Bridget Canning
@bridgetcanning.bsky.social
Author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, Some People's Children, and No One Knows about Us (Breakwater Books). Academic Communications Instructor at the College of the North Atlantic. She/Her. www.bridgetcanning.com
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Pack Ice Season | The Walrus
Once she’s close up, everything might change
thewalrus.ca
Hey, I wrote a creepy story about an iceberg and it's published in the January/February issue of the @thewalrus.ca. You can read it here: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
#canlit #nlauthors
#canlit #nlauthors
Such a joy to be part of @writersatwp.bsky.social this summer! My heart is full.
Yesterday I read my story "Pack Ice Season" which was published by The Walrus back in January. Here is a link to it: Pack Ice Season | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
Yesterday I read my story "Pack Ice Season" which was published by The Walrus back in January. Here is a link to it: Pack Ice Season | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
Pack Ice Season | The Walrus
Once she’s close up, everything might change
thewalrus.ca
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Such a joy to be part of @writersatwp.bsky.social this summer! My heart is full.
Yesterday I read my story "Pack Ice Season" which was published by The Walrus back in January. Here is a link to it: Pack Ice Season | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
Yesterday I read my story "Pack Ice Season" which was published by The Walrus back in January. Here is a link to it: Pack Ice Season | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
School's out and Cocaine Bear is on Netflix.
June 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
School's out and Cocaine Bear is on Netflix.
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Congratulations to Michael Crummey! Love this book. Actually, love all his books. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Dublin Literary Award: The Adversary by Canadian author Michael Crummey wins €100,000 prize
Story of sibling rivalry in harsh 19th-century Newfoundland wins Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000
www.irishtimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Congratulations to Michael Crummey! Love this book. Actually, love all his books. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Spotted this creature at Long Pond yesterday and managed to get the Merlin app open just as it flew off. Quite the squawk.
May 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Spotted this creature at Long Pond yesterday and managed to get the Merlin app open just as it flew off. Quite the squawk.
Excited for this workshop with @bookninja.bsky.social. I write fiction mostly, so I'm looking forward to exercising one of the many underused parts of my writer brain. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Poetry Bootcamp: Building Rock Solid Poems (St. John's) - George Murray
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May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited for this workshop with @bookninja.bsky.social. I write fiction mostly, so I'm looking forward to exercising one of the many underused parts of my writer brain. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
I play this now and it's hard. But I managed to kill all the right little dots in only 2 tries.
Hopple # 57 with only 2 resets!
🔵🔵
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple # 57 with only 2 resets!
🔵🔵
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple
A hopple a day keeps the scaries away.
geoffpevlin.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I play this now and it's hard. But I managed to kill all the right little dots in only 2 tries.
Hopple # 57 with only 2 resets!
🔵🔵
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple # 57 with only 2 resets!
🔵🔵
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
I do the Hopple now. I think when I first played, I had to reset it 15 times, like when Buffy was cursed in the Magic Shop.
Hopple # 52 with only 0 resets!
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple # 52 with only 0 resets!
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple
A hopple a day keeps the scaries away.
geoffpevlin.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I do the Hopple now. I think when I first played, I had to reset it 15 times, like when Buffy was cursed in the Magic Shop.
Hopple # 52 with only 0 resets!
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
Hopple # 52 with only 0 resets!
geoffpevlin.com/hopple
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Congrats to my friend @susieisnothere.bsky.social (who is the kindest, most generous soul, and a constant source of encouragement) and to Lisa Moore and Jack Whelan. Two devastatingly beautiful books. Thank you for waking us up, you are all an inspiration.❤️
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Congrats to my friend @susieisnothere.bsky.social (who is the kindest, most generous soul, and a constant source of encouragement) and to Lisa Moore and Jack Whelan. Two devastatingly beautiful books. Thank you for waking us up, you are all an inspiration.❤️
Absolutely thrilled to be part of Writers at Woody Point again this summer. The lineup is posted here: www.writersatwoodypoint.com/writers@writ...
www.writersatwoodypoint.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Absolutely thrilled to be part of Writers at Woody Point again this summer. The lineup is posted here: www.writersatwoodypoint.com/writers@writ...
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Thanks to everyone in Keels, Bonavista and Port Union Newfoundland. We had the best time in such a beautiful place and everyone was so welcoming.
#severance
#severance
March 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Thanks to everyone in Keels, Bonavista and Port Union Newfoundland. We had the best time in such a beautiful place and everyone was so welcoming.
#severance
#severance
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March 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Excited to be hanging out with Write Club as part of the Women's Work Festival Performance Walk today. www.womensworkfestival.ca/2025-schedul...
March 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excited to be hanging out with Write Club as part of the Women's Work Festival Performance Walk today. www.womensworkfestival.ca/2025-schedul...
Reposted by Bridget Canning
Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!
February 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!
Baking puns and conflict resolution for vegetables. #shoplocal
February 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Baking puns and conflict resolution for vegetables. #shoplocal
Snow day and wikitok exploration.
February 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Snow day and wikitok exploration.
A February ocean.
February 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A February ocean.
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From the pages of our January/February 2025 issue: The arrival of a peculiar iceberg thaws out a new kind of grief in a woman who lost her husband to the waters of the bay it towers over.
Read “Pack Ice Season,” a new short story from Bridget Canning: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-season/
Read “Pack Ice Season,” a new short story from Bridget Canning: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-season/
February 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
From the pages of our January/February 2025 issue: The arrival of a peculiar iceberg thaws out a new kind of grief in a woman who lost her husband to the waters of the bay it towers over.
Read “Pack Ice Season,” a new short story from Bridget Canning: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-season/
Read “Pack Ice Season,” a new short story from Bridget Canning: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-season/
Thanks for the shout out, @susieisnothere.bsky.social
This story by @bridgetcanning.bsky.social in the most recent @thewalrus.ca is brilliant. Read it. It will make you remember why you love short stories.
February 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks for the shout out, @susieisnothere.bsky.social
Some random objects from the living room, posted just because I like a distraction from Sunday night thoughts. The Nosferatu candle was a gift to my husband from one of his friends. #stuff
February 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some random objects from the living room, posted just because I like a distraction from Sunday night thoughts. The Nosferatu candle was a gift to my husband from one of his friends. #stuff
Saturday night when you want to go to bed at 9:30.
February 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Saturday night when you want to go to bed at 9:30.
Hey, I wrote a creepy story about an iceberg and it's published in the January/February issue of the @thewalrus.ca. You can read it here: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
#canlit #nlauthors
#canlit #nlauthors
Pack Ice Season | The Walrus
Once she’s close up, everything might change
thewalrus.ca
January 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hey, I wrote a creepy story about an iceberg and it's published in the January/February issue of the @thewalrus.ca. You can read it here: thewalrus.ca/pack-ice-sea...
#canlit #nlauthors
#canlit #nlauthors
Oh, she was such an icon.
Marianne Faithfull, singer and pop icon, dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Oh, she was such an icon.
Floating around here in Bluesky on this 300th day of January, wondering if it will/can be different. Cat pictures still have currency, right?
January 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Floating around here in Bluesky on this 300th day of January, wondering if it will/can be different. Cat pictures still have currency, right?
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