I am so grateful to fellow author @edseaward.bsky.social for creating this beautiful profile of my personal and artistic journey. He is a great interviewer and writer. His new novel will be out next year and I can't wait to read it. His debut, Fair, was astounding. edseaward.com/2026/01/07/l...

More 2025 book acquisitions I can’t wait to dig into. I picked these up at the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the @gillerprize.bsky.social #BookTalk series at the Union Hotel. Souvankham recently won her 2nd #GillerPrize!!!! Gallant is one of my short story gods! #shortstories #CanLit

Book acquisitions in 2025 I can’t wait to dig into. I picked these up at the amazing reading venue, Drunk Fiction, run by the equally amazing Emily Weedon. Radioland by @mattcahill.bsky.social and Emily’s Hemo Sapiens. #CanLit emilyweedon.com/drunk-fiction

More books that made an impression in 2025. Steven Heighten is a short story master, along with Matthew J. Trafford. “Sacred Rage” and “Runs in the Blood,” great titles from @biblioasis.bsky.social and @arsenalpulp.bsky.social . #CanLit #shortstory

Books I’ve been excited about this year, starting with Kate Cayley’s “Property”. None other than Brett Josef Grubisic says: “Cayley’s portrayal of a day in a neighbourhood... dazzles.” Plus, Kate gets the award for best launch of 2025! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social quillandquire.com/review/prope...

It’s Cover Reveal Day for Confluence, the novel I co-wrote with my husband Alex Turner. (That's him on the cover, age 22!) It’s out next fall with @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, CA’s top publisher of queer books! Pre-orders for this coming-of-age story set in the Upper Fraser Valley begin in February.

TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social talks to @danilabotha.bsky.social “A Place For People Like Us” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social - @hollay.bsky.social talks to poet Lorne Daniel about his book “What Is Broken Binds Us” (University Of Calgary Press) TUNE IN TONIGHT!

Drunk Fiction at The Caledonian with my writing group last night! @edseaward.bsky.social, @stephaniewyeld.bsky.social @kenharvey.bsky.social. Plus Peter Small. Thanks to Emily Weedon for putting the event together and being the consummate host. Drunk Fiction has become my favorite writer hang!

After seeing The History of Sound, a movie that holds its cards very close to its chest, a friend posed this question: [is the movie a] legitimate entertainment for an audience more interested in what happens than in what doesn't happen? My answer on my website. www.lucianchilds.com/blog2/the-hi...

My Hungarian friends should be pleased. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Congratulations to fiction writer, Tommy Orange, on receiving a MacArthur Foundation 2025 ‘Genius Grant’. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

Kate Cayley’s launch of her novel, Property, last night was phenomenal. The readings and lively discussion with Steve Beattie (www.shakespeareanrag.com) were wonderful. Kudos to Kate, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social and #TorontoLitUp for a wonderful evening.

Huge Congrats to all the shortlisted authors!

My dear friends Tom Miller and Philip Ottenbrite have created a beautiful tribute to Tom’s partner: Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti. This impeccably made book celebrates the significant career of a great Canadian artist. www.figure1publishing.com/book/louis-d...

More news about the novel I wrote with my late husband, Alex Turner. Toward Another Shore—to be published next fall by Arsenal Pulp Press—and its co-writing process are the subjects of an article by Alex’s alma mater, Emily Carr University of Art + Design. bit.ly/3VAIowY @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

New book coming Fall 2026!!! Arsenal Pulp Press has acquired Toward Another Shore—the novel I co-authored with my late husband, Alex Turner. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social is a top Canadian indie press, whose titles are fixtures during awards season. More at: www.lucianchilds.com or www.alexjturner.ca.

Huge congrats to the Kirkus Prize finalists. bit.ly/3VuJgmC

Check out "Sea Change" a short story about living as a gay man in Canada in the 1960s by Alex Turner with Lucian Childs in our summer issue! You can snag an issue in bookstores across the country or on our website at prairiefire.ca/current-issue/ Photo credits: Alex Turner

Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award @writerstrust.bsky.social. Dora Prieto for poetry, Jess Goldman for fiction, Phillip Dwight Morgan for CNF. bit.ly/4nN2q41 #canlit

If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. Luckily, we have the fiction of my late husband, Alex Turner, to remind us. His story “Sea Change” is out now in @prairiefiremag.bsky.social‬. It’s a funny and touching read. Available at bit.ly/40dZP9r and at many Canadian bookstores.

Huge congrats to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social for their National Magazine Awards - gold and silver in the essay category and a gold in the fiction category! @canadamediaawards.bsky.social‬

Congratulations to the @publishingtriangle.bsky.social awards finalists. An especial shout-out to books from Canadian publishers: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @metonymypress.bsky.social, Annick Press, and their excellent authors! bit.ly/3DNXbza

If you are free tonight, I'll be reading from my new novel, one I wrote with my late husband, Alex Turner. This is a sneak peak. The complete story will be published this summer in the Canadian literary journal, Prairie Fire. www.youtube.com/@bgsqd/streams

While I'd very much like to be in NYC for this reading, I'll be joining these amazing authors digitally. You can do that as well over at YouTube: March 13 at 7pm EST. I’ll be reading from my second novel, which I plan to get back to soon! www.youtube.com/@bgsqd/streams

Back at my writing desk - at last! Projects are lined up like planes at an airport. Traffic control: 1. essay, 2. short story, 3. second novel.

It’s a Chabon kind of day! Lazy morning reading. Finally getting around to this and loving the story and humorous style.

A bookseller’s recommendation at Tucson’s Antigone Bookstore. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. What a novel should be, in my opinion. Lyrical, earthy, self assured. The back cover calls it “the greatest novel in Native American literature.” #fiction #amreading

Writers check out my craft essay at WritersDigest.com. Strategies to avoid sentimentality and oversimplification when using personal history in your fiction. www.writersdigest.com/write-better...

Back in sun-drenched Tucson. A great town with a deep literary tradition. Just picked up these beauties at Antigone Books by Leslie Marmon Silko and Stacie Denetsosie-Mitchell.

Congrats to all The Story Prize Finalists! mailchi.mp/21a3fb5a09c8...

Love this. Short stories paired with their authors personal histories of how they became writers. I’m a big fan of Caroline Adderson, Kathy Page, Kristyn Dunnion. #canlit #amreading #shortstories @biblioasis.bsky.social

In 2024, I broke a reading record. 61 books. Fiction titles that grabbed me: A Way to be Happy by Caroline Adderson, The Cosmopolitans by Sarah Schulman, Cocktail by Lisa Alward, Another Country by James Baldwin, Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. More at www.lucianchilds.com/blog2/my-202...

Taking a break from party prep to read this beautiful book by Hélène Dorion, brought to English by the excellent translator Jonathan Kaplansky. Gorgeous prose. This crosses the line on my reading challenge for the year—60 books.

Lazy reading Sunday with Cynthia Flood’s stunning beauty collection (Biblioasis, 2017). @biblioasis.bsky.social

I picked this up at AWP last spring. Le Guin is such a thoughtful writer. She’s also able to report back from the field to offer deep insight into the dynamics of writing. Fiction, CNF, poetry—she did it all beautifully. #writingfiction

I was walking by the Toronto Reference Library, so I checked if they had a physical copy of my book. Sure enough, it’s right next to “The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada”! I love how this American book by an American author has become fully Canadian. Says a lot about my adopted country, I think.

3 more books remaining to make my 2024 reading challenge. I’ve got 20 days to pull it off. Can you suggest any short literary fiction? bit.ly/3OUuJNK

I grew up in NW Ohio and James Purdy told one interviewer he was born in my hometown though Hicksville, OH is usually credited. It wasn't until I was 25 did I even know he existed. Gay history matters and so do his books. They're weird and funny and dark. Valancourt has beautiful reprints.

My publisher @bookhugpress.bsky.social is celebrating 20 years of publishing! They invited me to do an interview where I reflect on publishing with them, highlight a fav title, and express my love for independent (aka small press) publishing. sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/happy-20th...

“This story shows how important mental health is for the individual and those around them.” @fairweather-review.bsky.social (Laura Patterson) reviews Not Even the Sound of a River from @bookhugpress.bsky.social #canlit #booksky www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/not-even-t...

First post here after fleeing that other place. Started to submit again after a hiatus of several years—a couple of craft essays and a novel I completed with my late husband, Canadian visual artist and author Alex Turner. Feels good to finally have something in my Submittable queue!