Boo! 🕷️👻

Thank you again for this, Helen!!! Just got home from Newfoundland & read your full review—which is also our first Canadian review 💕💕💕💕

Thank you!!!!🕷️💕🕷️

Nightmare Jones is out in the world now…finding the feelings 🕷️🕷️🕷️

Tomorrow night! 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

UPCOMING: 09 OCT 6:30PM #TOR #TypeJunction in support of @shannyraindrop.bsky.social NIGHTMARE JONES #Launch 21 OCT @utsc.utoronto.ca Tysdal Creative Writing Class 26 OCT 7PM #TOR #ImperialPub in support of #StedmondPardy #DavidBateman TWO VOICES 01 NOV #TIFA #panel kirbyfairy.ca/tour-dates-b...

LISA FISHMAN #TONIGHT @coachhousebooks.bsky.social #wavepoetry #OneBigTime

Highlighting the incredible Indigenous stories and creators on this International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! #IndigenousPeoplesDay Explore our Indigenous Voices collection here: houseofanansi.com/collections/...

In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.

NIGHTMARE JONES (out October 7th) has received a STARRED review! ⭐ “Witches, ghosts, arachnids, and more abound in this terrifying compendium of verse. Delicious poetry paired with haunting art speaks with authority to the darkness so many kids crave.” — Kirkus STARRED review

⚡ On our last #PoetryFriday of the month, we’re sharing a sneaky excerpt from shannyraindrop.bsky.social's forthcoming poetry collection NIGHTMARE JONES, illustrated by Cindy Derby! Available October 7th. 🔗 Learn more and preorder this collection: houseofanansi.com/products/nig...

"IF I DIE, I WANT A LOUD DEATH." - Fatima Hassouna I recognize, echo these words #LOUDLY www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Alison. Kirby. #LIVE Thursday. @junctionreads.bsky.social junctionreads.ca/the-first-th...

Zaho de Sagazan performed in Toronto tonight and I was lucky enough to be there. Thank you, Zaho. #beingsensitiveisgreat #beingsensitiveismyfuckingjob

✨The Bash is BACK! ✍️On Thursday, April 17th, join us at Henderson Brewing Co. for #PoetryBash25! From 7pm to 9pm, enjoy pints, poetry, and publisher goodies. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1284748048...

'Goodmorning, little crocuses, it froze by two degrees, is that why you're so forlorn and inconsolable in that chocolate-sprinkles-box?' Etty Hillesum, March 23 1942

Sundays are for friends & poetry. Come. Enjoy. Celebrate. @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @itsakirby.bsky.social #paolaferrante @shannyraindrop.bsky.social

JESSICA HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social BLOOD ROOT @gooselane.bsky.social w/SHANNON BRAMER @shannyraindrop.bsky.social & KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social 20 MARCH 7PM THE PRINTED WORD BOOKSHOP DUNDAS ON

6 weeks to pub date! Cute kittens got advance copies but cute friends please consider preordering!! To tempt you, a sneak peek of Bizzie’s favourite spread! US friends you can get 25% off preorders of WHEN A TREE FALLS at B&N! Meow meow!🙏💚 @theremaybecats.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social

Hey! I hear it’s #kidlitartpostcard day. Here’s one inspired by the illustrations I did for Nadia Hohn’s amazing “Malaika Series” pub. By @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social . Seems a good time to think about one of my favourite #kidlit creators and one of her fantastic protagonists. And it’s #BHM too!

Still focusing on finding beauty in little things with all my might.

Trying to relax as tensions around me rise…. I predict creating many more soothing interior images in my future