Ryanne Kap
@ryannekap.bsky.social
writer & PhD candidate at the University of Calgary | editor in chief @ex-puritan.bsky.social
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Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.
Thrilled to share my chapbook failed (after)lives w The Blasted Tree has been shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award!!! Very very grateful and excited!
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Thrilled to share my chapbook failed (after)lives w The Blasted Tree has been shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award!!! Very very grateful and excited!
I just fell to my knees
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I just fell to my knees
“don’t ask me again for 30 days” why does multifactor authentication even offer that option when they FULLY INTEND TO ASK ME AGAIN JUST ONE DAY LATER like pls i just want to log into my student centre let me be 😭😭😭
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“don’t ask me again for 30 days” why does multifactor authentication even offer that option when they FULLY INTEND TO ASK ME AGAIN JUST ONE DAY LATER like pls i just want to log into my student centre let me be 😭😭😭
leaned over after watching Superman and whispered “everything is adoption studies”
July 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
leaned over after watching Superman and whispered “everything is adoption studies”
Things I have done to get my students to wrap up their discussion:
1) increasingly loud HELLOs
2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn
3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)
1) increasingly loud HELLOs
2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn
3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)
May 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Things I have done to get my students to wrap up their discussion:
1) increasingly loud HELLOs
2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn
3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)
1) increasingly loud HELLOs
2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn
3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)
THE BESTIE AND I GOT SSHRC IT’S TIME FOR MATCHING JUMPSUITS @inkstainedwreck.ca
April 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
THE BESTIE AND I GOT SSHRC IT’S TIME FOR MATCHING JUMPSUITS @inkstainedwreck.ca
while working on my thesis about adoption, I’ve had super relevant and random encounters (ie discovering a stranger in the dog park had an incredible adoption story) and just as I’ve decided this novel is an archive of adoption I found out that China closed overseas adoption last year
April 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
while working on my thesis about adoption, I’ve had super relevant and random encounters (ie discovering a stranger in the dog park had an incredible adoption story) and just as I’ve decided this novel is an archive of adoption I found out that China closed overseas adoption last year
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Canada’s most unique poetry prize – deadline extended. 5 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings readings in the fall! Please repost!
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2025 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize
Submit your poetry to the 2025 MURIEL’S JOURNEY POETRY PRIZE. What's Muriel's Journey all about? Find out here PRIZE:First Prize $100 First Prize for a poem by a Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) contributor $100 Second Prize $50 Fortuna's Choice: $35 for a poem selected at random from the longlist of general entry poemsAll winners and honorary mentions will be published in Fire In The Heart, the Muriel’s Journey Chapbook for 2025. CRITERIA: Content: Should meet one or more of these criteria:
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April 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Canada’s most unique poetry prize – deadline extended. 5 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings readings in the fall! Please repost!
moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn...
@faitharkorful.bsky.social
@ryannekap.bsky.social
@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn...
@faitharkorful.bsky.social
@ryannekap.bsky.social
@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
the age of men is over. the time of the fool has come
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
the age of men is over. the time of the fool has come
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Q: hey, what are you into?
A:
A:
February 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Q: hey, what are you into?
A:
A:
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Super excited to announce that my second poetry collection is now available for preorder! Supergiants is forthcoming from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social in April, and just look at the glorious cover they cooked up 🌞 Preorder a copy from them or an indie bookstore or request it at your local library!
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Super excited to announce that my second poetry collection is now available for preorder! Supergiants is forthcoming from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social in April, and just look at the glorious cover they cooked up 🌞 Preorder a copy from them or an indie bookstore or request it at your local library!
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Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.
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"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. " ~ Barbar Hurd, “Stirring the Mud" #SwampSunday #WitchSky
January 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. " ~ Barbar Hurd, “Stirring the Mud" #SwampSunday #WitchSky
my partner & I have decided to start a collection of children’s books bc they’re so charming & wholesome & it’s all starting with Little Shrew (he will always be famous to me)
January 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
my partner & I have decided to start a collection of children’s books bc they’re so charming & wholesome & it’s all starting with Little Shrew (he will always be famous to me)
YAY A GAME!
I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun:
-The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
-Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
-Held by Anne Michaels
Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun:
-The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
-Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
-Held by Anne Michaels
Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
Let’s play a game! What are you reading and why?
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!
I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social
Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why?
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.
I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️
December 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM
YAY A GAME!
I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun:
-The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
-Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
-Held by Anne Michaels
Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun:
-The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
-Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
-Held by Anne Michaels
Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
was feeling guilty about switching pharmacies bc my current pharmacist is so nice I was like stop it’s fine they don’t care but then she said “I wish you could stay” like does she love me or is it just annoying for them to do a transfer do they benefit from my presence monetarily or just emotionally
December 12, 2024 at 9:46 PM
was feeling guilty about switching pharmacies bc my current pharmacist is so nice I was like stop it’s fine they don’t care but then she said “I wish you could stay” like does she love me or is it just annoying for them to do a transfer do they benefit from my presence monetarily or just emotionally
OFFICIALLY A PHD CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!! 🎷🦖
December 7, 2024 at 12:44 AM
OFFICIALLY A PHD CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!! 🎷🦖
every time I email someone and ask my question directly instead of prefacing it with “I was just wondering” an angel gets their wings
December 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM
every time I email someone and ask my question directly instead of prefacing it with “I was just wondering” an angel gets their wings
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My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
The Garden
Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
ex-puritan.ca
November 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
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Yes yes yes — very thrilled to have two brand new ekphrastic poems in the SCHISM issue of the Ex-Puritan. Read them here: ex-puritan.ca/ratchet-up-t...
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❗️N.B.: the formatting of these poems is optimized for desktop viewing.
November 25, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Yes yes yes — very thrilled to have two brand new ekphrastic poems in the SCHISM issue of the Ex-Puritan. Read them here: ex-puritan.ca/ratchet-up-t...
❗️N.B.: the formatting of these poems is optimized for desktop viewing.
❗️N.B.: the formatting of these poems is optimized for desktop viewing.
I have a letter to my first/birth mother in @therumpus.net for Adoption Awareness Month! This is a dream pub in so many ways; I’m so grateful to be part of this series and I feel so encouraged to keep writing about the messy grief and strange joy of being adopted 🤍 therumpus.net/2024/11/21/t...
To My First Mother - The Rumpus
It would be nice to look in the mirror and see you.
therumpus.net
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I have a letter to my first/birth mother in @therumpus.net for Adoption Awareness Month! This is a dream pub in so many ways; I’m so grateful to be part of this series and I feel so encouraged to keep writing about the messy grief and strange joy of being adopted 🤍 therumpus.net/2024/11/21/t...
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If you have benefitted from Kirby's time and labour in the poetry community or are a lover of poetry and have the means to do so, please consider donating to this emergency fund.
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EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUND
EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUNDShit happens. I was clearing space and backed into it. It's not reparable, and must be replaced. It's a rare specific ask, and you know she'll continue to retur...
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November 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
If you have benefitted from Kirby's time and labour in the poetry community or are a lover of poetry and have the means to do so, please consider donating to this emergency fund.
Please share widely!
www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p181/E...
www.knifeforkbook.shop
Please share widely!
www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p181/E...
www.knifeforkbook.shop