“Toxemia is an impressive and deeply moving evocation of survival, and of remembering.” @francesboyle19.bsky.social reviews @christinemcnair.bsky.social's "powerful and emotive collection of lyric essays" for @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ch...

Review of Christine McNair’s "Toxemia" | FreeFall Magazine

By Frances Boyle Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*Hug (2024) Toxemia, the first work of creative non-fiction by multiple-award-winning poet Christine

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News! My @guernicaeditions.bsky.social novel, Skin Hunger is now available for preorder from your local independent bookstore (or the big retailers, but I'd love if you'd support indies!). Pre-orders are important: for the publisher to establish print runs, and for bookstores to order and promote.

And the auction has started!

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · last mo.

A signed, personalized hardcover of MERCUTIO is up for auction for the excellent @romancingthevote.com. I will ship anywhere in the world. This book is not yet available in US stores (and the hardcover never will be.) Auction starts tomorrow morning.

Issue #66 of Gone Lawn is nearly filled, and we'll be closing submissions on Monday morning, so if you have something we should read then send it to us this weekend! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Delighted to be part of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social again. And this list of contributors!!!

Pinhole Poetry@pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Announcing the contributors for PINHOLE POETRY’S SUMMER ISSUE Look for it July 3!

Great thoughts as ever from @kateheartfield.com . And, if you'll be popping in to @booksonbeechwood.ca this Sunday morning to see Kate, consider sticking around to say hi to me and Wayne Ng, who will be the #cibd resident authors there to sign our books and chat from 11:30-1 pm!

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · 3mo ago

Today's newsletter is about some of the reasons we should all pop into a bookstore this weekend. Good for the soul and good for the authors you like to read.

Today (April 15) is the deadline for poems for the Bywords.ca May issue. Read guidelines on site before submitting your poems svp. bywords.ca

2:30pm TODAY Presented in partnership with CU's Dept of English, join us at @carleton.ca (2017 Dunton Tower) for a FREE reading + Q&A with Karen Solie! Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural Saskatchewan. She is the author of six books. Her most recent, Wellwater, won EVERYTHING.

I'm very happy to have my poem "Umbra" in the lovely spec lit magazine Sprawl. Thanks so much to editors @mahailasmith.ca and @oklibby.bsky.social . www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1#umbra

Thanks as ever for the boost, @robmclennan.bsky.social !

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

some above/ground press author activity: Ben Robinson, Misha Solomon, rob mclennan, Mahaila Smith, Frances Boyle + Carrie Olivia Adams, / @francesboyle19.bsky.social @mahailasmith.ca @mishasolomon.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/some...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter re my opposition to Canadian support for US war on Iran . Write one here, with a customizable template: actionnetwork.org/letters/cond...

Condemn Canadian support for US/Israeli war on Iran

Mark Carney has endorsed the US/Israeli war on Iran. Tell the Prime Minister to condemn this effort to balkanize Iran in service of US imperialism and genocidal Jewish supremacy.

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Grateful to the editors of Great Lakes Review for publishing my poem Air, Locked. Check out fine writing from the regions in the US and Canada that touch on the lakes: greatlakesreview.org/air-locked/

Air, Locked

To break the window glass, to merge air and air ― Cynthia MacDonald “The Triborough Bridge a Crown for his Head” Airy hands locked in challenge, a wealth of worries wrung from the embrace. Breath e…

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Here's the first sneak peek at my novel Skin Hunger (upcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Oct 1). This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .

Thanks @majorseventh.bsky.social and EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social for putting my Joni-Mitchell-inspired poem on repeat (and for publishing it in the first place!)

Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ON REPEAT: @francesboyle19.bsky.social in Volume 21. A poem as delicate as it is electric. We love this one. Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/hejira-...

Delighted that I'll have a poem in here! Coming soon!

Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So excited to share with you the covers for Issues 21 & 22, Stanchion Magazine's 'double album' of music writing & photography. These 2 beauties, stacked with stellar prose & poetry are available separately or together & will be published next month. Pre-order now at StanchionZine.com/shop

Since I can now say "later this year" instead of "next year", here is the COVER REVEAL for Skin Hunger, my forthcoming novel. It will be published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social on October 1! Stand by for more soon.

I'm delighted that my first 2026 acceptance is from the wonderful print magazine @stanchion.bsky.social edited by Jeff Bogle. I've been submitting to them for several years and glad my poem "Misty Mountain" landed. It will appear in the upcoming Music themed issue 21. Available for pre-order now!

By chance, two (fine) books I just finished are by profs at University of Regina, where I did my B.A. looong ago. Melanie Schnell's novel blends buried secrets, little-known history and environmental magic. @jesbattis.bsky.social's poetry collection is strong, witty and very moving.

My 2025 publishing numbers: - 33 pieces published - 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020 - chapbook ms an award finalist - 6 public readings - 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers AND - 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!

@versefest-ottawa.bsky.social aka VERSeFest is a registered charity! If you have the means, consider making a gift TODAY to receive a 2025 tax receipt. E-transfers (verse2transfer@gmail.com) go directly into our bank account, but you can also donate via PayPal. verseottawa.ca/en/site/supp...

@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ? @michelinemaylor.bsky.social ?@phillipcrymble.bsky.social ? @puneetdutt.bsky.social ?

Becky Tuch@beckyltuch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Any editors up for being interviewed in January?? I'd love to hear from you! Please only: * Mags that have been around for 3+ years * Editors I've not yet interviewed * Submission fee <$5 Feel free to contact me here: www.beckytuch.com/contact-1

The @glasspoetry.bsky.social archives are well worth dipping into! While you're there, if you're so inclined please check out my poem "Combustion" from April 2025 -- one of several magazine publications I was honoured to have this year. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...

Glass Poetry Press@glasspoetry.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A quick programming note: Glass: A Journal of Poetry will be taking the next two weeks off. We look forward to bringing you your weekly Wednesday poem again in 2026. Until then, you can always spend some time with the 18 years worth of poems in our archives. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/arch...

I've likely posted this poem of mine here before, but thought I'd share it again for Solstice.

This is tonight! Please join us in just a few hours.

Margo LaPierre@margolapierre.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Tonight in Ottawa, 7-9 pm at the Bytown Museum

Thanks @anncavlovic.bsky.social for these answers about life and your wonderful new book (and for the shout out to me). And thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social as ever for highlighting our community's creative folks and their great stories.

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #233 : Ann Cavlovic / @anncavlovic.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/six-...

My penultimate 2025 reading, next Monday Dec 15. I'll be reading from work once rejected, and ultimately published. This slate of "refused" readers is stellar: half are friends whose writing I know and admire, the rest are friends yet to be met! If you're in Ottawa, it'd be great to see you there.

FYI @robmclennan.bsky.social and @amazonsyren.bsky.social

Wild Roof Journal@wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Read 2 poems from Melissa Powless Day's new collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-bow-forg... It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.

Fancy!!

Here's my poem for the Hallows, and for my mother who would have turned 105 today. Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.

This book is such a great read! Meticulously researched history meets beautifully imagined magic.

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · 10mo ago

Got a royalty statement and my 2022 novel The Embroidered Book continues to outsell my later books, partly because it had momentum out of the gate, but at this point those sales are word of mouth, which is cool. If you fancy a big novel about Marie Antoinette and her sister as rival magicians, here: