Author Mitchell Toews
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🍁Author of "Pinching Zwieback" (At Bay Press, 2023), Pulp Literature nominee for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize https://mitchtoewsauthor.com/
@averyother.bsky.social Congrats to Avery Other for the Pulp Literature Raven contest WIN! ‘She is Magic, She is Myst’
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Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! - PULP Literature
Taking Flight We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! Here’s what final judge Kelly Robson had to say about [...]
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November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@averyother.bsky.social Congrats to Avery Other for the Pulp Literature Raven contest WIN! ‘She is Magic, She is Myst’
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Mitchell Toews Nominated www.literaryheist.com/news/mitchel... Cheers to Editor Ryan Brinkhurst of *Literary Heist* in Ottawa.
Mitchell Toews Nominated - Literary Heist
Vancouver, BC — Pulp Literature magazine has nominated Manitoba author Mitchell Toews for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, one of Canada’s most prestigious awards for […]
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November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Mitchell Toews Nominated www.literaryheist.com/news/mitchel... Cheers to Editor Ryan Brinkhurst of *Literary Heist* in Ottawa.
With thanks to Belletrist / Tertulia, Ms. Brookner, and my rowdy hometown friends for this truth of truths.
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
With thanks to Belletrist / Tertulia, Ms. Brookner, and my rowdy hometown friends for this truth of truths.
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I’m honoured to share that my story, All Our Swains Commend Her, published in Pulp Literature, has been nominated by the magazine for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
My thanks to the PL editors and congrats to all noms.
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I’m honoured to share that my story, All Our Swains Commend Her, published in Pulp Literature, has been nominated by the magazine for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
My thanks to the PL editors and congrats to all noms.
#CanLit #atbaypress #mennolit
Announcing our Nominees for the 2025 Journey Prize - PULP Literature
The 2025 Journey Prize We are thrilled to announce our nominees for the 2025 Journey Prize, judged by Alicia Elliott and Heather O’Neill. And the [...]
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October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I’m honoured to share that my story, All Our Swains Commend Her, published in Pulp Literature, has been nominated by the magazine for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
My thanks to the PL editors and congrats to all noms.
#CanLit #atbaypress #mennolit
I’m honoured to share that my story, All Our Swains Commend Her, published in Pulp Literature, has been nominated by the magazine for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
My thanks to the PL editors and congrats to all noms.
#CanLit #atbaypress #mennolit
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I plan to perform to local Latvians, lake dwellers, loons & lumberjacks, and any others—liberals and luddites alike—who stop by for prose, possibly from Pinawa, Portage la Prairie, Portage Avenue, and perhaps other piney places.
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The Listening Room | Lac du Bonnet MB
The Listening Room, Lac du Bonnet. 381 likes · 28 talking about this · 4 were here. Enjoy a wide variety of live music in our beautiful St. John's Heritage Church & Arts Centre.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I plan to perform to local Latvians, lake dwellers, loons & lumberjacks, and any others—liberals and luddites alike—who stop by for prose, possibly from Pinawa, Portage la Prairie, Portage Avenue, and perhaps other piney places.
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Just read Miriam Toews, A Truce That Is Not Peace (Knopf), 174 pages. 8:20 am - 3:20 pm, with a half-hour off for lunch. (Spaghetti bake.)
I'm planning a free-form review/discussion of a special kind of wind that blows here at Jessica Lake. A "Lisa Cook," is what I'm gonna call it. Stand by. —Toyfs
I'm planning a free-form review/discussion of a special kind of wind that blows here at Jessica Lake. A "Lisa Cook," is what I'm gonna call it. Stand by. —Toyfs
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Just read Miriam Toews, A Truce That Is Not Peace (Knopf), 174 pages. 8:20 am - 3:20 pm, with a half-hour off for lunch. (Spaghetti bake.)
I'm planning a free-form review/discussion of a special kind of wind that blows here at Jessica Lake. A "Lisa Cook," is what I'm gonna call it. Stand by. —Toyfs
I'm planning a free-form review/discussion of a special kind of wind that blows here at Jessica Lake. A "Lisa Cook," is what I'm gonna call it. Stand by. —Toyfs
WHODUNIT? Terry Kirk, that's who. Join us to celebrate her new book, Pitfall (At Bay Press), Sunday, Sept 28 at 3 PM, at the Whodunit Books. Hosted by Mitch Toews.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
WHODUNIT? Terry Kirk, that's who. Join us to celebrate her new book, Pitfall (At Bay Press), Sunday, Sept 28 at 3 PM, at the Whodunit Books. Hosted by Mitch Toews.
@bsky.app For the ride home tonight from Lac du Bonnet, I'll be skygazing: Jupiter – Rising after 9:30 p.m., brilliant and unmistakable. Four Galilean moons visible with binoculars.
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The Listening Room | Mitch Toews
Sep 24, 2025 | Regular open mic sesh in LdB. I plan to read from my collection of short stories, Pinching Zwieback ( At Bay Press, 2023). I'll save a seat cushion for you—the 1
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September 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@bsky.app For the ride home tonight from Lac du Bonnet, I'll be skygazing: Jupiter – Rising after 9:30 p.m., brilliant and unmistakable. Four Galilean moons visible with binoculars.
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Mitchellaneous Redux
For years, I’ve kept a blog at Mitchellaneous.com. Now, with a new site — mitchtoewsauthor.com — it’s time to bring everything under one roof.
For years, I’ve kept a blog at Mitchellaneous.com. Now, with a new site — mitchtoewsauthor.com — it’s time to bring everything under one roof.
Mitchellaneous Redux
For years, I’ve kept a blog at Mitchellaneous.com. Now, with a new site — mitchtoewsauthor.com — it’s time to bring everything under one roof.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Mitchellaneous Redux
For years, I’ve kept a blog at Mitchellaneous.com. Now, with a new site — mitchtoewsauthor.com — it’s time to bring everything under one roof.
For years, I’ve kept a blog at Mitchellaneous.com. Now, with a new site — mitchtoewsauthor.com — it’s time to bring everything under one roof.
REVIEW—Linda Rogers Van Krugel
As these stories rise in Toews’ proverbial oven they grow away from the fire of creation, the same fire that has tempted and driven notable female voices from the Mennonite community...
As these stories rise in Toews’ proverbial oven they grow away from the fire of creation, the same fire that has tempted and driven notable female voices from the Mennonite community...
REVIEW—Linda Rogers Van Krugel
As these stories rise in Toews’ proverbial oven they grow away from the fire of creation, the same fire that has tempted and driven notable female voices from the Mennonite community...
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September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
REVIEW—Linda Rogers Van Krugel
As these stories rise in Toews’ proverbial oven they grow away from the fire of creation, the same fire that has tempted and driven notable female voices from the Mennonite community...
As these stories rise in Toews’ proverbial oven they grow away from the fire of creation, the same fire that has tempted and driven notable female voices from the Mennonite community...
@bsky.app Here's a new author's website that I just set up on Tertulia for Authors. mitchtoewsauthor.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@bsky.app Here's a new author's website that I just set up on Tertulia for Authors. mitchtoewsauthor.com
A summary of opinion and comment for Mitchell Toews' debut book, Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press, 2023) ISBN: 9781998779055
Pinching Zwieback Compendium
"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."—Doris Lessing
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September 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A summary of opinion and comment for Mitchell Toews' debut book, Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press, 2023) ISBN: 9781998779055
Look north, just past 50, and between the pick-up-sticks black spruce, and from there east to Toronto and then west to the Arbutus menziesii country and (keep going) you will find, among the bric-à-brac of my memories, a made-up story about book learning.
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MONDAY: Ahead, Go
BY MITCHELL TOEWS Copyright is held by the author. “WELCOME TO the University of Victoria, Clearihue Building, Room 101, English 121 for 1973. If that is not the university, building, room, course …
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September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Look north, just past 50, and between the pick-up-sticks black spruce, and from there east to Toronto and then west to the Arbutus menziesii country and (keep going) you will find, among the bric-à-brac of my memories, a made-up story about book learning.
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3 of 3—urban social dysfunction/alcohol, cultural overlap and loyalty, the blurred line between poverty and crime, and discovering feminism beneath a conservative cloak.
My coll of short stories Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press) contains these issues & more, within an insular prairie Mennonite town.
My coll of short stories Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press) contains these issues & more, within an insular prairie Mennonite town.
September 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
3 of 3—urban social dysfunction/alcohol, cultural overlap and loyalty, the blurred line between poverty and crime, and discovering feminism beneath a conservative cloak.
My coll of short stories Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press) contains these issues & more, within an insular prairie Mennonite town.
My coll of short stories Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press) contains these issues & more, within an insular prairie Mennonite town.
2 of 3—In my most recent slate of 27 submissions (US, Can, some intl), topics included: working poor (Victoria, BC), the anxiety of leaving childhood, loss/family, decline of rural communities in Ca, homophobia & stereotypes, immigration into a small town (a story about cricket and baseball). . .
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
2 of 3—In my most recent slate of 27 submissions (US, Can, some intl), topics included: working poor (Victoria, BC), the anxiety of leaving childhood, loss/family, decline of rural communities in Ca, homophobia & stereotypes, immigration into a small town (a story about cricket and baseball). . .
1 of 3—I write from/about rural Canada. My stuff is generally lit grit, "K-mart" or Mennonite fiction. Lots of stories about ordinary folks in difficult situations, alcohol abuse, social justice... quiet writing in our noisy era.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
1 of 3—I write from/about rural Canada. My stuff is generally lit grit, "K-mart" or Mennonite fiction. Lots of stories about ordinary folks in difficult situations, alcohol abuse, social justice... quiet writing in our noisy era.
At Least a Three Coffee Read
"And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
"And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
At Least a Three Coffee Read
"And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
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September 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
At Least a Three Coffee Read
"And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
"And the saying of it is a lonely thing."
Grit Quarterly launches today—congrats to Ed. Dan Russell. Happy to contribute an icy little chunk of S.E. Manitoba. @gritquarterly.bsky.social @nberlat.bsky.social @dashlarkin.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @russellthayer10.bsky.social @byjeffsykes.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Grit Quarterly launches today—congrats to Ed. Dan Russell. Happy to contribute an icy little chunk of S.E. Manitoba. @gritquarterly.bsky.social @nberlat.bsky.social @dashlarkin.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @russellthayer10.bsky.social @byjeffsykes.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social
Market Copy—Metaphor in the Making
Building "market copy" for an author and a book.
Building "market copy" for an author and a book.
Market Copy—Metaphor in the Making
Building "market copy" for an author and a book.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Market Copy—Metaphor in the Making
Building "market copy" for an author and a book.
Building "market copy" for an author and a book.
Presidential Dicktionary*
Trigger warning: strong anti-rapist, anti-child molester, anti-national annexation, anti-school shooter, anti-alligator opinions expressed in this humourous/not-so-humourous PSA. If you have extreme beliefs in this area, please be advised. *This Presidential Dicktionary…
Trigger warning: strong anti-rapist, anti-child molester, anti-national annexation, anti-school shooter, anti-alligator opinions expressed in this humourous/not-so-humourous PSA. If you have extreme beliefs in this area, please be advised. *This Presidential Dicktionary…
Presidential Dicktionary*
Trigger warning: strong anti-rapist, anti-child molester, anti-national annexation, anti-school shooter, anti-alligator opinions expressed in this humourous/not-so-humourous PSA. If you have extreme beliefs in this area, please be advised. *This Presidential Dicktionary is for Canadians who may be confused by the dissonance of their neighbour as they scramble around, saying "Sorry-not sorry," and looking for the off switch on the "Canadian Wildfire Smoke" machine . . . This is an abridged dicktionary, it offers a selection of words ending in "or" and "er," including words ending in "a" when pronounced with an affected Queens accent, as in "
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August 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Presidential Dicktionary*
Trigger warning: strong anti-rapist, anti-child molester, anti-national annexation, anti-school shooter, anti-alligator opinions expressed in this humourous/not-so-humourous PSA. If you have extreme beliefs in this area, please be advised. *This Presidential Dicktionary…
Trigger warning: strong anti-rapist, anti-child molester, anti-national annexation, anti-school shooter, anti-alligator opinions expressed in this humourous/not-so-humourous PSA. If you have extreme beliefs in this area, please be advised. *This Presidential Dicktionary…
Am/Want to Be/Will Be
I've been working a lot lately on what kind of writer I am . . . what kind I want to be . . . and what I will eventually be. There are countless English language journals, anthologies, bookshops and libraries in the world, and that translates into I-have-no-idea-how-many…
I've been working a lot lately on what kind of writer I am . . . what kind I want to be . . . and what I will eventually be. There are countless English language journals, anthologies, bookshops and libraries in the world, and that translates into I-have-no-idea-how-many…
Am/Want to Be/Will Be
I've been working a lot lately on what kind of writer I am . . . what kind I want to be . . . and what I will eventually be. There are countless English language journals, anthologies, bookshops and libraries in the world, and that translates into I-have-no-idea-how-many fiction readers. Regardless of the actual number, I know and accept that I can't be the writer for all of them. What I can be is a writer who is consistent in certain core ways and is comfortable with that. Maybe most important in these fractious times is to be aware of what my writing constitutes and what it does not.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Am/Want to Be/Will Be
I've been working a lot lately on what kind of writer I am . . . what kind I want to be . . . and what I will eventually be. There are countless English language journals, anthologies, bookshops and libraries in the world, and that translates into I-have-no-idea-how-many…
I've been working a lot lately on what kind of writer I am . . . what kind I want to be . . . and what I will eventually be. There are countless English language journals, anthologies, bookshops and libraries in the world, and that translates into I-have-no-idea-how-many…
My friend Ariel gave me a copy of a story she wrote. It's called "Swimming Towards the Door" and it appears in The Fiddlehead magazine. Ariel is Canadian "author, poet, and enthusiast" (and much more), Ariel Gordon of Winnipeg.
In my opinion, you should all read the story.
Photo credit: Mike Deal
In my opinion, you should all read the story.
Photo credit: Mike Deal
June 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My friend Ariel gave me a copy of a story she wrote. It's called "Swimming Towards the Door" and it appears in The Fiddlehead magazine. Ariel is Canadian "author, poet, and enthusiast" (and much more), Ariel Gordon of Winnipeg.
In my opinion, you should all read the story.
Photo credit: Mike Deal
In my opinion, you should all read the story.
Photo credit: Mike Deal
Reposted by Author Mitchell Toews
In my newspaper column this week I ran my annual summer reading recommendations. Read all about them in my post below.
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Summer Reading
Every June I write a newspaper column where I recommend books I’ve read over the past twelve months that I think my readers might enjoy in July and August. You can find my summer reading list…
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June 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In my newspaper column this week I ran my annual summer reading recommendations. Read all about them in my post below.
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COLUMN: Viewpoint – Pick up a book this summer www.thecarillon.com/local/2025/0...
Cheers, ML! Being on a list with Patrick deWitt and Ralph Friesen (among other greats) is a doubleshot of espresso this morning!
Cheers, ML! Being on a list with Patrick deWitt and Ralph Friesen (among other greats) is a doubleshot of espresso this morning!
COLUMN: Viewpoint - Pick up a book this summer
Summer officially began last Friday, so here is my annual list of recommended titles for summer reading chosen from books I read this past year. Since American immigration policies are front and centr...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
COLUMN: Viewpoint – Pick up a book this summer www.thecarillon.com/local/2025/0...
Cheers, ML! Being on a list with Patrick deWitt and Ralph Friesen (among other greats) is a doubleshot of espresso this morning!
Cheers, ML! Being on a list with Patrick deWitt and Ralph Friesen (among other greats) is a doubleshot of espresso this morning!