Received two rejections this morning. Which French saying will apply? - Jamais deux sans trois. - La troisième fois sera la bonne. #litmags #writing #literaryrejection
Lys Granier
@lysgranier.bsky.social
Montréal Writer, urban geographer. Prose in PRISM international, Passages North, Hobart, The Ex-Puritan & more. Ask me about skunks, I love them. lysgranier.com
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Read or listen to me read my CNF piece "Red Velvet Bag," about the day of my father's cremation and a walk at the Cathedral of Maguelone, by the Mediterranean sea. lysgranier.com/2026/07/28/r... #CNF #nonfiction #memoire #writing #literary #grief
Red Velvet Bag
Regarding April 21, 2022, the hardest day of my life. I climb in the passenger seat of the rental car, parked outside the crematorium. My partner follows the GPS to a parking lot by the Mediterrane…
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What an amazing reading month it has been! Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod was delightful.
Finally got myself to submit again after a 34 days dry spell. 6 submissions today, including poetry, which I might suck at and have shown no one, but let's give it a try!
This is my Storygraph profile, if anyone cares to see what I'm reading, what I'm liking and what I'm not into. Don't judge me for the fluff, sometimes it's nice 🙂 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/agne...
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John of John by Douglas Stuart is my second 5⭐ review of 2026 (the first one was for A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar). A masterpiece that I will think about for a long time to come, both from a story point of view and for its magnificent prose.
One month to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...
Lovely launch of Ahoy Literary #5 tonight at Word Bookstore. I have this little bilingual story in it, half in French, half in English. Quintessentially Montreal!
I have weird little story out today in Hobart! Read it here: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
Physical Confirmation by Lys Granier
They call them residual items. My task is to record, photograph and label every item the unclaimed dead leave behind. Each file arrives in a brown envelope stamped Housing Bureau - Unclaimed. The i...
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I'm going to try not checking Submittable, Duotrope, The Submission Grinder, and my emails today. I have an urge to get some mental peace after yesterday's double rejection. #litmags #writerslife
I received two rejections in the span of 16 minutes tonight, the second being after making a shortlist for a publication I love. And now I'm questioning everything, as one does, and one shouldn't. #litmags #litrejections #literature
I repaired my trinket exchange and got it back and running with a few of my own treasures!
On grief, four years on. Today, I saw a post on Instagram about French politics and, somehow, my first thought was to send it to my dad. He died more than four years ago.
Heartbreak of the day: my trinket exchange was vandalized last night, just as I am writing an essay about it and public generosity
Insights from someone who discovered lit mags 8 months ago at age 32 and got really into submitting
Things I’ve learned in 8 months of submitting my literary work, in no particular order.
Submitting is highly addictive. Tracking submission is also highly addictive. So much so that I had to stop tracking Submittable, Duotrope, and the Submission Grinder from my phone for a bit (but t…
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In the past 48 hours, I did 25 submissions. Among them: 1 critical urban essay, 3 personal essays, 10 short fictions and 3 flash CNFs. The tsunami of rejections coming from this wave will be intense. I can't wait.
Our Spring 2026 issue has arrived! Spring has come blossoming, fragrant and alive— just like the written works in this issue. Check out the link for a new bouquet of fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. ex-puritan.ca
New essay out today in About Place Journal, about sound as an instrument of social control. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...
Lys Granier – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal
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Our Winter 2026 issue features poems from Emily Lu, Steven O. Young Jr., Twoey Gray, Eva Haas, David Anton Jr., and Suzannah Showler. You can read their work here: ex-puritan.ca#poetry
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Our Winter 2026 issue is live! We'll be sharing more over the coming weeks, but you can read the entire issue now: ex-puritan.ca/issue-72-win...
