Juliann Krushen
@djkrushen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, and lifelong learning enthusiast. Portrait drawer. Animal and nature lover. Vancouver Canucks fan
Interesting article on continuing resistance to the plain language movement and why the term #plainlanguage itself may be the problem. I’ve thought for a long time that “plain” isn’t the best adjective for writing that’s clear and concise. It makes the writing sound boring, even though it isn’t.
This week in the #EditorsWeekly, Tracey Anderson discusses the resistance to plain language, and asks if “plain” is the problem.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Interesting article on continuing resistance to the plain language movement and why the term #plainlanguage itself may be the problem. I’ve thought for a long time that “plain” isn’t the best adjective for writing that’s clear and concise. It makes the writing sound boring, even though it isn’t.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm enjoy drawing with graphite, but seeing colourful art like this makes me smile and I find it hard to turn away from it
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm enjoy drawing with graphite, but seeing colourful art like this makes me smile and I find it hard to turn away from it
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I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.
The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
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The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.
The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Summer is winding down, but there's an early fall #writers festival perk to look forward to. #Vancouver #Books
Tickets for our flagship Festival go on sale tomorrow at 10am! 📣
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
Thousands of tickets have already been snapped up during the Member pre-sale. We recommend exploring the program and building your schedule now, to avoid missing out on your top pick events!
writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
2025 Festival Events | Vancouver Writers Fest
Welcome to the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest! This page lists all our events from October 20–26, along with a few fall/winter Special Events taking place outside of Festival Week. Click on the title o...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Summer is winding down, but there's an early fall #writers festival perk to look forward to. #Vancouver #Books
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Is your writing blocked? "Getting Unstuck" is the theme of a workshop I'm leading on Sat, Sep 13 (9:30-11:30am), at the Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers.
Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com
Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Is your writing blocked? "Getting Unstuck" is the theme of a workshop I'm leading on Sat, Sep 13 (9:30-11:30am), at the Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers.
Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com
Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com
I feel like this road in #VictoriaBC has a tale to tell. 😊 #StoryTime
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I feel like this road in #VictoriaBC has a tale to tell. 😊 #StoryTime
Fruit and fiction make an artistically pleasing post!
July 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fruit and fiction make an artistically pleasing post!
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Today, we want to recognize the 29 talented #Canadian authors who have won the #GillerPrize since 1994. #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
July 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Today, we want to recognize the 29 talented #Canadian authors who have won the #GillerPrize since 1994. #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
Some fantastic stories here! Well worth the read, and what a great contest result.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who submitted to the VWF 2025 Youth Writing Contest! We had a stupendous response, with 270 high school submissions and 161 elementary school submissions.
Visit our website to read the winning stories:
writersfest.bc.ca/youth/youth-...
Visit our website to read the winning stories:
writersfest.bc.ca/youth/youth-...
June 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Some fantastic stories here! Well worth the read, and what a great contest result.
Don't know why, but this just makes me feel good. Happy weekend, everyone! #BookLover
June 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Don't know why, but this just makes me feel good. Happy weekend, everyone! #BookLover
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
#AuthorInspiration
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
#AuthorInspiration
May 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
#AuthorInspiration
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
#AuthorInspiration
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We're 10 days away from Worlds of Short Fiction! Don't forget to grab your tickets! 🎟️
Join us for readings and a panel conversation with André Alexis, Clea Young, and Catherine Bush, moderated by Caroline Adderson.
🗓️ Thursday Mar 22 at 7:30 pm
🎉 Get your tickets here: buff.ly/bmp0w4z
Join us for readings and a panel conversation with André Alexis, Clea Young, and Catherine Bush, moderated by Caroline Adderson.
🗓️ Thursday Mar 22 at 7:30 pm
🎉 Get your tickets here: buff.ly/bmp0w4z
May 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We're 10 days away from Worlds of Short Fiction! Don't forget to grab your tickets! 🎟️
Join us for readings and a panel conversation with André Alexis, Clea Young, and Catherine Bush, moderated by Caroline Adderson.
🗓️ Thursday Mar 22 at 7:30 pm
🎉 Get your tickets here: buff.ly/bmp0w4z
Join us for readings and a panel conversation with André Alexis, Clea Young, and Catherine Bush, moderated by Caroline Adderson.
🗓️ Thursday Mar 22 at 7:30 pm
🎉 Get your tickets here: buff.ly/bmp0w4z
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Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻
I've just topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
tanyagold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky
I've just topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
tanyagold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻
I've just topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
tanyagold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky
I've just topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
tanyagold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 26th! Coming up this weekend is the annual day when readers, writers, illustrators, publishers, and others come together to celebrate indie bookstores across Canada!
Check out what your local indie bookstore is up to here: buff.ly/3LNBTBK
Check out what your local indie bookstore is up to here: buff.ly/3LNBTBK
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 26th! Coming up this weekend is the annual day when readers, writers, illustrators, publishers, and others come together to celebrate indie bookstores across Canada!
Check out what your local indie bookstore is up to here: buff.ly/3LNBTBK
Check out what your local indie bookstore is up to here: buff.ly/3LNBTBK
Happy to see "Uncontrolled Flight" showcased here - an excellent novel by one of my favourite local writers, @franceslpeck.bsky.social.
What’s special about April 15, 2025 you ask? It’s #BCBookDay! A day to be grateful for our local publishers, bookstores, libraries and the authors who bring us their stories. For more information check out books.bc.ca or just drop by and support your local bookstore
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April 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Happy to see "Uncontrolled Flight" showcased here - an excellent novel by one of my favourite local writers, @franceslpeck.bsky.social.
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You only hear ‘ulterior’ when it comes to motives.
If you read ‘lo’ you’re probably about to ‘behold’ something.
‘Echelon’ seems to only be at one level: the upper one.
If you’re confronted by ‘asunder,’ odds are it’s been ‘torn.’
If you read ‘lo’ you’re probably about to ‘behold’ something.
‘Echelon’ seems to only be at one level: the upper one.
If you’re confronted by ‘asunder,’ odds are it’s been ‘torn.’
April 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You only hear ‘ulterior’ when it comes to motives.
If you read ‘lo’ you’re probably about to ‘behold’ something.
‘Echelon’ seems to only be at one level: the upper one.
If you’re confronted by ‘asunder,’ odds are it’s been ‘torn.’
If you read ‘lo’ you’re probably about to ‘behold’ something.
‘Echelon’ seems to only be at one level: the upper one.
If you’re confronted by ‘asunder,’ odds are it’s been ‘torn.’
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Proud of my article for @theglobeandmail.com about politics, community, and saving a goat. 🐐
Proud of this one:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Proud of this one:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: What can you do, when America gets your goat? Build the community you want
When Kelly S. Thompson moved to a Trump-supporting town in rural New York, she felt painfully alone. But she learned to shake off her misery and build her own community – with the help of a lost anima...
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Proud of my article for @theglobeandmail.com about politics, community, and saving a goat. 🐐
Proud of this one:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Proud of this one:
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
#Drawing for fun and stress relief this week. My photo reference is from the '70s children's storybook "The Little Duck" by Judy and Phoebe Dunn, in which "Henry" waddles off the porch of the farmhouse where he was raised to meet his forever duck in a nearby pond.
#Art #PencilDrawing
#Art #PencilDrawing
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#Drawing for fun and stress relief this week. My photo reference is from the '70s children's storybook "The Little Duck" by Judy and Phoebe Dunn, in which "Henry" waddles off the porch of the farmhouse where he was raised to meet his forever duck in a nearby pond.
#Art #PencilDrawing
#Art #PencilDrawing
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Initially, ‘grammar’ wasn’t restricted to language, but described learning in general.
This included magic/astrology.
The Scots altered it to ‘glamer’ to mean “magic spell/enchantment.”
Now, it means “a mysterious/exciting attractiveness."
This included magic/astrology.
The Scots altered it to ‘glamer’ to mean “magic spell/enchantment.”
Now, it means “a mysterious/exciting attractiveness."
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Initially, ‘grammar’ wasn’t restricted to language, but described learning in general.
This included magic/astrology.
The Scots altered it to ‘glamer’ to mean “magic spell/enchantment.”
Now, it means “a mysterious/exciting attractiveness."
This included magic/astrology.
The Scots altered it to ‘glamer’ to mean “magic spell/enchantment.”
Now, it means “a mysterious/exciting attractiveness."
I'm a nature lover, but every so often I crave a city #StetWalk to invigorate a different type of senses. #Vancouver
March 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I'm a nature lover, but every so often I crave a city #StetWalk to invigorate a different type of senses. #Vancouver