Frances Boyle
@francesboyle19.bsky.social
My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
www.francesboyle.com
Here's the first sneak peek at my novel Skin Hunger (upcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Oct 1).
This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .
This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Here's the first sneak peek at my novel Skin Hunger (upcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Oct 1).
This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .
This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .
Thanks @majorseventh.bsky.social and EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social for putting my Joni-Mitchell-inspired poem on repeat (and for publishing it in the first place!)
ON REPEAT: @francesboyle19.bsky.social in Volume 21.
A poem as delicate as it is electric. We love this one.
Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/hejira-...
A poem as delicate as it is electric. We love this one.
Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/hejira-...
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Thanks @majorseventh.bsky.social and EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social for putting my Joni-Mitchell-inspired poem on repeat (and for publishing it in the first place!)
Delighted that I'll have a poem in here! Coming soon!
So excited to share with you the covers for Issues 21 & 22, Stanchion Magazine's 'double album' of music writing & photography.
These 2 beauties, stacked with stellar prose & poetry are available separately or together & will be published next month.
Pre-order now at StanchionZine.com/shop
These 2 beauties, stacked with stellar prose & poetry are available separately or together & will be published next month.
Pre-order now at StanchionZine.com/shop
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Delighted that I'll have a poem in here! Coming soon!
Since I can now say "later this year" instead of "next year", here is the COVER REVEAL for Skin Hunger, my forthcoming novel. It will be published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social on October 1!
Stand by for more soon.
Stand by for more soon.
January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Since I can now say "later this year" instead of "next year", here is the COVER REVEAL for Skin Hunger, my forthcoming novel. It will be published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social on October 1!
Stand by for more soon.
Stand by for more soon.
I'm delighted that my first 2026 acceptance is from the wonderful print magazine @stanchion.bsky.social edited by Jeff Bogle. I've been submitting to them for several years and glad my poem "Misty Mountain" landed. It will appear in the upcoming Music themed issue 21. Available for pre-order now!
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I'm delighted that my first 2026 acceptance is from the wonderful print magazine @stanchion.bsky.social edited by Jeff Bogle. I've been submitting to them for several years and glad my poem "Misty Mountain" landed. It will appear in the upcoming Music themed issue 21. Available for pre-order now!
By chance, two (fine) books I just finished are by profs at University of Regina, where I did my B.A. looong ago. Melanie Schnell's novel blends buried secrets, little-known history and environmental magic. @jesbattis.bsky.social's poetry collection is strong, witty and very moving.
January 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
By chance, two (fine) books I just finished are by profs at University of Regina, where I did my B.A. looong ago. Melanie Schnell's novel blends buried secrets, little-known history and environmental magic. @jesbattis.bsky.social's poetry collection is strong, witty and very moving.
My 2025 publishing numbers:
- 33 pieces published
- 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020
- chapbook ms an award finalist
- 6 public readings
- 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers
AND
- 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!
- 33 pieces published
- 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020
- chapbook ms an award finalist
- 6 public readings
- 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers
AND
- 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!
January 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
My 2025 publishing numbers:
- 33 pieces published
- 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020
- chapbook ms an award finalist
- 6 public readings
- 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers
AND
- 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!
- 33 pieces published
- 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020
- chapbook ms an award finalist
- 6 public readings
- 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers
AND
- 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!
@versefest-ottawa.bsky.social aka VERSeFest is a registered charity! If you have the means, consider making a gift TODAY to receive a 2025 tax receipt.
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December 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@versefest-ottawa.bsky.social aka VERSeFest is a registered charity! If you have the means, consider making a gift TODAY to receive a 2025 tax receipt.
E-transfers (verse2transfer@gmail.com) go directly into our bank account, but you can also donate via PayPal. verseottawa.ca/en/site/supp...
E-transfers (verse2transfer@gmail.com) go directly into our bank account, but you can also donate via PayPal. verseottawa.ca/en/site/supp...
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ? @michelinemaylor.bsky.social ?@phillipcrymble.bsky.social ? @puneetdutt.bsky.social ?
Any editors up for being interviewed in January?? I'd love to hear from you!
Please only:
* Mags that have been around for 3+ years
* Editors I've not yet interviewed
* Submission fee <$5
Feel free to contact me here: www.beckytuch.com/contact-1
Please only:
* Mags that have been around for 3+ years
* Editors I've not yet interviewed
* Submission fee <$5
Feel free to contact me here: www.beckytuch.com/contact-1
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December 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social ? @michelinemaylor.bsky.social ?@phillipcrymble.bsky.social ? @puneetdutt.bsky.social ?
The @glasspoetry.bsky.social archives are well worth dipping into! While you're there, if you're so inclined please check out my poem "Combustion" from April 2025 -- one of several magazine publications I was honoured to have this year. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The @glasspoetry.bsky.social archives are well worth dipping into! While you're there, if you're so inclined please check out my poem "Combustion" from April 2025 -- one of several magazine publications I was honoured to have this year. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...
I've likely posted this poem of mine here before, but thought I'd share it again for Solstice.
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've likely posted this poem of mine here before, but thought I'd share it again for Solstice.
This is tonight! Please join us in just a few hours.
December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is tonight! Please join us in just a few hours.
Thanks @anncavlovic.bsky.social for these answers about life and your wonderful new book (and for the shout out to me). And thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social as ever for highlighting our community's creative folks and their great stories.
Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #233 : Ann Cavlovic / @anncavlovic.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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Six Questions interview #233 : Ann Cavlovic
Ann Cavlovic ’s debut novel is Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in CBC First Pers...
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December 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks @anncavlovic.bsky.social for these answers about life and your wonderful new book (and for the shout out to me). And thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social as ever for highlighting our community's creative folks and their great stories.
My penultimate 2025 reading, next Monday Dec 15. I'll be reading from work once rejected, and ultimately published. This slate of "refused" readers is stellar: half are friends whose writing I know and admire, the rest are friends yet to be met! If you're in Ottawa, it'd be great to see you there.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My penultimate 2025 reading, next Monday Dec 15. I'll be reading from work once rejected, and ultimately published. This slate of "refused" readers is stellar: half are friends whose writing I know and admire, the rest are friends yet to be met! If you're in Ottawa, it'd be great to see you there.
Read 2 poems from Melissa Powless Day's new collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/a-bow-forg...
It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.
It's a journey of Indigenous reclamation, exploring identity, belonging, responsibility & wholeness. The author navigates her ties to the landscapes of SW Ontario & the nations to which she belongs.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here's my poem for the Hallows, and for my mother who would have turned 105 today.
Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.
Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Here's my poem for the Hallows, and for my mother who would have turned 105 today.
Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.
Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.
This book is such a great read! Meticulously researched history meets beautifully imagined magic.
Got a royalty statement and my 2022 novel The Embroidered Book continues to outsell my later books, partly because it had momentum out of the gate, but at this point those sales are word of mouth, which is cool. If you fancy a big novel about Marie Antoinette and her sister as rival magicians, here:
The Embroidered Book
*Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel*
‘Spellbinding’ JJA Harwood
‘An entertaining and dark read’ Stylist
‘An absorbing novel’ Guardian
‘Beautifully wr...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This book is such a great read! Meticulously researched history meets beautifully imagined magic.
Delighted to again have some poems in the lovely @talking-time.bsky.social ! Thanks to EIC Malcolm Curtis!
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Frances Boyle
affinity/ease Our two heads bent in conversation, touches on shoulder, on the small of backs. That daylight dance we recognize from...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Delighted to again have some poems in the lovely @talking-time.bsky.social ! Thanks to EIC Malcolm Curtis!
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/fran...
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/fran...
I've been lucky to have several poems and a short interview in this lovely magazine, and it's always been a great experience. Check it out and don't hesitate to submit some work if you think it would be a good fit.
We are still seeking submissions, and are desperately low! Please send!
talking about strawberries all of the time seeks submissions for our 15th issue of unpublished poetry, including visual and concrete poetries, as well as lyric and postcard prose.
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I've been lucky to have several poems and a short interview in this lovely magazine, and it's always been a great experience. Check it out and don't hesitate to submit some work if you think it would be a good fit.
Happy that my poem "Day Break" is in Anacapa Review, thanks to guest editor Santa Barbara Poet Laureate @gyatchisin.bsky.social. I learned of the mag when Ottawa poet friends David O'Meara & Katherine Leyton had work in the prior issue so I took the chance to submit. anacapareview.com/frances-boyle/
Frances Boyle
Day Break …the acoustic nature of sheets―Brian Turner “Alexa, Awake” What whispers in the corners, whiskers feline in the dawn light? Sounds I assemble from the silent slip of feet on sheets, ears tun...
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September 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy that my poem "Day Break" is in Anacapa Review, thanks to guest editor Santa Barbara Poet Laureate @gyatchisin.bsky.social. I learned of the mag when Ottawa poet friends David O'Meara & Katherine Leyton had work in the prior issue so I took the chance to submit. anacapareview.com/frances-boyle/
If you're in or near Ottawa, don't miss this!
Saturday September 20, poetry chap launch with Dagne Forrest & @snullr.bsky.social (& guest reader moi!)
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you're in or near Ottawa, don't miss this!
Reposted by Frances Boyle
talking about strawberries all of the time seeks submissions for our 15th issue of unpublished poetry, including visual and concrete poetries, as well as lyric and postcard prose.
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
talking about strawberries all of the time seeks submissions for our 15th issue of unpublished poetry, including visual and concrete poetries, as well as lyric and postcard prose.
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1.
strawberriesjournal@gmail.com
What a joy to come home from vacation to this gorgeous new book by my friend @kimfahner.bsky.social ! Bees and magic and fantastic poetry -- I've been looking forward to this for a while!
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What a joy to come home from vacation to this gorgeous new book by my friend @kimfahner.bsky.social ! Bees and magic and fantastic poetry -- I've been looking forward to this for a while!
Received my contrib copy of dream publication @prisminternational.bsky.social with my poem "Likeness". My brother Peter's been gone 25 years but grief remains fresh.
Happy to see friends @rsitoski.bsky.social, Susan Wismer, @snehaskanta.bsky.social here. Thanks to Poetry Editor Ayda Niknami & team!
Happy to see friends @rsitoski.bsky.social, Susan Wismer, @snehaskanta.bsky.social here. Thanks to Poetry Editor Ayda Niknami & team!
August 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Received my contrib copy of dream publication @prisminternational.bsky.social with my poem "Likeness". My brother Peter's been gone 25 years but grief remains fresh.
Happy to see friends @rsitoski.bsky.social, Susan Wismer, @snehaskanta.bsky.social here. Thanks to Poetry Editor Ayda Niknami & team!
Happy to see friends @rsitoski.bsky.social, Susan Wismer, @snehaskanta.bsky.social here. Thanks to Poetry Editor Ayda Niknami & team!