The Starbeck Orion issue #14 Not Advent Anthology Day 16 of 25 featuring the reprinted poetry of Strider Marcus Jones open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Strider Marcus Jones and 23 other poets from around the world are included in the 1st anniversary of issue of SHINE Quarterly...coming out THIS FRIDAY, Dec. 5th. Stay tuned! #shinepoetry #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #internationalcommunity

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Heya, if you're a Kindle user in North America, I've just been informed that the U.S. edition of my first book is gonna be $3 on there for all of April. That's like half the price of a latte!

Thankye brilliant Editor Nolcha Fox for publishing these two poems. Delighted. chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/2...

Periodic reminder, amidst the mayhem, that my new nonfiction story collection NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS is in stock at Halifax's @kingsbookstore.bsky.social - and they ship!

"When I rode the school bus to high school, a teenage boy regularly spat at me, his spittle hitting my jacket and slowly gyrating to the floor. Every school day my stomach lurched when I climbed the bus steps and stumbled to my seat." —Charmaine Arjoonlal

"I looked up to see a short man trying to be tall, wearing cowboy boots. I felt a tingling I had never felt before. It felt funny but it was a nice kind of funny. He’s the laughing Buddha, I thought." - Charmaine Arjoonlal in @reckonreview.bsky.social #cnf #essay reckonreview.com/of-curry-and...

Charmaine Arjoonlal joins our interview series today, sharing her poem ‘Wild Abandon,’ how she writes & revises her work, & the inspiration she finds in the world around her. Thanks for sharing your work & time with us Charmaine! read the full interview: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay." - Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS

Thanks to Editor Thomas Page! academyoftheheartandmind.com/2025/01/13/p...

Happy New Year. Wishing everyone laughter and joy and most of all, peace, in 2025!

"Around age 60 I finally discovered my ideal role: writing obituaries. I’ve now written more than 1,000 of them. I never tire of exploring how and why people take (or choose?) one path or another in life." - James R. Hagerty in Oldster Magazine. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-68...

Nobody will ever have a cooler NYT obit photo www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/b...

I’ve been hanging out here for a day now, so let me introduce myself. I’m a Ugandan-Canadian writer of short stories, CNF, journalism. My debut novel comes out April 22, 2025 (House of Anansi). I’m working on a memoir-in-essays. Here’s one in The Walrus: thewalrus.ca/losing-my-fa...

I'm delighted to have "Catharsis" included in Issue 19 of The Inflectionist Review! Warm thanks to editors John Sibley Williams & A. Molotkov for selecting my poem! www.inflectionism.com

Thanks Ravens Perch for publishing my CNF story, "Love in the Air"! @theravensperch.bsky.social

Had a good conversation with Stephen Quinn on the CBC Early Edition today about the fall of the Assad regime in #Syria www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

In the 1920s, dentist Samuel Aykroyd regularly hosted séances. Samuel’s son, Maurice, was a Bell Telephone engineer who tried to contact the dead via radio. Maurice’s son, Peter, wrote the book 'A History of Ghosts'. Peter's son is Dan Aykroyd, writer and star of Ghostbusters.

Thank you Anmly (EIC Sarah Clark) for first publishing my CNF story, "SNAPSHOTS" and for Memoirland for including it in Memoir Monday! @anmlymag.bsky.social mag @saribotton.bsky.social @sarahclark.bsky.social