills in his benthouse, solo, leaving the fanbase to take care of themselves. #cats #BennytheCat #CatsofBlueSky

If you love words, or if you love learning about projects coming to fruition through creative methods & application, or if you just plain love people, I'd recommend you read The Dictionary People, by Sarah Ogilvie. Wonderful book. #books #writers #readers #writingcommunity

I live for the day someone comes up with a genre-defying word for "genre-defying." #writing

the sky just now chinook arch, chinook winds

Appropriate today, more than ever...

Sensing that his person contemplates administration of a nail trim, Benny makes the following preemptive statement. #BennytheCat #cats #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky #blackcats

Benny the Cat gives his commentary on political, economic, and social uncertainties facing us in Canada and you in the US. #CatsofBlueSky #cats #BennytheCat

Whatever you do, whoever you love, however you may be challenged, I wish you fulfillment, courage, and happiness in 2025.

Right now for so many people, it's a lot. Nevertheless, I wish you well over this particularly weird holiday season. #HappyChristmaChanukwanzakah

L'état, c'est moi. #caturday #Benny #Bennythecat