Luanne Gauvreau
@luannegauvreau.bsky.social
Sometimes writing; usually reading.
I go for haircuts expecting them to make my hair better, but they just make it shorter.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I go for haircuts expecting them to make my hair better, but they just make it shorter.
Reposted by Luanne Gauvreau
My latest Echolocations issue: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My latest Echolocations issue: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Where is the barista who will walk among the café tables with a pot of cappuccino asking, “Can I top you up?”
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Where is the barista who will walk among the café tables with a pot of cappuccino asking, “Can I top you up?”
Reposted by Luanne Gauvreau
📣 Today’s the deadline for our fiction contest!
Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:
Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:
Tighten and tweak all you want—as long as you finally hit send! I submitted on the deadline date last year and look what happened: 😊 thefiddlehead.ca/content/cong...
Congratulations to our 2024 Fiction Contest Winner, Luanne Gauvreau! | The Fiddlehead
We're excited to announce that Luanne Gauvreau is the winner of our 2024 Fiction Contest and $2000 prize! Her story "Roses for Bodies" will be featured in the upcoming Winter issue of The Fiddlehead (FH 302).
thefiddlehead.ca
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📣 Today’s the deadline for our fiction contest!
Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:
Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:
Always worth reading Miranda July. This in the “burn it all down and you’ll get a book out of it” tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert or Glennon Doyle (though fiction). Some great ekphrastic writing about dance.
August 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Always worth reading Miranda July. This in the “burn it all down and you’ll get a book out of it” tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert or Glennon Doyle (though fiction). Some great ekphrastic writing about dance.
Toilet facts: “Comfort” height is not comfortable; “Standard” height is no longer standard.
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Toilet facts: “Comfort” height is not comfortable; “Standard” height is no longer standard.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
—Charlotte Brontë
—Charlotte Brontë
May 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
—Charlotte Brontë
—Charlotte Brontë
Psychedelic baby supernova from Gary Barwin.
April 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Psychedelic baby supernova from Gary Barwin.
A film that takes place where you are from.
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A film that takes place where you are from.
Reposted by Luanne Gauvreau
Travel through your ears with us to.... the Forest of Dean
Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins)
It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees.
> bit.ly/LenFoDn2
Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins)
It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees.
> bit.ly/LenFoDn2
March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Travel through your ears with us to.... the Forest of Dean
Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins)
It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees.
> bit.ly/LenFoDn2
Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins)
It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees.
> bit.ly/LenFoDn2
“Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate.
Sail on, sail on—“
Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course.
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate.
Sail on, sail on—“
Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course.
January 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate.
Sail on, sail on—“
Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course.
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate.
Sail on, sail on—“
Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course.
A wonderful start to the new year! Thanks to judge Zilla Jones for her close and generous reading of my story. So pleased to have my work appear in the always great @fiddlehd.bsky.social
We're excited to announce that Luanne Gauvreau is the winner of our 2024 Fiction Contest and $2000 prize! Her story "Roses for Bodies" will be featured in the upcoming Winter issue (FH 302).
Read judge Zilla Jones' editorial and an excerpt now on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/content/cong...
Read judge Zilla Jones' editorial and an excerpt now on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/content/cong...
January 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A wonderful start to the new year! Thanks to judge Zilla Jones for her close and generous reading of my story. So pleased to have my work appear in the always great @fiddlehd.bsky.social
New chapter: In which I find myself on a list.
We are so excited to announce that the shortlist for our 2024 Fiction Contest is now on our website! Thank you to our judge Zilla Jones and all who entered and congratulations to the fifteen finalists!
thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
December 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
New chapter: In which I find myself on a list.
This time of year I always remember how I was radicalized as a language-loving child by the crazy syntax of Christmas carols.
December 12, 2024 at 5:11 PM
This time of year I always remember how I was radicalized as a language-loving child by the crazy syntax of Christmas carols.
Reminder from Samuel Butler to help me resist the siren call of the end-of-year lists: “The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
December 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Reminder from Samuel Butler to help me resist the siren call of the end-of-year lists: “The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
Starting fresh on Bluesky this November with words from Susan Gillis’s Come In, Come In.
November 13, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Starting fresh on Bluesky this November with words from Susan Gillis’s Come In, Come In.
I'll begin with an ending. From "Faithful and Virtuous Night" by Louise Gluck.
October 17, 2023 at 11:39 PM
I'll begin with an ending. From "Faithful and Virtuous Night" by Louise Gluck.