See me at The Blue Met Festival in Montreal!
🌈 You can catch me on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 9:30 pm the Chosen Ties event at Hotel Dix.
🪻You can also see me on Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 10 am on the THE POWER OF POINT OF VIEW IN DIVISIVE TIMES panel.
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Thank you also to Isabella Wang for the sweet charm featuring Ecology Paul—the affable and quirky narrator of my just released novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026).
Thank you to Alex Boyd for inviting me to be a part of his interview series and asking about my work across genre and form. ♥️
“I don’t know if it’s that I like the idea of writing every genre as much as it feels like a natural choice. Like how sometimes you feel like walking somewhere and sometimes you need to run.”
—Me! boydwords.wordpress.com
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Annahid Dashtgard about her new thoughtful and necessary book, Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders (Dundurn Press, 2026).
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Alison Gadsby about her thrillingly unsettling collection of short fiction, Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026).
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#shortstories
Get a load of this CanLit goodness! 💫
Thank you to Wendy J. Fox and Electric Lit for including two of the awesome books we’ve been celebrating on their list of 15 Must-Read Small Press Books of Spring 2026!
Read the full list: ⚡️
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“A feat of imagination and execution.”
— Wendy J. Fox, Electric Lit
Thank you Wendy & Electric Lit for the spotlight on, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026)
Read Wendy’s full column:
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@junctionreads.bsky.social’s is also on the list!
Thank you SO MUCH @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social!
Thank you @hollay.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth #ThisIsWhereIGetOff
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In this NBN episode, I have a delightful (and perhaps little bit morbid) conversation with author and retired paramedic and fire captain, Sean Paul Bedell, about his novel, Shoebox (NoN Publishing, 2025).
Listen here:
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#firstresponders
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Honoured and grateful to @tolu.ca for this beautiful blurb about Wound Archive. Silence and waiting are roots for this book - thank you for seeing them, Tolu. If you’d like a review copy of this minimalist collection of poems before it publishes May 1, contact me or @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
Yes! @cowenwriter.bsky.social ✨
A beloved memory from my largely hazy 20s. Here I am reading a poem at Sage Hill Writing retreat in Saskatchewan. I was fortunate enough to be accepted into a workshop run by Sue Goyette and Phil Hall and I knew — I just knew — I was the luckiest girl in all the land.
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A wonderful list of thirty new poetry titles for National Poetry Month is up at The New Quarterly - and we're delighted to see Jaime Forsythe's Yield and Richard Harrison's My Mother Joins the Resistance on it:
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“[…] I should write what I love and write uncompromisingly of what interests me because I am going to need to be prepared to be devoted to it, long after it is published.”
Thank you for the interview invite! 🍓
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#NationalPoetryMonth spotlight 1: an excerpt from “Post-Memory” by Brandi Bird’s collection, Pitiful (House of Anansi, 2026).
Learn more:
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Photo credit of Brandi: Geoffrey Wallang
#poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #readmorepoetry
It’s #InternationalTransgenderDayofVisibility! 🏳️⚧️
Today, we spotlight Harman Burns, the author of the captivating novella, Yellow Barks Spider (Radiant Press, 2024).
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In this NBN episode, I have a lovely conversation with Janice Hadlow (The Other Bennett Sister) about her fascinating novel, Rules of the Heart (Henry Holt & Company, 2026).
Listen in:
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#historicalfiction
The cover of The Unravelling of Ou, by Hollay Ghadery. The background is shades of brown, and the central image is a colorful drawing of a forearm disappearing into a blue sock puppet
Photo of Hollay Ghadery, in front of a dark blue backdrop. A hand wearing a sock puppet is pressed against her right cheek
Read Sumaiya Matin's interview of @hollay.bsky.social re: her novel The Unravelling of Ou (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) in Issue 34!
...Unnatural is shoving yourself—your abundant and miraculous contradictions—into a box...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-ghader...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
April is within spitting distance so I wanted to share the next two dates for my #JointheUnravelling Tour.
I am going to Montreal for the Blue Met Festival. Learn mors: bluemetropolis.org.
Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts & my publisher for their generous support.
#litfic
In this NBN episode, I speak with Christine Estima about her fascinating novel, Letters to Kafka (House of Anansi, 2025).
Listen in:
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Thank you to Sumaiya Matin for this wonderful interview in The /temz/ Review!
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-ghader...
#canlit
In this NBN episode, I speak with Conor Mc Donnell about his long poem, What We Know So Far Is...(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
Listen to the conversation:
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I had a lot of fun speaking with Liana Yadav for this interview about my new novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2026), its unusual narrator, and what the hell was I thinking anyway?
Mamnoonam Liana and CanCulture!
Read the full interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/the...
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