Answering my own question :) A little cross-socials sleuthing and I found the details on Facebook.

Hi Kim, is this still happening?

Watched the whole vid on yt. I think you bring up some really valid points. I think because Canadian authors rely so heavily on subsidies and prizes, it ends up incentivizing that "type" of book. Not sure what the solution is, but I think about it a lot.

That was exactly my reaction :)

How to Pronounce Michael Ondaatje YouTube video by PronunciationManual

I'm so glad I checked. #CanLit #MichaelOndaatje www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6s...

From the ever clever and talented @brianbilston.bsky.social. #poetry

A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Feeling this one by Rudy Francisco.

Submissions open for 2025 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished writers are encouraged to submit short stories, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry.

Last day for submissions to the RBC PEN New Voices Award. #CanLit #writers

quillandquire.com/omni/canadia...

Press release c:

#ConnectingGaza #CanLit

@andybest.bsky.social And so it begins. (I was serious about that membership card lol)

Cover image of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

Finished Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley the other day. A lovely speculative story that seeps into you like a morning mist and asks you to consider what you would do if your past and future were only a hike away. #CanLit

Every once in a while my printer will randomly run a short feed cycle or something... and I've started thinking of it as the printer sighing. Never has its ennui been more relatable. I get why you refuse to connect. I see you.

Great list of Canadian presses for those looking to support Canadian books! #CanLit

39 Canadian poetry collections coming out in spring 2025 | CBC Books Here are the Canadian poetry collections we are excited about this spring!

CBC Books - 39 Canadian poetry collections coming out in spring 2025 #CanLit #CanPo #NPM2025
www.cbc.ca/books/39-can...

This is, in fact, the first. :)

Susan Holbrook's Steamy is easily the funniest book about menopause I've ever read. #canlit

Very excited to have provided interior design for this lovely book. Amazing photos by Marty Gervais interwoven with beautiful poems by Kim Fahner (kimfahner.bsky.social), Micheline Maylor (michelinemaylor.bsky.social), Teajai Travis, John B Lee and Peter Hrastovec. blackmosspress.com/product/and-...

Today's Goodwill book haul

Happy Caesar Stabbing Day, for those that celebrate.

"I Cannot Praise a Fugitive and Cloister'd Virtue" An interview with Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning

Good read. "I think that both conservatives and progressives see the library, and especially the school library, as a microcosm of society. They think [...] that they can reshape society by transforming the library." #canlit #bookbans

cover of LM Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Having watched the various TV adaptations and visited Green Gables in PEI, it's a wonder it's taken this long, but I've finally started reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time. Still early pages, but enjoying it so far. #canlit

Water colour painting of a small dragon saying "If we eat just one, the rest will start behaving."

Food for thought.

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A great read. Buy #indiebooks from #indiebookstores.

This was a great read, thanks!

I read Bear about a year ago for the first time. A wonderful, powerful novel well worthy of its spot in the #canlit canon.

Part 1 of my (this never happens) weekly reading roundup. Finished my first-ever romance novel, The Kiss Quotient. About as formulaic as I expected (not a negative, I wanted to learn the genre tropes). Spicier than I expected 👀. Not rushing for another but I liked it.

I dunno if blurb hunting is quite bully level for the analogy to work (maybe in the context of how publishers put marketing on authors), but yeah definitely get that 🍑😘 vibe from PW's intro. I think it actually colours Manning's otherwise pretty neutral tone.

More related to the link I posted yesterday re: S&S doing away with blurbs.