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Joanna Lilley
@joannalilley.bsky.social
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Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada.
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This will be terrific 👌
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Oh, my productivity naturally also included attempting to accurately attribute the quotation my post was inspired by, regarding spending the morning taking out a comma and the afternoon putting it back again, which may or may not have been an Oscar Wilde gem: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c...
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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What a productive time I'm having. I removed all the commas from a poem and then put them all back again.

#amediting #poetry
A black dog on a sofa, hiding her face between her white paws. There's also a part of a laptop screen showing.
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing.
https://bit.ly/41lawaq
##Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).

It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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A photograph by my sister the British artist Rebecca Lilley taken at Uppark House in Hampshire in 2013, not long after her cancer diagnosis. She posted a couple of her poppy photographs on social media at the time, titling one of them 'Fallen'.

#RemembranceDay #Lestweforget
#NationalTrust
A photograph of a red poppy surrounded by green leaves. The photograph is taken from above, so the poppy's petals appear as a floating and none of the stem is visible.
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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There is no humane market for bodies. No ethical metric for killing. No “price” that makes oppression acceptable.
When Compassion Becomes Currency
A new study from the University of Reading claims to have solved one of policymaking’s oldest problems: how to measure the “value” of animal welfare.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Delighted to be offering two writing workshops with @YukonWords on Sunday 23 November – in-person in Whitehorse from 9.30 to 11.30am and online from 1.30 to 3.30pm. All welcome. No experience needed. Free but email yukonwordssociety@gmail.com to register.

More to come at: www.yukonwords.ca/events
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.)

newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Joy, growth, and abundance are not usually associated with art-making. Join Antonio Michael Downing in this workshop on how to transform your fiction through joyful work.

Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/tran...
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The Canada Post strike held it up but it was definitely worth the wait. I'm chuffed to have a little poem in the Love Loves Our Loving chapbook edited by @radiasilencia and published by @canadianpoets.bsky.social. What fine company I'm in. Oh, and the pages are all soft and creamy.

@TurnstonePress
Weight by Joanna Lilley. The leaded weight / hanging from my sternum / keeps me perpendicular // It's comforting, / the pendulum of you / thudding against my breastbone, / knowing I'm the replica / and you're the original
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Happy International Plain Language Day! Still waiting for Hallmark to get on board with it. But in the meantime, here's an interview I did with WordRake (which would likely not fit on a greeting card.) Special thanks to Ivy Grey and KateCallahan
www.wordrake.com/blog/an-inte...
An Interview with Professor Stephen Horowitz
Professor of Legal English Stephen Horowitz talks about ESL and clear communication as part of our series for International Plain Language Day
www.wordrake.com
October 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM
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‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood
‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood
When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked in
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Iris and the Dead author Miranda Schreiber, & Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose from Pow Pow Press, chat about writing grief, the blurry line between reality & fiction, & more for #ALUWomenAskingWomen from @alllitupcanada.bsky.social
alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-joana-mosi-miranda-schreiber/
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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'Imagine a world where textiles aren’t manufactured from fossil fuels, animal skins, or even plants – but grown from microbes, mycelium, algae, and engineered proteins.'

– Elizabeth Novogratz

@speciesunite.bsky.social

#animalwelfare #animalrights

www.speciesunite.com/podcast/suza...
S13. E8: Suzanne Lee: Grown, Not Extracted — Species Unite
Suzanne Lee is the founder of Biofabricate and for more than two decades she’s been uniting scientists, designers, artists, and dreamers to prove that biology isn’t just inspiration — it’s the next ...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild - Orion Magazine
What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature
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October 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Definitely recommended! @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social helped me so much with my novel in progress. #writingtips
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Hey writers! Need help with that novel or memoir? We're now booking developmental edits and manuscript evaluations for fall and winter. For more, go to: www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca/cms/index.ph...

#writersky #writingcommunity #editing
October 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨

✨Personal Words with Jacob Polley
Mon 6 Oct, 7pm

✨Leading by Example with Kathryn Simmonds
Tues 7 Oct, 11am

Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

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September 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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On September 30, we share links to resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.

The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection: https://bit.ly/3PPLIRI ##UAlberta Press books: https://bit.ly/4e7NHMb
Department of Canadian Heritage: https://bit.ly/3o5GDZa
##TRC #NTRD @abbookpub.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Don't eat body parts - go vegan. 🌱💚🐥

👉 Help us grow the vegan movement – join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/veganfta 🙏

#chicken #chickenwings #veganshare #veganmeme #birds
September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Oh, do read these stunning poems by @jamellahagen.bsky.social.
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Too simple, too powerful, too important to ignore ⚡
Plant-Based Diets Could Save 129 Million Years of Human Life — Every Single Year
Science reveals a low-hanging fruit for health and the planet — simple, powerful, and too important to ignore
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August 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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'Now Play for Today is being revived on Channel 5, to give young writers, actors and producers from lower-income backgrounds a way into TV, helped by established talent.'

– @taraconlan.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’
Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds
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August 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Yukon fireweed on the morning dog walk. August leaf tips pointing to autumn.
Long narrow green leaves with red tips and orange-yellow patches. The leaves are close to the ground which is covered in brown spruce needles and there are tree trunks and blue sky in the distance.
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM