Ten years of #poetrywellserved #KFB10 JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees Spring 2026 Available for Preorder knifeforkbook.shop
Barbara Tran
@staranise99.bsky.social
Poet, writer, K9 behaviour geek Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry) Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award #anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social barbaratran.com | https://linktr.ee/barbaratran
“Recognizing the Stranger” convo w/ Vietnamese German novelist @pham-fatale.bsky.social & me, Tues, Oct 21, 6:30 pm at Goethe-Insitut NYC, free w/ rsvp. www.eventbrite.com/e/festival-n... Q: What text have you written that feels especially important now? A: Lttr to Paddington Bear & empathy.
Starry Starry Night by celebrated Canadian author Shani Mootoo is forthcoming on September 23, 2025 with Book*hug Press! Request a review copy. ✨ www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @bookhugpress.bsky.social #canlit
I have four new poems in the just-launched Summer Issue of Blackbird, link below:
Blackbird – An online journal of literature and the arts
An online journal of literature and the arts
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Tonight in #Berlin #shewhohasnomasters #movingpoets #poetry #movement #sound She Who Has No Master(s): #AngieChau #AnhHoaNguyen #BarbaraTran #DaoStrom #HoaNguyen #MyLoanDinh #PhuongTVuong #SophiaTerazawa Guests: #BichNgocLuu #CarmenVolpe #HanyTea #ThiMinhHuyenNguyen #canlit #authors #booksky
This mighty micropress produced a Griffin longlister before 10 years of existence. KFB is phenomenal. And fun. Let's celebrate her with the 10th anniversary season she deserves. #kfb10 #4ertile #fertilefest #canlit #canpoetry #poetrybooks #chapbooks #readings
On the eve of announcing KFB's stellar 2026-27 Tenth Anniversary Season #KFB10, & 4th Fertile Festival of New & Innovative Works #4ERTILE, fundraising is of the essence. Our goal is doable. To raise our Patreon from 34 current paid members to 100 at $10/month. www.patreon.com/posts/theres...
“Are you laughing or crying?” I asked. “Laughing,” she said as she wiped tears from her eyes. The Mockler. On point. @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/father-say...
You Are Hurting the Ceiling
One of these days we'll both be fine
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Just dropped. Happy Pride darlin's. #softie #KFB
Before even a wisp of Pride gay boys staged a kiss-in Yonge & Bloor arrested, public indecency fined for their liplocks. Convicts. Made the papers. “You were supposed to feel ashamed of yourself.” KIRBY "Kiss me" from their new KFB chapbook SOFTIE #SoftFest3 itsakirby.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-me
"Performing the role of 'body' for you has been akin to participating in an irreparably toxic workplace environment. One where management actively ignores the research and trauma-backed warnings I issue on a regular basis."
I Am Your Body and I Am Done Keeping Score
It’s me, your body, the one you’ve inhabited for thirty-plus years. I refuse to say exactly how many, because, as of today, keeping a precise count...
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Have you submitted? June 30 deadline. #capilanoreview #callforsubmissions #canlit #hybridwriting #litjournal #booksky #authors #writers
"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review." thecapilanoreview.com/language-the...
8PM TONIGHT MY QUEERS! #threedollarbill #parkdale
WEDNESDAY NIGHT 8PM! #whereyouwillfindme #thislineup #slays KIRBY MS. KNOWAH HOLDER CHELSEA ROZANSKY VIDAL WU LEE SUKSI BRAWK WARD NATURAL BORN SINNERS #oncruising THREE DOLLAR BILL #parkdale Hosted by NASTY BEE + FAITH Bring your own lube, poppers, cash. #tapfootforagoodtime #heysexybuymeadrink
Before Los Angeles was an American city, it was a Mexican village named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula." Yet the only "invasion" the GOP talks about concerns modern-day immigrants, not the US military invasion of 1846.
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: They were literally out there protesting, carrying a foreign flag. That's absolutely insane. They are not just peaceful protesters. These are illegals. BASH: Carrying a flag is not illegal M: A foreign fag -- a foreign flag while you're attacking law enforcement, it's pretty bad
Thinking of Greta Thunberg and the other brave people aboard the relief ship Madleen. And of course the starving kids they’re trying to help Justice is justice is justice
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
Tonight, pick your genre. Poetry, YA Fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, short fiction. Martha Bátiz, Shade Lapite, Marvyne Jenoff, Caitlyn Galway, Derek Webster & me. 7PM. #AngelReadingSeries Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street. FREE. #canlit #reading #booksky #poetry #writers #books #fiction
I don't know about you, but poetry and literature in general are what bring me back into balance and remind me what my goals are and what really matters. Join Martha Bátiz, Shade Lapite, Marvyne Jenoff, Caitlyn Galway, Derek Webster & me. Fri, June 6, 7PM. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street. FREE.
LMCC has a new #writingcontest page! Check our site for 2025 contests run by #litmags in Canada. Contact us to add your magazine's details. litmags.ca/contests/
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
⏰ There are SIX DAYS left to submit your application to the 2025 Tin House Autumn Online Workshop! Don't miss out on this magical experience curated just for speculative writers, apply today! Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...
Attention writers! The annual Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Contest closes in one week! Be sure to get your submissions in by June 10th! ⏰ For more information, visit: tnq.ca/tnq-contest-...
Attention nonfiction writers! Submissions are now open for regular nonfiction until June 30, 2025. Note: Although there is a deadline, the total submission cap for nonfiction is 50 submissions. Be sure to submit your essays as soon as possible: tnq.ca/submit/ #litmagsubmissions #nonfiction
Do you love language? "Listen & Be Heard" is a podcast for you. The host, Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social, is a sheer delight. Her love of books is palpable. And you can feel her nurturing oasis of a garden coming through the mic. #booksky #books #poetry #podcast #literature #writers #canlit
Barbara Tran - Precedented Parroting. Spoken Word, Cipher for Malcolm X's 100th Birthday, Jay's take on Blowin' in the Wind, Martha's take on the wind... https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/05/29/s3e16/
I don't know about you, but poetry and literature in general are what bring me back into balance and remind me what my goals are and what really matters. Join Martha Bátiz, Shade Lapite, Marvyne Jenoff, Caitlyn Galway, Derek Webster & me. Fri, June 6, 7PM. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street. FREE.
Okay, these two 'debutant' poets, JESSICA BEBENEK No One Knows Us There @bookhugpress.bsky.social + CHRISTINE WU Familial Hungers #brickbooks are on the road making an appearance Thursday night at Imperial Pub, then off to London (31) & the Hammer (01). I know they're bringing it. Meet them there.
I think I was in my element talking spiritual life writing, memoir as art, and being the children of immigrants with acclaimed Winnipeg author and all around lovely human being, Linda Trinh. Listen to our @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-spirit #memoir
Deadline: May 30. Poems in dialogue with other poems. Edited by Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social & @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social planetearthpoetry.com/after?ss_sou... #canpoetry #canlit
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPENS Jan 1st 2025 — Planet Earth Poetry
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AFTER: Poems in Dialogue A Canadian Anthology of Response Poems Edited by Kyeren Regehr & Zoe Dickinson Published by Caitlin Press And in collaboration with Planet Earth Poetry. We invite poets across Canada to contribute to AFTER: Poems in Dialogue. Www.planetearthpoetry.com/after
Such a wonderful book. The Seventh Town of Ghosts by @faitharkorful.bsky.social #canpoetry #canlit #booksky
"oh, how i love / the suggestion that the earth can extend / that there will always be room for more time." #TodaysPoem #poetry Family Affair by @faitharkorful.bsky.social from The Seventh Town of Ghosts (2024 McClelland & Stewart) tinyurl.com/2v25979y
Don't sleep on the poetry consultation from Brandi Bird! I worked with them on my chapbook and it was amazing.
Hiiii I am offering consultation on 10 pages of writing (poetry, cnf, or essay) + a behind the poem for this auction for eSims, ending May 18th! Check out amazing books & bundles, including a draft of an Eden Robinson novel?!!? #ConnectingGaza #CanLit tinyurl.com/authors4esims
Come celebrate! The League of Canadian Poets' Book Awards reading. Tomorrow (Tues), 8PM EDT. Thank you, jurors! Congratulations, poets! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Thank you @canadianpoets.bsky.social #CanadaCouncilfortheArts @ontarioarts.bsky.social #canpoetry #canlit #poetryreading #booksky