Monica Kidd
@monicakidd.bsky.social
Author of THE CRANE (Breakwater, 2025) and 7 other books || Journalist || MD MSc MFA || associate editor at CMAJ || at work on a nonfiction book about coastal erosion globally || monicakidd.ca || represented by Aevitas
My cover story for @thewalrus.ca on the measles outbreak in Alberta, now in print for the December issue. Look for it on newsstands. #measles #vaccinations #publichealth
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My cover story for @thewalrus.ca on the measles outbreak in Alberta, now in print for the December issue. Look for it on newsstands. #measles #vaccinations #publichealth
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Cleaning out Mom and Dad’s house we came across these classics that Dad held onto for all these years. Suddenly they are SUPER cool. ⚾️ #bluejays
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Cleaning out Mom and Dad’s house we came across these classics that Dad held onto for all these years. Suddenly they are SUPER cool. ⚾️ #bluejays
Please join me tomorrow at Pages Books in Calgary as we help celebrate the launch of a bold new book about mental health research and treatment by Toronto author Marianne Apostolides. We’ll be joined by Calgary playwright Clem Martini. Thurs Oct 23, 7-9. All are welcome. @bookhugpress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Please join me tomorrow at Pages Books in Calgary as we help celebrate the launch of a bold new book about mental health research and treatment by Toronto author Marianne Apostolides. We’ll be joined by Calgary playwright Clem Martini. Thurs Oct 23, 7-9. All are welcome. @bookhugpress.bsky.social
This fiberglass steer never stood a chance. At the Cochrane Ag Society gymkhana.
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This fiberglass steer never stood a chance. At the Cochrane Ag Society gymkhana.
Thinking and writing about protecting coastal communities against storms and erosion, how could I not return to Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000)?
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thinking and writing about protecting coastal communities against storms and erosion, how could I not return to Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000)?
Emptying out the U-Haul of my mom’s household stuff at the Goodwill donation centre today, and the woman working there, realizing what’s happened, takes the last box and says, “Be brave.” At a time when so much sucks about the world, she was just a kind soul being kind. ❤️
October 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Emptying out the U-Haul of my mom’s household stuff at the Goodwill donation centre today, and the woman working there, realizing what’s happened, takes the last box and says, “Be brave.” At a time when so much sucks about the world, she was just a kind soul being kind. ❤️
I put the bees to bed for the winter. Fingers crossed they make it through their first Alberta winter. #Beekeeping
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I put the bees to bed for the winter. Fingers crossed they make it through their first Alberta winter. #Beekeeping
In 50 years I have never not seen water in this slough.
October 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
In 50 years I have never not seen water in this slough.
Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?
September 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?
Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation
“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.
Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”
I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.
September 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.
Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?
Predawn trail run in Nose Hill Park. I’m eternally grateful to people who have the foresight and fortitude to leave places set aside to let the land be what it is.
September 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Predawn trail run in Nose Hill Park. I’m eternally grateful to people who have the foresight and fortitude to leave places set aside to let the land be what it is.
What legislated transphobia looks like in Alberta. I’m expected to sign this so my 12-year-old kid (who was born and identifies as female but it’s none of their business) can play school soccer.
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
What legislated transphobia looks like in Alberta. I’m expected to sign this so my 12-year-old kid (who was born and identifies as female but it’s none of their business) can play school soccer.
Bizarre that we’ve come this: a petition for Alberta to remain in Canada.
September 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Bizarre that we’ve come this: a petition for Alberta to remain in Canada.
Well now! Look who gets to cavort with the likes of Marcello Di Cintio and Danielle Groen for a panel on structuring long-format print journalism? Very excited to open the hood on feature-writing with these two for the Alberta Magazines Conference this year, September 25-26 in Calgary.
September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Well now! Look who gets to cavort with the likes of Marcello Di Cintio and Danielle Groen for a panel on structuring long-format print journalism? Very excited to open the hood on feature-writing with these two for the Alberta Magazines Conference this year, September 25-26 in Calgary.
More smoky day photos, brought to you by the #Pyrocene. #arnicalake #banffnationalpark #climatechange #worldonfire
September 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
More smoky day photos, brought to you by the #Pyrocene. #arnicalake #banffnationalpark #climatechange #worldonfire
Found in my mom’s sewing kit. Why yes, those are bullets. This may have to be the cover of my next book of poetry.
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Found in my mom’s sewing kit. Why yes, those are bullets. This may have to be the cover of my next book of poetry.
Mom passed earlier this year and missed the absolute bounty of apples and crabapples in her back yard.
September 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Mom passed earlier this year and missed the absolute bounty of apples and crabapples in her back yard.
It’s been a minute since I did any printing, but I was pleased with how this turned out. The text is based on a story I was told many years ago, and the image is from a photo I took in Brigus NL and designed to look like an old newspaper clipping. Handset in Century Schoolbook, 14 pt. #letterpress
August 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s been a minute since I did any printing, but I was pleased with how this turned out. The text is based on a story I was told many years ago, and the image is from a photo I took in Brigus NL and designed to look like an old newspaper clipping. Handset in Century Schoolbook, 14 pt. #letterpress
I don’t know enough about #beekeeping yet to read all the signs, but the girls seemed to have survived without me for 6 weeks. Nor do I know if there’s enough brood to support a honey super, but here goes nothing!
August 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I don’t know enough about #beekeeping yet to read all the signs, but the girls seemed to have survived without me for 6 weeks. Nor do I know if there’s enough brood to support a honey super, but here goes nothing!