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Shannon Kelly Donahue
@shannonkellydonahue.com
Writer ~ Editor ~ Advocate
Wildlife, Banshees, Climate, Language, Grief, Music, Gaeilge
Ciarraí Abú!

Words in Catamaran, Forum, Writers Rebel
2025 Evangeline Atwood Fellow at Storyknife

Honored to live in Alaska on Jilkáat Aani
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This quote from Dr. King is sadly still so relevant.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Aurora over Churchill, Manitoba, on Halloween night.
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Spectacular aurora in Churchill, Manitoba, at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre on Halloween night.
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Digging into @rickirobin.bsky.social’s brand new essay collection, Ghosts of Distant Trees, on a train through the boreal forest to Hudson Bay. A gorgeous and thoughtful book. You should get it. #BookSky #AlaskaSky
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Excited to spend some time with a different kind of tide book. @alaskapoet.bsky.social #BookSky
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Chilkat Peninsula representing.
#AlaskaSky
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Tonight’s reading, with appropriate whale pillow backdrop. Excited to dig into this. @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Cormac Begley’s album B would look great there!
August 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yes! This was discussed in a corner of #AlaskaSky last night. @pat.alaskarobotics.com posted a slew of these, including this one with the weird artificially intelligent Alaska flag-map.
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
What a gift from the forest!
August 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Now is that really so difficult? Seen at the Village Bakery in Haines Junction, Yukon.
August 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This female polar bear graced us with her lovely presence in our last hour in Churchill. Meanwhile, a large male was strolling the intertidal zone behind us.
August 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Seen in Winnipeg.
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Dorothy Macardle exhibit at Kilmainham Gaol is SO GOOD, and it's closing on the 6th of August! #spéirghorm
July 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Very excited to dig into this!! And super impressed with how quickly @gutterbookshop.bsky.social got it to me in rural Alaska!
July 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just finished Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. A beautiful, lyrically written, strange, queer story. Utterly bingeable.
July 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
More baby porcupine.
July 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
There’s a baby porcupine (a porcupette!).
July 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
On July 4th, we celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Lingít civil rights leader who co-drafted and fought for the passage of the first state or territorial anti-discrimination legislation in the U.S.
July 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Seemed like a good time to install my new flagpole.
June 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
These folks and their mom are paying me a visit. (Photo taken through the window of my house)
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Please meet my old, deeply loved, and forever missed dog Séamus.
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
From the Séamus Heaney exhibition, Listen Now Again, in Dublin.

Anything can happen,
the tallest towers

Be overturned,
those in high places daunted,
Those overlooked regarded.
June 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A little over two years since Tiger died, and I'm still finding stray tennis balls. I'm at the stage of grief where I can smile and think of moments like this rather than crying and feeling my heart turn inside out.
June 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Goodbye, Storyknife, and thank you for everything, Erin, Maura, Katie, and Dana! @beingpoetry.bsky.social @storyknife.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM