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Joanna Lilley
@joannalilley.bsky.social
Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada.
Such a phenomenal book by @trinamoyles.bsky.social. Had a sneak preview and can’t recommend it enough!

#borealbears
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Congratulations on the publication of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles - out now with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the US!

Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2026/01/06/c...
Congratulations on the publication of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles!
Congratulations on the publication of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles - out now with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the US! A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexi...
transatlanticagency.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Delighted and excited to be helping @TrinaMoyles launch her new and very amazing book, Black Bear, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at 7pm on Friday 9 January at the Beringia Centre. Join us!

#blackbear
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
@transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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That's exactly why the van Gogh episode of Doctor Who is my absolute favorite episode of all time and I'll never be able to get through it without bawling through the museum scene...

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Vincent Van Gogh Visits the Gallery | Vincent and the Doctor | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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December 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ice inside and out as the sun slowly rises at minus 42 on the day after the solstice.

#Whitehorse #Yukon
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
'Don’t expect to be a genius; you get better by working hard. Don’t rip up your work in a fury if it’s going badly. Set it aside, sit in the garden, drink tea, read the Guardian for a while. Return to your desk. Try again.'

@ameliagentleman.bsky.social

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‘Don’t be disheartened by mistakes’: 10 lessons my artist father taught me
David Gentleman’s brilliant career spans eight decades, from watercolour painting to tube station murals to drawing the Tottenham riots. Here his daughter, the Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman, di...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The Whys, Why-Nots, and How-Tos of Writing about Trauma - my latest Substack for Day 14: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.

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Day 14: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
The whys, why-nots and how-tos of writing about trauma.
shawandmoore.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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“To what extent do we create these stories, and to what extent do they create us?” In Death of Persephone: A Murder, Yvonne Blomer reframes the myth of Persephone as a detective murder mystery set in a modern city. Discover this gripping mystery in verse reviewed by Kate Rogers here: buff.ly/QiIXpeJ
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Emma Beddington @theguardian.com expresses so well a key cultural difference between the UK and Canada that I experience yet struggle to articulate. It feels all bound up in the class system to me as well, which I also haven't yet worked out how to express. (Oh, I live in Canada but am from the UK.)
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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If imposter syndrome was more contagious I feel like we’d be in a better place
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The snow came late this year to Yukon. The ice formed first and waxed and waned like the moon.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Does everyone in Britain say ‘I’ve not been there in years’ nowadays rather than ‘I’ve not been there for years’? Being English but living in Canada, my prepositions seem to fall with a splash into the mid-Atlantic.

#amwriting
#dividedbyacommonlanguage

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Prepositions
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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This will be terrific 👌
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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
What a productive time I'm having. I removed all the commas from a poem and then put them all back again.

#amediting #poetry
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
@snowhydro.bsky.social
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
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
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
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
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
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM