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
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:
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#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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#canlit
Tune in:
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@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:
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@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.
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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
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:
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@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:
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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
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:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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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
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.)
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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.
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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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Listen in. ✨
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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. ✨
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@palimpsestpress.bsky.social @teagerbeza.bsky.social
Listen in. ✨
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@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.
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#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
In this NBN episode, I speak with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about her remarkable new novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
Listen to the conversation:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#books
Listen to the conversation:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#books
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
In this NBN episode, I speak with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about her remarkable new novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
Listen to the conversation:
newbooksnetwork.com/a-town-with-...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#books
Listen to the conversation:
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#books
I was honoured to be asked to blurb Tamara Jong’s memoir, Wordly Girls, which was released by @bookhugpress.bsky.social.
I’m also delighted that Tamara let me host an excerpt of her beautiful memoir on my website.
Visit my website to read the full piece.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/2d45l2d...
I’m also delighted that Tamara let me host an excerpt of her beautiful memoir on my website.
Visit my website to read the full piece.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/2d45l2d...
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I was honoured to be asked to blurb Tamara Jong’s memoir, Wordly Girls, which was released by @bookhugpress.bsky.social.
I’m also delighted that Tamara let me host an excerpt of her beautiful memoir on my website.
Visit my website to read the full piece.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/2d45l2d...
I’m also delighted that Tamara let me host an excerpt of her beautiful memoir on my website.
Visit my website to read the full piece.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/2d45l2d...
Anyone else remember Tour of the Universe at the CN Tower? ✨
I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl...
And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!
I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl...
And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!
October 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Anyone else remember Tour of the Universe at the CN Tower? ✨
I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl...
And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!
I have a poem out in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time inspired by this attraction. 🍓
talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/holl...
And hey, I also have a chapbook coming out with Anstruther Press!
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I interview author Nadia Ragbar about her novel, The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing, 2025). We talk about living with compromise, writing what you don’t know, & upending the binary twin narrative.
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newbooksnetwork.com/the-pugilist...
October 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I interview author Nadia Ragbar about her novel, The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing, 2025). We talk about living with compromise, writing what you don’t know, & upending the binary twin narrative.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-pugilist...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-pugilist...
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak w/ Susan Glimore about her novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush (Blair, 2025).
We talk about the story the real Leonard Bush and his leg, and Susan’s path to writing the Appalachian Ted Lasso.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-curious-...
We talk about the story the real Leonard Bush and his leg, and Susan’s path to writing the Appalachian Ted Lasso.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-curious-...
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak w/ Susan Glimore about her novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush (Blair, 2025).
We talk about the story the real Leonard Bush and his leg, and Susan’s path to writing the Appalachian Ted Lasso.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-curious-...
We talk about the story the real Leonard Bush and his leg, and Susan’s path to writing the Appalachian Ted Lasso.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-curious-...
Lorne Daniel’s new poetry collection, What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press) is a gift. From the perspective of the parents of an addict, his poems trace frustration, love, patience, and surrender we so often deny ourselves and each other.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...
September 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Lorne Daniel’s new poetry collection, What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press) is a gift. From the perspective of the parents of an addict, his poems trace frustration, love, patience, and surrender we so often deny ourselves and each other.
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...
www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/episodi...