MA│DE, ZZOO / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/made...

Thrilled to read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's generous read of my novella! @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #ethelwilson #bcwriting #novella www.buriedinprint.com/summer-2025-...

I am so blissed/blessed. #luckyus #PIQ Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #Happy25th palimpsestpress.ca/books/poetry... KIRBY "Fairy" Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Many thanks to Cassandra Drudi and the Quill & Quire for this lovely write-up about Palimpsest and my experience becoming a publisher. I really enjoyed the chance to chat about my wonderful authors and their equally wonderful books.

Loved this, @aimeeddunn.bsky.social quillandquire.com/omni/too-sma...

Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy

Happy publication to Tracy Wai de Boer’s debut poetry collection Nostos, Chris Hutchinson’s latest poetry collection Lost Signal, and Karen Smythe’s novel A Town with No Noise, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. ✨ palimpsestpress.ca #canlit

Chris Hutchinson’s latest poetry collection Lost Signal (Palimpsest Press) is available for review! Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... About the book: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Literally sitting in front bay window in the sunshine like a cat trying to warm up.

you know the rules.

Celebrate our final #NationalPoetryMonth feature with us and Blue Heron Books! ✨ 🧡 Lost Signal by esteemed poet Chris Hutchinson. 🧡Nostos by award-winning writer, poet, and multidisciplinary artist, Tracy Wai de Boer. Both books forthcoming May 15th with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. ♥️

Town with No Noise (novel) by Karen Smythe forthcoming with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social, June 2025—review copies now available! Request a copy for yourself (and yes, we have physical copies!). 💚 www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Learn more: palimpsestpress.ca/books/a-town... #canlit

My husband is in training all day today which means I can’t pester him with memes and my random thoughts of how other parents park to pick up their kids after school and this is a problem for me. Why are we parking SUVs the size of semi trucks in a school parking lot???

Read @carlalanwatts.bsky.social's review of @bengymen.bsky.social's The Book of Benjamin (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) and Joel Katelnikoff's Recombinant Theory (pub. U Calgary)! ..everyone has a name, and every writer has a series of recurring themes... www.thetemzreview.com/watts-robins...

Congratulations to Dale Smith and publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social for being on the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist! If you care about supporting Canadian poetry, consider being a monthly contributor to this vital unfunded press: www.patreon.com/kfb

In an essay for today's #beautifulbooks, @teagerbeza.bsky.social shares photos and perspective on her craft of paper quilling, and how it factored into - indeed, became part of - the writing of her long poem HOW I BEND INTO MORE (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social). alllitup.ca/beautiful-bo...

Am having a fairly shitty day but then I watched a story about a guy who adopted a camel and how the camel now sneaks into his house and he’s huge and now I’m talking myself out of wanting a camel as my cat tries to climb onto me while I work at my desk.

Omg folks, GO VOTE today! If you’re mad about cuts to healthcare, long wait times, staff shortages, education cuts, the green belt, whatever matters most yo you, do your part and vote! Voter apathy keeps the status quo. If that’s not something you want, go VOTE!

Every time I take my kids to the orthodontist, I’m newly caught off guard by the fact that they play dance and house music in the waiting area. Every time.

River, Diverted is a wild & wonderfully dark & campy novel by @jtennant.bsky.social, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social in 2022. I had a blast talking to Jamie! Listen to our conversation on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Literature podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/jamie-tennan... #books

Tea Gerbeza, How I Bend Into More / @teagerbeza.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/tea-...

A reminder that books by Canadian authors published by independently owned Canadian presses are almost always printed in Canada. The GST holiday ends on Valentine's Day so show #CanLit some love and head out to your local independent bookstore this week or next.❤️📚

For #LunarNewYear, we share 15 new and forthcoming reads by Asian-Canadian authors you'll love. alllitup.ca/book-list/15-books-for-lunar-new-year/

CALL FOR REVIEWERS Do you or your publication want a review copy of ZZOO, MA|DE's debut full-length collaborative poetry collection, out in February with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social? Message us!

"I came to Poetry is Queer and She wanting books that centred queerness, not as literary theory, or as an intellectual experiment but as foundational, integral, normal— like breathing." - SUSAN WISMER, The Miramichi Reader Like breathing. miramichireader.ca/2025/01/she-...

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MA|DE's debut FULL-LENGTH collaborative poetry collection, ZZOO, is here! Published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social & edited by Jim Johnstone, ZZOO stands at 124 pages & is the full & final vision of the project first glimpsed in our bpNichol Award-shortlisted chapbook A Trip to the ZZOO.

WHAT IS ZZOO? You keep hearing us talk about our (MA|DE's) debut full-length poetry collection ZZOO from Palimpsest Press. But what exactly is this book even about?

Unboxing our debut book of poetry does NOT go as we expected...

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Persuasion was published on this day in 1817. Making it 207 years of every other love letter not being good enough.

Books That Got Me Through 2024, by @amandaearl.bsky.social amandaearl.substack.com/p/books-that...

Let's make "Ma'am this is a map store" into the positive counterpart to "Sir this is a Wendy's"

Grateful to Claire Tacon for republishing our conversation about the intersection of writing and teaching on her substack. It's a topic of much importance to me these days. clairetacon.substack.com/p/parallel-c...

Catch Jade Wallace’s Anomia on the TMR Best Books of Fiction list! miramichireader.ca/2024/12/tmrs...

My #new #book is on sale palimpsestpress.ca/books/voices.... Also available on #netgalley On April 30, 1982, two women and their families #hijack a Polish passenger #plane flying from Breslau to Warsaw in a bold attempt to escape #MartialLaw in #Communist #Poland and find safety in #WestBerlin

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Looking for something new to read? My book is available for preorder from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social or your favourite bookseller palimpsestpress.ca/books/voices...

Open Book interview with The Elevator author Priya Ramsingh. open-book.ca/News/The-New...

I'm teaching a workshop on Horror Writing! It won't be my first, but it has been more than a minute since the last, so I'm nervously excited. Anyway, if you find yourself in Southern Ontario and want to learn a thing or two about writing horror, consider signing up. #cmforest #booksky #horror

Open Book piece by @manahil.bsky.social on preparing a poetry manuscript for submission. open-book.ca/Columnists/P...

@ronsexsmith.bsky.social followed me! 🎉 If you’re not already following him, please do! His posts are a breath of fresh air. But most of all, listen to his music, he’s literally one of Canada’s best songwriters!

Just putting this here for Canadians looking to buy books locally. www.indiebookstores.ca

San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you for publishing SIREN SEASON, Plenitude Magazine! 🖤 🦑 My little story about finding light in the dark, treading through uncomfortable moments, and weird and slimy sirens: plenitudemagazine.ca/siren-season/

I just saw someone refer to their timeline on here as a skyline

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If you have benefitted from Kirby's time and labour in the poetry community or are a lover of poetry and have the means to do so, please consider donating to this emergency fund. Please share widely! www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p181/E... www.knifeforkbook.shop