Lucian Childs
@lucianchilds.bsky.social
Author of Dreaming Home (Fred Kerner Book Award winner, Rakuten Kobo Prize shortlist). Contributing editor of Lammy Award finalist, Building Fires in the Snow. Work in Grain, The Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire and more. www.lucianchilds.com
Drunk Fiction at The Caledonian with my writing group last night! @edseaward.bsky.social, @stephaniewyeld.bsky.social @kenharvey.bsky.social. Plus Peter Small. Thanks to Emily Weedon for putting the event together and being the consummate host. Drunk Fiction has become my favorite writer hang!
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Drunk Fiction at The Caledonian with my writing group last night! @edseaward.bsky.social, @stephaniewyeld.bsky.social @kenharvey.bsky.social. Plus Peter Small. Thanks to Emily Weedon for putting the event together and being the consummate host. Drunk Fiction has become my favorite writer hang!
Kate Cayley’s launch of her novel, Property, last night was phenomenal. The readings and lively discussion with Steve Beattie (www.shakespeareanrag.com) were wonderful. Kudos to Kate, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social and #TorontoLitUp for a wonderful evening.
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Kate Cayley’s launch of her novel, Property, last night was phenomenal. The readings and lively discussion with Steve Beattie (www.shakespeareanrag.com) were wonderful. Kudos to Kate, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social and #TorontoLitUp for a wonderful evening.
New book coming Fall 2026!!! Arsenal Pulp Press has acquired Toward Another Shore—the novel I co-authored with my late husband, Alex Turner. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social is a top Canadian indie press, whose titles are fixtures during awards season. More at: www.lucianchilds.com or www.alexjturner.ca.
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New book coming Fall 2026!!! Arsenal Pulp Press has acquired Toward Another Shore—the novel I co-authored with my late husband, Alex Turner. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social is a top Canadian indie press, whose titles are fixtures during awards season. More at: www.lucianchilds.com or www.alexjturner.ca.
If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. Luckily, we have the fiction of my late husband, Alex Turner, to remind us. His story “Sea Change” is out now in @prairiefiremag.bsky.social. It’s a funny and touching read. Available at bit.ly/40dZP9r and at many Canadian bookstores.
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. Luckily, we have the fiction of my late husband, Alex Turner, to remind us. His story “Sea Change” is out now in @prairiefiremag.bsky.social. It’s a funny and touching read. Available at bit.ly/40dZP9r and at many Canadian bookstores.
If you are free tonight, I'll be reading from my new novel, one I wrote with my late husband, Alex Turner. This is a sneak peak. The complete story will be published this summer in the Canadian literary journal, Prairie Fire. www.youtube.com/@bgsqd/streams
March 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you are free tonight, I'll be reading from my new novel, one I wrote with my late husband, Alex Turner. This is a sneak peak. The complete story will be published this summer in the Canadian literary journal, Prairie Fire. www.youtube.com/@bgsqd/streams
Back at my writing desk - at last!
Projects are lined up like planes at an airport. Traffic control: 1. essay, 2. short story, 3. second novel.
Projects are lined up like planes at an airport. Traffic control: 1. essay, 2. short story, 3. second novel.
February 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Back at my writing desk - at last!
Projects are lined up like planes at an airport. Traffic control: 1. essay, 2. short story, 3. second novel.
Projects are lined up like planes at an airport. Traffic control: 1. essay, 2. short story, 3. second novel.
It’s a Chabon kind of day! Lazy morning reading. Finally getting around to this and loving the story and humorous style.
February 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s a Chabon kind of day! Lazy morning reading. Finally getting around to this and loving the story and humorous style.
A bookseller’s recommendation at Tucson’s Antigone Bookstore. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. What a novel should be, in my opinion. Lyrical, earthy, self assured. The back cover calls it “the greatest novel in Native American literature.” #fiction #amreading
February 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A bookseller’s recommendation at Tucson’s Antigone Bookstore. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. What a novel should be, in my opinion. Lyrical, earthy, self assured. The back cover calls it “the greatest novel in Native American literature.” #fiction #amreading
Back in sun-drenched Tucson. A great town with a deep literary tradition. Just picked up these beauties at Antigone Books by Leslie Marmon Silko and Stacie Denetsosie-Mitchell.
January 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Back in sun-drenched Tucson. A great town with a deep literary tradition. Just picked up these beauties at Antigone Books by Leslie Marmon Silko and Stacie Denetsosie-Mitchell.
Love this. Short stories paired with their authors personal histories of how they became writers. I’m a big fan of Caroline Adderson, Kathy Page, Kristyn Dunnion. #canlit #amreading #shortstories @biblioasis.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Love this. Short stories paired with their authors personal histories of how they became writers. I’m a big fan of Caroline Adderson, Kathy Page, Kristyn Dunnion. #canlit #amreading #shortstories @biblioasis.bsky.social
Taking a break from party prep to read this beautiful book by Hélène Dorion, brought to English by the excellent translator Jonathan Kaplansky. Gorgeous prose. This crosses the line on my reading challenge for the year—60 books.
December 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Taking a break from party prep to read this beautiful book by Hélène Dorion, brought to English by the excellent translator Jonathan Kaplansky. Gorgeous prose. This crosses the line on my reading challenge for the year—60 books.
Lazy reading Sunday with Cynthia Flood’s stunning beauty collection (Biblioasis, 2017). @biblioasis.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Lazy reading Sunday with Cynthia Flood’s stunning beauty collection (Biblioasis, 2017). @biblioasis.bsky.social
I picked this up at AWP last spring. Le Guin is such a thoughtful writer. She’s also able to report back from the field to offer deep insight into the dynamics of writing. Fiction, CNF, poetry—she did it all beautifully. #writingfiction
December 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I picked this up at AWP last spring. Le Guin is such a thoughtful writer. She’s also able to report back from the field to offer deep insight into the dynamics of writing. Fiction, CNF, poetry—she did it all beautifully. #writingfiction
I was walking by the Toronto Reference Library, so I checked if they had a physical copy of my book. Sure enough, it’s right next to “The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada”! I love how this American book by an American author has become fully Canadian. Says a lot about my adopted country, I think.
December 12, 2024 at 9:35 PM
I was walking by the Toronto Reference Library, so I checked if they had a physical copy of my book. Sure enough, it’s right next to “The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada”! I love how this American book by an American author has become fully Canadian. Says a lot about my adopted country, I think.