Eleanor Fuller
LightNews LightNews
banner
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Eleanor Fuller
@eleanorfuller.bsky.social
1.9K followers 1.5K following 890 posts
Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Posts Replies Media Videos
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
East Enders in the 6ix! Delicious new Sheriff in town!

www.spaghettiwestern.ca
Illustrated cowboy with plate of spaghetti--forkful lifted to his mouth. Image from Spaghetti Western website: https://www.spaghettiwestern.ca/
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Took kiddo to see Trombone Shorty at Massey Hall this week. Oldsters and youngins groovin' together. Such a fun show! 😁
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Thinking it's high time we reboot "thingatio."

Thingationes & doohickies. Oh yeah.
Extract from LRB: Pablo Scheffer, "Among the Rabble, "Vol. 47 No. 20 · 6 November 2025. Highlighted text: noun thingatio.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Delivers the goods. Every time.
Book cover. Claire-Louise Bennett's Big Kiss, Bye-Bye. Illustration of woman with lampshade (illuminated) over head. Wears green coat against pink background. Stack of books and papers on side table beside her. Green letters in all caps, framed in yellow.
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld. Recommend!
Book cover. Evie Wyld's All The Birds, Singing. Collage of illustrated images with: dog at centre, its teeth bared; sheep; grass; country cottage.
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Picked up Elaine Feeney's new one at Book City yesterday. Loved How to Build A Boat. 💕 Looking forward to this one!
Photo of Elaine Feeney's novel Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way. White lettering against blue ground with repeated detail of (perhaps?) the top a woman's head, hair parted in the middle, and top half of forehead. Book sits on top of beige leather handbag and grey tote bag.
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Just started. Outstanding opening. Irresistible language. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
Book Cover: Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen. Features a lighthouse, in front of which two figures (in silhouette) stand. Yellow streak of colour on top of white lighthouse. Muckle Flugga is a pink rock, surrounded by blue, black, white symbols of waves/water.
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Destroyed by this over the weekend. Would also wager the best way to read it is to listen to McBride narrate. So much of it is sonics. Incredible.
Book cover: Eimear McBride's A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing. White background, black abstract figure of girl. Title also in black.
September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
😂
Latin student problems: yellow background. Black text: When you have a hard time explaining to others how the language you study has its own fandom.
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Love this one of his too. “Pretty Dang Dog Gone Good. Outrunning a Storm”
Painting by Linus Woods of a rabbit (hare?) mid hop (flying through the air). Light blue backdrop with green, brown yellow on horizon.
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Tribute, 2025
Photo of Mockrin's still life painting, Tribute. Glass vase with flower arrangement set on wood surface. Hand on right side reaches for a drooping bud/flower. Black ground, yellow, white, purple, green flowers.
September 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Jesse Mockrin's extraordinary Echo now on at the AGO. 🔥❤️
Photo of Jesse Mockrin's In Midstream. Two panels. Black ground. Left panel two figures, drapery, haunches and tail of a white horse. Head of one figure on right panel. Photo of Mockin's painting The Descent. Black ground, multi-panel oil painting depicting the rape of the Sabine women (Roman myth). Grand scale (larger than life figures, 5 panels taking up one wall).
September 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Are you within driving distance of The Mount? This is tomorrow! Not one to miss!
Ad for Julia Thacker and Michael Jerome Plunkett reading at The Mount on September 14, 2025. Photos of each writer with details about the reading. 5:30-6:30. Hosted by The Mount and Straw Dog Writers Guild in celebration of Straw Dogs 15th anniversary.
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
This beauty for one:
Book cover: Bright orange background with text in red and yellow: Louis MacNeice (red) Autumn Journal (title of book in yellow). The word Poetry in bottom left corner. Faber and Faber's ff logo in bottom right.
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Lakeview on a fav dog walk this morning.
Photo: Trees in foreground, lake, clouds.
September 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Megan Bradbury, Everyone Is Watching. Very good! Recommend!
Book cover. Everyone Is Watching by Megan Bradbury. Cover art: Lone woman looking through gap in hoarding wall. NYC skyline beyond, featuring Empire State Building.
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Applications open! Get yourself here:
edithwharton.org/calendar/wir/
A photo of Edith Wharton's library at The Mount, Lenox, MA. Books on shelves in background. Desk with flowers, books, papers and lamp in foreground.
September 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Julia will be reading from this beauty, selected by Paul Muldoon as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize:
Book cover: To Wildness by Julia Thacker. Blue background with inset image of woman floating in a flower-filled pool of water. Woman wears brown dress with three black stripes, one at waist, the other two near the hem.
September 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Bay Staters! Fab reading at The Mount, September 14.
Worth the drive to Lenox!
Photo: a background of books on shelves with two inset photos of writers Julia Thacker and Michael Jerome Plunkett. Text: Straw Dog Writers Guild 15th Anniversary Celebration & Reading. Sep 14, 2025. 5:30-6:30 at The Mount.
September 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
David Ostow cartoon. Caption reads: "Look I could make the story more accessible, but it would mean sacrificing the elegance of the original Greek." Image of child in twin bed being red to by balding, bespectacled man.
August 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Just back from a mini writing retreat here. Cambridge, ON flexing new cool. So impressed by the Gaslight. Hope it flourishes.
Footbridge over river. Wooden planks, (rusted) metal bridge. Greenery on both sides. Shot of the Grand River on a rainy afternoon. Left bank: trees and church spire. Bridge in distance. Right bank some buildings. Photo of a courtyard at the Gaslight development in Cambridge, ON. Paving stones, surrounded by renovated industrial complex, now housing restaurants, etc. Various patio seating.
August 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Launches today. 🧡🔥 Delighted to have contributed a story to this eclectic beauty! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
Cover of Clockhouse Volume 12, 2025. Image is a photo of cloudy red and orange sky (sunset?) reflected in water. Trees in shadow on the horizon. Back cover of Clockhouse Vol 12, 2025 with contributors names, including me (Eleanor Fuller).
August 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Ouch!

On the topic of horsey people, just finished Kathryn Scanlan's Kick The Latch. Recommend!
Cover of Kathryn Scanlan's novel, Kick The Latch. White ground with chestnut horse rearing.
August 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Two Deer, Sunset
Maud Lewis.
two deer standing on snow, tracks behind them, a cluster of red houses and red-roofed white church before them. Trees on either side of them (conifers and three bare deciduous).
July 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
eleanorfuller.bsky.social
So cute! Also...we've got Oliver's twin! 😂🥰
Black and white standard poodle standing on rock with bluffs and lake in the background. Green trees on top of bluffs.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM