Aurora last night over Ottawa. First time seeing them 🤩 Visible with the naked eye too! Truly incredible.

Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death. My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world. conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...

Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death. My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world. conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

Would you like to read a story about divorce and also a bear? 🐻🎨 ex-puritan.ca/the-painting... (Thanks @sannawani.bsky.social for including my surrealist flash fiction in the Animalia issue of The Ex-Puritan!)

Gonna say something liberals really won’t like and it’s that you’re going to have to find it in your heart to feel compassion for and attempt to help ppl in crisis whose politics you may not agree with or else you’re gonna become the very thing you claim to hate

HUGE NEWS: Augur has the honour of being a nominee in THREE categories for the 2025 Aurora Awards! 🎊 📌 FYI... -Voting is NOW OPEN to all CSFFA members & membership is just $10! -Deadline to vote: July 19th @ 11:59 EDT. 🔗 Link to sign up & vote: www.csffa.ca Scroll down to see what's nommed! ⬇️

Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement: Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK! It’s not open yet. But while we wait… AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.

I often avoid nonfiction "grief books" because for me they can be too prescriptive and didactic—attempt to be too broad and sweeping. But this book avoids these things, and it really moved me. Highly recommend. “‘How will he know you loved him,’ she asks, ‘unless you try to destroy yourself.’”

My first suit; it is green, and I am obsessed.

Me doing structural edits on my novel rn. (The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)

ME ❤️/🍪 BOOKS, indeed.

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

Poetry friends and poetry lovers! ✨️ I have two "Myth" launches next week with some super cool writers! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙🌺 May 6 at Perfect Books in Ottawa May 8 at Pulp Books in Montreal I'd love to see you there! 😘

I have always been really put off by celebrity, even the notion of "genius". As a writer and also a bookseller and events coordinator specifically, working in often quite large events and literary festivals, I have become even more put off by the cult of celebrity around writers in particular.

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Sometimes you get really good news and are riding super high and then 2 days later you get extremely sick for 6 days (like chest xray sick) and that is what we call being brought back down to earth babyyyyyy

VERSeFest 2025 : March 25-29 : schedule now online! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/vers...

happy birthday to women

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

i believe in sufjan stevens. i think he can finish the 50 states project

Thus concludes my enjoyment affirmations into the void.

I am enjoying my lack of gender and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am enjoying eating and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am enjoying writing and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello new followers! We've compiled a list of First Nations, Métis, & Inuit writers, artists, scholars, advocates, & media makers on bsky who live north of the 49th parallel. You can follow along with the starter pack (go.bsky.app/CxqcLvn) or by adding the list as a feed (bsky.app/profile/did:...)

we are living in a time of hardening borders and even more rampant nationalism and it's always a good reminder to say we have to write to and talk to each other across them always

I 100% understand the impulse to batten the gates in Canada rn and the 'buy only Canadian trend', but I think applied completely uncritically it is a bit silly, tbh, and I see a lot of this as a bookseller. U.S. small presses are not the not enemy, folks. U.S. small presses, marginalized authors...

Purple Olga is blooming again after a very long dormancy. This is important!

We're closed for general subs right now, but are wide open for this really amazing new call!

Fighting nationalism with nationalism is not the win you think it is, guys.

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. From But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves.: It ends with our lips pursed upward over slow-rising lake water.

What a time to be a dual US-Canadian citizen.

I love treats. Treats are important. Go now: get one immediately.

This genderless fishermen's third book of poetry, "the lake-shaped excuse" is coming in fall 2026 with Buckrider Books, @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social 🎣

My book of love and grieving in November, coming to a bookstore near you. #fall2025 book design by Angela Yan. Image is on the ferry looking out toward Tsawwassen.

This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth! It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙 Preorders are open! Please share if you can! houseofanansi.com/products/myt...

Today I was working at a schmancy event bookselling for my jerb and a person I don’t know approached and said they love my poetry and I was like 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️ thank you!! It was bizarre and also very nice and also wow you know things about me and I know nothing about you, oh hello

Wow guys today I found out I don’t exist, really thrilling stuff for a Monday. Where did I go???? Who knows, no one knows, just POOF!!!

The lovely @simonbeige.bsky.social translated three poems from my book, But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves., into French!! ☀️🚢🐟🌊 Massive thanks to the French journal Revue Watts for publishing 💙 tinyurl.com/mu77w4ju

I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨ For more info, check out our submissions guidelines: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions

I love finding a new author I love who has written a bunch of books I will get to read but then I am like oh my god how many authors are out there that I still don’t know I love?! The pain the joy I want all the books I cry

Some people think it is gauche to talk about grant money but I think it is gauche to think it is gauche. It is public funding and if we don't publicly appreciate it and talk about how important it is to artistic livelihood then it will keep disappearing. That's what I think.

Bro have I even mentioned on here that I am writing a novel???? Because that's a thing I am doing. And that like, the Canada Council for the Arts gave me money??? To write a novel???? Life is cool sometimes.

What a good writing day today. I love writing. Writing is fun.

You don’t need to read the new Gaiman article if you don’t want to; it is further confirmation of what we were already told, though I am glad more people are actually hearing it now. But damn. Fucking listen the first time folks.

My goal right now: to enjoy life. This seems really simple but it has actually been kind of hard (for me) but it feels possible, now. I am doing it though. Daily things! Not being here, so much. I made some bread! Writing slow.

Feeling smug as fuck about my first challah in a few years 🍞