oh no, not something that would have upset the famously cheerful Brontës

Vancouverites! There are a few spots left for the Climate Wayfinding program I'm facilitating at Trout Lake Community Centre. Please join us! www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...

just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com

Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it.

Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi!

I learned so much from this & especially loved the interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social. The university would like us to police AI usage. But this reiterates what a waste of time and energy that is.

We were very grateful to be included in Mandy's @thenarwhal.ca article alongside our colleagues at Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, where she wrote about the importance of knowing our neighbours, particularly so we can help each other out in times of disaster. thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...

We love this article from @mandylen.bsky.social so much - as well as her resource spreadsheet! Small, joyful things to hold onto, for those moments when we may be feeling "occasionally bereft or despairing about The State of Things." (Which we recognize may be *more* than occasionally right now.) 💙

This is the official journal of the Converse low-res MFA program. I'm the editor and our team of enthusiastic and smart readers would love to consider your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash. Deadline: 3/10/25

Hey writers who can envision June 2025 🫤 I’m teaching a one week nonfiction writing workshop. Idyllwild, if you don’t know it, is high altitude (+5k ft), beautiful, and Idyllwild Arts is like FUN adult summer camp idyllwildarts.org/program/type...

Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won! lithub.com/authors-agai...

Vancouverites, I made a thing! Please contribute--and share! open.substack.com/pub/mandylen...

Spending this Family Day weekend working on my new project: How to give your three-year-old eye drops in 112 easy steps.

If you have an idea for a memoir and are looking to jumpstart it—or are already underway and want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this class is for you! We'll meet two Tuesdays/month over Zoom, 7-9pm ET. Apply by 3/14. Please share w/ anyone you think might be interested!

Dear Elon, we’re out. The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.

My mom called me from a thrift shop once and told me that a book I'd signed to a co-worker was there. I asked her to buy it, and then I snuck it back into his house at the company Christmas party and never mentioned it again.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

In lonely cities, stronger neighbourhood connections are essential for preparing for climate change disasters, writes @mandylen.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...

I loved hanging out with @mandylen.bsky.social recently for one of the interviews that fueled her beautiful, thoughtful piece. Thanks for being interested in @heyneighbourcollective.ca's work Mandy and for your beautiful writing about #socialresilience, #socialconnection etc.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean? One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.

At MacDowell, there are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, we provide need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency.

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Not me here in my office tearing up over students' takeaways from our Intro CNF course!

I used to feel this way until a colleague accidentally swapped computers with someone in the airport security line and, when he got to Sweden, he discovered his laptop was in China. I'm now very pro sticker.

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"Or did you mean to ask   'Why are you sad so often?'   Ask the moon.   Ask what it has witnessed." -Linda Pastan, Why Are Your Poems so Dark?

Just signed up for a podcast that prefers I connect via ethernet for my interview. Have I...missed something? Is it 2009?

Truly time to abandon this stupid test. Here in Canada we don't use it and everyone gets by just fine. There are still broken parts of admission systems, but it's a start.

The border wall kills. It kills people, wildlife, habitats, and communities. There is no justification for this. This is a terrible decision by the Biden administration.

In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc

Scholastic asks, "Do you want to opt out of 'diverse' books at your school's next book fair?" Your participation in white supremacy has never been easier, just uncheck the 'diverse' books box– poof, no problems. 🙄

We at CR support our colleagues at Gettysburg Review—a magazine whose value to American letters, and the student interns who work at the journal, is beyond doubt. You, too, can show your support by writing Provost Bookwala and President Iuliano at Gettysburg College.

So we're just gonna ~discover that money relieves poverty every two weeks for the rest of my goddamn life huh

waiting to see if they do the right thing and fix/restore the links before I blast them on the site formerly known as Twitter, but I've been informed that all the Catapult magazine links redirect to the books page. Writers will have lost links to their essays, short fiction, poems.

An interesting thing about having my twins in daycare is that sometimes only one of them is sick and stays home. And I get a glimpse of what it would be like to have one kid. And, you guys! I love them both. But. It feels like sending my fractured attention on vacation. 🏝️

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail

Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.

Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)

Audiobook readers: I'm looking for a spooky October listen. Got any favorites?? (light horror is okay and heavy horror is...too heavy)

I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...

Gotta love the PC's new add: "Look, we know we're a shameful, hateful party, and that you're a shameful, hateful person for voting for us, but it's okay, we can be shameful and hateful together." Truly wild campaign strategy.

Having written about loneliness for a few years now in my newsletter, I'm so so excited for this!

Used to be that I'd totally flip out every time I heard about someone else working on a project that was remotely similar to something I was working on. But now I realize: it's inspiring to have peers! There are enough ideas to go around and it's always better to work in good company that alone.

I read somewhere recently that unsolicited advice is always criticism and it's made me try extra hard not to give it.

We all have a duty to root for the funniest possible outcome: Mccarthy losing the speakership and then Gaetz getting expelled from congress

I just...I cannot.

From Arundhati Roy's "The Pandemic is a Portal," published in summer 2020. We're still here, with our minds racing, and normal is still much, much worse. The portal is closing but it's not completely shut yet.

Truly a wild left turn in a career: