"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

“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

Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. #Calgary McDougall Centre at 3p. Get loud, bring signs, be respectful but give them hell! #StandUpForOurTeachers #SupportOurStudents #WorldTeachersDay #ABed #ABpoli #ABleg #YYC #SupportPublicEducation

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Oh, hell no! Rich people can do what they want with their own money, but that entitlement ends when it's public money. Canada has a federally funded literary prize already--any money the Giller organization is asking for can go DIRECTLY to the Governor General's Literary Awards, thank you very much.

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

if you really don’t like thinking about or trying to figure out a story’s structure, you probably don’t like…writing? which is fine? you can go do literally anything else?

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

It's true! Come see me at a free author event on May 22!

It's such a great feeling when a reviewer truly understands what you were trying to do. 💖 Many thanks to Alberta Views and Céline Chang!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Pierre Poilievre is like every young Conservative you instantly disliked when you met them in first year University and who's still the same 25 years later. #Debate2025

Omg, it took me until vol. 48 to realize The Maris Review was a play on The Paris Review. Me literary. @maris.bsky.social

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

If you're at AWP this week, come join us on March 27!

Lol, I somehow found @amytan.bsky.social some new readers! 💖

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Truth.

All Our Ordinary Stories made the Canada Reads longlist! Just thrilled to be alongside so many great books. www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Best of 2024: @teresawong.bsky.social Listen: www.writersbone.com/friday-morni...

When we say "Some stories need time," it's not always that they need distance, they need you to live your life — as @teresawong.bsky.social's experience with her new book All Our Ordinary Stories illustrates. (Pun totally intended. Sorry.) blogs.gothamwriters.com/2024/12/17/s... #WritingCommunity

One invaluable trait of art is that you’ll see something by an artist and think “wow, someone else knew exactly how I feel about this.” You can forge a connection with another human across centuries and languages and cultures. If you connect with an AI artwork, you’re just affirming yourself.

So magical, it’s what it’s all about really isn’t it

Is the book done? No But is it good? No But at least you feel positive about it? ✨Absolutely not✨

"I was very afraid that with a computer, you have to know what you want. Tell the computer what you want, and it’ll create it for you. I don’t think a filmmaker should know what they want or even get what they want all the time." – Don Hertzfeldt slate.com/culture/2024...

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

Another stunning piece by @kristenradtke.bsky.social

In order to write a book, you have to write a book.

Such an honour to chat with @mattearoach.bsky.social on Bookends, the new CBC Books show/podcast. 💙💕https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/teresa-wong-s-search-for-family-connection-led-to-her-graphic-memoir-all-our-ordinary-stories-1.7389758

First, dollhouse miniatures and now this?! Everything I learn about Celeste Ng makes me wish we were friends. Does she play the ukulele too, lol.

a gentle reminder that you don't need to wait to be good enough to write or draw the things you wanna draw you get better through creating the things you wanna make, not by waiting to become better to make things

The book of my heart is finally out in the world! All Our Ordinary Stories is a graphic memoir about my parents' escapes from Chinese communes during the Cultural Revolution in the early 1970s, as well as about my life as a child of immigrants. More here: www.byteresawong.com/all-our-ordi...

I needed this today @alt-text.bsky.social

In my Annie Ernaux era

It’s true! Putting (all) my money where my (loud)mouth is.

Harriett’s Books in Philly is flooded on the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Links to shop online + donate to their GoFundMe are here: linktr.ee/Harrietts