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Amy LeBlanc
@amyjleblanc.bsky.social
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PhD candidate 🦊 “I used to live here” available now 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
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A lovely review of “I used to live here” from @robmclennan.bsky.social ♥️

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Amy LeBlanc, I used to live here
When a bird crouched on Anne Boleyn’s neck   The sweating sickness descends like a swallow to rest in the throat— if only she had ke...
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June 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Tonight! Book launch with @amyjleblanc.bsky.social in Calgary @shelflifebooks.bsky.social at 7pm:
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It was such a joy to be talk about the new collection with @openbookontario ✨ link below!

Sidebar: a prolific AND renowned poet?? Who is she?? 💅
April 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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up next!! reading at @teresempierre.bsky.social ’s launch at Society Clubhouse with @spondeee.bsky.social @faitharkorful.bsky.social and @suntorya.bsky.social 💐 rvsp via the link in Terese’s bio :)
April 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Feeling honoured to be an Alberta Literary Awards finalist! Thank you ❤️📚 #Poetry #OCD #CanLit #ReadAlberta @newestpress.bsky.social
Congratilations to Samantha Jones! Attic Rain is a finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. The promo image includes the book cover as well as the logos for the Writers Guild of Alberta and NeWest Press.
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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It's hard to believe but we're 35 days away from release day! Big thanks to @danielcowper.bsky.social for this lovely blurb!❤️ Check the link below to pre-order from your local bookstore!

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A book cover with a Hoopoe bird in front of a brown floral background. Text: I used to live here, Amy LeBlanc Ivory floral background. Text: I used to live here Ready for pre-order Available april 1 Sensual, sinister, and self-aware, Amy LeBlanc’s poems in I used to live here are alert to matters of mind, body, and magic. These tense, hungry poems are not so much laid out on the page as lying in ambush for you. - Daniel Cowper, author of Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse
February 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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we now have a french version of our article, courtesy of D.M. Bradford and Nikki Walker! @thellpsx.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza
Les personnes handicapées en appui des eSims pour Gaza
Les personnes handicapées en appui des eSims pour Gaza   Traduit de l’anglais par D. M. Bradford et Nikki Walker Faites un don ici : 中文 Simplified and Traditional Chinese version En Espa…
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February 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The 2025 X Page Workshop is now accepting applications! Submit you application by February 28th: tnq.ca/x-page/join/
February 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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He’s a thief
February 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say
January 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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

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#ConnectingGaza
January 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I'm really excited to be one of seven authors selected as a mentor for the Writers' Guild of Alberta 2025 Mentorship Program 🎉 I'll be working with Timiro Mohamed who is a brilliant emerging poet based in Edmonton.

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2025 WGA Mentorship Program Participants Announced
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December 10, 2024 at 10:10 PM