We get one of the worst men on the planet stealing Franklin, a character my own kids enjoyed when they were little.

This is an amazing book list: www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g...

A little slow on the uptake here, but...

This is fabulous! We definitely need a Canadian version.

Still madly scrambling to get this novel in decent-enough shape to be able to work on it again come new year. I hit page 200 in these edits, and should complete them mid-Dec. Have caught a lot! And then next year the real work on finishing for a submission draft can begin!

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

How sad.

It's hard to describe how I feel every time this happens. I'm so overwhelmingly angry. We HAVE the ability to vaccinate virtually everyone who can take the vaccines so that herd immunity works in so many communities. A horrible way of dying was almost gone forever. It's not fair. It's not fair.

I was just saying yesterday that in the 80s I could support myself and two kids on what I earned from writing, and I can’t even begin to support only myself from it these days. Most writers support selves on courses, editing, or teaching. I can’t do any of that bc disabled, alas.

Had a good writing day yesterday, unexpectedly, following on a trail of hard ones where I worked into the late evening. I surpassed page 100 in this editing of this rough draft. And that’s got to be something. How are things with your writing?

I enjoyed Girl, Woman, Other!

Twenty Standout Books from the 2025 National Book Awards #ereadersforum #ereader #ebook #kindle #kobo #pocketbook #boox #remarkable

I mean, do we discuss the Ryan Lizza thing here? He’s a writer and (allegedly) JFK Jr is a poet? The turgid missive I read on Substack was bad enough, but the fantasized violence makes me heave!

Narrative magazine just sent me news they’re having another contest. But if you are considering submitting, remember this: litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-we-t...

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Congrats!

Vancouver poet Jordan Redekop-Jones wins 2025 CBC Poetry Prize #CanLit #CanPo www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is the Booker Prize inherently a masculine prize? For and by men?

ICYMI: Kamloop’s author Katie Welch was featured in BC Living’s fall reading list! Check out full list below. bcliving.ca/entertainmen... #britishcolumbia #bcliving #canlit #CanLit

Don't be shy: submit your art-replying-to-other-art for a place in issue 2.4! Deadline Jan 31. longconmag.com/submit/ (🎨 Suki Seokyeong Kang's 𝑺𝒉𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒚, 2013-2015)

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self Preservation, Jen Percy. A great article by Sarah Viren and I’ll bet a great book: lithub.com/jen-percy-on...

hey! i got podcast interviewed by Dennis Rimmer at Talking Books & Stuff for the book of sentences (UCalgary Press) over the summer + apparently it is online! you should take a listen, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

An interesting, and somewhat heartening read: prismreports.org/2025/11/11/i...

Congrats to all!

Congrats!

Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

British-Hungarian author David Szalay wins the prestigious Booker Prize for his sixth novel, 'Flesh.'

Someone called me Canadian cultural treasure this week after reading one of my story collections. Since I am largely forgotten, it was sweet to hear.

TIL the Booker Prize thebookerprizes.com announcing it's 2025 winner tomorrow, has as a judge Sarah Jessica Parker

Was thinking of Ellen Seligman today when I was contemplating developmental editing at publishing houses, and how (we all?) mourn its loss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_S...

📖 These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma (PRH Canada) 📖 It Lasts Forever, And Then It's Over by Anne De Marcken (New Directions Publishing) 📖 The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-li Ross (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social)

Get ready to buff up your summer TBR! ☀️ We pulled some books from our 2025 Festival line up that are the perfect summer reads. If you're bumping these books up on your TBR, make sure to pick them up from your favourite indie bookstore @bookwarehouse.bsky.social 💛

This Thursday October 16 at 7pm, join Miriam Toews as she returns to Winnipeg to celebrate her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace (Knopf Canada). Featuring live music and questions from Christine Fellows and John Samson Fellows. - mailchi.mp/grant/miriam...

congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/kare...

NEW We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

I have a week off for medical appts (5), so I’ve been reading, cleaning and caring for 500 mason bee cocoons (see under Gardening). I read this book that was stylistically maybe a grade four level—but it’s a bestseller with 4M ratings on GR. Proving again that I don’t live in the same world.

Here’s a story of mine from The Missouri Review: missourireview.com/article/soci...

NOW IN PAPERBACK! From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich, a tender novel about love, fate, and the fragile threads that bind us to each other. Erdrich beautifully braids together climate grief, spiritual longing, and the ache of wanting something just out of reach.

The Governor General’s Literary Awards celebrate literature and inspire people to read books by creators from Canada. Congratulations to all those recognized! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLit

When politics and literature collide: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

"The night Basim Khandakji’s novel won the 2024 “Arabic Booker Prize”, Israeli prison guards stormed his cell, assaulted him, bound his hands & feet, & threatened him." Exiled in Egypt after 21 years in Israeli prisons, Khandakji keeps writing #FreePalestine www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Must watch for writers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5I...

Here’s my essay on disability and what a fool I was during much of it, from the NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/o...

Here’s an essay of mine from The Sun for your reading pleasure: www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/230...