Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Starstruck (by @aimeeogdenwrites.com) & From These Dark Abodes (by @lmanusos.bsky.social) - both @psychopomp.com. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Livable: 1. Also a faulty memory. I got 3/4 through a movie this week before realizing I’d seen it before. 2. Movies. 3. Books, both reading and writing. 4. Beaches of the North Atlantic! The salt smell, rocks, fog, and little scuttling creatures.

Just a gal and her anticapitalist cannibalism novella 🥰🩷🥩📚

Emerging from three weeks of the worst flu I have ever had to continue singing the praises of the stories in the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF. The linguist in me cannot get enough of @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's work, and I hope to see her stories in many, many magazines in the years to come!

@realfollowers.bsky.social, how many bots do I have and is there a way to get a list?

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Purgatoire (by @lizprato.bsky.social, @forestavenuepress.bsky.social) & Patchwork (by @tomcomitta.bsky.social, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Third Wednesday. Since I spent the 2010s running Upper Rubber Boot & the pandemic working in a hospital, I am only now submitting to them again. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Second time today. #vibecoding

Super excited about the fabric I got today with Mum for a #Regency-style dress I will be sewing over the next few weeks, to wear to readings and #JaneAusten Society events. Shout out to Syvlie at Atlantic Fabrics who could not have been more helpful!

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: #evolutionarypoems (by Mihret Kebede, trans. by Anna Moschovakis, @circumferencebooks.com) & The Long Sixties (edited by Jim Harding, @fernpub.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Fairy Tale Review plus, to make up for missing yesterday, Black Cat Weekly (at this rate I’m going to end up sending out 60 submissions lol). #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Reminder: our group rate at the Westin expires TOMORROW at 4:30pm AT! Book your room now to stay close to the action! www.marriott.com/event-reserv...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

1/12 Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread. (Alt-text for book details.) 🧵 #books 💙📚 #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Oh Oblivion (by @robertkrut.bsky.social, @codhillpress.bsky.social) & Bouquet of Love: A My Secret Valentine Novella (by @anneshaderomance.bsky.social, @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

TriCon after dark! Whatever your jam, we will have fun, nerdy things for you to do while you are in town. We're almost done the daytime schedule of panels, workshops, lectures, launches, and more, but fun? That's ready to go. More details, sign up forms and more at tricon-halifax.com/events/

Saturday, May 16th, we're gonna dance! The TriCon Starlight Party is a 19+ evening of lights, music, and craft brews from our sponsor, @northbrewing.bsky.social ! Cash bar, attendees-only, guests permitted but they need a pass--see Registration on-site for details!

Saturday, May 16th before the Starlight Party, we will have our 1st Annual Editorial Idol event! Can your manuscript make it through a gauntlet of editors, or will they buzz out before it's finished? Submit anonymously, listen to feedback! Sign up to participate at tricon-halifax.com/events/

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster (by Dale Going, @codhillpress.bsky.social) & Certain Shelter (by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @juneroadpress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (by @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org) & Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta

COVER REVEAL Art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social, out soon, @qospress.bsky.social Sailing The Golden Chersonese!

Trying a new 30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Boulevard, and since I missed yesterday I sent two today, the other to Maudlin House. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Updated my blog since I had a #haiku come out today! joannemerriam.com/2026/04/11/h...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Dead & The Living & The Bridge (by @mc-hyland.bsky.social, ill. Jeff Peterson, @meeklingpress.bsky.social) & Analog Days (by Damion Searls @coffeehousepress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Night Swim (by @joankwonglass.bsky.social, @diodeeditions.bsky.social) & No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories (by @premeemohamed.com, @undertow.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Trying a new 30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Bruiser. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting #Bruiser

“Villanueva has written a book that refuses to stay in one genre or one century or one vocabulary. It morphs. It leaks. It contradicts itself. And that’s precisely the point. Residents of the Deep makes you think on the instability of narrative." www.calyxpress.org/reviews/resi...

@anidifranco.bsky.social discusses her new book, "The Spirit of Ani," on @gaysreading.bsky.social Podcast. Listen to the whole interview here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Fresh 20th Anniversary Fundraiser Beanies are available now! Help us secure our warehouse for the future of left ideas, and get yours here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

🌸April is National Poetry Month! 25% off poetry titles! buff.ly/DknHZVm

Congratulations to @kdubin.bsky.social! Strangely, Friends is on the shortlist for the Canadian Historical Association’s Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize. Learn more about the book on our website: btlbooks.com/book/a-histo...

ghouls! it's been a weird week of website glitches and nuclear war threats. you might have missed we also revealed Evangeline Gallagher's gnarly cover art for Madeline Blondeau's debut novel PENITENTS! available for pre-order now: ghoulish.rip/product/peni... @mads.haus @egallagher.bsky.social

Trying a new 30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is The Antigonish Review. (The copy I'm holding is an old one that I have work in.) #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Lost Century (by Larissa Lai, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & The Road Back (by Natalia Treviño, @artepublico.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Wanderers (by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, @catalystpress.bsky.social) & Wrecks (by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social, @noemipress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Trying a new 30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Queen’s Quarterly. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

I feel like celebrating a good review during all of *this* feels very This Is Fine Dog but also it's been a hard freaking couple of years and I worked hard on this book so:

Anyway my brain is making just about literal busy signals now when I ask it to do anything (???) so everyone go read EVERYONE KEEPS SAYING PROBABLY and then go do something analog (I am going to bed to read a book and fight over pillow usage with the larger cat) psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: That Gun in Your Hand (by @jasonschneidermedia.com, @anvilpress.bsky.social) & The National Telepathy (by Roque Larraquy, trans @terribleman.com, @charcopress.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK by Daniel Zomparelli is a Spring 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List! Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, the novel is a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection.

This is from 2021, but it applies now more than ever: "It’s finally here. That moment we’ve been waiting for. You’ve wanted it for years; I’ve wanted it a hell of a lot longer. Since 1967, when lawmakers were like, 'Damn, we forgot to make a plan if the president goes bonkers.'"

Happy pub day to BODY DOUBLE! 🥳 🌟 "A strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely." — @literaryhub.bsky.social 🌟 “A dizzying hall-of-mirrors narrative . . . Readers will be entranced." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

Trident Halifax is hosting TONNES of great events, with 4 this week alone! 08/04: Dal Creative Writing Spring Review! 09/04: Music w/ Agnes and the Orchard & co! 10/04: Phenology Wheel workshop w/ CCI! 11/04: Launch Graeme Bezanson's Ultra Blue! All upcoming events @ tridenthalifax.ca!

Trying a new 30-day challenge to send more submissions. Doing 30 days but maybe not 30 consecutive days since I have a few days in April that are really slammed. Today’s market is 50-Word Strories, a fun project of microflash. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Best Star Trek crew; wrong answers only.

Lovely hike at the Dingle, the name of which absolutely does not make me chortle like an adolescent schoolboy. It was really a beautiful day, slightly overcast but sunny, with only a few patches of snow and Rebecca's dog entertaining us all. #HRM #Halifax #Kjipuktuk #hike

As a special Poetry Month treat, all poetry published before 2026 is 15% off throughout April on chbooks.com! Shop the sale now on our site, no discount code needed. Browse poetry here: chbooks.com/Categories/P...