What a blast we had Tuesday night at Common Loaf Bake Shop in Tofino, launching @joannastreetly.bsky.social ‘s new All of Us Hidden. 40+ warm, wonderful people plus poetry, food, music, conversation.

Driftwood. Missing its dance partner… #babygroot 🌱

This is a really measured review, an intelligent reading and response to your fine book!

The moral distance from wasting 'drug' boats to shooting citizens is a short one:

The Japanese word “tsundoku” describes the secret habit of acquiring books and then letting them pile up without necessarily ever reading them. I plead guilty! For some, just possessing a book is sometimes enough (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void. brilliantwomeninc.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...

Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/dual-book-...

Three more sleeps! After a long hard year I can’t wait to put everything else aside and fully celebrate with @lornedaniel.bsky.social and this fab Tofino crowd.

Spare a thought for Toronto Police, who may be dealing with a World Series win🤞on Halloween night ... Go Jays!

What do you call a gathering of bigots?

We will have readings of poetry and short essays from Queer Country Crossroads from various contributors across Eastern Canada. Please register at www.crowdcast.io/c/4i0li87uay16 See you there! #virtualbookreeading

This is an excellent conversation! Great interviewer, great interviewee.

Christina Shah, if: prey, then: huntress / @christinashah.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/chri...

But do you have belly dancing arbutus trees where you live? 🌱

What does it mean to be a writer in times of political and moral crisis? In the bleakest of times, writers help us make sense of our relationship to what’s happening in the world. Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/writ...

Okay, but don’t actually give up, because we have Raging Against the State of the Publishing World at 9am tomorrow. Maybe we could do brunch after? #writingcommunity #writingmemes

Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/dual-book-...

Why is the US War Department [I cannot believe I have to type that] buying into a BC mining company? @amandafollett.bsky.social answers this question & more today @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Love this convo between @kyomaclear.bsky.social and @brandonshimoda.bsky.social — especially the idea of stories continuing to unspool long after they are “supposed” to be over. #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting brickmag.com/podcast/writ...

hey! im launching my new poetry book, the book of sentences, this saturday 5pm at plan 99/the manx pub w zane koss! you should come! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection: robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

The bookmarks are out there, folks…

Along with many other exciting new titles. See link for more

Ah-Neets-Naas sharing the terrible/terrifying truths he endured at residential school & chasing these with, “So that’s TRUTH. But telling this truth has never made life better. Because who cares? Who really cares? So—reconciliation? Tell me what that means & how it will change our lives!”

Nothing like an afternoon of autumn gardening to remember all the details you intended to include in the morning’s writing, but forgot. 🌱 #amwriting

TOFINO ! November 4 at Common Loaf. I’m delighted to be co-launching books with @joannastreetly.bsky.social . As Joanna says, assuming that weather and roads cooperate 😁 Books, snacks, music and good Tofino vibe 🥰

So my book has arrived at the publishers and you think I’d be used to this business of w a i t i n g to receive my copy by now, but honestly it has never been more agonizing. (Angst plus mail strike) #amwriting #writingcommunity #poetry caitlinpress.com/Books/A/All-...

Two nets. Must be autumn because until now there was only one here… (A person could spend waaay too long wondering how spiders store all these miles of silk in their bodies)

In advance of Orange Shirt Day on Tuesday, Sept. 30, here are top-ranked titles by Canadian Indigenous authors with BISAC subjects Indigenous, Native American, and Turtle Island.

Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025 If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you. See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Paul Ryan's favorite band was Rage Against The Machine. A generation of finance bros worshiped Gordon Gekko. You have no control over the real-world effects your art might have, and (most likely) it will have very little at all. You might as well make the stuff that speaks to you. Do it. Don't quit.

Lovely bike ride to Yaaqsis, (Long Beach) today. Such soft coastal light. Swooping through the forested path on the bike is my current fave gateway to lateral thinking and #writing related ideas. #Tlaoquiahtterritory

A celebration of white and yellow. Late September anemones reach for the sun. 🌱

“How can working within and against a form impact your message?” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Mackenzie Kozak considers the value of both engaging with and refuting traditional poetry structures. at.pw.org/Kozak1

God, what an incredibly distracting news cycle. I for one have completely forgotten about the Epstein files

I don’t know about you, but I need a Tylenol.

Congratulations @robmclennan.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvv... Thanks for selecting my work, All Lit Up Canada! #poetry #writingcommunity #amwriting

Read all about @joannastreetly.bsky.social's writing process on All Lit Up! Her latest poetry is available at caitlinpress.com/Books/A/All-...

alllitup.ca/poetry-in-mo... Thanks All Lit Up! Sneak peek from the new collection. Scroll down for the audio. #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting #authors

We are so excited that Caitlin Press authors will be at Word Vancouver this weekend! @danielaelza.bsky.social, @arleenpare.bsky.social, Kate Braid, and Tariq Malik will be reading at different events on September 20th. Please visit the Word Vancouver website for more information! See you there!

Great interview with @joannastreetly.bsky.social chatting with painter and writer Alison Watt rachelrosewritesprose.substack.com/p/pen-and-pa...

I call this one “The Swimmer” Seen today at beautiful Sproat lake, after a long and lovely swim. #swimming #swim #lakes #september

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it. ICYMI: 📻 tinhouse.com/podcast/arth... @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

No Canada Council grant this round, but I’ve got this sticky note on my laptop with a quote from a song by Austra to keep me going.

Can't wait to get my copy!

"This notion of turning to art in times of struggle has remained a cornerstone of my own artistic vision even when everything else argues against it."

Congratulations Barbara Black on being shortlisted for the Victoria Book Prize! In Little Fortified Stories, award-winning writer Barbara Black conjures a microcosm of characters that defy convention. Get your copy at caitlinpress.com/Books/L/Litt...

Great review!

I’ve spent this month reading and re-reading the poems in @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s collection, What is Broken Binds Us, University of Calgary Press. His words lure you into poems that are urgent and moving, courageous and unexpected. Congratulations Lorne! This is one for the Special Shelf.