Hollay Ghadery
@hollay.bsky.social
Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
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The Unravelling of Ou (by me!) is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026, and is available for pre-order now. 🧦 📖
Here is the listing at one of my local bookstores!
tinyurl.com/5an25y7h
This book was made possible through the generous funding of Ontario Arts Council.
#canlit
Here is the listing at one of my local bookstores!
tinyurl.com/5an25y7h
This book was made possible through the generous funding of Ontario Arts Council.
#canlit
I am thrilled to be joined on my blog by the extraordinary and beloved author and publisher, Michael Mirolla, to talk about author-publisher etiquette and expectations.
Read the interview here:
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/u58f2qx...
#writers #publishing
Read the interview here:
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/u58f2qx...
#writers #publishing
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am thrilled to be joined on my blog by the extraordinary and beloved author and publisher, Michael Mirolla, to talk about author-publisher etiquette and expectations.
Read the interview here:
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/u58f2qx...
#writers #publishing
Read the interview here:
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/u58f2qx...
#writers #publishing
In this NBN episode, I chop it up with the excellent award-winning author Bruce Hunter about his CanLit masterpiece, In the Bear’s House (Frontenac House Press, 2025).
Tune in:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#canlit
Tune in:
newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-bears...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#canlit
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
In this NBN episode, I chop it up with the excellent award-winning author Bruce Hunter about his CanLit masterpiece, In the Bear’s House (Frontenac House Press, 2025).
Tune in:
newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-bears...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#canlit
Tune in:
newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-bears...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#canlit
The Unravelling of Ou is on NetGalley, my darling dust bunnies!
This means, if you’re on NetGalley, you can snag an advance digital copy of my novel to read and review.
Read on NetGalley:
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social
This means, if you’re on NetGalley, you can snag an advance digital copy of my novel to read and review.
Read on NetGalley:
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Unravelling of Ou is on NetGalley, my darling dust bunnies!
This means, if you’re on NetGalley, you can snag an advance digital copy of my novel to read and review.
Read on NetGalley:
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social
This means, if you’re on NetGalley, you can snag an advance digital copy of my novel to read and review.
Read on NetGalley:
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social
It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it.
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it.
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
Thank you, @junctionreads.bsky.social ✨
Chapbook reviews.
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank you, @junctionreads.bsky.social ✨
In this NBN episode, I speak with author Kasia Jaronczyk about her fascinating novel, Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
Listen to the episode:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social
Listen to the episode:
newbooksnetwork.com/voices-in-th...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In this NBN episode, I speak with author Kasia Jaronczyk about her fascinating novel, Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
Listen to the episode:
newbooksnetwork.com/voices-in-th...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social
Listen to the episode:
newbooksnetwork.com/voices-in-th...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social
Reposted by Hollay Ghadery
TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TONIGHT!
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TONIGHT!
Reposted by Hollay Ghadery
Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full piece:
windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
@windspeaker.bsky.social
Read the full piece:
windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
@windspeaker.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet Melissa Powless Day was recently interviewed by Windspeaker’s Books Feature Writer, Shari Narine, about A Bow Forged from Ash—Melissa’s new poetry published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full piece:
windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
@windspeaker.bsky.social
Read the full piece:
windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
@windspeaker.bsky.social
Reposted by Hollay Ghadery
TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm Host @hollay.bsky.social welcomes poet Zachari Green talking about his book “Green” @radiantpress.bsky.social - Also on the show @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social on her book of essays “In The Field” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
Ecology Paul comes to life thanks to the irrepressibly talented New Mexico artist, Catie Powe! 🧦
Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026).
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre...
#canlit
Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026).
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre...
#canlit
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Ecology Paul comes to life thanks to the irrepressibly talented New Mexico artist, Catie Powe! 🧦
Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026).
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre...
#canlit
Head to my blog to take a peek behind the creation of the cover art for my novel, The Unravelling of Ou (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, February 15, 2026).
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/the-cre...
#canlit
Aisha Sasha John is all kinds of wonderful, and I’m excited to share the interview I did with her on The New Books Network about her intuitively gorgeous collection of poetry, total (McClelland and Stewart, 2025).
✨
Listen here:
newbooksnetwork.com/total
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
✨
Listen here:
newbooksnetwork.com/total
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Aisha Sasha John is all kinds of wonderful, and I’m excited to share the interview I did with her on The New Books Network about her intuitively gorgeous collection of poetry, total (McClelland and Stewart, 2025).
✨
Listen here:
newbooksnetwork.com/total
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
✨
Listen here:
newbooksnetwork.com/total
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Lucy Black is one of the very best writers of historical fiction on the planet—this book is gorgeous.
“The novel is a stitching together of memories of unspeakable events. Black takes us on an exciting journey through rural Ontario in the late 1800s.”
—WAHEED RABBANI, Historical Novel Society
Read the review of Lucy E.M. Black’s, A Quilting of Scars:
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-qu...
—WAHEED RABBANI, Historical Novel Society
Read the review of Lucy E.M. Black’s, A Quilting of Scars:
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-qu...
A Quilting of Scars - Historical Novel Society
In 1911, in Cemetery Hill, Ontario, fifty-one-year-old bachelor Larkin is successfully raising stallions on his farm. He is striving hard to save enough money to buy a “horseless carriage.” One day, h...
historicalnovelsociety.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Lucy Black is one of the very best writers of historical fiction on the planet—this book is gorgeous.
Reposted by Hollay Ghadery
A Halloween poem from Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, @hollay.bsky.social 🎃
This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press.
www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...
#halloween
This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press.
www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...
#halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A Halloween poem from Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, @hollay.bsky.social 🎃
This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press.
www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...
#halloween
This excerpt is from, “I too live with vows”, which appears in Hollay’s chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, published by Anstruther Press.
www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...
#halloween
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.)
newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.)
newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
You can now order a copy of my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, directly from Anstruther Press:
www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-...
This is a wee collection of occasional verse.
Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press.
#poetry #chapbook
www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-...
This is a wee collection of occasional verse.
Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press.
#poetry #chapbook
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
You can now order a copy of my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming, directly from Anstruther Press:
www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-...
This is a wee collection of occasional verse.
Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press.
#poetry #chapbook
www.anstrutherpress.com#/the-blades-...
This is a wee collection of occasional verse.
Thank you to Jim Johnstone for this picture, & everyone at Anstruther Press.
#poetry #chapbook
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with Zilla Jones about her novel, The World So Wide (Cormorant Books, 2025). We talk mixed-race identity, Zilla’s path to writing this remarkable debut, and the most controversial element of this story.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-world-so...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-world-so...
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with Zilla Jones about her novel, The World So Wide (Cormorant Books, 2025). We talk mixed-race identity, Zilla’s path to writing this remarkable debut, and the most controversial element of this story.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-world-so...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-world-so...
the blades of grass are dreaming (Anstruther Press, 2025) is my debut chapbook is almost out!
If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca.
Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.
If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca.
Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
the blades of grass are dreaming (Anstruther Press, 2025) is my debut chapbook is almost out!
If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca.
Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.
If you’d like a signed copy, drop me a DM or contact me HollayGhadery.ca.
Thanks to Anstruther Press, The Canada Council of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Government of Ontario.
Durham region people and poets! Join me for our third Meta 4 Open Mic Poetry Night & Workshop
When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm
Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate!
www.hollayghadery.com
Where:
META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery
200 Queen Street, Port Perry
905-985-1534
meta4gallery.ca
When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm
Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate!
www.hollayghadery.com
Where:
META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery
200 Queen Street, Port Perry
905-985-1534
meta4gallery.ca
October 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Durham region people and poets! Join me for our third Meta 4 Open Mic Poetry Night & Workshop
When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm
Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate!
www.hollayghadery.com
Where:
META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery
200 Queen Street, Port Perry
905-985-1534
meta4gallery.ca
When: Wednesday, October 29 7pm
Hosted by me—Scugog Poet Laureate!
www.hollayghadery.com
Where:
META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery
200 Queen Street, Port Perry
905-985-1534
meta4gallery.ca
It was a thrill for me to speak w/ Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu about her exquisite novel, The Creation of Half Broken People, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
We talk intertextuality & how Siphiwe’s novel plays into the tradition of gothic lit & also, subverts it.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-creation...
We talk intertextuality & how Siphiwe’s novel plays into the tradition of gothic lit & also, subverts it.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-creation...
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It was a thrill for me to speak w/ Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu about her exquisite novel, The Creation of Half Broken People, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
We talk intertextuality & how Siphiwe’s novel plays into the tradition of gothic lit & also, subverts it.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-creation...
We talk intertextuality & how Siphiwe’s novel plays into the tradition of gothic lit & also, subverts it.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-creation...
Grace Henkel, Co-Editor-in-Chief of CanCulture Magazine, invited me to do an interview about my Toronto Book Award long-listed collection of flash fiction, Widow Fantasies, and I’m so grateful.
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Grace Henkel, Co-Editor-in-Chief of CanCulture Magazine, invited me to do an interview about my Toronto Book Award long-listed collection of flash fiction, Widow Fantasies, and I’m so grateful.
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
Grace Henkel, Co-Editor-in-Chief of CanCulture Magazine, invited me to do an interview about my Toronto Book Award long-listed collection of flash fiction, Widow Fantasies, and I’m so grateful.
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Grace Henkel, Co-Editor-in-Chief of CanCulture Magazine, invited me to do an interview about my Toronto Book Award long-listed collection of flash fiction, Widow Fantasies, and I’m so grateful.
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
Read the interview:
canculturemag.com/literary/wid...
#cancon
It was lovely to speak with the thoughtful and endlessly talented Tea Gerbeza about her excellent book of poetry, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!
Listen in. ✨
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@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social
Listen in. ✨
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@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It was lovely to speak with the thoughtful and endlessly talented Tea Gerbeza about her excellent book of poetry, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!
Listen in. ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/how-i-bend-i...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social
Listen in. ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/how-i-bend-i...
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social
My book babes. ♥️
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
My book babes. ♥️
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
“Her latest work, The Unravelling of Ou, fuses them all—a novel that grips the reader like a hand around the throat of a secret.”
—Wayne Ng, Ottawa Review of Books
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2/15/26) is available for preorder.
—Wayne Ng, Ottawa Review of Books
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2/15/26) is available for preorder.
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“Her latest work, The Unravelling of Ou, fuses them all—a novel that grips the reader like a hand around the throat of a secret.”
—Wayne Ng, Ottawa Review of Books
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2/15/26) is available for preorder.
—Wayne Ng, Ottawa Review of Books
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2/15/26) is available for preorder.
It feels fitting that today—Canadian Thanksgiving—is the day I’m sharing my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the iconic Lucy E.M. Black.
Lucy is a legend & one of my favourite of my favourite authors of historical fiction on the planet.
newbooksnetwork.com/a-quilting-o...
#canlit
Lucy is a legend & one of my favourite of my favourite authors of historical fiction on the planet.
newbooksnetwork.com/a-quilting-o...
#canlit
October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It feels fitting that today—Canadian Thanksgiving—is the day I’m sharing my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the iconic Lucy E.M. Black.
Lucy is a legend & one of my favourite of my favourite authors of historical fiction on the planet.
newbooksnetwork.com/a-quilting-o...
#canlit
Lucy is a legend & one of my favourite of my favourite authors of historical fiction on the planet.
newbooksnetwork.com/a-quilting-o...
#canlit