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Jade Wallace (they/them)
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Poet, novelist, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica 23), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
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If you care about renters in Ontario may I recommend signing this petition or sending an email to your MPP ASAP? While some harmful provisions were removed from Bill 60 thanks to swift public pushback, several still remain that will weaken tenant rights.

Petition and letter here: stopbill60.ca
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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My very first time having poems in The Malahat Review!

Pictured here is "Desert Fauna," which features some horses and a rather oblique allegory. Not pictured is "Grape," which I wrote when I was thinking a lot about how I hate the way grapes are used on social media these days...
Desert Fauna Anybody stalking this dead end road wants something—it’s either your horses or you. Told me that before he left for good some five years past and I believed him. Abhor the gun but the pockets of my jeans never want for rocks. Morning cuts the sky open to show me a stranger. I stop twenty paces back to take stock. His chin is dropped on his folded arms resting atop my paddock gate. His back greets me, his gaze meets the animals’, who abandon their grazing only for a blink before returning. Their shining hides wink at us in the sunlight. My knuckles squeeze white against stone and I call out, Hello, though my meaning is elsewhere. We’re stock-still, quieter than the minute before a quick draw. My God, he says finally, eyes still caught by what’s before him. Aren’t they wonderful? I sidle to him slantwise, ‘til I can see him in profile. His cheeks, his leather boots, are cracking like this arid land, but his hands are too soft for rope. I ease my grip. I’m not afraid of dying, you understand, I’m just not made to be green-broke. This, however, is all right—him talking about the horses as if they don’t belong to me, don’t belong to anyone. Because they don’t—
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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✨Looking forward to being a panelist this coming Wednesday October 13, 2025 at 5:30 pm for Arts Council Windsor & Region's talk on careers in the arts, alongside Nadja Pelkey @telextelex.bsky.social and some guy I've seen around named Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social.
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Just in time for Labour Day, the anthology THE BOOK OF JOBS: Poems about Work is out and includes my poem "Word Problems." Sneak peek is in the photo below; the rest of the poem and anthology are available to read for free online: oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...
The Book of Jobs: Poems about Work (edited by Erin Murphy) Jade Wallace Word Problems 1. Suppose that worker I, who has $7 in their bank account, uses a combination of cash and credit to pay the $40 monthly phone bill. I then metes out their 10 gigabytes of data, app by app, until one bounces back a task that I completes in 19 minutes on the way to their temp job. For completing the task, I receives a $5.03 transfer of funds (after taxes and fees), of which $4.19 will eventually be used to pay for gas and the long-term maintenance of I’s car. I earns $32.00 (after taxes and deductions) for working 3 hours at the temp job, though will not receive that money for approximately 8 months, which is how long it will take for the labour ministry to investigate I’s 15 page claim and issue a 25 page order requiring wages to, in fact, be paid, as per section 22 of the Employees Are Not Volunteers Act.
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Great (critical) take on AI by Molly Cross-Blanchard in the latest issue of Write from The Writers' Union of Canada.
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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My review of Samantha Jones' @sjonespoet.bsky.social's wonderful debut poetry collection Attic Rain from @newestpress.bsky.social, which appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.
Samantha Jones’ debut poetry collection, Attic Rain, is a nuanced articulation of the mindspace of Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Jones uses form—the brevity of haiku, the recurrences of villanelles, the queries of mondos—to make visceral OCD’s reiterative fixations and rituals. Such rituals are conveyed with insightful complexity; they are soothing, grounding, as natural as water moving over the same path repeatedly to make a river, even as the force that propels them is terror. Attic Rain achieves the impressive feat of both portraying and reenvisioning OCD: by drawing it as maps, organizing it into graphs, annotating it as music, and ultimately transforming it into poetry.
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I'm late but I had a good reason this time! Anways here's my review of Deepa Rajagopalan's stunning debut short fiction collection Peacocks of Instagram from @houseofanansi.bsky.social, which appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.
The title of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut short story collection sounds like an exposé of social media celebrity, but it’s so much more. Peacocks of Instagram peels back surfaces to reveal surprising and satisfying depths. Influencer personas are counterpoints in multi-layered lives. There are mothers travelling to India for kidney transplants, spouses misleading each other in dances of infidelity. Rajagopalan throws and pulls problems ordinary as raw clay into 14 glossy, engrossing, interconnected narratives. Amid mundane indignities, her characters find fulfillment glimmering like fresh snow, and slices of righteous revenge as sweet as free cheesecake at a company party.
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Bet you didn't think I had MORE to say about book blurbs after my last 1,800-word article on them but here I am! Brockton Writers Series @brocktonwriters.bsky.social was kind enough to invite me to speak on the subject at their latest event, and to do a guest blog post about it.
July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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It's been a minute (1.5 years) since I've had a poem out in a mag, and what a mag to be back with: @midnightsunmag.bsky.social has published "Villiform," a deconstructed villanelle whose central conceit is about disability as a kind of poetic constraint for living. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
Villiform Or: Refiguring Our Disabilities as Poetic Constraints Jade Wallace We are confined, the well and the unwell, by the cadenced demands our bodies make. Countable as the beats of a villanelle are the hours that pass until need will compel us to pause and cast for water to slake the thirst that con stricts us, both well and unwell. While we may delay, we cannot dis Header says "Midnight Sun" and beneath is an image of a sanderling (small sea bird) running across a beach.
July 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Hey friends! I'll be chatting about "The Good & Bad of Book Blurbs" and doing a Q & A at the hybrid Brockton Writers Series event on Wednesday July 9 at 6:30pm. You can attend by going to Glad Day Bookshop OR by simply following along online: www.youtube.com/@brocktonwri...
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I've had a long, fraught relationship with the "true crime" genre. There's hardly been a day in the past several years that I haven't engaged with it in some way, despite being very aware of the troubling ethics that ground it. The problem of violence, and how and why it occurs...
July 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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WINDSOR FRIENDS! Today, Friday May 9, @farahghafoor.bsky.social will be coming to Windsor to launch her debut poetry collection Shadow Price, which was published this year by @houseofanansi.bsky.social! Hope to see you at Biblioasis Bookshop at 6pm!
May 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Very grateful today to @chyx-xyng.bsky.social for reading & reflecting on my genderless novel ANOMIA. 😊 🏳️‍⚧️
April 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Book blurbs have been a contentious topic of late, for good reason. But I still love them. Here's why & here's how you can too (if you want to). Spoiler: I think book blurbs have a lot in common with book reviews.

Thanks Writer's Digest for giving this a home. www.writersdigest.com/getting-publ...
March 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I had a 'never give up on a story you love' moment this year. "Pluck" is an odd story, I'll admit. It's about a lonely, directionless, 20-something florist who one day finds herself dogged by a mass of leaves she cannot shake off. It racked up 30ish rejections, though I thought it was a good piece.
December 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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One of my few reviews this year. Kazim Ali's SUKUN is an absolutely gorgeous mid-career retrospective of a poetic oeuvre. I tried my hardest to do it justice in my first piece for The Malahat Review. With thanks to Jay Ruzesky & Iain Higgins for the edits!
December 27, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Tickled to see this deep dive into ANOMIA's intense relationship with geography and queer sense of time in Margaryta Golovchenko's review for PRISM International. prismmagazine.ca/2024/12/05/p...
December 14, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Just admiring Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social's vispo works in the poetry anthology The Anstruther Reader, edited by Jim Johnstone & published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. (You can also peek at a piece by @garybarwin.bsky.socialgarybarwin.bsky.social's piece in the second pic.)
November 27, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Stop the Doom-Scroll, in which @jesstaywriter and I chat about various writing things, including my novel ANOMIA, will be happening on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26 at 7pm EST on Instagram Live. Hope you'll join us!
November 24, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Solidarity is our Strength: Auction for Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan 🗝🌲 🌺 is on now & bidding will be open UNTIL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28. Among the many & varied items on offer, you can bid on a copy of my novel ANOMIA from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social (signed if you like). www.facebook.com/groups/85484...
November 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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THEY'RE HERE!

Just in time for Pride month, copies of ANOMIA are now real and you can hold them in your hands. ANOMIA is novel that imagines a world where sex and gender have been forgotten. HAPPY PRIDE!
June 3, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Also, for non-reviewers: you can preorder ANOMIA through Palimpsest Press! palimpsestpress.ca/books/anomia...
April 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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If you are interested in reviewing my debut novel, ANOMIA, now is your time to let me know!! I got fancy and made a special (but extremely short) form for those wanting a review copy. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 13, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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New headshot because my debut novel ANOMIA is coming June 2024 with Palimpsest Press! Photo & (glimpse of the) cover art by Mark Laliberte.
February 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM