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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market, March 29 2026 ; vendor registration now open,
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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market
Next Door Ottawa & Stephanie Anne Author present:  Unbound Indie Lit Market Sunday, March 29, 2026 11:00 a.m.  5:00 p.m. Next Door Market & ...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Winter 2026 | Common House Magazine
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Winter 2026 | Common House Magazine
Call for Submissions FALL SUBMISSION PERIOD:  August 24 to November 30 ➭ WINTER SUBMISSION PERIOD: December 1 to March 31 Submissions are no...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market, March 29 2026 ; vendor registration now open,
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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market
Next Door Ottawa & Stephanie Anne Author present:  Unbound Indie Lit Market Sunday, March 29, 2026 11:00 a.m.  5:00 p.m. Next Door Market & ...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three, : Mahaila Smith + Janice Colman, / @mahailasmith.ca @amandaearl.bsky.social ;
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three, : Mahaila Smith + Janice Colman,
Further to what I picked up at the most recent edition of the ottawa small press book fair [ see my first post on such here ; see my second ...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hey! Katie Ebbitt interviewed me on the book of sentences + above/ground press for Cleveland Review of Books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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Instructional Manual for Good Writerly Practice: An Interview with rob mclennan - Cleveland Review of Books
Write one thing. Write the next thing.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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new from above/ground press: TULIP IS AN AXE, by Gary Barwin / @garybarwin.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: TULIP IS AN AXE, by Gary Barwin
TULIP  IS  AN AXE Gary Barwin $6 in the fable, there was a sad window and a sad chair I threw the chair through the window and climbed out  ...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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@amandaearl.bsky.social This might be something that Bywords wants to get the word out about.

PAL Place (affordable housing for profession artists 55+) is opening for new residents soon:
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Pal Place
Where senior artists are Considered. Connected. Community.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A Cruel Womb
New omnibus, A Cruel Womb , containing 740 pages of poetry, fiction, and art by Graham Cwinn! available January 2026 https://www.thingsinm...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Thank you to the @cityofottawa for the 2025 Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers grant! I'm working on a collection of poems provoked by a woman's anxiety and winter. The working title is Winter, An Epic.
winter light with trees, long shadows, Parliament Hill. TEXT: thank you to the City of Ottawa for a 2025 Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers Grant. Logos: City of Ottawa; Amanda Earl (whimsy, exploration, connection in blue, pink and green in a circle.
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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this week's quotes of the week feature end of the year things. enjoy! amandaearl.substack.com/p/qotw-2025-...
QOTW: 2025-12-28 –26-01-03
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: a red rose open on pink sheets (I took it from the Avant-Garde Bar post Guernica Editions launch on December 9, 2025).
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December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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reading in the margins: Stephen Collis / @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress,
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December 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold, and other rowdy tales,
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold, and other rowdy tales,
Okay, possibly not rowdy. We survived another Christmas, at least the immediate bits of such, with a few more adventures and gatherings ahea...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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new from above/ground press: Dark Matter, by Rosío Céron; translated/etranslated by Sonja Greckol
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new from above/ground press: Dark Matter, by Rosío Céron; translated/etranslated by Sonja Greckol
Dark Matter  —Sonja Greckol translation Materia Oscura  —Rosío Céron  Dark Matter – Diverted —Sonja Greckol etranstranslation $6 1.  East wi...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A Cruel Womb
New omnibus, A Cruel Womb , containing 740 pages of poetry, fiction, and art by Graham Cwinn! available January 2026 https://www.thingsinm...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!!

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November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Yeah I really dont feel like asking you to buy zines
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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above/ground press soon-titles by Frances Cannon, David Gaffney, Jill Stengel, Buck Downs + Salem Paige; have you thought of subscribing for 2026? our thirty-third year! / @frankyfrancescannon.com @salempaige.bsky.social @jillstengel.bsky.social ;
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Heads up: "Save the date! The second Object//Project Art Book Fair presented by @possibleworldsshop will return May 8-9, 2026 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre @cu_cdcc
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November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Making a chapbook. The process:
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Process of Chapbooks: for Farr’s – Pearl Pirie
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Bywords.ca will be at the ottawa small press book fair on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at the Tom Brown Arena between noon and five pm. Come by and pick up a chapbook and talk poetry with me.
After All This Hurt by Mahaila Smith, chapbook cover Cover art is Postmen of the Wilderness by Arthur Heming, first published in his Drama of the Forests (1921).
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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this weekend in Ottawa! the ottawa small press book fair! friday night reading + saturday fair,
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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THIS WEEKEND! CELEBRATING THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF THE OTTAWA SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR!

TOMORROW:
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TONIGHT! The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl,
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November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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this weekend in Ottawa! the ottawa small press book fair! friday night reading + saturday fair,
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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the ottawa small press fair is this weekend!
, with pre-fair reading on Friday; Amanda Earl launching her new above/ground press chapbook,
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November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM