Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel. mailchi.mp/csffa/in-mem...

Gonna be fun to talk about Phyllis and her work at the inaugural Aurora Book Club January 22 2026!

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole." billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

This only happens to you once

It does not escape me that those of us who have been saying it was a genocide, since early days, are also the ones who correctly called what is happening here fascism, since early days. Things are pretty obvious if you are willing to look.

It was great fun!

BEST TITLE AT #yegfringe: Tonight I saw Celia Taylor’s play “Cult of the Clitoris” - great fun, great cast, and I learned some #Lgbtq History!

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Good question...kinda obvious tho...

By the way I hope I will see my fellow Edmontonian horror fans at the signing for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT -- please note our illustrious city of CANADA 😂 I will be in conversation with @cjdwriter.bsky.social at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social 7 pm Aug 19!

It is INDEED PROPHESIZED and actually our event (in conversation with the illustrious @cjdwriter.bsky.social ) is already up on the @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social site! 😍 audreys.ca/events/25540...

Let’s talk about an Edmonton science fiction institution -- On Spec, Canada’s most prominent English-language science fiction magazine. onspec.ca/about-on-spec

We are at this place. Appalling.

If you are part of the #Edmonton community please take and share this survey from #BoyleStreet: di.legeropinion.com/survey/selfs...

This conversation with the one-and-only @premeemohamed.com is gonna be great!!

This will be grand!

Word.

Anyway it’s so weird that all these end stage things are happening but all we still have to do regular chores and get dental care and stuff

Want to help Save the CBC? Here are the things you can do RIGHT NOW to help the cause. We are a grassroots organization and we need individuals to contribute as a community! Together we are stronger, so please take time to do these things and help Save the CBC! Links: buff.ly/g6n31iJ

if you're a #parent or #teacher of teens living in #NewBrunswick, get them writing with this contest named for author and poet Sheree Fitch from the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. Deadline for the Sheree Fitch Prize is Mar 30 2025. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/02/2025...

My next novel! Note that it is with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social and also Hirnkost Verlag in Germany. My agent with @therightsfactory.bsky.social is Wayne Arthurson, who is totally awesome!

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

new story 🚨 Here is the shape of our story, the three of us: an ellipsis (from a particular fixed point we flew away from each other and then rejoined at another point; and then we had you). Here is the shape of our doom: an ellipsis (on its way, in its thousands and thousands). 👇

What if fascism is just bad and your moral obligation to fight it is not in any way diminished or altered by what The Left did or didn't do?

A timely cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

This

Not the news I’d hope to share but—NIH’s massive Long Covid study has a new paper finding 1 in 22 participants who had Covid developed the neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. 80% of people w/ME are too sick to hold a full-time job—gov abandoning us to face this risk on a daily basis is unconscionable.

Deep in First Fimbulvintr this weekend but I see Second Faux Spring is scheduled for next week. Like an eclectic club, this venue certainly takes a diverse range of bookings.

Oh yes. True dat.

Some love for my books The Adventures of Isabel, What's the Matter with Mary Jane?, and He Wasn't There Again Today. So happy to hear a satisfied reader who "gets" the community part!

Thanks for this lovely mention!

Have you READ the novels of @cjdwriter.bsky.social OMG you can find her Epitome Apartments mystery series at @ecwpress.bsky.social . Insist that your library carry these contemporary novels! Much, much better written than any cozy mystery, I swear. ecwpress.com/collections/...

Is me! Designed these to be the opposite of cozy LOL! Thx for the shout-out!

Scotland is officially up to 24.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose when it comes to the arts. 50 or so years of advocacy in the literary community, certain themes come around many times, "discovered" yet again. Should I feel hopeful or just tired? Depends on the time and day...

Had my hair re-magpied.

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Collar gap or acceptable winter casual look, @dieworkwear.bsky.social ? I posed this question in The Other Place and now under these blue skies. @theherdhouse.bsky.social @andersonbooz.bsky.social @feistywaters.bsky.social

Rehabilitating a song I loathe for its breach of logic--now it tracks!

UCP in Alberta in a nutshell.

Right on the money comment there, @johnrogers.bsky.social

Interesting but not a surprise

A great loss.

Read this thread up and down. @1goodtern.bsky.social has HAD IT. And rightfully so.

I said this in a reply to someone else, but someone else needs to hear this: You are a real person doing real work to make real art. Don’t forget.

Winter is toe-bean protection time for #Joffrey

Also this quote from Le Guin's The Dispossessed: “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” There is comfort in knowing that revolution is not a destination or a moment. It is ongoing. It is us.

Or to burn in tent fires. It's shameful.

#BoyleStreet #yegcc