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All about text: reading it, editing it, enjoying it. I am a professional reader: an author, an editor, a reviewer, an academic, and an administrator.
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kimfahner.bsky.social
Given what’s happening in Alberta with book censorship, it was timely for me to read On Book Banning by Ira Wells. It’s part of Biblioasis’s Field Notes series of books. You can order it through their Windsor bookshop!
@biblioasis.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Author friends, let Biblioasis know about your recent publications. They're starting to work on the 2025 Best Canadian Series, which are always fabulous books.
biblioasis.bsky.social Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Sep 24
Best Canadian Series: CALL FOR 2025 JOURNAL ISSUES!

Every year, Biblioasis publishes Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Essays, and Best Canadian Stories, anthologies which feature works that were published in magazines/journals/online publications the previous year.

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September 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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greatplainspress.bsky.social
Attention Alberta!

Gail Sidonie Sobat will be attending a number of events and signings this fall for her upcoming novel, Songs From This and That Country, releasing on October 7th!

EDMONTON | Audreys Books- October 19th, 2025 (2-3:30 pm)
CALGARY | Owl's Nest Books - November 2nd, 2025 (1-3pm)
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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newestpress.bsky.social
📚 Have you joined the @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social book club yet?? Their September read is an excellent one, if we do say so ourselves, our very own 🪲A Story Can Be Told About Pain🪲 the debut novel from award-winning poet Lisa Martin.

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#NeWestPress #LisaMartin #ReadCanadian
Audreys Book Club, Monday September 29 at 7pm. A Story Can Be Told About Pain. Audreys Books, Downtown.
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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cjlavigne.com
Almost missed that we were in @edmontonjournal.com yesterday! In which I say some stuff and then @jennabutler.bsky.social talks about @newestpress.bsky.social's new Barbour Books spec fic imprint. edmontonjournal.com/entertainmen...
A pair of new novellas from award-winning Alberta authors
Conor Kerr’s Beaver Hills Forever waxes poetic over Metis life while C.J. Lavigne launches Barbour Books with The Drowned Man’s Daughter.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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premeemohamed.com
HELLO did you know! I am helping launch THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER, the brilliant @cjlavigne.com's new novella of disaster, hope, belief, and weird moss!

September 24, 7 pm MT, virtual, free, BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
The Drowned Man's Daughter digital launch — NeWest Press
You are Invited! To the digital book launch of award-winning writer C.J. Lavigne’s brand new book The Drowned Man’s Daughter ! Featuring the spectacular Premee Mohamed as co-reader, this is an event...
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September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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newestpress.bsky.social
✨ Experience the artist spaces created through Arts Habitat Edmonton as part of Alberta Culture Days, Saturday September 20, 2025 11am - 6pm with performances, workshops, bookselling, and so much more!

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#NeWestPress #ReadLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian
Event Poster: Heart of the Habitat. A part of Alberta Culture Days. Sept 20, 2025. Experience the spaces where Edmonton's creative energy comes to life. 11am to 6pm. performances, workshops, open studios and more at artshub Ortona. 9722 102 Street NW Edmonton
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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newestpress.bsky.social
✨ NEW INTERVIEW✨ Danica Klewchuk discusses her upcoming memoir-in-essay collection Standing in the Footprints of Beasts with The Fiddlehead!

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#NeWestPress #DanicaKlewchuk #NewRelease #ReadLocal #ReadCanadian
New Interview! The Fiddlehead with Danica Klewchuk. "Largely, I'd say that the essays are about what it's like to be a woman and have a body." image of book cover, image of the author, NeWest Press logo.
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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newestpress.bsky.social
🎉 Happy Pub Day! to Danica Klewchuk and her debut memoir in essays, Standing in the Footprints of Beasts.

#StandingInTheFootprintsOfBeasts #NeWestPress #NewRelease #ABbooks #CanadianLiterature #CanLit #ReadLocal #BuyLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian
Book Cover: Standing in the Footprints of Beasts. Danica Klewchuk. Memoir in essays. On a shiny black background cursive text wraps around the image of strange and beautiful flowers, some with eyes, an arm reaching out of one of the leaves and snatching a bee, a tentacle coming out of another.
September 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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mandagroup.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the longlisted authors for the 2025 @gillerprize.bsky.social, including Kirti Bhadresa (AN ASTONISHMENT OF STARS), Fanny Britt (SUGARING OFF), and Joanna Cockerline (STILL)! 🙌🎉

#booksky #canadianauthor #canadianliterature #CanLit
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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ellenforget.bsky.social
Very cool to see Amanda Leduc's newest book on the Giller longlist! Wild Life is Leduc's third book published as a born-accessible book—in traditional commercial formats as well as accessible digital formats and braille. Love to see support for disabled authors and stories and accessible books.
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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writersguildab.bsky.social
The Writers' Guild of Alberta is providing free consultations with regional Writers-in-Residence for our members in under-served areas. Get one-on-one feedback on your writing by booking by September 30th, 2025. writersguild.ca/2025-regiona...
September 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
readingwithapencil.bsky.social
I really enjoyed learning more about Edmonton's Laberinto Press and @lucianaerregue.bsky.social through this post. Great to see content like this!

www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/9/...

#books #publishing #reading #writing #editing #interview
5 questions with Laberinto Press — BookNet Canada
5 questions with Luciana Erregue, the Director of Laberinto Press.
www.booknetcanada.ca
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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cdnpublishers.bsky.social
The Canadian publishing industry calls for the repeal of @youralberta.bsky.social's discriminatory book ban. The revised directive continues to restrict access to literature, stigmatize marginalized communities, and undermine the expertise of educators & librarians. publishers.ca/repeal-alber...
Canadian Publishing Industry Calls for Repeal of Alberta’s Discriminatory Book Ban - Association of Canadian Publishers
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September 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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newestpress.bsky.social
✨ NEW REVIEW✨ for our very own Lisa Martin in Alberta Views and her brilliant debut novel A Story Can Be Told about Pain.

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#NeWestPress #NewReview #Fall2025 #ReadLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian
New Review: "Martin constructs her words so carefully that every sentence sings with beauty ... [s]he has a special talent." From Alberta Views
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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'the same technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function.' 📖📃
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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kidsbookcentre.bsky.social
In solidarity with Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans (CAIABB) we are sharing their recent peition “Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans”.

The CCBC supports the freedom to read. Our statement on the Alberta Book Bans can be found on our website.

Link: change.org/AB-book-ban
Sign the Petition
Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans
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September 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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mlobkowicz.bsky.social
University of Alberta Press poetry window is now open, until Sept 30, for collections by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. 50 pages min. Our poetry jury will choose up to three manuscripts for publication in Spring 2027.

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University of Alberta Press - Poetry
University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 each year, written by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. At the end of the submission period, the Press, working ...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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groundwoodbooks.bsky.social
A look inside our upcoming title WORDS MATTER at the real Hans and Sophie Scholl as #VJDay80 approaches.

Hans and Sophie’s story demonstrates the enduring power of words, especially in times of propaganda and fear.

Out September 2nd, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/wor... #VJDay
A black-and-white photograph inside the book of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst at a train station where students were sent to the Russian front, 1942. The book WORDS MATTER its on a light wooden table. The illustrated cover features two children hiding behind a brick wall as two soldiers walk by.
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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LAST DAY!
Creating beautifully formatted ebooks takes time, care, and resources.
Help us keep classic literature free and accessible for everyone by joining our Patrons Circle. #publicdomain #literature #ebook

Your support makes it all possible.
Find out more here: standardebooks.org/donate
August 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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lavermeer.bsky.social
#Reading today: THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS by @craigmod.com. As the subtitle indicates, this text is a #walking #memoir, and so much more. Travel writing, personal essay, and cross-cultural storytelling. Stunningly beautiful—sip, don't gulp this one.
Cover of THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS: A WALKING MEMOIR by Craig Mod. The cover shows a cloudy sky above tree-covered low mountains.
August 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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premeemohamed.com
I love this and also: this hypothetical questioner needs to ask themself, truly, why they want to write in the first place.

Because asking the question in and of itself suggests that this is a person who doesn't want to try to get better. And if that's true, why bother? No one's MAKING you write.
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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parentclub.bsky.social
Do you think auhor visits are important to readers? Share your opinion in the comments...

#kidlit #CanKidLit
Do you think auhor visits are important to readers? Share your opinion in the comments... #kidlit #CanKidLit
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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funfunfunicular.bsky.social
Would you believe us if we told you that we are still open for submissions? Poetry, Flash, Short Fiction, drawings of your doggos. Send em in!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Funicular Magazine Submission Manager
Submit to Funicular Magazine. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ualbertapress.bsky.social
Poets: University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 from poets who are Canadians or landed immigrants.
Info: https://bit.ly/4lfXLoI
@mlobkowicz.bsky.social‬ @abbookpub.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social @writersguildab.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social‬
August 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM