We’ve got a new story for you today! “The Embroidered Garden” by @manahil.bsky.social weaves together delicate stitches, vibrant flowers, and the love of family.🧵🌸 Also, don’t miss the gorgeous illustration by Andrea Viñas Notaro! Read it here! ⬇️ augursociety.org/the-embroide...

Kind things said about Be Water, out with @anvilpress.bsky.social on June 30, by @manahil.bsky.social. It’s a true privilege to be so seen by a poet I admire very much. Thank you ❤️ #poetrysky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky

We are pleased to share that Manahil Bandukwala's Heliotropia has been named the 2025 Archibald Lampman Award winner! This year's jury says, "With form and language that surprises and delights, Manahil Bandukwala has crafted a perfect set of love poems for our current moment." Congrats, Manahil!

Our expert columnist Manahil Bandukwala (@manahil.bsky.social) has some fantastic writing tips for all the poets out there who are looking for a home for their manuscript! #AmReading #WritingTips #Poetry #Books open-book.ca/Columnists/F...

Finding a Press for Your Poetry Manuscript

In one of my first columns as an Open Book columnist, I shared my process of realizing I had a full-length poetry manuscript. Since then, I’ve written ...

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49th Shelf's Spring Fiction Preview is here & we're thrilled that You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guerard, tr. by Neil Smith, I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur, The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, & Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber are included! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...

research for a story, fitting response to the overview panel

CBC Poetry Prize winner Natalie Lim’s debut collection, Elegy for Opportunity, is coming out this April 8, 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social—and we have review copies available now! (Yes, even hard copies!) Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... More deets in comments!

My friends, I am so beyond thrilled to share the second installment in Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive, written by none other than the absolutely legendary @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social

The Party Downstairs

A Love Letters Feature by Helena Fitzgerald - January 2025

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Trumpeting in @arcpoetry.bsky.social and thrilled about it. Thanks to the team for including me!

New chaotic book sorting system: by weight of book

So far I’ve seen two listings for Neil Gaiman books up on FB marketplace and I have no doubt I’ll be seeing more

I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨ For more info, check out our submissions guidelines: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions

Submissions — Wolsak & Wynn

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At last, they solved soups biggest problem: Wet

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THE Hatecopy is reading Heliotropia and thinks it’s a joy to read 🥺

New blog post! 📚💙 Today I shared a list of upcoming releases by Caribbean authors. Read it here: helenaramsaroop.com/2025/01/06/b...

Book List: 2025 #ReadCaribbean Releases Part 1

2025 #ReadCaribbean Releases Part 1 ✨ Here are some books by Caribbean authors coming out between now and April! There are lots of new books, and several books that are now available in paperback (…

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The @sfpoetry.bsky.social’s Rhysling Awards are open! I have two poems eligible - wela’lioq for your kind consideration 💚 The first is from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social:

Just $48,500CAD until $2M CAD! We are running critically low on funds and the pace of spending is higher than donations at the moment! Please share and donate if you can <3 bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is still $52,248CAD to raise until two million CAD! bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth! It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙 Preorders are open! Please share if you can! houseofanansi.com/products/myt...

Myth

Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to...

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It was a very good writing year for me, with my first fiction pub, the CBC prize longlist, etc. But I’m definitely most proud of Heliotropia, love poems intersecting with space and joy, a theme that feels the most “me”

Manahil@manahil.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is my book, Heliotropia, published by Brick Books about two months ago. It's a collection of love poems intersecting with space, Sufism, and flowers ❤️

Top books of 2024: - Relative to Wind by Phoebe Wang - Thyme Travellers, ed. @soniasulaiman.bsky.social - In Exile by Sadiya Ansari - An Astonishment of Stars by @beingkirti.bsky.social - The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty - Rakesfall by @vajra.me

Excited & humbled to finally share Ksenija Spasić's first collection of poetry, "the beautiful the bearable"

Ksenija Spasić the Beautiful the Bearable - Etsy

This Zines & Magazines item is sold by HorsebrokePress. Ships from Canada. Listed on Dec 30, 2024

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Spent 2 hours undoing stitches on a crochet sweater that I’ve decided would be better as shorts

I love this game! I'm reading short story collections as I put the final touches on my manuscript, and have just finished @beingkirti.bsky.social incredible "An Astonishment of Stars." I tag @conyerclayton.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social and @ehjchang.bsky.social

Sanna Wani@sannawani.bsky.social · 2y ago

Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why? I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav. I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️

"Bandukwala is a poet whose guide is love." Beautiful review of Heliotropia in Quill & Quire by Shazia Hafiz Ramji quillandquire.com/review/helio...

Your holiday shopping post about Heliotropia, a collection of poems for lovers of poetry, love, science fiction, plants, and souls. If you're in Ottawa in particular, I'm happy to coordinate so you can ensure you have it in time for the holidays and aren't crossing any strike picket lines

Read this story this morning and that’s it that’s my day

I've updated the Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading list! If you know of any other fantasy and science fiction works by Palestinian writers around the world, do let me know! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

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Had a fantastic time meeting my mentor, Angel Di Zhang & fellow mentee, Sarah Ariza-Verreault, as well as some amazing authors, including @sydhegele.bsky.social , @manahil.bsky.social , Chido Muchemwa & Holly Cassidy at the Angel Reading Series last night.

obligatory promo post for the #holidays: you should definitely buy BROUGHTUPSY for the right-leaning uncle in yr life who high key hates the gays. it absolutely won’t spark a WWE smackdown at the holiday table. nope, no chance of that at all: www.oblongbooks.com/christinacooke #BookSky #Christmas