Franky (Frances) Cannon
@frankyfrancescannon.com
Writer, artist, editor, educator. Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. Author of "Walter Benjamin Reimagined", MIT Press, "Fling Diction," Green Writers Press, and other books. https://linktr.ee/Frankyfrancescannon
This is today!
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop@lighthousebks.bsky.social · last mo.One for the queer nature lovers among us - for our next Book Fringe event, we've invited @frankyfrancescannon.com to tell us all about her new anthology - Queer Flora, Fauna and Funga - in the garden tomorrow! Expect to be equally inspired and delighted by queer ecology. See you there at 12pm!
The anthology Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga, edited by @frankyfrancescannon.com & published by @valizbooks.bsky.social , has been released. I contributed text & illustrations for ‘Convolvulaceae & Xochipilli: the Morning Glories & the Aztec Prince of Flowers’. valiz.nl/en/publicati...
Edinburgh’s Book Fringe is back for 2026 & we have a jam-packed roster of world-class authors in store for you! We're delighted to be partnering with @argonautbooks.bsky.social and Greenhouse Records to bring you a broad range of events, workshops and talks. Get your tix here! linktr.ee/bookfringe
Looking forward to this!
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop@lighthousebks.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow does acknowledging the queerness of nature inspire us to compose the world otherwise & how can we make a place for ourselves in the story? Join @frankyfrancescannon.com - editor of Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga - at Book Fringe on 20th August to explore these questions and more!
A new review of my novel, ‘Vernal Thaw’, featured in @sevendaysvt.bsky.social www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
Book Review: ‘Vernal Thaw’ by Frances Cannon | Seven Days
The Vermont and Scotland-based author and illustrator explores a tumultuous romance in a novel that blends fiction and autobiography.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Queer Flora, Fauna and Funga has come off press 🥁 ! Edited by Frances Cannon. Order your copy 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...
France’s Cannon’s BITTEN BY THE LANTERN FLY is now available! @frankyfrancescannon.com www.ethelzine.com/shop/bitten-...
If you are in Dublin tonight, May 21, swing by The Library Project 4-6pm in the Temple Bar neighborhood, hosted by @photoireland-org.bsky.social : www.thelibraryproject.ie/blogs/news/b...
Book Launch: Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, Franky Cannon
Join us at 4pm on Thursday, 21st May to launch Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant by Franky Cannon.
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I have two events today (Thursday May 21) in Dublin, join if you're in the area! The first is a conversation on queer literature with Jade Wilson of Dyke Affair at the international literature festival of Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social at 12:30 in merrion square: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Noon Fix Alternative forms in queer literature PhotoIreland at ILFD
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Book Launch at Typewronger Books May 13 in Edinburgh: VERNAL THAW A Novel of Love at a Slant By Franky (Frances) Cannon. @typewronger.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/vernal-tha...
VERNAL THAW A Novel of Love at a Slant By Franky (Frances) Cannon
Join us for the launch of Franky Cannon's new novel!
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Read about my new novel in this thoughtful review @autostraddle.bsky.social www.autostraddle.com/new-novel-ve...
New Novel 'Vernal Thaw' Explores Toxic Queer Monogamy
While most texts about polyamory explore what happens when a relationship opens up, Vernal Thaw reverses this trope: the novel explores what happens when a polyamorous person chooses to close off othe...
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It's real! A new interdisciplinary publication of queer ecologies: queerflora.org
Queer Flora Fauna Funga - Queer Flora Fauna Funga
Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga is an eclectic, transdisciplinary, and versatile collaboration, highlighting the sexual and gender diversity in nature; queer theory
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Books available for pre-order in Ethel’s shop including Chris L. Butler’s MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED, Suzette Bishop’s UNBECOMING, Frances Cannon’s BITTEN BY THE LANTERN FLY and being mailed soon: Erin Mizrahi’s TO WHAT END. @clbpoetry.bsky.social @frankyfrancescannon.com @erinmizrahi.bsky.social
Tuesday poem #673 : Frances Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com : Litmus test / @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @valizbooks.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/02/tues...
Tuesday poem #673 : Frances Cannon : Litmus test
How are you doing, humans? Did you know that litmus is made from lichens? We all gather in a coffee shop and pretend to work, alone...
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I have a new book, 'Bitten by the Lantern Fly', out now with Ethel: www.ethelzine.com/bitten-by-th...
Bitten by the Lantern Fly — Ethel
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I am so thrilled to have my illustrated essay published by the New York Times today, about my voyage across the pond with my dog, on a ship! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/t...
My Dog Tintin’s Trans-Atlantic Voyage on the Queen Mary 2
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newly posted: Frances Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com : on Grotto periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
Frances Cannon : on Grotto
There is a strange vision lodged in my memory and subconscious: fountains and alcoves dripping with artificial mineral deposits, b...
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new from above/ground press: Grotto, by Frances Cannon / @frankyfrancescannon.com ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
new from above/ground press: Grotto, by Frances Cannon
Grotto Frances Cannon $6 Sympoetics After Donna Haraway and the Faerie Queen Trouble in the knots of fertility. Human fictions, entangled an...
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I have a new essay with Art UK! artuk.org/discover/sto...
Duncan Grant's intimate sketches of queer life in Bloomsbury and beyond
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 700,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.
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Happy to have my novel longlisted for the @bridportprize.bsky.social : an excerpt was published in this anthology!
working new above/ground press chapbooks by Guy Birchard, Jill Stengel, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jimmy T Cahill, Lance La Rocque, Rebecca Comay/Cary Fagan, Buck Downs + Frances Cannon this week; have you thought of subscribing? / @frankyfrancescannon.com abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
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...
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Just learned that Charles Bukowski wrote about a character named 'Franky Cannon' (my name) in his 1972 (City Lights) book, "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," which was later split into two volumes and republished as "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town." Neat🤷♂️
