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Lynda Williams (she/her)
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Writer of unlikeable female characters. The Beauty and The Hell of It and other stories, Guernica Editions 2025.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bqh... Had such a great chat about all things writing related--my first byline, the novel I never finished, and how I came to short stories last.
Bringing Life To Characters: Episode 52 Lynda Williams
YouTube video by Author R Weir
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November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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above/ground press author spotlight #14 : Lillian Nećakov / @anvilpress.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ;
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November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim
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Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim
I am a woman in the same way a skull in the desert remains a deer. You can hear echoes of the sky in me. I spend many nights drinkin...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market,
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this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market,
In case you are around, I'll be (along with a mound of above/ground press titles + my new poetry title, the book of sentences ) participati...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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thenewquarterly.bsky.social
What is the role of editor? What makes for a productive author/editor relationship? Join author Vinh Nguyen and editor Janice Zawerbny as they discuss the ins and outs of working on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦.

Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/the-...
Wild Writers Literary Festival panel "The Fine Line Between Author and Editor: A Drop-in chat."
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday,
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The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday,
In case you missed, I published an essay from within the current work-in-progress, "The Museum of Practical Things," over at my enormously c...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where / @writerstrust.bsky.social ;
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Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where
I wrote my name on your back fifty-seven times in cursive           with a ballpoint pen.  Soft, speckled boy, your skin           i...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Imagine writing a novel in a second language because that language—English—allows you to be more emotionally expressive! Su Chang has accomplished this with her debut novel The Immortal Woman.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/navigating-forbidden-histories-an-interview-with-writer-su-chang
October 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,
September 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams
Lynda Williams ’ stories have appeared in Grain , The Humber Literary Review , and The New Quarterly , among others. She holds a graduate c...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended”
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A Place for People Like Us by Danila Botha
Reviewed by Jerry LevyDanila Botha’s novel A Place for People Like Us portrays, often in cringe-worthy detail, just how complicated and weird people can be. Is it any wonder then that some look to rel...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ;
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a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune,
Hey! It's me and Toronto poet ( and above/ground press author ) Sean Braune ! We hung out together recently, the first in a long time, so t...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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thenewquarterly.bsky.social
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Amy LeBlanc's poem "Letter to a Young Arachnid" from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/letter...
Excerpt from "Letter to a Young Arachnid" by Amy LeBlanc, published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...
A collage graphic featuring the six featured books in the All Lit Up 2025 Fall Preview: Suddenly Light, War Resisters, A Place for People Like Us, Beaver Hills Forever, The Hunt, and Syncopation.
August 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Christy Ann Conlin's "Displacement of Bodies in Time", from Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/displa...
Excerpt from "Displacement of Bodies in Time" by Christy Ann Conlin from Issue 174.
August 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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By: noreply@blogger.com (rob mclennan) on Saturday, August 16, 2025
above/ground press author spotlights : substack,
Over at the above/ground press substack [free to sign up for and free to leave] I've been posting a series of interviews with above/ground ...
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August 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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oncreativewriting.bsky.social
New podcast episode! Writer and academic James Cairns on his new essay collection In Crisis, On Crisis. Let us know what you think after listening.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/33207000/james-cairns-fascination-with-the-age-of-crises-grew-from-personal-crises-of-addiction
August 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Aug 18
Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.
August 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, / @ucpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
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new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn,
a new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book : The Roots of Modernism, conducted by poet, editor, writer and critic ( and above/ground...
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August 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rachel Top's "The Baker's Filia", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ba...
Excerpt from Sneha Rachel Top's story "The Baker's Filia", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
August 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario.

Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario

When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m.

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August 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis
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Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis
Ode to The Hi-way House OK calm down, let’s also say there is no need to write anything down for a while, Let’s think back on all the ...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM