Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.

Thrilled to share my chapbook failed (after)lives w The Blasted Tree has been shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award!!! Very very grateful and excited!

I just fell to my knees

“don’t ask me again for 30 days” why does multifactor authentication even offer that option when they FULLY INTEND TO ASK ME AGAIN JUST ONE DAY LATER like pls i just want to log into my student centre let me be 😭😭😭

leaned over after watching Superman and whispered “everything is adoption studies”

Things I have done to get my students to wrap up their discussion: 1) increasingly loud HELLOs 2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn 3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)

THE BESTIE AND I GOT SSHRC IT’S TIME FOR MATCHING JUMPSUITS @inkstainedwreck.ca

while working on my thesis about adoption, I’ve had super relevant and random encounters (ie discovering a stranger in the dog park had an incredible adoption story) and just as I’ve decided this novel is an archive of adoption I found out that China closed overseas adoption last year

Canada’s most unique poetry prize – deadline extended. 5 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings readings in the fall! Please repost! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn... @faitharkorful.bsky.social‬ @ryannekap.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social‬

the age of men is over. the time of the fool has come

nice

help

Q: hey, what are you into? A:

Super excited to announce that my second poetry collection is now available for preorder! Supergiants is forthcoming from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social in April, and just look at the glorious cover they cooked up 🌞 Preorder a copy from them or an indie bookstore or request it at your local library!

Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.

Monica Byrne@monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 2y ago

I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it. TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.

"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. " ~ Barbar Hurd, “Stirring the Mud" #SwampSunday #WitchSky

my partner & I have decided to start a collection of children’s books bc they’re so charming & wholesome & it’s all starting with Little Shrew (he will always be famous to me)

YAY A GAME! I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun: -The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social -Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou -Held by Anne Michaels Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social

Victoria Mbabazi@victoriambabazi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Let’s play a game! What are you reading and why? I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes! I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social

was feeling guilty about switching pharmacies bc my current pharmacist is so nice I was like stop it’s fine they don’t care but then she said “I wish you could stay” like does she love me or is it just annoying for them to do a transfer do they benefit from my presence monetarily or just emotionally

OFFICIALLY A PHD CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!! 🎷🦖

every time I email someone and ask my question directly instead of prefacing it with “I was just wondering” an angel gets their wings

My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo ex-puritan.ca/the-garden

The Garden

Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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Yes yes yes — very thrilled to have two brand new ekphrastic poems in the SCHISM issue of the Ex-Puritan. Read them here: ex-puritan.ca/ratchet-up-t... ❗️N.B.: the formatting of these poems is optimized for desktop viewing.

I have a letter to my first/birth mother in @therumpus.net for Adoption Awareness Month! This is a dream pub in so many ways; I’m so grateful to be part of this series and I feel so encouraged to keep writing about the messy grief and strange joy of being adopted 🤍 therumpus.net/2024/11/21/t...

To My First Mother - The Rumpus

It would be nice to look in the mirror and see you.

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If you have benefitted from Kirby's time and labour in the poetry community or are a lover of poetry and have the means to do so, please consider donating to this emergency fund. Please share widely! www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p181/E... www.knifeforkbook.shop

EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUND

​EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUNDShit happens. I was clearing space and backed into it. It's not reparable, and must be replaced. It's a rare specific ask, and you know she'll continue to retur...

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Madeleine Thien showing more principles and poise in one week than anyone on the Giller Foundation or advisory board has in entire careers

Richie Assaly@rdassaly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer. She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross. www.cbc.ca/books/writer...

Now I’m more than ever we must make promoting ourselves into a silly little game and I will give a silly one sentence description of each piece I post

Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer. She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross. www.cbc.ca/books/writer...

“Solidarity with everyone” may as well be solidarity with no one. This statement is a collection of meaningless words. A failing grade in human rights, morality, empathy and courage for the Giller Prize winner.

Richie Assaly@rdassaly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Anne Michaels takes home the Giller Prize and $100,000 for her novel “Held.” In her statement, she does not mention the boycott, but says she she stands in solidarity with “every writer inside and outside this room,” and with “Canadian publishers and booksellers.” www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

my pocket only ever wants to speak to one person ❤️

Victoria Mbabazi@victoriambabazi.bsky.social · 2y ago

When Ryanne calls me by accident it’s my job to answer it’s my duty it’s what I live for