Absolutely floored by this thoughtful and in-depth review of Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press). My newest collection is still not officially out in the world and in our trying contemporary times, making space for reconciliation and healing of our land is so critical.

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Back at it again, my socials. Here is a preview of the newest essay about CliFi, Indigenous literature, and how we imagine Futurisms with Min Sterling's Camp Zero at its heat. Read more at substack. Follow along.

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Big news: my new short fiction collection, Pishkok at the Dearborn Heights National Coney Island, has received project funding from Ontario Arts Council. This funding will help me to complete a first complete draft of the book.

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Wanishi,

A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada.
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Fresh book review up at Fiddlehead for an absolute classic of Indigenous poetry. Revisit Emily Riddle's 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner The Big Melt.

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Thrilled to announce that my Indigi-Scifi Novel What Lies Beneath has received an Ontario Arts Council work-in-progress project grant. This funding will enable me to finish the manuscript and revisions to this exciting me endeavor in storytelling and writing for me.

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Commonwealth makes the Quill & Quire spring short fiction & poetry preview. Get ready for spring to arrive to our returned lyric Indigenous Midwest. Stat tuned for previews and launch details.

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Following the cold and dark days of winter, spring shall surely arrive. And with it this new poetry collection, Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press) Get ready for an Indigenous mediation on history, migration, the American Midwest, and endurance.

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Wëli katënami! (Happy Birthday) to the great Canadian poet and writer Al Purdy. Alfred Wellington Purdy was born on this day in 1918 in Wooler, Ontario His work is an inspiration for myself and countless others across Canada and the world.

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Laughable that this is news to settler scientists. Yes. Our ancestors have made canoes for a long time. And many of our nations were considerably more technologically advanced than "Western Cultures." They could have asked. But then again, we are rarely believed or respected.

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And here is the most recent installment of the Temaskwes Miscellany in which I discuss high strangeness and story as liberator. A look at how Art Bell and late night radio acted in my development as a storyteller.

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New on Temaskwes Miscellany today. A discussion fellow Soutwesto writer Anahita Jamali Rad's Still. A book that not enough know or talk about. Consider subscribing and most important picking up a copy of this important work.

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Migration is central to what we are & fills our artistic lives. Knowing that the land matters and that we are able to freely move upon is central to our true selves. I return to the talk I delivered at Corpus Christi, TX last winter.

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New piece is up on the #substack on some very essential #indigenous reads on this thanksgiving in America. Let's talk a little bit about the great James Welch and his only book of poetry.

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From @kegedoncepress.bsky.social's freshest scorching hot Indigi-horror fiction anthology here is a noire-style poster for my piece about magnet fishing horror on the Detroit River. All-Indigenous writers with new winter stories. Makes a great gift.

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Newest post over at Substack has dropped. Join me as I lead you through some of the new work as it appears or appeared in Lit Mags across Turtle Island. Subscribe to Tëmàskwës Miscellany newsletter and get it delivered weekly to your inbox.

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Book announcement: I am ecstatic to be back home with Kegedonce Press for the next big poetic romp across turtle island. My collection Commonwealth will be ambling into the world bison style in no time at all. Spring 2025.

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