Is it a writer's conference? Is it a literary festival? Is it a writing retreat? Is it a radical space for community, playfulness, and support? WHY NOT ALL OF THOSE THINGS??? #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors (P.S. Check out that lineup of speakers!) wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com

Time to reread the first two books in the trilogy, because The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com has dropped, woot woot ecwpress.com/products/fir...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

As Israel continues to intensify its genocide, please consider giving if you can 💙

Shout-out to all the women who aspire to be bog witches rather than beauty stars

Louder for the people in the back: 📢"Mutual aid at scale is taxation and that taxation should serve the people."📢

lrp: its like, sickening to watch the country be gutted like this. there is absolutely no reason to run Canada Post as a for-profit business, unless you're a politician who is being supported by people who desperately want that profit

I'm a longtime fan of @avilewis.ca and I just joined the NDP so that I can vote for him in the party leadership election. A small positive action instead of endless despair. www.avilewis.ca

Gorgeous

for the record there is no autism problem. unless you count all the people who think autism is a problem but that’s more like a bigot problem

Can anyone match my $25?

Available to buy today: the first Livi Talbot novel in audiobook! Many links: books2read.com/solomon-s-seal The eBook is also still on sale for less than a week!

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

Free speech wasn’t under attack when students were being beaten abducted and censured under Biden? When people lose their jobs for criticizing Israel? Or when people are getting deported for speaking Spanish? This impacts one comedian and suddenly people care? Be so for real.

Is this you? Don't self reject!

Evergreen

"ask ai assistant" frankly i would rather set fire to my home

@coyotemedia.org is alive!! Please take a moment to check us out, sign up for our newsletter and subscribe if you can. ❤️❤️❤️ www.coyotemedia.org

Imagine a UBI society where everyone's just creating art because it's fun and engaging

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Tonight's biscuit-making

Timeline cleanse

Carney ramming through Bills C-5 and C-2, $9b in military spending, 57,000 public service jobs cut, all while arming a genocide. 👏 FUCK 👏 THAT drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&...

For *reasons* I am dropping a link to the recent Material Girls episode (The Hunger Games x Frames of War) that discusses the concept of "grievability" and the way some lives are framed as expendable and others are not. Please note the content warnings. www.ohwitchplease.ca/all-episodes...

I am the wizard, the wizard is me

Humans simply aren’t meant to encounter their reflections and I stand by that.

For someone who has never been to Edmonton, I've been very up in their business this past week. I just found out that very excellent human Marcelle Kosman of Witch, Please productions is running for Edmonton School Board Trustee. Go check her out! #yeg marcelle4trustee.ca

He's baaaaack 😻😭🥰

If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x

EDMONTON: this is Fiasco, @premeemohamed.com's beautiful boy. after slipping outside a few days ago, he needs help finding his way home. can you share this with your local circles?

Calling Edmonton folks! LOST KITTIES

You guys you guys my friend Portia's book comes out in May and it just went up on Goodreads. I have no words to do it justice, it's just utterly beautiful and captivating. Homebound www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I've been following this family in particular and donating when I can. If you can give even a few $ it would help them in this newest horror. 💙

“Excuse me could you do your Hero’s Journey either quieter or somewhere else?”

Writers, editors, & related creatures! Did you know I have a newsletter that aims to help word people lean toward hope, energy, & wins at every stage of the creative process? I only send it every other month & there's always a corgi photo, sooo ... sign up? process-and-product.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Eyyy! THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is in CBC's Fall Fiction Preview! :D The final book in THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS trilogy tells Henryk's story as he leaves campus and heads north to ?? hopefully something nice and good ?? haha no

There's just *something* about a Kathleen Jennings story. 📚🤏 reactormag.com/in-connorvil...

Have a tiny book idea and wanna be published? Check out Give a Sheet Press: takecoverbooks.ca/give-a-sheet... Submissions open until Sept 15, get on it!

Your semi-regular reminder to go listen to Material Girls podcast. Latest ep: The Hunger Games x Frames of War. Really excellent discussion about representation and how people get positioned as "ungrieveable." Check the content warnings, friends xx www.ohwitchplease.ca/all-episodes...

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom

For anyone in Canada, here is an excellent toolkit to put pressure on your MPs to stop being complicit in genocide: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Pro cat tip: for optimal birdwatching, pancake yourself beneath your seat instead of on top of it. Leg splay optional but recommended.

Ooooh this looks good

What if we all stopped what we are doing to go stand outside and scream at the exact same time

you're gonna wanna see this

I loved this one, highly recommend

*nods* I see it, I see it