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Kathryn Mockler
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she/they | fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social

#FreePalestine

Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com

https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
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How many pictures of deliberately Starved children do you need to see?
July 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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On Send My Love to Anyone, I wrote about the first poetry book I ever owned. The poet happened to be my best friend‘s mother.

https://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/poets-put-your-books-in-the-hands
"Poets, put your books in the hands of your neighbours' children!" UPSTAIRS OVER THE ICE GREAM MARIANNE MICROS Book cover of old black and white photo of people standing in front of the Cuba Ice Cream Co. store front.
February 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Happy to have three poems in Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health.

Edited by Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva, and Amanda Shankland.

Edited by Hollay Ghadery Rasiqra Reculva & Amanda Shanklano SPEECH DRIES HERE ON THE TONGUE Poetry on Environmental Collapse and Mental Health
February 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Willows beach on a Sunny clear day. Choppy blue waters crash on the shore.
February 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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From my visit to @anotherstoryto.bsky.social yesterday!
Two books by Palestinian authors: No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems 2014-2024 by Najwan Darwish Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and All That’s Left to You: A Novella and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani Translated by May Jayyusi & Jeremy Reed Spotted a copy of Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler (me) on Another Story Bookshop’s book carousel along with Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens, Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, and Kate Stayman-London’s Fang Fiction
December 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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I'm grateful to be included in this panel.

It's going to be a difficult discussion, but one well worth having, I believe.

I appreciate the care and nuance that the organizers have taken with this event.

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Please join us on Thursday, October 10th for Alice in Monsterland: A roundtable discussion about Alice Munro and other "art monsters". Local authors Suzanne Méthot, Kathryn Mockler, and Julie Paul will take part in the discussion, moderated by Justina Elias. Thursday, October 10th Doors: 6:30 p.m. Open Mic: 7:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: 7:30 p.m. at Paul Phillips Hall, 1923 Fernwood Road Admission: $5 CASH at the door Please bring CASH for admission and to purchase the participating authors' books. *Please also note: This discussion will make reference to sexual abuse*
October 9, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Very honoured to have my short fiction book ANECDOTES (Book*hug Press) on the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize shortlist with these poets and authors who I admire greatly!

Congratulations to all!

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2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Shortlist his year's finalists are: • Ali Blythe for Stedfast (Poetry), Goose Lane Editions • Tim Lilburn for Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change (Non-fiction), University of Alberta Press • Kathryn Mockler for Anecdotes, (Fiction), bookhugpress • Arleen Paré for Absence of Wings (Poetry), Caitlin Press • shō yamagushiku for shima (Poetry), Penguin Random House
September 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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I'm honoured to be in such company! Congrats to all the Trillium Finalists!

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Trillium Book Award Finalists 2024
May 7, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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I would love it if you would take a moment to listen to Mosab Abu Toha reading his moving, beautiful, but heartbreaking poem “Mouth Still Open” in Send My Love to Anyone.

His reading of this poem brought me to tears.

sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/mosab-abu-toha-issue-35
Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha standing behind a bookshelf. Send My Love to Anyone Issue 35
March 19, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Mildly amusing, for sure absurd, and most likely a technical error that somehow Anecdotes is a bestseller in absurdist fiction on the dreaded Amazon.

Order from @bookhugpress.bsky.social or your favorite independent bookseller!
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Amazon Best Sellers in Absurdist Fiction Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler, The Trial by Kafka, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: A Novel by Molly McGhee, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
October 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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Join me for the virtual launch of Anecdotes Book*hug Press Oct 15 3:00pm (PST)| 6:00pm (EST) hosted by Junction Reads!!

It is a pwyc event - I will be donating all proceeds to Raven Trust!

Link in bio to sign up!
Join me for the virtual launch of Anecdotes (@bookhugpress) on Oct 15 3:00pm (PST)| 6:00pm (EST) hosted by Junction Reads!!
October 9, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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Michael V. Smith and I co-launched our books last night! Thanks to everyone who came out!

Order here: bookhugpress.ca
September 20, 2023 at 12:16 AM
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Yesterday I dropped by Munro’s books to sign author copies of my debut story collection ANECDOTES (Book*hug Press).

I felt goofy but the staff was so nice & Todd took my photo!

Anecdotes is in stores now but comes out officially on Sept 19!

Pre-order bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...
ID 2: A stack of books with a yellow cover and an illustration of a maxi pad Text reads Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler. ID 3: Front entrance of Munro’s Bookstore. Concrete steps and bronze railings beside a ramp leading to glass doors behind which there is a roomful of books. ID 1: A white woman shoulder-length reddish-brown hair wearing a black mask and a pick floral dress sign a book page with an illustration of a maxi pad.
September 13, 2023 at 9:22 PM
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Got this on my CBC app today! So annoying!

The world is on fucking fire! This is climate reporting?
CBC News: Climate Interactive - Does your generation have it better or worse? Compare past and future temperatures to when you were born?
September 7, 2023 at 5:22 AM
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Nice to see Anecdotes on the Star’s fall book list with Lisa Whittington-Hill, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, Tamara Faith Berger, Alicia Elliott, Jessica Westhead, Emily Pohl-Weary, Gary Barwin, Emily Zhou, Elizabeth Ruth, & more!

Thanks to Deborah Dundas!

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September 3, 2023 at 9:09 PM
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The first review of Anecdotes (my debut story collection) in Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/article/summer-reading-list-frieze-2023

Anecdotes coming September 2023 from Book*hug Press.

You can preorder here: https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/kathryn-mockler/anecdotes-by-kathryn-mockler/
Cover of Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler which has an illustration of a maxi pad taped to a yellow background. "This dark and profoundly relatable satire masterfully balances existentialism and humility. Mockler’s characters and personifications of time ponder the possibility of ‘things getting better’ – posed not merely as a question but a genuine source of encouragement." ​ —Kate Cunnington, Frieze Magazine
July 27, 2023 at 3:45 PM