Hello, good people. Happy today as I finally found, after three days of battering my poor files to duels, the story I wanted to incorporate into this novel, which I remembered as having an entirely different name from the one it has.

"If you sacrifice, you’re virtuous—you’re noble; you’re thinking about the better good. But are you really? You could live your life sacrificing, but where does that get you?" @tiffyo.bsky.social interviews Jane Park about Inheritance (@pegasus-books.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/HYiwHdw

"I think of it more like clay: shaping and reshaping, or waves washing up on shore, bringing little bits of detritus and glass and seashell to the surface." Janan Alexandra discusses the path to publication for her debut collection Come From (@boa-editions.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/xtsoxSz

Over yonder on Substack.

Essaying this Sunday: www.patreon.com/posts/funny-...

🧵Well, back in the 24/7 grind of composing a new work. Being AuDHD, I find I don’t have much control over *what* I do when (except with editorial intervention when publishing, when I am speedy and on it). So a crude first draft of a new book and I’ll...

Should you advertise your own book/s even if they’re traditionally published? A thread.

Personally, I despise promotion. Find me or not, your choice. But I know that’s self-defeating esp when I’m so ill and poor I’m going down in flames.

All crossed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Days are so busy, between jockeying the many varied needs of the disabled body with writing, spring, tax prep, keeping up with the news. I am très pooped, always.

Warning, very male-centred. robmclennan.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-f...

Many congrats to all!

#Booksky 2026 International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced flip.it/53hXlX

Excited that the Booker Prize Shortlist is here. #bookerprize #books #list open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...

I’m working my way through a bunch of Booker prize nominees and now I’ve got another batch to add to the list. I’m gonna need y’all to write garbage for the next year or two so I can catch up. Thanks.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I saw my first trans person (not that one can always tell) out in the world where I live today in 2.5 years, so, yes, it’s a happy day of visibility for me, a non-binary person.

🧵With apologies for not being here more! But am writing like a goof. Anything to defer taxes. Taxes aren’t even hard, just laborious. (I hate AHDA.) Anyhow, 7000 words into a new novel. I need a new novel like I need a freaking hole in the ground when it feels...

🧵Funny/sad thread. We writers are getting e’s like this today from our agents and publishers: This is a reminder that that deadline to submit a Claim Form in the class action lawsuit Bartz, et al v. Anthropic PBC has been extended to March 30, 2026. My works were

Funny. danielpiper.substack.com/p/agony-auth...

Shy Girl, anyone? As someone whose life’s work was stolen by AI—no compensation, no ability to say no—I worry. Obviously my work will sound like the AI that stole my work, right? @evansolomon.bsky.social thedreydossier.substack.com/p/91-percent...

Many of my friends are pro translators. They have to know so much about cultural contexts that it boggles the mind. They specialise as a result: translating police procedurals is a different skill to natural history is a different skill to literary fiction.

I wrote about A-fib and covid, those unhappy bedfellows...

Alert! Alert!

“You learn a lot, writing fiction.” - Penelope Lively Yes, yes you do. I learn more every day. 📚💙 More: Dame Penelope Margaret Lively, DBE, FRSL, award-winning #British #writer - The Man Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal For Writing - penelopelively.co.uk #writers #quotes on #writing #fiction

56% of covid infections are completely asymptomatic, which means you don’t know you have it and transmitting it to others. Wear a respirator around others. It’s airborne, so it drifts like smoke, even outside. Will dissipate eventually, but you are walking through plumes of others’ exhaled air.

I saw a TikTok from Chelsea Fagan talking about the whole “death of literary fiction” thing, basically saying that litfic can be beautiful and exquisite with amazing prose but also it’s usually a huge bummer and, you know what, I think that mostly explains my reading slump the past couple years.

Possession by A. S. Byatt is an intricate novel that went on to win the Booker Prize in 1990. #booksky #postmodernism #bookerprize #bookreview

Publishers/publicity depts, if you build the market, they will come to read from it. Or, I guess you can choose exclusion.

Carney super fans, double-dare you to listen: breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-...

Saunders … who once chose a piece of mine as a contest winner and wrote about it. But here he is at the NYT. duck://player/wGWCqgIyrbM

Here is my just-out-of-bed David Szalay look. Think i nailed it? Will I be a famoose-Canliterati now instead of an infamoose Cdn CastOfferti?

A Substack essay on making the neo-50s. Folks, I grew up in through that shit watching it ruin the bright light that was my mother and I happily sang those toxic Beatles lyrics about a man threatening death to a woman he was stalking for “straying.”

The cool thing about poverty/disability and therefore being shunted from place to place all the time is you get to know/assess different communities, and watch them sour against you as they realize you’re different (making it time to move on anyhow). (Trying to find something good about my sit.)

Throughout the Booker library, you will find a range of stories depicting the many faces of motherhood. The mothers in these books may not win the Mother of the Year prize anytime soon, but their impact endures. Tap below to discover the full reading list.

🧵Here I am with the “new” unfinished novel, draft four printed out. Not because I consider it done and dusted, but because I no longer trust the internet. (Since Muckolini effed with the internet in ukraine, I’ve been printing hard copies of important work.)

I thought the internet was supposed to make our writing lives easier? I sure don’t miss cut and pasting, but not sure I’ve needed anything else since basic word processing features since, yet my puter is clogged with crap, and things disappear on the reg. HIGHLY ADVISE PAPER BACKUPs now.

English PEN has now awarded over £1 million of funding to 400 books for translation, including several recognized by the International Booker Prize, including winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushta. The latest round of grants focuses on translating Brazilian literature.

"artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world."

Seven Stories Press celebrates women’s history with their Women’s History Month Reading List, a selection of political non-fiction, memoir, literary fiction, and other writings they recommend for ... any month of the year, really! sevenstories.com/blogs/205-ce...

Oh, and a writing tip for essayists? If that’s your bag, join Substack (before it goes belly up), bc I gotta say I’ve started about 20 unintended essays since being there (Cranky Granky Substack), which I’ve never posted there, but just packed into an essay-drafts file. Very cool. They let ya go on.

🧵Sucky news … did not get BC grant, which seals the deal on having to move again this spring—and there is just nowhere cheaper than where I’m living in a mobile home park. I guess people would imagine MAiD as my best solution, but fuck those ableist eugenics.

@amandaleduc.bsky.social Many congrats on long-listing for Carol Shields Prize! Good luck!

🧵Hello, good lit people. I’ve been off for a FM emergency. No writing and virtually no thinking about it, either. But I was pleased to manage three subs last week. Anybody else find subs take hours each since every place has different open times, different format requirements etc. It really...

women's prize for fiction is exciting, i know, but personally, i'm not a huge fan of literary prizes in general. i don't think our reading should be lead by popularity contests, money, PR etc. some books deserve to be hyped, but some that are - don't. read aginst the grain.