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Cassidy McFadzean
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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
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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arcpoetry.bsky.social
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
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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New fiction from @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social: hazlitt.net/longreads/wh...
Who Are You Close To? | Hazlitt
I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.
hazlitt.net
July 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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breachmedia.ca
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
breachmedia.ca
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social
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"
May 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"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
Poet Cassidy McFadzean reads at the Best Canadian Poetry 2025 book launch at Queen Books in Toronto - The poet is in the background, against book shelves. Her poem "Storm King" is held up in the foreground. Poet Cassidy McFadzean gestures, standing in front of bookshelves, as she reads at the Best Canadian Poetry 2025 book launch at Queen Books in Toronto.
April 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
Tonight!!
April 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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farahghafoor.bsky.social
excited to read with @teresempierre.bsky.social and @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for the @theampersandreview.bsky.social reading series at Sheridan College next Thursday!
April 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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invisibooks.bsky.social
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...
The book "Dead Writers" by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum against a dark wood background.
March 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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thewalrus.ca
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/
March 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thewalrus.ca
“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/
March 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"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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February 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social
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...
www.etceterapoetry.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social
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
www.change.org
December 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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eschmaltzzz.bsky.social
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.
December 2, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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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.
www.thestar.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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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.
www.thestar.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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junctionreads.bsky.social
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.
farzanadoctor.bsky.social Farzana Doctor @farzanadoctor.bsky.social · Nov 22
It’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.

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Photo of a tweet Elana Rabinovitch @ElyRobbins The so-called pacifist David Bergen In his November 18 opinion column in The Winnipeg Free Press, David Bergen stated that he boycotted the recent Giller Prize gala, Source: Honest Reporting Canada
November 22, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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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
www.canlitresponds.ca
November 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"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
I hold the poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean (House of Anansi Press), with its intriguing cover image of, oh, is it a wooden doll? The sleeve of my purple hoodie is visible. A gray carpet and white walls can be seen in the background. I hold open the poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean to the poem "Little Island".
October 13, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Matthew Zapruder, from Story of a Poem
This autumn morning, I remember Matt once showed me how you can start a poem by putting one or two lines in the middle of the page, and then writing out from them, alternating a line before, and then one after. He said this method came to him in a dream. It's always better to start with a phrase, however ordinary, than an idea, however grand.
September 12, 2023 at 8:33 PM