Heather J. "I Should Be Writing" Wood
@rollwithheather.bsky.social
Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
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less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon,
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the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair autumn 2025 : will be held on Satur...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon,
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
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TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
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Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full piece:
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Read the full piece:
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November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full piece:
windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
@windspeaker.bsky.social
Read the full piece:
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@windspeaker.bsky.social
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What a beautiful opportunity to explore diverse voices and stories! Each book holds a world of experience and emotion. Let's celebrate and uplift trans authors together! 🌈📚 #BookSky #books
We're sooooo close to reaching 100% of our goal in this wonderful bundle! 🤩
Still 4 days left to grab 32 books by trans authors for a really sweet price! 🔥
#BookSky
Still 4 days left to grab 32 books by trans authors for a really sweet price! 🔥
#BookSky
Today begins Trans People Take on the World, a bundle featuring 32 books by 32 trans authors in various genres!
And Garden of Rotten Roses is part of the bundle! While technically Book 2 in World Without Love, you can read it first as an appetiser! 😉
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#BookSky #Books
And Garden of Rotten Roses is part of the bundle! While technically Book 2 in World Without Love, you can read it first as an appetiser! 😉
itch.io/b/3352/trans...
#BookSky #Books
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
What a beautiful opportunity to explore diverse voices and stories! Each book holds a world of experience and emotion. Let's celebrate and uplift trans authors together! 🌈📚 #BookSky #books
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At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
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In this Q&A with rob mclennan, Meg Todd discusses the inspiration behind her debut novel, Most Grievous Fault, and offers insight into her writing process.
#MegTodd #MostGrievousFault #Canadiannovel
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#MegTodd #MostGrievousFault #Canadiannovel
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Meg Todd
Meg Todd [photo credit: Anick Violette] grew up in the Alberta prairies. She is a two-time finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize, and her ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In this Q&A with rob mclennan, Meg Todd discusses the inspiration behind her debut novel, Most Grievous Fault, and offers insight into her writing process.
#MegTodd #MostGrievousFault #Canadiannovel
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...
#MegTodd #MostGrievousFault #Canadiannovel
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...
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It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
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David Szalay’s Flesh has become the second Jonathan Cape title to win the Booker Prize in a row and the first British-Hungarian author to ever win the £50,000 prize 👇
The Booker Prize: David Szalay wins 2025 award marking second victory in a row for Jonathan Cape
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November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
David Szalay’s Flesh has become the second Jonathan Cape title to win the Booker Prize in a row and the first British-Hungarian author to ever win the £50,000 prize 👇
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Read an excerpted story from BIG OF YOU (@biblioasis.bsky.social), the fantastic new short fiction collection from Elise Levine!
#AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction
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#AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction
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Read an Excerpt from the New Short Story Collection by Celebrated Author Elise Levine
The latest collection of short fiction by Elise Levine is a masterclass from an author that has few equals in the form. Across nine unforgettable stories ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Read an excerpted story from BIG OF YOU (@biblioasis.bsky.social), the fantastic new short fiction collection from Elise Levine!
#AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction
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#AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction
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Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years
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Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years | CBC Arts
Edmonton-based On Spec, which showcased authors like Julie E. Czerneda, Tony Pi and a young Cory Doctorow, will publish its final issue in December
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years
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The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last.
Zero medals. Zero.
Zero.
Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.
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"Smith has written a smart and sexy book, full of joy and humour and history and resistance and music.” @amandaearl.bsky.social reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by @michaelvsmith.bsky.social. amandaearl.substack.com/p/michael-v-...
Michael V. Smith's Soundtrack
A Lyric Memoir (Book*Hug Press, 2025)
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November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Smith has written a smart and sexy book, full of joy and humour and history and resistance and music.” @amandaearl.bsky.social reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by @michaelvsmith.bsky.social. amandaearl.substack.com/p/michael-v-...
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Backlist Mondays: Love Despite the Ache by Chris Pannell, winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award. Navigating complex narratives of grief and mortality, Pannell weaves his way though complex and often painful memories in the beautiful collection.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Backlist Mondays: Love Despite the Ache by Chris Pannell, winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award. Navigating complex narratives of grief and mortality, Pannell weaves his way though complex and often painful memories in the beautiful collection.
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Articles about performative reading are of a category with book bans, attacks on libraries, and underfunding public education.
#BuySomeBooks
#BuySomeBooks
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Articles about performative reading are of a category with book bans, attacks on libraries, and underfunding public education.
#BuySomeBooks
#BuySomeBooks
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ICE agents pepper-spray a *baby*
America shrugs.
Children are murdered in a schoolyard in Sandy Hook,
America does nothing.
A trans girl joins a rugby team,
America screams “PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!”
Make it make sense.
America shrugs.
Children are murdered in a schoolyard in Sandy Hook,
America does nothing.
A trans girl joins a rugby team,
America screams “PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!”
Make it make sense.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ICE agents pepper-spray a *baby*
America shrugs.
Children are murdered in a schoolyard in Sandy Hook,
America does nothing.
A trans girl joins a rugby team,
America screams “PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!”
Make it make sense.
America shrugs.
Children are murdered in a schoolyard in Sandy Hook,
America does nothing.
A trans girl joins a rugby team,
America screams “PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!”
Make it make sense.
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If People magazine of all places is writing about safer streets and giant SUVs then maybe our political leaders could show some courage and not capitulate to the vocal minority who want drivers to keep on killing
“There are solutions out there,” Cohen insists. “We don't need to wait for something to be invented. We just need our leaders to have the political will to put them in place so we can start saving lives.” Via @people.com.
Her Son Was Run Over on His Way to Soccer Practice. Now Part of a ‘Horrible Club,’ Mom Fights to Spare Others
The number of pedestrians being hit or run over in the U.S. has increased at an alarming rate. Amy Cohen and others want to end the heartache
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If People magazine of all places is writing about safer streets and giant SUVs then maybe our political leaders could show some courage and not capitulate to the vocal minority who want drivers to keep on killing
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Another form of “The Populist Playbook.” The fake, unrepresentative, but impressively titled “organization.”
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Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another form of “The Populist Playbook.” The fake, unrepresentative, but impressively titled “organization.”
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bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Some random group of NIMBYs, claiming to speak for all of Toronto, is deeply concerned about neighbourhood stores.
The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke.
These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored.
cot-ra.org
The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke.
These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored.
cot-ra.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Some random group of NIMBYs, claiming to speak for all of Toronto, is deeply concerned about neighbourhood stores.
The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke.
These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored.
cot-ra.org
The spokesperson (frequent activist vs planning reform) lives in a wealthy, deeply suburban part of Etobicoke.
These people speak for no one, and ought to be ignored.
cot-ra.org
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We're here to help you find your giftee’s next favourite book.
Our first #ALUGiftNext recommendations are for the person on your list who savours language as much as plot.
Shop our lit fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
Our first #ALUGiftNext recommendations are for the person on your list who savours language as much as plot.
Shop our lit fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We're here to help you find your giftee’s next favourite book.
Our first #ALUGiftNext recommendations are for the person on your list who savours language as much as plot.
Shop our lit fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
Our first #ALUGiftNext recommendations are for the person on your list who savours language as much as plot.
Shop our lit fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
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On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.