Keli O’Connor
@kelioconnor.bsky.social
Ineffectual intellectual. Professional ne’er-do-well. Editor-in-Chief of Canid Literary & Arts and author of dog fiction. Never AI.
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Hi! I’m Keli and I write stories about women and their four-legged best friends. Chicklit, romcoms, etc, etc.
So if you like books with:
-dogs 🐶
-humor 🤭
-friendship 👯♀️
-neurodivergent rep 🧠
-disability rep ♿️
give me a follow and I’ll show you pictures of my dogs! Sometimes my dogs reading books!
So if you like books with:
-dogs 🐶
-humor 🤭
-friendship 👯♀️
-neurodivergent rep 🧠
-disability rep ♿️
give me a follow and I’ll show you pictures of my dogs! Sometimes my dogs reading books!
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Fifteen years ago, my husband and his buddy formed the HBAC, the Humans Before Automatons Committee to combat the inevitable AI uprising, and today, I am proud to become their third member
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Fifteen years ago, my husband and his buddy formed the HBAC, the Humans Before Automatons Committee to combat the inevitable AI uprising, and today, I am proud to become their third member
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Today is the final day of our 2025 submissions window. If you would like your work considered for our first issue head over to canidpress.com/submissions for details.
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Today is the final day of our 2025 submissions window. If you would like your work considered for our first issue head over to canidpress.com/submissions for details.
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Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
I just wrote a quote from Henrick Ibsen who said, “Who has not, when standing with someone by an abyss or high up on a tower, had a sudden impulse to push the other over,” and I’m sitting here like… UH, I HAVEN’T?
IS EVERYONE OUT THERE THINKING THIS??
IS EVERYONE THINKING THIS???
IS EVERYONE OUT THERE THINKING THIS??
IS EVERYONE THINKING THIS???
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I just wrote a quote from Henrick Ibsen who said, “Who has not, when standing with someone by an abyss or high up on a tower, had a sudden impulse to push the other over,” and I’m sitting here like… UH, I HAVEN’T?
IS EVERYONE OUT THERE THINKING THIS??
IS EVERYONE THINKING THIS???
IS EVERYONE OUT THERE THINKING THIS??
IS EVERYONE THINKING THIS???
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We have today and tomorrow left for submissions to our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts.
If you have any dog-themed essays, stories, art, or photographs, we would love to review your work. See our submissions page for details.
If you have any dog-themed essays, stories, art, or photographs, we would love to review your work. See our submissions page for details.
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We have today and tomorrow left for submissions to our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts.
If you have any dog-themed essays, stories, art, or photographs, we would love to review your work. See our submissions page for details.
If you have any dog-themed essays, stories, art, or photographs, we would love to review your work. See our submissions page for details.
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Clankers need not apply
Three days left until submissions close and we are looking for visual art of various media and photography to line our pages.
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
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If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Clankers need not apply
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Three days left until submissions close and we are looking for essays, personal narratives, and non-fiction to line our pages.
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Three days left until submissions close and we are looking for essays, personal narratives, and non-fiction to line our pages.
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
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Five days left until submissions close and we are looking for short stories to line our pages.
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Five days left until submissions close and we are looking for short stories to line our pages.
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
If you have a short story, personal essay, or visual art about or including womankind’s best friend, see our submissions page for details on how to submit your work.
🐾
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Here is the mod in action. We paid for a pair and of glasses and for the hobbyist to mod the glasses. Shows that the light is disabled, and yet taking photos/recording still works www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Here is the mod in action. We paid for a pair and of glasses and for the hobbyist to mod the glasses. Shows that the light is disabled, and yet taking photos/recording still works www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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Canid Literary & Arts seeks work that challenges us to see the crossroads where the human and dog experiences meet in new and honest ways through both established and emerging voices. The only submission criteria is that the piece either is about or includes dogs.
canidpress.com/submissions
canidpress.com/submissions
October 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Canid Literary & Arts seeks work that challenges us to see the crossroads where the human and dog experiences meet in new and honest ways through both established and emerging voices. The only submission criteria is that the piece either is about or includes dogs.
canidpress.com/submissions
canidpress.com/submissions
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🐾 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN 🐾
Canid Literary & Art an online and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
Canid Literary & Art an online and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🐾 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN 🐾
Canid Literary & Art an online and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
Canid Literary & Art an online and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
IT’S HAPPENING!!!!
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
IT’S HAPPENING!!!!
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We have our first contract for the journal!
If you have a poem, essay, short story, or visual media of or about dogs, we’d love to review it for our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts. Submission details can be found on our website and reading is open until October 31, 2025.
If you have a poem, essay, short story, or visual media of or about dogs, we’d love to review it for our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts. Submission details can be found on our website and reading is open until October 31, 2025.
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We have our first contract for the journal!
If you have a poem, essay, short story, or visual media of or about dogs, we’d love to review it for our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts. Submission details can be found on our website and reading is open until October 31, 2025.
If you have a poem, essay, short story, or visual media of or about dogs, we’d love to review it for our first issue of Canid Literary & Arts. Submission details can be found on our website and reading is open until October 31, 2025.
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I'm not even sure...Someone from my company (Black Rose Writing) used AI to create it.
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'm not even sure...Someone from my company (Black Rose Writing) used AI to create it.
This is one of those things that if it ever changes, the city of Philadelphia will effectively shut down from riots
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is one of those things that if it ever changes, the city of Philadelphia will effectively shut down from riots
Absolutely obsessed with how Classical Gas starts out with the sickest guitar you’ll ever hear and then swift turns into the 6ABC Action News theme
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absolutely obsessed with how Classical Gas starts out with the sickest guitar you’ll ever hear and then swift turns into the 6ABC Action News theme
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Canid Literary & Art an onlline and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Canid Literary & Art an onlline and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
Submissions are live!
Canid Literary & Art an onlline and print journal committed to publishing poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction, and artwork that pays tribute to our best friend: dogs. We are committed to showcasing exciting and inclusive work across genres.
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Submissions are live!
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My gf is so much better at crosswords than me that I worry she loves me like a dog
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My gf is so much better at crosswords than me that I worry she loves me like a dog
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Introducing Canid Literary & Arts, a journal celebrating women and their four-legged best friends.
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Introducing Canid Literary & Arts, a journal celebrating women and their four-legged best friends.
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If you see this, quote with your favorite Pokémon. (wrong answers only)
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you see this, quote with your favorite Pokémon. (wrong answers only)
Of the highest grossing films of 2024, nine were sequels and one was a remake…
October 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Of the highest grossing films of 2024, nine were sequels and one was a remake…