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Frances Peck
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New to the sky | Editor turned novelist | THE BROKEN PLACES, a Globe & Mail best book 2022, and UNCONTROLLED FLIGHT (NeWest Press) | East coaster gone west | francespeck.com
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Withholding money for food and finding money for every unnecessary thing is what sparked the French Revolution. Literally.
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Chapters-Indigo *finally* has #AfterTheFeast up on their site: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/after-...

www.indigo.ca/en-ca/after-...
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Funding cuts are eviscerating BC arts organizations. I just donated to FBCW because the Fed has:
1. taught me a ton about the craft and business of writing
2. given me a network of writers to connect with and learn from
3. launched a MATCHING campaign - my favourite way to donate
bcwriters.ca/Match
Purple and gold poster with a laptop in the background, by the Federation of BC Writers (bcwriters.ca). Text says: "I'm spreading the word to support BC writers. Donate now! Every dollar up to $10,000 is matched." There is an image of 10 dollars expanding to 20 dollars, and a note in the corner that says "Words that multiply."
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Writers/Podcasters: DM if you’re interested in me talking about our fancy new record in our 45th year as a band!!
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Happy to be among the Lower Mainland authors at the Richmond Library's Writers for Readers event today, Oct 7. Come say hi if you're around! Until 7pm. Brighouse branch. 📚
Blond white woman in a red sweater standing behind a table of books, with library bookcases in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?
October 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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ivacheung.com
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...
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
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A fine bookstore for a fine poet.
prairievixen.bsky.social Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · Sep 26
I've finally put physical copies of my chapbooks in a brick-and-mortar store because my website is broken and I haven't had time to deal with it!

So they're now exclusively available at Audreys Books in Edmonton. Which is an absolutely excellent marketing strategy.
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Seeking that creative spark? Paper Covers Rock on Salt Spring Island, Oct 3-4, is an affordable, multidisciplinary festival for writers and other creatives. I'll be there to teach my Sentences with Style workshop (Oct 4) and to soak up the inspiration.
Details: www.papercoversrock.ca
Image of a piece of paper, folded like a tent and covering a rock. Text says: "Paper Covers Rock, 3-4 October 2025, Salt Spring Island, BC; workshops, live readings, music, and creative sparks shared in good company."
September 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sorry to miss the launch party for The Fiddlehead issue 304, which (I'm still pinching myself) contains an essay I wrote. I'll be downtown at Word Vancouver all day, wishing I could do two things at once. If you're free, the Fiddlehead launch is open to all: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Poster for launch party of The Fiddlehead's special issue 304, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, Fredericton Public Library, 12:30-3:00pm (Atlantic time). Beside the text is the cover of issue 304, which features a painting of a hand holding a s'more.
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Signed and shared. ✍🏽

“In 1991, Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child … This order stands to violate these rights and freedoms if implemented.”

Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans. #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli chng.it/msmGkKmbD7
Have you seen this petition yet?
Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans
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September 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I did a thing. A flying thing. A horror flying thing. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4B...
@newestpress.bsky.social
Horror Flying - Episode 3 - Frances Peck
YouTube video by Janine Cross
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September 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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support the humanities
a DRIVE THUR typo of drive thru
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Thanks, Indigo Robson, for including "The Broken Places" in this display of fiction set in Vancouver. Thanks, too, to @lisabrideau.bsky.social (whose "Adrift" is set nearby, in Nanaimo) for spotting and photographing!
Photo of a round table in a bookstore. A sign on the table says "Set in Vancouver." A number of books are piled on the table. The most visible are "She's a Lamb!" by Meredith Hambrock, "The Gum Thief" and "JPod" by Douglas Coupland, "The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf" by Timothy Taylor, "Kill All the Lawyers" by William Deverell, and "The Broken Places" by Frances Peck.
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Nice to see Meltdown, the science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social, in the North Vancouver District Public Library.😍📚
Cover of the memoir "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" by Sarah Boon. Cover background is a blue, grey and white glacier with two silhouetted figures climbing it. A red sticker in the corner says "New!"
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Give your writing project (or yourself) a kick in the you-know with my Getting Unstuck workshop. On beautiful Bowen Island, Sep 13, 9:30-11:30 am. Still some seats left. Register:
www.writeonbowen.com/event-detail...
Poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, www.writeonbowen.com, featuring a head shot of female author Frances Peck, blond hair, wearing blue, with the text: Getting Unstuck: Get out of the muck and back into the magic! Saturday, September 13, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Bowen Island Public Library Annex.
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This was an amazing event, folks. I picked up Annalee's "Stories Are Weapons," the book I need to read that I didn't know I needed to read. Thanks, as always, to Iron Dog Books for bringing readers and writers together. 💗
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
August 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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@djkrushen.bsky.social Thanks for sharing my workshop, Juliann. 🌞
August 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:
newestpress.bsky.social NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · Aug 5
NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site.

#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit
Introducing Barbour Books. Logo of a blue rocket ship blasting towards green stars.
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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
Blue and white poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, September 12-14, 2025. Poster says: "Come write with us on beautiful Bowen Island! A weekend of words, craft, and connection. www.writeonbowen.com Discounted early bird registration now open!"
August 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Victoria readers, join the queue! This memoir is an intriguing glimpse into the scientific life and the inner life that goes with it.
snowhydro.bsky.social Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · Jul 25
Shout out to the Greater Victoria Public Library: they have two copies of my book, with 3 holds on them! Great way to support local authors.
July 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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💫 Calling all emerging poets! The 2025 Foster Poetry Prize is officially open for submissions! 💫

The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest.

Click the link in bio for all the details and to submit!
Text graphic with a dark green background and the following text in a pink font. Text: The 2025 edition of the Foster Poetry Prize is open for submissions. Early bird deadline: October 1. Final deadline: November 1.
June 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Perfect pairing of fruit and fiction. 💥
The novel Uncontrolled Flight, which has a largely orange-and-gold cover, photographed on a flat surface with rows of orange-and-gold apricots underneath.
July 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Warmest congratulations on this hot Duncan day to Sarah Boon on her debut memoir, Meltdown. Sarah is signing books at Volume One until 1pm! ⚡📚🖋 @snowhydro.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social
Two white women standing side by side with bookshelves behind them. Left, Sarah Boon; right, Frances Peck holding Sarah's book, Meltdown.
July 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Excited to attend the launch for "Meltdown" tomorrow at Volume One Bookstore in Duncan, BC. This debut science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social was a long time in the making and promises to be AWESOME!! @ualbertapress.bsky.social
volumeone.ca/events/30624...
AUTHOR-IN-STORE: Sarah Boon | Volume One Bookstore
Cowichan Valley's local independent bookstore since 1972
volumeone.ca
July 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM