We are pleased to share that Manahil Bandukwala's Heliotropia has been named the 2025 Archibald Lampman Award winner! This year's jury says, "With form and language that surprises and delights, Manahil Bandukwala has crafted a perfect set of love poems for our current moment." Congrats, Manahil!
Our expert columnist Manahil Bandukwala (@manahil.bsky.social) has some fantastic writing tips for all the poets out there who are looking for a home for their manuscript!
#AmReading #WritingTips #Poetry #Books
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49th Shelf's Spring Fiction Preview is here & we're thrilled that You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guerard, tr. by Neil Smith, I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur, The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, & Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber are included!
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gorgeous!!
research for a story, fitting response to the overview panel
CBC Poetry Prize winner Natalie Lim’s debut collection, Elegy for Opportunity, is coming out this April 8, 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social—and we have review copies available now! (Yes, even hard copies!)
Request a review copy:
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More deets in comments!
My friends, I am so beyond thrilled to share the second installment in Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive, written by none other than the absolutely legendary @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
Ah, thank you! I adored this poem. My partner was reading the issue and asked if he could read this poem out loud to me. I was so pleasantly surprised to see your name when I picked up the issue for myself a few days later!
Trumpeting in @arcpoetry.bsky.social and thrilled about it. Thanks to the team for including me!
Held in hand weighed is definitely more chaotic so I’m going to go with that
New chaotic book sorting system: by weight of book
Hmm, might have to schedule a trip to Toronto March 1st!
Crab skeletons on a palm
The crabs!!
Beautiful reading ❤️
So far I’ve seen two listings for Neil Gaiman books up on FB marketplace and I have no doubt I’ll be seeing more
I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨
For more info, check out our submissions guidelines:
www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions
At last, they solved soups biggest problem: Wet
I would like to not download an app just to access something (although as I type this I am enjoying the Libby app)
this is exactly me right down to the weird dreams
Screenshot of an Instagram post by Hatecopy of a poem from Heliotropia
THE Hatecopy is reading Heliotropia and thinks it’s a joy to read 🥺
Image: me, Manahil, and a small clip of the cover art from her book Heliotropia. Text reads: Manahil Bandukwala talks to a nobody on Tuesday January 21st, 2025 at 7:30pm EST on IG Live
Come hang out with me and @manahil.bsky.social on IG Live on January 21 at 7:30pmEST
New blog post! 📚💙 Today I shared a list of upcoming releases by Caribbean authors. Read it here: helenaramsaroop.com/2025/01/06/b...
Screenshot of “The Sea-Witchss at Nightfall” from an uncanny Magazine’s website. The text is as follows: Clutched in cold hands and freed to blue topographies a sacred transmission pulses as the light lowers a bright chorus metewintoq is heard singing from night’s dark throat— Each moment is a pearl spat from shell gesigawitgl they flow swiftly— into our depths, where we divine the future far from the closed mouth of the nacreous moon— In the place of low light wasoqonmeg we keep it lit— the gleaming lantern of every eye— and fish trail stars on silk as hope sways silver above us on a sky that toqjua’t sipug swims upstream.
The @sfpoetry.bsky.social’s Rhysling Awards are open! I have two poems eligible - wela’lioq for your kind consideration 💚
The first is from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social:
Just $48,500CAD until $2M CAD! We are running critically low on funds and the pace of spending is higher than donations at the moment!
Please share and donate if you can <3
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#ConnectingGaza
This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth!
It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙
Preorders are open! Please share if you can!
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Magical girl frog!
Crochet shorts on a blue couch
Assembled and onto the dreaded sewing in ends. No one tells you that part takes as long as the crochet
anything you say I must immediately do (account is made)
It was a very good writing year for me, with my first fiction pub, the CBC prize longlist, etc. But I’m definitely most proud of Heliotropia, love poems intersecting with space and joy, a theme that feels the most “me”