Laurence Lumsden
@laurencewrites.com
Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
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Laurence Lumsden
@laurencewrites.com
· Mar 11
New Writing Prize Winners 2025 - Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City
www.cuirt.ie
Gobsmacked and grateful to have won the 2025 Cúirt New Writing Prize. Thanks to @cuirtfestival.bsky.social (see you in Galway!) and to the brilliant @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social (whose comments on my story left me floating on air). www.cuirt.ie/new-writing-...
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
Marcus lived inside my head for a few years, but I finally wrote him into the world.
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/marcus-of-montreal/
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Marcus lived inside my head for a few years, but I finally wrote him into the world.
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/marcus-of-montreal/
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/marcus-of-montreal/
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My essay about the joy of the night train is up on The Winding Trail, a long read for a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, dreaming about adventures past and journeys to come…
the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My essay about the joy of the night train is up on The Winding Trail, a long read for a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, dreaming about adventures past and journeys to come…
the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...
Super article. Added Leon Diop’s memoir to my “must read” list.
I interviewed the very thoughtful Leon Diop cofounder of Black and Irish about his new memoir www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’
The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest
www.irishtimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Super article. Added Leon Diop’s memoir to my “must read” list.
And brilliant it is too.
Yup it is.
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
And brilliant it is too.
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happy no novel november to all who celebrate in which we will continue to write new short stories instead of our novels
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
happy no novel november to all who celebrate in which we will continue to write new short stories instead of our novels
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
My short story "The Leftovers of Sugaring Season", just published in the Canadian literary journal Agnes and True. www.agnesandtrue.com/the-leftover...
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My short story "The Leftovers of Sugaring Season", just published in the Canadian literary journal Agnes and True. www.agnesandtrue.com/the-leftover...
You love The Smiths, but you hate Morrissey. You need Adam Barrett. youtu.be/TbCYqkmBdcE?...
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes (cover)
YouTube video by Adam Barrett
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You love The Smiths, but you hate Morrissey. You need Adam Barrett. youtu.be/TbCYqkmBdcE?...
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Dans @lapresse.ca du jour (plus.lapresse.ca/screens/bdba...), Régis Labeaume frappe juste et fort : «Je me répète, cette campagne sera sale, et ça pue déjà.»
Non, nous ne haïrons pas les immigrants et les musulmans !
Je ne dénoncerai jamais assez les cardinaux conservateurs de Rome, les leaders juifs orthodoxes, les imams radicaux, Trump et les politiciens américains évangéliques, Nétanyahou et ses ministres ultra...
plus.lapresse.ca
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Dans @lapresse.ca du jour (plus.lapresse.ca/screens/bdba...), Régis Labeaume frappe juste et fort : «Je me répète, cette campagne sera sale, et ça pue déjà.»
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Good news for fans of poems about hedges, frogs and long-handled spades: The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now. Here's a great review by Philip Terry:
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Good news for fans of poems about hedges, frogs and long-handled spades: The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now. Here's a great review by Philip Terry:
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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Saw Isabelle Faust play the Beethoven Concerto with the OSM @osmconcerts.bsky.social last night...and went back to see her again this morning. Such a brilliant and charismatic musician. #EmotionallyDrained bigloolaa.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Saw Isabelle Faust play the Beethoven Concerto with the OSM @osmconcerts.bsky.social last night...and went back to see her again this morning. Such a brilliant and charismatic musician. #EmotionallyDrained bigloolaa.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. www.tshakapesh.ca #JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. www.tshakapesh.ca #JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
Get your orange shirt on!
"Le 30 septembre, nous encourageons tous les Canadiens à porter du orange pour rendre hommage aux milliers de survivants des pensionnats."
#JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
www.canada.ca/fr/patrimoin...
"Le 30 septembre, nous encourageons tous les Canadiens à porter du orange pour rendre hommage aux milliers de survivants des pensionnats."
#JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
www.canada.ca/fr/patrimoin...
Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Get your orange shirt on!
"Le 30 septembre, nous encourageons tous les Canadiens à porter du orange pour rendre hommage aux milliers de survivants des pensionnats."
#JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
www.canada.ca/fr/patrimoin...
"Le 30 septembre, nous encourageons tous les Canadiens à porter du orange pour rendre hommage aux milliers de survivants des pensionnats."
#JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
www.canada.ca/fr/patrimoin...
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Grand format | Le legs de Joyce
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
Le legs de Joyce
Le décès tragique de Joyce Echaquan, le 28 septembre 2020, a eu des répercussions qui dépassent largement sa communauté de Manawan.
ici.radio-canada.ca
September 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Grand format | Le legs de Joyce
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
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TODAY! If you live in #HFX/HRM, I'm leading a free 'FotoBalm' event (photo walk exploring the practice of #photography as healing for the #grief process.) Part of GriefMatters.ca Grief Gatherings Week happening all around Nova Scotia. Bring your camera and meet at The Dingle gazebo for 4 PM start.
This week GriefMatters.ca is hosting "Grief Gatherings" Sep 19-28. Among them is a #photography walk by me tomorrow on how photography began/continues as a healing practice for me. If you're in #HRM, bring your camera to come 'draw light' together.
Pls register by e-mail. Deets in photo/ALT text.
Pls register by e-mail. Deets in photo/ALT text.
September 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
TODAY! If you live in #HFX/HRM, I'm leading a free 'FotoBalm' event (photo walk exploring the practice of #photography as healing for the #grief process.) Part of GriefMatters.ca Grief Gatherings Week happening all around Nova Scotia. Bring your camera and meet at The Dingle gazebo for 4 PM start.
Brilliant article by Finn McRedmond @finnmcredmond.bsky.social defending the study of Shakespeare in Leaving Cert (I.e. high school) English. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Finn McRedmond: I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons
What kind of 'experience' do we expect our students of English literature to have if not reading Shakespeare?
www.irishtimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Brilliant article by Finn McRedmond @finnmcredmond.bsky.social defending the study of Shakespeare in Leaving Cert (I.e. high school) English. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
How I "found the form" of my story Marcus of Montreal - an online exclusive at The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social . tnq.ca/finding-the-...
Finding the Form with Laurence Lumsden – The New Quarterly
tnq.ca
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How I "found the form" of my story Marcus of Montreal - an online exclusive at The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social . tnq.ca/finding-the-...
"À l’école ou dans leurs équipes de sport, les jeunes côtoyaient quotidiennement des enfants d’immigrants dans lesquels ils voyaient des amis qui n’avaient rien d’inquiétant. [...] Aux yeux de plusieurs, le PQ est alors apparu comme un parti xénophobe"
Je suis séparatiste, mais M. David a raison.
Je suis séparatiste, mais M. David a raison.
Chronique | Avec 22 points d’avance sur la CAQ, le PQ n’a plus besoin de renchérir sur l’identité québécoise. #polqc
Les jeunes, l’indépendance et le PQ
www.ledevoir.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"À l’école ou dans leurs équipes de sport, les jeunes côtoyaient quotidiennement des enfants d’immigrants dans lesquels ils voyaient des amis qui n’avaient rien d’inquiétant. [...] Aux yeux de plusieurs, le PQ est alors apparu comme un parti xénophobe"
Je suis séparatiste, mais M. David a raison.
Je suis séparatiste, mais M. David a raison.
Delighted to be published in The New Quarterly!
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/marcus-of-montreal/
September 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Delighted to be published in The New Quarterly!