A black-and-white photo of Richard Harrison labelled Poets Resist with the All Lit Up logo with an inset photo of his book My Mother Joins the Resistance. Richard is a light-skin-toned man with grey hair, full goatee, and black-framed glasses. He is wearing a collared shirt and looking into the camera.

"Out of hope I write, and in having written, I find reason to hope."

Richard Harrison is today's featured poet in our #ALUPoetsResist series w/ a poem from his book MY MOTHER JOINS THE RESISTANCE (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social). Read our interview and a poem from his book: alllitup.ca/poets-resist...

small one returns to ukulele lessons, so working the ends of this essay on Don McKay’s 1975 long poem, Long Sault,

Canadian Poets Series #25 : Gillian Sze Gillian Sze is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including  Peeling Rambutan  (Gaspereau Press, 2014)...

Canadian Poets Series #25 : Gillian Sze / @ecwpress.bsky.social ;
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Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

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

❤️this @robattigelli.bsky.social!!!

Excerpt from Wendy McGrath's essay "Portraits" published in Issue 177 of The New Quarterly.

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 Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.

Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella
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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."
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Bennett Malcolmson : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Emma McKenna Emma McKenna  [photo credit: Sarah Ziolkowska] is a feminist, bi, disabled writer. Born in Duncan, British Columbia, with a childhoo...

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 ;
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The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories - Alberta Views Lynda Williams debut short fiction collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories, is as "if Raymond Carver wrote feisty women.”

"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 👏

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks . Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Pri...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann / @saralippmann.bsky.social @tortoisebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org ;
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Congrats🎉🎉🎉

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 🩷🩷🩷📚🎉🥹

Bringing Life To Characters: Episode 52 Lynda Williams YouTube video by Author R Weir

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 ;
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Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim I am a woman in the same way a skull in the desert remains a deer. You can hear echoes of the sky in me. I spend many nights drinkin...

Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim
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this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market, In case you are around, I'll be (along with a mound of above/ground press titles + my new poetry title, the book of sentences ) participati...

this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market,
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Wild Writers Literary Festival panel "The Fine Line Between Author and Editor: A Drop-in chat."

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, In case you missed, I published an essay from within the current work-in-progress, "The Museum of Practical Things," over at my enormously c...

The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday,
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Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where I wrote my name on your back fifty-seven times in cursive           with a ballpoint pen.  Soft, speckled boy, your skin           i...

Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where / @writerstrust.bsky.social ;
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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.
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
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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 Lynda Williams ’ stories have appeared in Grain , The Humber Literary Review , and The New Quarterly , among others. She holds a graduate c...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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A Place for People Like Us by Danila Botha Reviewed by Jerry LevyDanila Botha’s novel A Place for People Like Us portrays, often in cringe-worthy detail, just how complicated and weird people can be. Is it any wonder then that some look to rel...

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”
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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, Hey! It's me and Toronto poet ( and above/ground press author ) Sean Braune ! We hung out together recently, the first in a long time, so t...

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 ;
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