Turnout will be crucial in this October's referendums. Because of the number of ballots and the UCP's reforms, we can anticipate waiting in line for hours longer than usual. Mail-in voting is one solution. + reddeeradvocate.com/2026/07/20/e...

He feels badly that you tripped on his scratching post.

An impressive collection of poems!

Tuesday July 21 at 10:00pm ET a repeat of interviews with all three hosts on @howl895fm.bsky.social Alison Gadsby interviews Hollay Ghadery and Valentino Assenzo interviews Alison Gadsby. It’s a summer love fest!! #canlit

Feast your beautiful bookish peepers on the spread of reads we’ve been celebrating on the 49th Shelf’s most anticipated fall fiction list. Request a review copy of any of these books: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... 1/2 #fallreads #canlit #books

A story by Samuel Jensen about a man becoming handsome after a lifetime of being plain. Recommended by Willem Marx. buff.ly/ezsDou1

Reading is an approved form of mental health treatment in Canada. Here's Author Cody Delistraty on its role in moving him forward through grief. Dr. Martina Scholtens on why she created an evidence-based reading list, tailored to a range of mental health diagnoses: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Adrian Markle, author of Bruise, explores sport sovels that are about more than athleticism in @electricliterature.com . He includes Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese in his piece. A great book! Thanks @amarkle.bsky.social electricliterature.com/7-sport-nove...

Loved this book. Good to here you did too!

Okay Canada, I've kept quiet for years because my favourite bookshop site was very... French. But in 2026 booksellers.ca finally added the English-language indie stores too, so now I can yell at ALL of you: stop giving Amazon your book money. 🧵

Could your story be the next one told? Irish. Here. Heard. invites Coventry's Irish community to explore identity, heritage, belonging through theatre and storytelling. No acting experience needed 📅 17 Aug 2026
📍 Christ the King Parish Centre
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I love this story. Repurposing older EV batteries to store energy. Brilliant. More like this, please.

Yes, the amount of blaming and finger-pointing beyond the province that occurs here is exhausting and hard to keep up with.

Rock the Vote! You guys are the best. Thank you for your leadership.

Another reason for #Canadians to avoide produce from the US.

A book to uplift! SuperCanucks: An anthology of Canadian small-town superheroes, by Matthew Del Papa & Andy W. Taylor Eleven stories of superheroes in isolated small towns & rural outposts. #CanLit #booksky Matthew's interview! www.oncreativewriting.com/post/superca...

A beautifully-written #essay - 'The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain' by Julie Reshe, Ukraine-born philosopher, psychoanalyst & writer, & visiting professor in Ireland. From @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/what-...

Thank you Hollay Ghadery of River Street Writing for introducing me to author Marie-Josée Poisson! We've just completed our interview and it'll be live soon! #witmonth

What a great review! I had the pleasure of intereviewing Marie-Josée Poisson, author of Blood Bound, this afternoon! Our podcast interview will be live soon, in time for Women in Translation Month. More about #witmonth from its founder, Meytal Radzinski. biblibio.blogspot.com/2026/07/witm...

'The act of writing, and sharing it with others, protects us from the dehumanizing effects of AI' - Mandy Len Catron tells us why she writes in The Tyee Weekender: @mandylen.bsky.social #creativewriting thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

This is what poetry does best: a tiny snapshot, an image that somehow tells a much bigger story.

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more. This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

Using AI to brainstorming before writing actually narrows the number of ideas humans come up with! Gift article from the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Writing shaped with roots, travel and studies: Alison McBain, author of the new novel The New Empire, answers our Q&A and discusses her influences and her approach to her writing. www.oncreativewriting.com/post/alison-...

Elizabeth Strout, one of my favourite writers, is the guest on BBC's Take Four Books this week! A great interview. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Books are now broadcasting that they’ve been “Seen on TikTok.” Is it a good thing? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Ontario photographer’s new book, Niagara Escarpment: Land Between Waters, captures 600 stunning shots from Niagara Falls to Manitoulin Island, featuring cliffs, mist, and Indigenous collaboration. Mark Zelinski joined Tony Ryma to discuss the project.

Good morning! Today's Maine postcard... #photography #clouds #sunrise #Maine

I've just ordered a copy of Alex Boyd's Take This for the Pain. I'm a huge fan of essays! Looking forward to reading.

Here's an interview with the good people at On Creative Writing in which I generally go on about Orwell and my new personal essay collection Take This for the Pain. #essays #writing cc: @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social www.oncreativewriting.com/post/alex-bo...

Author Alex Boyd on how Orwell has influenced his writing style, and why he thinks writers should stay away from social media until they're ready to publish a book. #authorinterview www.oncreativewriting.com/post/alex-bo...

A new collection of essays by Alex Boyd. Pulling from twenty-five years of essays, articles, and reviews, Alex's Take This for the Pain is a curious look at art and culture in a rapidly changing world. From Palimpsest Press.

It was my pleasure, Kim! I always appreciate our conversations. Thank YOU for being you and for your beautiful collection, Confirm Humanity.

A lovely interview with creative writer Jennifer LoveGrove!

@hollay.bsky.social gives fascinating insights into her creation of her novel The Unravelling of Ou in this @literarymama.bsky.social interview. An important read for creative writers!

Maria Dunn here on Vancouver Island. Delighted to be performing a concert this Thursday: June 11, 2026 730pm The Weird Church 2688 Penrith Ave Cumberland, B.C. for 40th Annual Miners Memorial Weekend Hope to see you there! #minersmemorial #miningsongs #folkmusic

Character likeability and story relatability are two entirely different things. Important insights here especially for children's and YA authors from Christina Wyman.

Maude Barlow's latest book is Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop The Last Plunder of the Planet - @ecwpress.bsky.social . In this new Q&A, she talks about her approach to writing, and how she almost lost her first manuscript! #climate #books www.oncreativewriting.com/post/author-...

How do you maintain a sense of peace and openness in a world overwhelmed by violence and difficult news? Kim Mannix, author of Confirm Humanity, reveals how poetry helps her move through life in this new podcast episode. @kimmannix.bsky.social #poetry www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

"To survive, many of us use the tools at our disposal. Not everyone can get away from it all or has access to therapy. Sometimes we have to find our own way through with whatever we have in front of us." @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social interviews @hollay.bsky.social:

From Hurricane Katrina to Chernobyl, Stephanie Bolster's poem Long Exposure explores the aftermath of disasters through fragments and imagery. Guest host Marco Melfi speaks with Stephanie about how poetry can capture history’s long shadows. #poetry #podcast www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

Crystal AJ Smith's debut novel is about an Indigenous woman who loses her Sister-Cousin to the highway of tears. She journey's with her na̱xnox to find and bring to justice to the person responsible for her Sister’s disappearance. #Indigenous #fiction www.oncreativewriting.com/post/crystal...

The talented @hollay.bsky.social answers my questions for Literary Mama! @literarymama.bsky.social . Hollay explores writing her debut novel, The Unravelling of Ou, and how being a poet influences her prose. Thank you, Hollay, and the Literary Mama team! Here it is! literarymama.com/articles/dep...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Stephanie Bolster : AFTERWORD : BIODÔME: Twentieth Anniversary Edition / @montrealprize.bsky.social @aelaq.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/step...

Next week - Stephanie Bolster talks with Marco Melfi about her poetry collection Long Exposure, from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social . Some of her poems explore Robert Polidori's photos, which capture human habitats and environments and history and the present in a single frame. www.robertpolidori.com

Author @therealkenwilson.bsky.social 's review of Sadiqa de Meijer's new poetry collection, Qaf's People. "The poems are brave...I can’t imagine writing poems with the syntax and line breaks displayed here. The boldness and inventiveness are remarkable." #poetry readingandwalking.ca/2026/05/05/2...

Make lesson planning a breeze with Canadian books and literacy learning resources for middle-grade students (Grades 5-7). Two full novel studies are available as PDFs for both The Ghost of Northumberland Strait and its sequel Where There's a Will. loriknutson.com/the-ghost-of...

There’s still an opportunity to see Transcendence!

Thanks for sharing this. The core of James Daunt's argument is worth knowing, though it has a lot of ifs. I can see businesses quietly using humans to ensure the "essential quality" of AI books to increase demand and profits.

100 percent!