We're so excited to announce two of our amazing 2026 Spring Residents — Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum! We're honored to be able to support these writers and hope you will, too. Learn more about our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...
Hi everyone, My third collection, Empties, is out in March! "Empties" as a verb, "empties" as a plural noun. And how empty bottles can sing. 💛 I'll share details about upcoming launches soon. Here's the cover (design by David Drummond)
I returned to Blue Sky and I am going to make a valiant attempt to post the books I have read this upcoming year. You may also see doodles.
We’re thrilled to announce that our 2025 – 2026 Poet-in-Residence will be Cassidy McFadzean! From November 2025 to July 2026, Cassidy will be mentoring poets and creating new work for a future issue of Arc Poetry. Do you want to workshop your own poetry with Cassidy? Details here: buff.ly/B072bOs
Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress captures seasons as an artistic expression occupying our internal state. Reviewer Margaryta Golovchenko reflects on the seasons presented in individual sections as the “self that never stops growing, despite the weather.” Read the full review here: buff.ly/nZKdJUc
The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller forced the prize to drop Scotiabank over its ties to Israel’s biggest weapons maker—and sparked a broader reckoning in CanLit. Josiah Neufeld tells the inside story of the organizers who made it happen. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...
Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach
The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community
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A new review of Crying Dress in the spring issue of @arcpoetry.bsky.social 🌸 "McFadzean creates the sensation of time unravelling on an individual level as the speaker moves across geographical spaces and emotional states"
"All the apartment's doorknobs have been removed The last tenant afraid of being locked inside In a house with no exits" #TodaysPoem #poetry Storm King by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social (2024 @longconmagazine.bsky.social) in Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (@Biblioasis.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex
Tonight!!
Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 2y agoSo excited to be launching echolalia echolalia in Toronto with the incomparable Sanna Wani, Jody Chan, hosted by my editor Phoebe Wang. 7pm, Friday, April 11th at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social. See you there! echolaliaecholaliatoronto.eventbrite.ca
excited to read with @teresempierre.bsky.social and @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for the @theampersandreview.bsky.social reading series at Sheridan College next Thursday!
It’s publication day for Dead Writers, a collaborative fiction project by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. 💀 invisiblepublishing.com/product/dead...
In writer @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social’s “Forest Hill Gothic,” a woman reflects on the domestic routines she witnessed in childhood as she takes up the project of repairing her in-laws’ home: thewalrus.ca/forest-hill-gothic/
“It seemed like an easy fix, replacing the rusted old hose with a shiny new one.” Read “Forest Hill Gothic,” a new short story from writer @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social: thewalrus.ca/forest-hill-gothic/
"I first found them in the forest at Blanket as a girl, not knowing their purpose, drawn to their pale colour, petals flecked with black and sometimes glowstick pink." #TodaysPoem #poetry Ghost flower by @CassidyMcFadzean.bsky.social (2025 Etcetera Poetry) tinyurl.com/2cn9nz2n
Cassidy McFadzean — Etcetera
“I remember a professor at Iowa warning me against reading too much Lucie Brock-Broido, that the baroque exuberance of her poems might send me even further towards the esoteric and obscure. But what I...
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A few new poems and some thoughts on books by Lucie Brock-Broido, Emily Skillings, Etel Adnan, Matsuki Masutani, and Mary Jo Bang that have meant a lot to me www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/...
Cassidy McFadzean — Etcetera
“I remember a professor at Iowa warning me against reading too much Lucie Brock-Broido, that the baroque exuberance of her poems might send me even further towards the esoteric and obscure. But what I...
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Creative Writing & Publishing students at Sheridan have collected nearly 700 signatures to save their program! www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Stop the Suspension of Sheridan’s Creative Writing and Publishing Program
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Thanks to @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for writing this piece. The problems that CW&P faces are problems many institutions face at the moment. Oh, and I can't help but think that valuable programs could be saved only –– oh, if only –– some restructuring *cough*cuts*ahem* could be made at the top.
Great piece by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on the repercussions of axing th Creative Writing & Publishing program at Sheridan College.
I’m Sheridan’s writer in residence. Here’s what the college will lose when it suspends a writing program
The loss of Sheridan College's creative writing and publishing program will have devastating consequences for Canadian literature.
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Read @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social’s piece about how @sheridancollege.bsky.social is gutting their acclaimed and successful creative writing and publishing program: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I’m Sheridan’s writer in residence. Here’s what the college will lose when it suspends a writing program
The loss of Sheridan College's creative writing and publishing program will have devastating consequences for Canadian literature.
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This is more than scary! And pretty clear the G1ller Foundation has lost all integrity. Nevermind boycotting, it needs to be entirely dismantled. It's currently being run by directors & staff that are not arm's length, which means it is being run with the inherent biases of ER and related directors.
Farzana Doctor@farzanadoctor.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s disturbing that the Giller ED would share this “article” from “Honest Reporting” + its “action alert” against author David Bergen. Bergen protested that the Giller is funded by a bank invested in an arms manufacturer involved in the genocide in Palestine and now Lebanon. x.com/elyrobbins/s...
join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
CanLit Responds
Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize
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"My mask soaks up my tears I'm just so happy to be here singing Lucinda Williams's "Like a Rose" I never stutter when I'm alone" #TodaysPoem #poetry Little Island by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social from Crying Dress (2024 House of Anansi Press) tinyurl.com/yc5ahtuh
