So excited about this launch on Wed hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social. The books all look amazing, but I was lucky enough to have the chance to read Buzzkill Clamshell by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social pre-pub & I can tell you it's truly spectacular. Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/arsenal-pu...

I didn’t know it was a life goal to be featured in an interview titled “Orgasm, Pain, and The Void” until now! arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...

See you tomorrow, NYC. I be reading with @aaantons.bsky.social @emializh.bsky.social and Dia Felix. Swoon!

Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn... @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social‬‬ @christinashah.bsky.social‬‬ @arielletwist.bsky.social‬‬ @sannawani.bsky.social‬‬

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth day 18 c/o X. Rae Alessandro from the Hustling Verse anthology, curated by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social and Justin Ducharme

👉 View event details: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Th... (Amber Dawn @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social) (jaye simpson @jayesimpson.bsky.social)

""Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in [Buzzkill Clamshell], Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies." This review means everything; thanks @margolapierre.bsky.social prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/04/t...

happy poetry month! i got interviewed by Chris Banks for The Woodlot @thewoodlot.bsky.social ! thanks much! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; the-wood-lot.ca/2025/04/03/1...

One week from today: @jayesimpson.bsky.social and I launch our poetry collections.

I wrote about trying to figure out how bad you have to make things in a story so that your novel seems realistic in the near future. It’s funnier than it sounds.

This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell

Canada’s literary institutions are banding together about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Wow...I've not written poetry in a while. But I have a reading tomorrow, and nothing I've written is saying what I want to say. SO I'm writing something brand new! :) If you're in LA ,come join me, @charliejane.bsky.social, @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social and a whole lineup of incredible writers!

So, @margolapierre.bsky.social asks the greatest questions. This interview with @arcpoetry.bsky.social online newsletter is the most fun I've had talking about my work in my 25 years of publishing. mailchi.mp/fa5f77dae6f1...

A wee bit late on getting my mail, but so happy to have this gorgeous poetry collection by my deeply talented friend @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social in hand. Congratulations, you beautiful soul. I’m taking it to bed right meow ✨ #poetry #canadianpoetry #arsenalpulppress

Thank you @49thshelf.bsky.social for including BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL in your Most Anticipated Spring Poetry Collections. Also, I want every collection listed, right now! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/03...

#awp offsite @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

🐚🫧 New! #BuzzkillClamshell, the latest poetry collection by Amber Dawn (@amberdawnwrites.bsky.social), flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power. 👉 Out now in Canada (USA April 1, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Buzz...

Na na na na na, goodbye. The HBC paved the way for Canadian colonialism, "acquiring" hundreds of thousands of acres of land (how? No one knows!) then selling it as Rupertsland to "Canada." Then came the violent and genocidal push west.

Terese Mason Pierre, Myth / @teresempierre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/tere...

Hi everyone, We aren’t receiving funds quickly enough for our current spending. Remember: if we do not raise enough, we will have to potentially cut thousands of people off from the Internet, during Ramadan. Let’s not let this happen. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Save the Date, Toronto. April 30. Triple poetry launch with Kyo Lee, @jayesimpson.bsky.social and me. Hosted by the luminous @razorfemme.bsky.social. Book sales by your favourite indie @anotherstoryto.bsky.social The Eventbrite is ready, if you'd like to pre-register. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken. 💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

Fuck this and fuck ABC

A decade ago, I went on book tour with Sybil Lamb. We did 32 cities across the US/Canada, read with dozens of writers and met hundreds of people. So many of them are now dead. All of them are transsexuals. The oldest didn't make it to 50. I say this because I want you to live and I'm going to too.

A perfectly bent serendipity has happened to me. I share a publisher and launch season with poet and artist jaye simpson, which means we get stomp around on book tour together. Find out more about our new poetry collections with @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @jayesimpson.bsky.social

A while ago, I made an IG post to explain some of the material threats to life and wellbeing that trans people are currently facing - just cross-posted to Substack since I heard some folks are finding it useful to share What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025 open.substack.com/pub/kaicheng...

happy release day to ISSUE 7 ❤️‍🔥 we hope this issue warms your hearts as much as it did ours while curating it. click through for some brand new, stunning works from some of our brilliant contributors 💫 manyworlds.place/issue-7/

This new poem in @manyworlds.place is dedicated to babes with chronic pain

Thank you, @razorfemme.bsky.social for reading my weird, filthy book.

I don’t know how tariffs will impact Canadian books (doesn’t look good). Now would be the time to ask your local indie bookstore and libraries to stock up on trans and queer books published in Canada.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 2/20 How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir, by Amber Dawn @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social

Book Unboxing at the @arsenalpulp.bsky.social office. I am happy to my core to share a launch season with @jayesimpson.bsky.social and her sophomore collection, a body more tolerable

I loved & love this book. You will love this book & want to give copies to all ur nearest, queerest & dearest. So pre-order a 💐

Sometimes I’m lucky enough to work with the queerest, brightest lights. 💫

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

Sneak peek at the interior of my forthcoming poetry collection. Artist: Rebecca Chaperon

Pre-order: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Buzz...

. Behold third issue of Eavesdrop Magazine - the QUEER JOY Issue. In its short life, this new Canadian #queerlit mag has become one of my favourites. I’m honoured to have two new poems included.

“The way that the novel, through Mathilda, revives decadence as an artistic expression of excess aligns well with the fight to protect marginalized lives; our bodies, just like our joy, have always exceeded state and societal attempts to restrain them.” briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

CRIMINALIZED LIT will be an all-out honour to moderate. @j9joseph.bsky.social @dannyramadan.com @caseyplett.bsky.social, Lindsay Wong &I will discuss legal &regulatory risk in memoir, community-based art, and existing as "criminalized" (or "unsanctioned") artists See you in March #AWP25

Canadians must stay vigilant as we head into an election year, writes @journodale.bsky.social

The latest edition of my column DANGEROUS SPACE is out on @xtramagazine.com I wrote abt the creepy obsession that the "gender critical" movement has with trans women's bodies & how the mass sexual harassment of trans women/fems is normalized in mainstream society. xtramagazine.com/health/menta...

“As an Indigenous person, we’re targeted by the state at a disproportionate rate.” When Jada-Gabrielle Pape saw a National Post report calling her “one of Samidoun’s most active organizers,” she was gripped with fear. Jen St. Denis reports.

"What emerges from Elhadi’s ordeal reveals a disturbing possibility: that U.S. immigration policy exerts influence over international travel routes... subjecting travellers like Elhadi to arbitrary captivity, racial profiling and human rights violations." @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...

Honoured to have a new poem published in Coffin Bell’s gothic issue. Dark lit: online and free to read-

One is a water colour of our dog that our nibling painted. And the other is what our dog really looks like.

Let’s start here: I’m not a love is love queer; I’m a defund the police, free Palestine, make reparations, s🖤x workers are sacred, veteran fist, quit twitter queer.