Emma Beddington @theguardian.com expresses so well a key cultural difference between the UK and Canada that I experience yet struggle to articulate. It feels all bound up in the class system to me as well, which I also haven't yet worked out how to express. (Oh, I live in Canada but am from the UK.)

If imposter syndrome was more contagious I feel like we’d be in a better place

The snow came late this year to Yukon. The ice formed first and waxed and waned like the moon.

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

Does everyone in Britain say ‘I’ve not been there in years’ nowadays rather than ‘I’ve not been there for years’? Being English but living in Canada, my prepositions seem to fall with a splash into the mid-Atlantic. #amwriting #dividedbyacommonlanguage dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/brit...

This will be terrific 👌

Oh, my productivity naturally also included attempting to accurately attribute the quotation my post was inspired by, regarding spending the morning taking out a comma and the afternoon putting it back again, which may or may not have been an Oscar Wilde gem: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c...

What a productive time I'm having. I removed all the commas from a poem and then put them all back again. #amediting #poetry

MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing. https://bit.ly/41lawaq ##Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM @snowhydro.bsky.social

Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott). It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!

A photograph by my sister the British artist Rebecca Lilley taken at Uppark House in Hampshire in 2013, not long after her cancer diagnosis. She posted a couple of her poppy photographs on social media at the time, titling one of them 'Fallen'. #RemembranceDay #Lestweforget #NationalTrust

There is no humane market for bodies. No ethical metric for killing. No “price” that makes oppression acceptable.

Delighted to be offering two writing workshops with @YukonWords on Sunday 23 November – in-person in Whitehorse from 9.30 to 11.30am and online from 1.30 to 3.30pm. All welcome. No experience needed. Free but email [email protected] to register. More to come at: www.yukonwords.ca/events

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.) newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price

Joy, growth, and abundance are not usually associated with art-making. Join Antonio Michael Downing in this workshop on how to transform your fiction through joyful work. Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/tran...

The Canada Post strike held it up but it was definitely worth the wait. I'm chuffed to have a little poem in the Love Loves Our Loving chapbook edited by @radiasilencia and published by @canadianpoets.bsky.social. What fine company I'm in. Oh, and the pages are all soft and creamy. @TurnstonePress

Happy International Plain Language Day! Still waiting for Hallmark to get on board with it. But in the meantime, here's an interview I did with WordRake (which would likely not fit on a greeting card.) Special thanks to Ivy Grey and KateCallahan www.wordrake.com/blog/an-inte...

‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

Iris and the Dead author Miranda Schreiber, & Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose from Pow Pow Press, chat about writing grief, the blurry line between reality & fiction, & more for #ALUWomenAskingWomen from @alllitupcanada.bsky.social alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-joana-mosi-miranda-schreiber/

'Imagine a world where textiles aren’t manufactured from fossil fuels, animal skins, or even plants – but grown from microbes, mycelium, algae, and engineered proteins.' – Elizabeth Novogratz @speciesunite.bsky.social #animalwelfare #animalrights www.speciesunite.com/podcast/suza...

What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.

Definitely recommended! @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social helped me so much with my novel in progress. #writingtips

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨Personal Words with Jacob Polley Mon 6 Oct, 7pm ✨Leading by Example with Kathryn Simmonds Tues 7 Oct, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @picadorbooks.bsky.social @

On September 30, we share links to resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day. The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection: https://bit.ly/3PPLIRI ##UAlberta Press books: https://bit.ly/4e7NHMb Department of Canadian Heritage: https://bit.ly/3o5GDZa ##TRC #NTRD @abbookpub.bsky.social

Don't eat body parts - go vegan. 🌱💚🐥 👉 Help us grow the vegan movement – join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/veganfta 🙏 #chicken #chickenwings #veganshare #veganmeme #birds

Oh, do read these stunning poems by @jamellahagen.bsky.social.

Too simple, too powerful, too important to ignore ⚡

'Now Play for Today is being revived on Channel 5, to give young writers, actors and producers from lower-income backgrounds a way into TV, helped by established talent.' – @taraconlan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Yukon fireweed on the morning dog walk. August leaf tips pointing to autumn.

You can now 'look inside' my new #history book on the Penguin website! Read the introduction and first chapters, see the list of poems and moments in history I explore, and discover the wormhole which inspired this particular kind of time travel... www.penguin.co.uk/books/461263...

What they think I want AI to do: 👉 Research my plot 👉 Give me ideas 👉 Write my story What I actually want AI to do: ✅ Sort my accounts ✅ Make my inbox go away ✅ Clean my house

A marvellous article about what the dodo was really like. A few years ago, I wrote a poem to try to redress the balance a little after 'meeting' a dodo who was behind the glass at ‪@amnh.org‬. #Endlings #extinction #poetry #TurnstonePress

WRITERS! New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue. #writers #writing Pls RT 👇 asls.org.uk/new-writing-...

“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.” —Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July 1/2 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳 I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook. (And it’s dedicated to Typo.) bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...

It's Canada Day. 'A testament to the impacts of colonization and a record of adaptation and resourcefulness, Worlds on Paper presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) made between 1957 and 1990.' – Flying Books

Here lies our land: every airt Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun, Belonging to none but itself… —Kathleen Jamie, “Here lies our land” A poem commissioned in 2014 to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn – fought #OTD, 24 June, 1314 – & inscribed on the Bannockburn monument

The submission deadline for The Arctic Circle residency on a tall ship in Svalbard is coming up on 15 July. A marvellous, complicated, submersive, transformational experience. thearcticcircle.org

Thrilled to announce Canongate will be publishing WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction. canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...

Tempted to have a go at writing #poetry? Join me on Saturday at Bob Prittie Library, Burnaby, BC, Canada, for a free, two-hour workshop. It's for beginners so the less you know about poetry, the better! All welcome. Email [email protected] to sign up.

His wife sent me this, kinda wrecked me 🥹

On my way to Vancouver soon to give a beginner poetry workshop and a Climate Talk on my Endlings poems about extinct species. Love how poetry operates by stealth. Helps us pay attention to the pain to find the bittersweet joy. standrewswesley.com/event/climat...

A poet friend of mine doesn’t think anyone will read this anthology on the theme of environmental collapse and mental health because people are in denial. I’m hoping she’s proved wrong. @theporcupinesquill theporcupinesquill.com/products/spe...

Attention writers! The deadline for our annual Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Contest has been extended until June 10, 2025! For more information, visit: tnq.ca/tnq-contest-...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

I’ve been travelling and it’s been amazing and I’m so lucky but it’s still wonderful to be back in ‘my’ forest for my third spring of the year. #Yukon #borealforest #Whitehorse #forestbathing

Goodness. If you’re struggling artistically or indeed in any sense, John Wilson’s interview with pianist James Rhodes is inspirational. Thank you to you both. @jrhodespianist.bsky.social @thisculturallife.bsky.social #BBCRadio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is marvellous. ‘We are seeking a poet-in-residence to deliver six weekly sessions at a care home in Stroud as part of our Poetry Cares programme in July and August 2025.’

Job of the week, folks Please share :)