Yesterday the NB Book Awards announced their shortlists and I was thrilled and honoured to receive two nominations! Thanks to the awards committee, the judges, and my publishers @gaspereaupress.bsky.social and Chapel Street Editions! #CanLit #NBlit #NewBrunswick

Canada has been repeatedly insulted by the US for over a year, so please understand why the country is not jumping to assist in a war anyone with a brain would have indicated was a bad idea

Oh, I wish someone would print this in the US and use it at #NoKings today!!

New acquisition arrived in mail today — a broadside from the legendary Guantlet Press! Printed by Richard and Barbara Outram in 1986. I think I’ll need a wealthy patron soon! #broadside #FinePress

I can't recommend it enough: when you feel like you're too busy to write, put on the timer for 15 minutes and do it anyway. It's the only way I'm making progress in this novel I'm revising. #amwriting #booksky

24 hours? Not this year. 🤷‍♀️  International Women’s Day comes up one hour short this year. Today, PWHL players who wear 24 are wearing 23 — a reminder that when women get less, the answer is to give women’s sports more.

In the AI game I'm now forced to play in the English classroom, it's not about preventing cheating and shortcuts; it's about promoting authenticity and uniqueness Framing it that way with kids is really helpful

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Congrats to my wife Sherry for her contest win!!

Could not be more proud of you, Team Canada.   You’re coming home with 21 hard-fought Olympic medals. Though what Canadians will remember most is how you wore the Maple Leaf: with pride, with grit, and with determination.

These are the ideas NB is apparently kicking around re: higher education. Unhinged is putting it far too kindly. They literally suggest schools accredit… themselves??? Repurpose infrastructure for private development? “What if we only had two public universities?” This is profoundly unserious.

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

Dakota Casey interviews @ianletourneau.bsky.social about his new @gaspereaupress.bsky.social poetry collection, "Metadata from a Changing Climate," for the Miramichi Reader:

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

“How can you run when you know?”

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

New chapbook alert! Emergency Flash Mob Press (me) is happy to release into the world a new chapbook of poetry by Ross Leckie! $10 for local pickup/drop off or add $3 for shipping in Canada. DM for more details!

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

A good lunch read.

Might try! Havent read since undergrad! substack.com/@glutenbergb...

Back home in Fredericton after a family Christmas in northern NB. Here’s my Christmas 2025 book haul!

'Winter Embroidery' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt

Celebrate traditionally published Canadian and Indigenous literature with us here at River Street! Just follow along, and if you’re interested in reviewing new and forthcoming books, drop us a line. www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... We’ll tell you how to get started (it’s easy!). ♥️ 📚

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Feverishly working on this

Remember Ostrich Osheaga? When a bunch of far-right convoy influencers, health nuts, antivaxxers and even RFK Jr himself waged war on the Canada Food Inspection Agency over an ostrich cull? Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com got some wild insider info on the impact of this harassment:

Congratulations to our fifteen 2025 Fiction Contest finalists! Thank you to everyone who submitted! And lastly, thank you to our judge, Anuja Varghese! The contest's winner will be announced in early January! Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...

The deadline to enter the Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers is Feb 16, 2026. Canadian citizens/permanent Canadian residents with no more than 1 book are eligible to enter. #CanLit writersunion.ca/short-prose-...

We're thrilled to share that two essays from The Fiddlehead’s Autumn 2024 issue were named among the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in The Best American Essays 2025! A big congratulations to @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social & @nancyhuggett.bsky.social

I’m very happy my long essay “‘Apply a Little Sugar with a Feather” is a notable essay in Best American Essays 2025. Many thanks to @rowanmcc1.bsky.social and @fiddlehd.bsky.social for all that you do! anca.substack.com/p/apply-a-li... #booksky

Slow Plow Alex Colville 1967

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie StArneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Wow

lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar

So proud of the fact that Fredericton will be raising the Palestinian flag on December 1.

My cartoons are on CartoonStock, and my book details are in linked tweet! (I am author, publisher, and marketer so please forgive the promotion). The book is Save the Earth(lings) and nobody wanted to publish a collection of environmental ‘toons, so I did!

Happy 80th birthday Neil Young! youtu.be/kQlTPXvOtoE

Let's talk about books and the public trust. 📚🧵 Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping: Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

I will never not be irritated by academic books that use short form endnotes tied to bibliographies that divide listings into primary, secondary, unpublished, online, government reports, or whatever. I want to read efficiently, not play the world's worst game of scholarly Where's Waldo 🗃️

bartlett pears, painted by james marion shull, 1916

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...