Saleema Nawaz
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Saleema Nawaz
@saleema.bsky.social
Writer (TV, novels, musicals). Toronto & Montreal. Books: SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, BONE & BREAD, MOTHER SUPERIOR. TV: MURDOCH MYSTERIES. Former columnist, game writer, narrative designer, person who liked being online.
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Tnrilled to be included in issue no.305 @fiddlehd.bsky.social Many thanks to @saleema.bsky.social for all her kind and thoughtful edits. There are so many great contributions in this issue, including 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Shelley Pacholok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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AI is definitely not a virgin because we all get fucked by it every day.
I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"no more superficial individual expression"
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The weather in Quebec is what it is, so the CAQ is going to end up trying to write a law that allows ski masks unless they're worn by a protestor or a Muslim woman.

www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
CAQ delegates at policy convention vote to ban face coverings in public at all times
Jean-François Roberge noncommittal on whether the government would act on the policy in its current offensive to beef up Quebec’s secularism laws.
www.montrealgazette.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Some kind of necropastoral extension of a Wallace Stevens jar situation?
August 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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And don't forget our signings -

1) TONIGHT at the Beguiling, from 4-6! beguilingbooks.com/events/46902

2) THIS SATURDAY at Emerald City Comics, from 11-2! www.instagram.com/reel/DKulX4j...

You can pick up the book at either (OR BOTH??) and I'll be happy to sign and personalize 'em for you!
July 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So excited to finally see LIFE AFTER tomorrow night! #newmusicals #Canadianmusicals #musicaltheatre
May 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Such an honour and thrill to attend @thefoldcanada.bsky.social this weekend! Truly one of the best literary festivals in the country.
May 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE!!!!!
April 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Quebec tax dollars once again used for the important stuff: www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
No Habs No: Quebec orders STM to drop ‘Go’ from bus messages because it’s an English word
OQLF upheld a complaint that the slogan “GO ! CF MTL GO !” constituted an anglicism.
www.montrealgazette.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Oh god, this made me tear up
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”

even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
April 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Cory Booker 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’m officially not allowed to read about bird flu before bed.
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Condolences to all Canadian poets on Griffin Prize Longlist day. 🖤
March 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Stunned to see Northern Exposure come up first in a list of Canadian TV on Amazon Prime. This is a show set in Alaska.

🇨🇦We cannot give up on CanCon or our own stories will be told to us by someone else pretending they came from us.🇨🇦
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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To be clear: a tariff is a tax.
March 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster
March 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
mood
March 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thrilled to be in such esteemed company!! 🥰
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I brought one of my dumpster fires to my office and added little LEDs to it.
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Second (small) grant awarded to one of my musicals-in-progress! 🎉🙏🏾🎵

Always so grateful for the $ support and, just as importantly, the vote of confidence to keep going!
March 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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💔
February 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Finally watched Don’t Look Up and pretty much loved it. Remembering there was a lot of blah blah about it and not sure why? Apparently it’s supposed to be a satire of the climate crisis, but it’s all-too-apropos to the current moment without any analogy needed…
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM