Michael Melgaard
@melgaard.bsky.social
Author of Not That Kind of Place (2023) and the short story collection Pallbearing (2020).
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🎉 🏆 Exciting news! GREAT SILENT BALLAD has won the 2025 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! Congratulations to our friend, the legendary poet afmoritz.bsky.social. 💛
Learn more about the winning collection here: houseofanansi.com/products/gre...
#poetrymonth #booksky #canlit
Learn more about the winning collection here: houseofanansi.com/products/gre...
#poetrymonth #booksky #canlit
April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎉 🏆 Exciting news! GREAT SILENT BALLAD has won the 2025 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! Congratulations to our friend, the legendary poet afmoritz.bsky.social. 💛
Learn more about the winning collection here: houseofanansi.com/products/gre...
#poetrymonth #booksky #canlit
Learn more about the winning collection here: houseofanansi.com/products/gre...
#poetrymonth #booksky #canlit
There was karaoke at the Easter egg hunt for neighborhood kids and a lady did Squeeze Box. She knew all the lyrics, but I don’t think she’s ever really *listened* to the lyrics.
April 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
There was karaoke at the Easter egg hunt for neighborhood kids and a lady did Squeeze Box. She knew all the lyrics, but I don’t think she’s ever really *listened* to the lyrics.
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Friends in Victoria, come see me and @staranise99.bsky.social on February 21st at Russell Books!
February 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Friends in Victoria, come see me and @staranise99.bsky.social on February 21st at Russell Books!
Nothing has tripped me up more in life than:
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January 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Microsoft just added CoPilot to Word without asking me. I don’t want this to be the first thing I see when I open a new document but it seems impossible to get rid of? Anyone use a Word alternative they like?
January 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Microsoft just added CoPilot to Word without asking me. I don’t want this to be the first thing I see when I open a new document but it seems impossible to get rid of? Anyone use a Word alternative they like?
Why not spend your Sunday morning watching Dave Mustaine clean up on Jeopardy?
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Dave Mustaine ` Rock & Roll Jeopardy! with Jeff Probst, Moon Zappa and George Clinton. 1999
YouTube video by Megadeth _ Review ᴴᴰ
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January 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Why not spend your Sunday morning watching Dave Mustaine clean up on Jeopardy?
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hHU...
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hHU...
33k per year for a marketing coordinator is almost 3,000 less than minimum wage (35,775/year) and 500 less than minimum wage if you’re not getting paid for a lunch break (7.5 hrs a day; 33,540). Not even intern money for a non-entry level job. Bad look, Dundurn!
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Marketing Coordinator - Quill and Quire
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December 18, 2024 at 9:17 PM
33k per year for a marketing coordinator is almost 3,000 less than minimum wage (35,775/year) and 500 less than minimum wage if you’re not getting paid for a lunch break (7.5 hrs a day; 33,540). Not even intern money for a non-entry level job. Bad look, Dundurn!
quillandquire.com/jobs/view/ma...
quillandquire.com/jobs/view/ma...
Starting a new writing project.
December 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Starting a new writing project.
Horny Victorians justify their affair by using automatic writing to contact dead friends who tell them they’ve absolutely got to get it on with each other so they have a baby that will save the world. Absolutely wild story in the new Granta.
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The Messiah of Cadoxton | Susan Pedersen | Granta
‘Winifred had been doing something exclusive and intimate with Gerald, something suffused with eroticism, something that made her vulnerable and left her exhausted: she was producing scripts.’
granta.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Horny Victorians justify their affair by using automatic writing to contact dead friends who tell them they’ve absolutely got to get it on with each other so they have a baby that will save the world. Absolutely wild story in the new Granta.
granta.com/the-messiah-...
granta.com/the-messiah-...
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TONIGHT 7PM @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
Celebrating 10 Years of Anstruther Press with this hefty line-up of poets & cake!
December 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
TONIGHT 7PM @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
Celebrating 10 Years of Anstruther Press with this hefty line-up of poets & cake!
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Op-ed by Phillip Dwight Morgan 🔥
ANY WORD BUT ‘GENOCIDE’
The campaign targeting sponsors of the Giller Prize for their investments in and support of Israel’s military and occupation has sparked intense debate far beyond CanLit circles.
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 30, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Op-ed by Phillip Dwight Morgan 🔥
AI has made google useless. Time to admit it’s not working and reboot the internet to the 2019 save state.
November 29, 2024 at 12:07 AM
AI has made google useless. Time to admit it’s not working and reboot the internet to the 2019 save state.
Love a writer that takes a universal passing thought—in this case “The west Edmonton mall is a weird place”—and does you the solid of giving you a bemused, book-length deep dive into why that is.
But those poor dolphins…
But those poor dolphins…
November 26, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Love a writer that takes a universal passing thought—in this case “The west Edmonton mall is a weird place”—and does you the solid of giving you a bemused, book-length deep dive into why that is.
But those poor dolphins…
But those poor dolphins…
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"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM
"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
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Really generous review of VANISHING MONUMENTS here, a book that you may have missed (bc it came out in April of 2020), and which I humbly recommend you not continue to miss. (The audiobook is also free on Spotify & possibly other streaming places.)
Take Edgar's words for it if you won't take mine!
Take Edgar's words for it if you won't take mine!
November 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Really generous review of VANISHING MONUMENTS here, a book that you may have missed (bc it came out in April of 2020), and which I humbly recommend you not continue to miss. (The audiobook is also free on Spotify & possibly other streaming places.)
Take Edgar's words for it if you won't take mine!
Take Edgar's words for it if you won't take mine!
Tuvok’s heroic slide entrance 😂
November 23, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Tuvok’s heroic slide entrance 😂
Briefly miffed I was left off a year-end list before remembering I did not publish a book this year.
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Briefly miffed I was left off a year-end list before remembering I did not publish a book this year.
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Tis the season to remind people that I think we need to stop listening too closely to awards and juries when it comes to what book/author we should read but, instead just look toward what our friends, our local booksellers, literally anyone else is reading and loving.
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Tis the season to remind people that I think we need to stop listening too closely to awards and juries when it comes to what book/author we should read but, instead just look toward what our friends, our local booksellers, literally anyone else is reading and loving.
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Yesterday, past Giller winner David Bergen - who read at the Boycott Giller event in Winnipeg - published an editorial about why he's boycotting the prize:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Opinion: David Bergen: Why I won’t be attending the Giller Prize gala this year
My family is Mennonite, and one of the tenets of the Mennonite faith is pacifism.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Yesterday, past Giller winner David Bergen - who read at the Boycott Giller event in Winnipeg - published an editorial about why he's boycotting the prize:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Citation needed on the comedy bits claim.
November 19, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Citation needed on the comedy bits claim.
Toronto people, head over to @meetthepresses.bsky.social , 58 Cecil street until 4:30! There’s books to be bought!
November 17, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Toronto people, head over to @meetthepresses.bsky.social , 58 Cecil street until 4:30! There’s books to be bought!
I’m watching Voyager for the first time and had been warned about the transwarp slug sex episode but for some reason no one thought to mention this one, which is much, much worse.
November 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I’m watching Voyager for the first time and had been warned about the transwarp slug sex episode but for some reason no one thought to mention this one, which is much, much worse.
Clicked “save” on a university job application site and was immediately thanked for submitting my application. Should I let them know that save and submit mean two very different things, or just hope my half-finished application is good enough to get the job?
November 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Clicked “save” on a university job application site and was immediately thanked for submitting my application. Should I let them know that save and submit mean two very different things, or just hope my half-finished application is good enough to get the job?