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If you read a book this year, im proud of you 🫶🏽 reading and literacy has become an act of rebellion in such an illiterate world

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...

Let’s go!

Let's go #BlueJays

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

Thanks so much to @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for his review of my @gaspereaupress.bsky.social book over on his wonderful website The Woodlot! the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/28/t...

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

2-2! My good luck charm is coming through!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover. Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305

Read to an appreciative and large crowd in Gagetown today (with Jennifer Houle and Paula Eisenstein). Thanks to Paula and Larry Eisenstein for organizing and hosting! I had a great time and sold some books!

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Haines Junction, Yukon Doris McCarthy 1991

Happy birthday to Willie O'Ree, born on this day in 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick! The first Black player in the NHL, he played 45 games for the Boston Bruins, recording 14 points. In the WHL, he had 639 points in 785 games. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Thanksgiving means hiking up Dalhousie Mountain

Hey @thefwordnb.bsky.social if you find yourself in Dalhousie, try heronbaybrewing.ca. Just had a flight and it’s great. Super local, can only find here. Owners name is Steve!

In Dalhousie looking at the clouds by the Bay of Chaleur.

Retro vibes and cloudy skies

Linden leaves framing tonight's Harvest Supermoon 🌿

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

No plans this weekend? The 22nd annual Poetry Weekend festival is happening at Memorial Hall on UNB campus! Here’s the schedule! (The poets marked in red are poets with chapbooks I published.)

Minou’s hopefully going to get in to see a vet today.

#RIPDrJaneGoodall #RIPJaneGoodall #DrJaneGoodall

UNB Reading Series Presents: Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato OCT 2nd 2025 7:30 PM @ UNB Art Centre - Memorial Hall (9 Bailey Dr.) (An accessible venue) FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!

Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025 If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you. See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

The most recent used record added to my collection earlier this week. Appropriately cranked this morning. Why stand On a silent platform Fight the war Fuck the norm

Kaoru Yamada - Bright Morning by the Bay