Steven Novella is the best. Lucid, never pedantic, always relatable.

I try to preach the opposite of imposter syndrome to creative people. Know that you are literally the only person on the planet equipped to tell the very specific stories you have to tell in the way only you can tell them.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

The North Shore Writers' Association wants your work! Submit to our 30th annual writing contest today. Details in this piece by Youth Member Vansh Malhotra. lynnvalleylife.com/news-events/...

Tell the teachers in your life about Writers in the Classroom! This popular Vancouver Writers Fest program will provide 13 FREE author visits (in-person and online) to schools in BC between April and June 2026. Apply by Friday, February 27: writersfest.bc.ca/youth#writer...

NO ONE gets editors and editing the way you do, Iva. 😍

An excellent memoir. Holiday gift, anyone?

In the mood for a writerly conversation? Tonight (7pm Pacific), Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho and I sit by the fire (literally) and chat about process, inspiration, community, and more. On Zoom, open to all. Register via the Federation of BC Writers: www.bcwriters.ca/event-6414559

Looking forward to this online chat on Dec 3, 7pm Pacific. Thanks to the Federation of BC Writers for hosting. bcbooklook.com/fbcw-firesid...

Tnrilled to be included in issue no.305 @fiddlehd.bsky.social Many thanks to @saleema.bsky.social for all her kind and thoughtful edits. There are so many great contributions in this issue, including 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Shelley Pacholok.

There are less than two weeks until the deadline for our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! Don't miss out on your chance to submit!

Excited to share what inspired my novels, read snippets from both, and of course savour tea and the museum. 📚🍵🍪🏚

Museum + tea + treats + authors = FUN! 🏠🍵🫖🍪🍰📖 Sunday, Nov 23, Log Cabin Museum, Saanichton (Vancouver Island). If you're on Vancouver Island, come on by!

Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?... #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

Withholding money for food and finding money for every unnecessary thing is what sparked the French Revolution. Literally.

Chapters-Indigo *finally* has #AfterTheFeast up on their site: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/after-... www.indigo.ca/en-ca/after-...

Funding cuts are eviscerating BC arts organizations. I just donated to FBCW because the Fed has: 1. taught me a ton about the craft and business of writing 2. given me a network of writers to connect with and learn from 3. launched a MATCHING campaign - my favourite way to donate bcwriters.ca/Match

Writers/Podcasters: DM if you’re interested in me talking about our fancy new record in our 45th year as a band!!

Happy to be among the Lower Mainland authors at the Richmond Library's Writers for Readers event today, Oct 7. Come say hi if you're around! Until 7pm. Brighouse branch. 📚

Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners. The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. Please spread the word! 🍗 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

A fine bookstore for a fine poet.

Seeking that creative spark? Paper Covers Rock on Salt Spring Island, Oct 3-4, is an affordable, multidisciplinary festival for writers and other creatives. I'll be there to teach my Sentences with Style workshop (Oct 4) and to soak up the inspiration. Details: www.papercoversrock.ca

Sorry to miss the launch party for The Fiddlehead issue 304, which (I'm still pinching myself) contains an essay I wrote. I'll be downtown at Word Vancouver all day, wishing I could do two things at once. If you're free, the Fiddlehead launch is open to all: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Signed and shared. ✍🏽 “In 1991, Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child … This order stands to violate these rights and freedoms if implemented.” Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans. #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli chng.it/msmGkKmbD7

I did a thing. A flying thing. A horror flying thing. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4B... @newestpress.bsky.social

support the humanities

Thanks, Indigo Robson, for including "The Broken Places" in this display of fiction set in Vancouver. Thanks, too, to @lisabrideau.bsky.social (whose "Adrift" is set nearby, in Nanaimo) for spotting and photographing!

Nice to see Meltdown, the science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social, in the North Vancouver District Public Library.😍📚

Give your writing project (or yourself) a kick in the you-know with my Getting Unstuck workshop. On beautiful Bowen Island, Sep 13, 9:30-11:30 am. Still some seats left. Register: www.writeonbowen.com/event-detail...

This was an amazing event, folks. I picked up Annalee's "Stories Are Weapons," the book I need to read that I didn't know I needed to read. Thanks, as always, to Iron Dog Books for bringing readers and writers together. 💗 wwnorton.com/books/978039...

@djkrushen.bsky.social Thanks for sharing my workshop, Juliann. 🌞

This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:

Is your writing blocked? "Getting Unstuck" is the theme of a workshop I'm leading on Sat, Sep 13 (9:30-11:30am), at the Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers. Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend. www.writeonbowen.com

Victoria readers, join the queue! This memoir is an intriguing glimpse into the scientific life and the inner life that goes with it.

💫 Calling all emerging poets! The 2025 Foster Poetry Prize is officially open for submissions! 💫 The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest. Click the link in bio for all the details and to submit!

Perfect pairing of fruit and fiction. 💥

Warmest congratulations on this hot Duncan day to Sarah Boon on her debut memoir, Meltdown. Sarah is signing books at Volume One until 1pm! ⚡📚🖋 @snowhydro.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Excited to attend the launch for "Meltdown" tomorrow at Volume One Bookstore in Duncan, BC. This debut science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social was a long time in the making and promises to be AWESOME!! @ualbertapress.bsky.social volumeone.ca/events/30624...

"It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world." --Mary Oliver

Can't wait to join veteran book editors Iva Cheung (@ivacheung.com‬) and Leslie Vermeer (@lavermeer.bsky.social‬) for a panel on editing your book or other long manuscript! July 14, 2pm (Pacific). The online Writing Intensive is a super deal. $75 for a full pass. www.bcwriters.ca/event-619191...

The early bird deadline for this conference is tomorrow. There are in-person and online options. I hope to see you there! educanine.org/2025-confere...

Note I will keep you anonymous in my article. 🌍🧪

Just back online after a writing retreat and seeing this. 😍Thank you, Michele, for reading and posting. Gives me renewed energy for the novel-in-progress!

What a treat to see @snowhydro.bsky.social and her debut memoir, Meltdown, featured in the summer issue of BC Bookworld! @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Calling all researchers, especially linguists or English professors: ACES, The Society for Editing, has an RFP out for a research study on the value of editing. Deadline: June 9. Learn more here: aceseditors.org/about/the-va...

JUNE CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2025/06/cama... #AmIndexing

Book launch was great! Big turnout for a compelling talk by @evelazarus.bsky.social about her research, the shipwreck itself, and why this monumental piece of Canadian history is so little known.

WTF?!

How did I not know this until now? #spelling #writers #editors