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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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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!

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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...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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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
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Join us for an evening of art and storytelling about human-bear coexistence at 7pm on Friday 9 January 2026 at the Beringia Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Author Trina Moyles is launching her new book, Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival (Knopf Canada, 2026). Filmmaker, Allan Code, will screen "Grizzly Consensus", a short documentary film about Yukon salmon and grizzlies, featuring bear guide, Phil Timpany, shot at Bear Cave Mountain. Author/poet, Joanna Lilley, will be hosting an engaging conversation with Trina Moyles, Allan Code, and Phil Timpany, on the themes of human-bear coexistence, art, writing, climate change, conservation, and more. This is a free event, everyone welcome! DOORS OPEN AT 6:45 PM LIGHT REFRESHMENTS BOOKS FOR SALE BLACK BEAR: A STORY OF SIBLINGHOOD AND SURVIVAL (Knopf Canada, January 6, 2026): When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as “the bear guy,” brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings’ hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while her brother worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on t…
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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December 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Ice inside and out as the sun slowly rises at minus 42 on the day after the solstice.

#Whitehorse #Yukon
A pattern of ice on a window pane with snowy trees and a rising sun beyond. Indoors, a frosted window sill and three grey stones.
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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'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.
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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
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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
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The snow came late this year to Yukon. The ice formed first and waxed and waned like the moon.
A photograph of a circular hole in the ice which has itself iced over yet is not yet covered in snow. Around the hole are spiky and soft patterns of ice formations.
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.
This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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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.
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##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
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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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herbivoreclub.bsky.social
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.)

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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