Author Mitchell Toews
@crustywareniki.bsky.social
🍁Author of "Pinching Zwieback" (At Bay Press, 2023), Pulp Literature nominee for the 2025 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize https://mitchtoewsauthor.com/
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.
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 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
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 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
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.
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
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
June: 6/6 Tagore Poetry Contest Awards & Reading, Wpg; 6/11 The Listening Room, Lac du Bonnet; 6/18 Wild & Wonderful Words @ Sookrams Brewing, Wpg; 6/18 Interview Arts, Loggers, & Leftovers, KYac Community Radio, Mill City, Oregon; June 19 Gordie's Coffee House Season Finale Wpg. Pic: Sheldon Birnie
June 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
June: 6/6 Tagore Poetry Contest Awards & Reading, Wpg; 6/11 The Listening Room, Lac du Bonnet; 6/18 Wild & Wonderful Words @ Sookrams Brewing, Wpg; 6/18 Interview Arts, Loggers, & Leftovers, KYac Community Radio, Mill City, Oregon; June 19 Gordie's Coffee House Season Finale Wpg. Pic: Sheldon Birnie
I'll be reading my Shortlisted entry in the 2025 Rabindranath Tagore Poetry Competition (a Manitoba Writers' Guild literary contest). The awards event is in Winnipeg, Friday, June 6, at 7 pm at 100 Arthur Street, Video Pool, 2nd floor.
See
you
there
See
you
there
June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'll be reading my Shortlisted entry in the 2025 Rabindranath Tagore Poetry Competition (a Manitoba Writers' Guild literary contest). The awards event is in Winnipeg, Friday, June 6, at 7 pm at 100 Arthur Street, Video Pool, 2nd floor.
See
you
there
See
you
there
YES! I will be doing the "author sitting at a table in a bookstore" thing at !ndigo St. Vital Mall in YWG on 2.22.25 (Saturday) from 1 PM until Happy Hour.
How will you recognize me? I'll be at a table with lots of PINCHING ZWIEBACK books. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/pinchi...
How will you recognize me? I'll be at a table with lots of PINCHING ZWIEBACK books. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/pinchi...
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
YES! I will be doing the "author sitting at a table in a bookstore" thing at !ndigo St. Vital Mall in YWG on 2.22.25 (Saturday) from 1 PM until Happy Hour.
How will you recognize me? I'll be at a table with lots of PINCHING ZWIEBACK books. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/pinchi...
How will you recognize me? I'll be at a table with lots of PINCHING ZWIEBACK books. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/pinchi...
“I don’t think that style is consciously arrived at, any more than one arrives at the color of one’s eyes. After all, your style is you. At the end the personality of a writer has so much to do with the work.” —Truman Capote
December 20, 2024 at 11:31 PM
“I don’t think that style is consciously arrived at, any more than one arrives at the color of one’s eyes. After all, your style is you. At the end the personality of a writer has so much to do with the work.” —Truman Capote
OMG! The negotiations were tough, but it happened. I've been able to reach an agreement with GST and as of Dec 14, my collection of themed short stories, Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press, 2023) is available TAX-FREE for all Canadians. We got them to throw in a bunch of other things too.
December 12, 2024 at 9:01 PM
OMG! The negotiations were tough, but it happened. I've been able to reach an agreement with GST and as of Dec 14, my collection of themed short stories, Pinching Zwieback (At Bay Press, 2023) is available TAX-FREE for all Canadians. We got them to throw in a bunch of other things too.
AIEEEEE! www.facebook.com/share/p/15CF...
A book sale before Christmas, buying right from the publisher who will give each book a last, loving, page-riffle and the admonishment, "Clear font, full heart, can't lose."
Shipping to Canada and around the world.
A book sale before Christmas, buying right from the publisher who will give each book a last, loving, page-riffle and the admonishment, "Clear font, full heart, can't lose."
Shipping to Canada and around the world.
November 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
AIEEEEE! www.facebook.com/share/p/15CF...
A book sale before Christmas, buying right from the publisher who will give each book a last, loving, page-riffle and the admonishment, "Clear font, full heart, can't lose."
Shipping to Canada and around the world.
A book sale before Christmas, buying right from the publisher who will give each book a last, loving, page-riffle and the admonishment, "Clear font, full heart, can't lose."
Shipping to Canada and around the world.
Mennonite Manitoba stories on tap for Free Press book club
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November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Mennonite Manitoba stories on tap for Free Press book club
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...