Meg Reid 🦦
@megireid.bsky.social
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
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Meg Reid 🦦
@megireid.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hey new folks! I'm a publisher / writer / designer who runs a publisher grounded in place and community (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) and advocates for small, local, diverse, and authentic in direct response to the consolidation and corporatization of nearly everything in the book industry.
Nothing makes me feel more superhuman and correctly identifying the bumper music on an NPR segment when it doesn't have lyrics. (Today it was ELO's "Here is the News" from their 1981 album Time)
February 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Nothing makes me feel more superhuman and correctly identifying the bumper music on an NPR segment when it doesn't have lyrics. (Today it was ELO's "Here is the News" from their 1981 album Time)
are y'all actually understanding all the finance stuff on industry bc..?
February 19, 2026 at 3:52 AM
are y'all actually understanding all the finance stuff on industry bc..?
Reposted by Meg Reid 🦦
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
can't get over how highlighter yellow the swedes are
February 18, 2026 at 8:14 PM
can't get over how highlighter yellow the swedes are
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anyway a clear takeaway of today is that nobody remembers the start of The Thing
No one is talking about the speciesist bias in the Winter Olympics
February 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
anyway a clear takeaway of today is that nobody remembers the start of The Thing
As a millenial it feels very on brand that we would simultaneously accomplish two strategic goals (national awards and top-tier national/international review coverage) at the moment everyone says the book industry is officially falling apart.
February 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
As a millenial it feels very on brand that we would simultaneously accomplish two strategic goals (national awards and top-tier national/international review coverage) at the moment everyone says the book industry is officially falling apart.
Woooo!! PLUM is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction!!! Preorder the paperback today: www.hubcity.org/books/fictio...
February 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Woooo!! PLUM is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction!!! Preorder the paperback today: www.hubcity.org/books/fictio...
Excited, ofc, about the gold medal game but the embellishment issue is really goddamn annoying and the us needs to quit it
February 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Excited, ofc, about the gold medal game but the embellishment issue is really goddamn annoying and the us needs to quit it
oh man, stan! in rural maine. he advised me to put the car in low gear and "use the hills" instead of accelerating and breaking (good advice that was almost immediate out of date) and always had us drive him through burger king, where he would order a chicken sandwich with two bottom buns.
okay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
February 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
oh man, stan! in rural maine. he advised me to put the car in low gear and "use the hills" instead of accelerating and breaking (good advice that was almost immediate out of date) and always had us drive him through burger king, where he would order a chicken sandwich with two bottom buns.
you can"detain" a goddamn baby.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 2:34 AM
you can"detain" a goddamn baby.
also, judging by the sales totals, kind of proof you can't?
A cyber truck is just proof that you can really convince people to purchase anything
February 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
also, judging by the sales totals, kind of proof you can't?
book publishing is me slacking my team "we need a king cake for mardi gras / nancy lemann post!!!" and like six hours later, we have this brilliance
Getting into the THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU mood and celebrating Mardi Gras with King Cake! ⚜️🎉
February 17, 2026 at 10:20 PM
book publishing is me slacking my team "we need a king cake for mardi gras / nancy lemann post!!!" and like six hours later, we have this brilliance
Since historically changes in production style have had a lot to do with technology, does anybody know why so much (major label) pop music these days is thin and sibilant? Does it have to do with more people listening through headphones than speakers? Everything sounds terrible to me.
February 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Since historically changes in production style have had a lot to do with technology, does anybody know why so much (major label) pop music these days is thin and sibilant? Does it have to do with more people listening through headphones than speakers? Everything sounds terrible to me.
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Get ready for Hub City's first big reissue project: acclaimed novelist Nancy Lemann’s only work of nonfiction, The Ritz of the Bayou. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Lives of the Saints & The Oyster Diaries, so we're taking a tandem publication approach and all books are coming out April 7!
January 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Get ready for Hub City's first big reissue project: acclaimed novelist Nancy Lemann’s only work of nonfiction, The Ritz of the Bayou. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Lives of the Saints & The Oyster Diaries, so we're taking a tandem publication approach and all books are coming out April 7!
Depressing post but taking a brief survey of my DMs right now from writers, critics, publishers, editors, etc it feels like no one in books is doing okay right now.
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Depressing post but taking a brief survey of my DMs right now from writers, critics, publishers, editors, etc it feels like no one in books is doing okay right now.
listening to the game because I'm at work and did the announcer really just say canada has FORTY shots?!
February 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
listening to the game because I'm at work and did the announcer really just say canada has FORTY shots?!
My community is the center of the measles outbreak and now also fighting an AI data center. It's actually fascinating to watch people fight along a spectrum of what they consider "safe" (ie there are unvaccinated people who say the measles is "just a rash" who are actively fighting the data center).
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
My community is the center of the measles outbreak and now also fighting an AI data center. It's actually fascinating to watch people fight along a spectrum of what they consider "safe" (ie there are unvaccinated people who say the measles is "just a rash" who are actively fighting the data center).
A book person in silicone valley just sent me a long piece about AI disruption--and why the book industry would be foolish to not take it seriously--that was obv written by chatgpt. If you don't believe your own ideas enough to write them with your own brain, I don't think I have to listen to you!
February 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
A book person in silicone valley just sent me a long piece about AI disruption--and why the book industry would be foolish to not take it seriously--that was obv written by chatgpt. If you don't believe your own ideas enough to write them with your own brain, I don't think I have to listen to you!
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Exactly. Watched total recall last night and I, uhhh, don't think we were supposed to be cheering for the fuckng mining company controlling the air.
February 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Exactly. Watched total recall last night and I, uhhh, don't think we were supposed to be cheering for the fuckng mining company controlling the air.
Another day, minding my own business, and then boom, emotionally bodied by the W.S. Merwin Conservancy posting a Merwin poem of the day.
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Another day, minding my own business, and then boom, emotionally bodied by the W.S. Merwin Conservancy posting a Merwin poem of the day.
Justice for the Canadian women curlers! No appeal for on-ice calls that are clearly wrong?
February 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Justice for the Canadian women curlers! No appeal for on-ice calls that are clearly wrong?
Reporting live from a very crowded DMV in Spartanburg, South Carolina (the epicenter of the measles epidemic) to see if they'll give a Canadian born citizen who changed her name at 18 years old a real ID.
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reporting live from a very crowded DMV in Spartanburg, South Carolina (the epicenter of the measles epidemic) to see if they'll give a Canadian born citizen who changed her name at 18 years old a real ID.
I've never heard anything more ironic than the Republicans shutting down the government over their right to wear masks.
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I've never heard anything more ironic than the Republicans shutting down the government over their right to wear masks.
Feeling deep imposter syndrome about being in this killer line-up next month at Duke. The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World, with the man himself, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social keynoting and Will Evans (Deep Vellum), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), and me (Hub City) on the state of literature in 2026.
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Feeling deep imposter syndrome about being in this killer line-up next month at Duke. The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World, with the man himself, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social keynoting and Will Evans (Deep Vellum), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), and me (Hub City) on the state of literature in 2026.