Canadian Poets Series #25 : Gillian Sze / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/04/cana...

👏🔥Congrats Lynda! (@lwilliams-author.bsky.social) 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️ Congrats to Tim Bowling and Kirti Bhadresa. Thank you, @writersguildab.bsky.social

❤️this @robattigelli.bsky.social!!!

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Wendy McGrath's "Portraits" from Issue 177! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/portra... #readersofbluesky #essay #amreading

Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...

Join us as we celebrate spring 🌷and launch more springtacular titles📚 on Sunday, April 26, 3:30 pm at Supermarket in Toronto!⁠

"I’m the CEO of a mental illness and I approach my treatment as a management project because if I don’t run this thing, it will run me." boldjourney.com/meet-lynda-w...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Bennett Malcolmson : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Emma McKenna / reading next week as part of VERSeFest 2026! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/benn...

"It’s been awhile since I’ve read such an original, exciting collection of fiction. Lynda Williams is a writer to watch." Jannie Edwards, Alberta Views. 🙏Jannie and Alberta Views! Yay @lwilliams-author.bsky.social 👏 albertaviews.ca/the-beauty-a...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann / @saralippmann.bsky.social @tortoisebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/12-o...

Incredibly grateful that my short story Part of His Cluster was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @minyanmag.bsky.social Thank you so much to their wonderful editor for her support 🩷🩷🩷📚🎉🥹

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bqh... Had such a great chat about all things writing related--my first byline, the novel I never finished, and how I came to short stories last.

above/ground press author spotlight #14 : Lillian Nećakov / @anvilpress.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...

this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...

What is the role of editor? What makes for a productive author/editor relationship? Join author Vinh Nguyen and editor Janice Zawerbny as they discuss the ins and outs of working on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/the-...

The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where / @writerstrust.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...

Imagine writing a novel in a second language because that language—English—allows you to be more emotionally expressive! Su Chang has accomplished this with her debut novel The Immortal Woman. https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/navigating-forbidden-histories-an-interview-with-writer-su-chang

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...

a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended” www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...

✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry

a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bu...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Amy LeBlanc's poem "Letter to a Young Arachnid" from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/letter...

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Christy Ann Conlin's "Displacement of Bodies in Time", from Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/displa...

Feed: "rob mclennan's blog" By: [email protected] (rob mclennan) on Saturday, August 16, 2025

New podcast episode! Writer and academic James Cairns on his new essay collection In Crisis, On Crisis. Let us know what you think after listening. https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/33207000/james-cairns-fascination-with-the-age-of-crises-grew-from-personal-crises-of-addiction

Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle

new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, / @ucpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rachel Top's "The Baker's Filia", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ba...

Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario. Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. @twpofscugog.bsky.social

Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/ceda...

penultimate day of middle daughter swimming lessons [which she claims she does not need, she can already swim well enough to save herself and an underweight child, she says; the fact that her younger sister is not an underweight child is not something she is concerned about];

Click here to read "The Not-To-Do-List" by Mimi Mahmud, an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop: tnq.ca/the-not-to-d...

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her debut as author of the week and much more! southsidebroadcasting.podbean.com/e/lynda-will...

A very special blurb from the inimitable @jessicastellaa.bsky.social! This one made me cry. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN, out September 9 in Canada, September 30 in the US!

Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her latest novel 'The Beauty and the Hell of It' with Inside the Minds of Authors! www.youtube.com/live/_l5_vA0...

It’s publication day! The ED Recovery Journal got to number 1 in the charts when it was released and it would be a dream come true for that to happen again. You can order here on Amazon, but it’s also available online from the publisher and all major bookstores. amzn.eu/d/9CQ194G

The countdown to THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is on! I'll be sharing more nice things in the weeks to come, but for now here is a very lovely blurb from the brilliant Alex Gonzalez. You can preorder now! Publishing on September 9 in Canada and September 30 in the US. MORE FROM ME SOON.

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to @alicefitzp.bsky.social “A Dark Death” (Stonehouse Publishing) & Chris Hutchinson “Lost Signal” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

Such a pleasure to speak with @danilabotha.bsky.social about craft and my upcoming collection of stories, The Beauty and the Hell of It, ( @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ). Interview with Lynda Williams www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/interview-...

above/ground press author spotlight #7 : Lydia Unsworth / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

We've launched our Support Ontario Book Publishers Campaign! Follow the link below to tell the Ontario government to invest in Canadian education and stories by supporting our schools, authors, and publishers: win.newmode.net/supportontar...

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-w47kj-... Had the best time chatting with Alex and Merryn about my upcoming collection of stories, the Beauty and the Hell of It.

Carol shares a poem "Out of Shape," from her poetry collection, A BOUQUET OF GLASS (Guernica Editions, March 1, 2025). LEARN MORE: (@anotherstoryto.bsky.social) shorturl.at/triIj www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy2U...

Ongoing notes: early August, 2025: Peter Van Toorn + david hadbawnik, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/ongo...