Emily Pohl-Weary
@kissmachine.bsky.social
Author of books, comics, weirdness. Tiny Aussie Shepherd's devoted human. Toronto --> Vancouver. Teach creative writing at University of British Columbia (Canada)
https://emilypohlweary.com/
Latest novel: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/H/How-to-Be-Found
https://emilypohlweary.com/
Latest novel: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/H/How-to-Be-Found
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Emily Pohl-Weary
@kissmachine.bsky.social
· Nov 16
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Hello, new followers and people fleeing other social media! To learn more about me and my writing, check out emilypohlweary.com
Whoa. Sometimes, a vanity search pays off. You can read the first of four issues of my 2005 comic, Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate, illustrated by Willow Dawson, online for free at Strange Horizons! Find out how to read it in this post: emilypohlweary.com/post/7995064...
Read My 2005 Pirate Comic!
Whoa. Sometimes, a vanity search really pays off.
The first of four issues of my comic, Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate, illustrated by Willow Dawson is available online for free at Strange Horizons!
It...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Whoa. Sometimes, a vanity search pays off. You can read the first of four issues of my 2005 comic, Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate, illustrated by Willow Dawson, online for free at Strange Horizons! Find out how to read it in this post: emilypohlweary.com/post/7995064...
When a friend you haven’t seen in a long while (years) visits you in a dream, do you reach out? Yes/no
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When a friend you haven’t seen in a long while (years) visits you in a dream, do you reach out? Yes/no
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Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
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There's a reason authoritarian regimes crack down on artists first. Because ART speaks to people more than anything else in this world. ART informs our hearts and our minds. Art forms bridges between our souls. Art heals what the world breaks.
So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.
So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There's a reason authoritarian regimes crack down on artists first. Because ART speaks to people more than anything else in this world. ART informs our hearts and our minds. Art forms bridges between our souls. Art heals what the world breaks.
So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.
So yes. Promote the art. Keep making the art. Please.
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Please join us for a reading and celebration of Keith Maillard as he retires from the School of Creative Writing. 🎉 Everyone is invited to attend this online event (Zoom).
🗓️ Thursday, October 16
⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
🎟️ RSVP for meeting link
RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...
🗓️ Thursday, October 16
⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
🎟️ RSVP for meeting link
RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...
September 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Please join us for a reading and celebration of Keith Maillard as he retires from the School of Creative Writing. 🎉 Everyone is invited to attend this online event (Zoom).
🗓️ Thursday, October 16
⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
🎟️ RSVP for meeting link
RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...
🗓️ Thursday, October 16
⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
🎟️ RSVP for meeting link
RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...
Newest and most photogenic member of the family: sweet Leica the miniest Aussie Shepherd. #miniaussie #leicathedog
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Newest and most photogenic member of the family: sweet Leica the miniest Aussie Shepherd. #miniaussie #leicathedog
Astonished that I can eat figs grown on the tree in my Vancouver Island backyard. Hand model is @nalohop.bsky.social #igrewthis
August 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Astonished that I can eat figs grown on the tree in my Vancouver Island backyard. Hand model is @nalohop.bsky.social #igrewthis
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www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... Apparently, it’s Emancipation Day.
Emancipation Day — August 1 - Canada.ca
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August 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... Apparently, it’s Emancipation Day.
“I was finding a way through the forest (wearing silver platform boots) to meet the wolf. Who or what is the wolf? Perhaps the wolf is the whole point of writing.” —Deborah Levy, REAL ESTATE (thinking back on herself in her twenties)
May 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“I was finding a way through the forest (wearing silver platform boots) to meet the wolf. Who or what is the wolf? Perhaps the wolf is the whole point of writing.” —Deborah Levy, REAL ESTATE (thinking back on herself in her twenties)
Update on fixing up my lil Writing Shed. Have a desk, daybed, and cuddle bear. Still need insulation, windows, electricity, and drywall.
May 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Update on fixing up my lil Writing Shed. Have a desk, daybed, and cuddle bear. Still need insulation, windows, electricity, and drywall.
This spring, I’m renovating a 7x7.5-foot garden shed into a home office. Here’s the first update.
May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This spring, I’m renovating a 7x7.5-foot garden shed into a home office. Here’s the first update.
“Don’t look over... Oh, shit, he saw us.”
“No way he can recognize us from there.”
“You’re really tall. Of course he knows it’s you. And I’m always with you.”
“So what? He hates us.”
“Nah. He likes us, but knows I hate him. There’s a difference.”
“No way he can recognize us from there.”
“You’re really tall. Of course he knows it’s you. And I’m always with you.”
“So what? He hates us.”
“Nah. He likes us, but knows I hate him. There’s a difference.”
March 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Don’t look over... Oh, shit, he saw us.”
“No way he can recognize us from there.”
“You’re really tall. Of course he knows it’s you. And I’m always with you.”
“So what? He hates us.”
“Nah. He likes us, but knows I hate him. There’s a difference.”
“No way he can recognize us from there.”
“You’re really tall. Of course he knows it’s you. And I’m always with you.”
“So what? He hates us.”
“Nah. He likes us, but knows I hate him. There’s a difference.”
Most appropriate public art in Vancouver.
March 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Most appropriate public art in Vancouver.
I am astoundingly grateful to the BC Arts Council for a grant to work on my non-fiction book. For the past year, I've been writing (very slowly) about living with an invisible and debilitating chronic illness since my early teens. Can't wait until May, when I'll have time to work on it full-time.
March 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I am astoundingly grateful to the BC Arts Council for a grant to work on my non-fiction book. For the past year, I've been writing (very slowly) about living with an invisible and debilitating chronic illness since my early teens. Can't wait until May, when I'll have time to work on it full-time.
These little feathered harbingers of spring are only about 2 inches tall and huddle together against the wind.
February 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
These little feathered harbingers of spring are only about 2 inches tall and huddle together against the wind.
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
Me:
Me:
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
Me:
Me:
First snow day this winter, likely the only one, in Vancouver.
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
First snow day this winter, likely the only one, in Vancouver.
Sunset on campus from the door of Tim Horton's. Just finished teaching the second class of intermediate writing for children and teens. Stopped lugging 40 pounds of books to get a hot chocolate and turned around...
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sunset on campus from the door of Tim Horton's. Just finished teaching the second class of intermediate writing for children and teens. Stopped lugging 40 pounds of books to get a hot chocolate and turned around...
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Added to the nonfiction reading list for 2025 - Better to have Loved - the life of Judith Merril #scifi #judithmerril
January 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Added to the nonfiction reading list for 2025 - Better to have Loved - the life of Judith Merril #scifi #judithmerril
Benefit of living in the Pacific Northwest is that we can go forest bathing at the end of Dec in tees and light jackets.
December 28, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Benefit of living in the Pacific Northwest is that we can go forest bathing at the end of Dec in tees and light jackets.
My first lecture
December 20, 2024 at 8:52 PM
My first lecture
Ol’ Misery Guts over here (me) has the flu and is sick in bed. Send good news, happy memories, cute pet photos, etc
December 17, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Ol’ Misery Guts over here (me) has the flu and is sick in bed. Send good news, happy memories, cute pet photos, etc
Isn’t that the most beautiful book cover? Got my holiday reading thanks to @nalohop.bsky.social (and a brand new puzzle) and am ready to cocoon. Bring on the bad weather!
December 15, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Isn’t that the most beautiful book cover? Got my holiday reading thanks to @nalohop.bsky.social (and a brand new puzzle) and am ready to cocoon. Bring on the bad weather!
Fresh cut! 1/2 my hair is gone. Feels so good. 💇🏼♀️
December 10, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Fresh cut! 1/2 my hair is gone. Feels so good. 💇🏼♀️
Whoa. Also, the real Ruby Slippers (dog version) is worth a gazillion times that much.
What is reality?--question of the day: Iconic film, true. But these shoes were a movie prop made with shiny red glass. It's another indication of the absurd amount of money some people now have and ideas of what passes for an investment while others can't pay for health care or food.
December 9, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Whoa. Also, the real Ruby Slippers (dog version) is worth a gazillion times that much.