Mostly nothing is important. But yesterday there were swallowtail caterpillars eating up all the parsley and now I know that parsley is important.
26.08.2025 00:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@kkuitenbrouwer.bsky.social
Writer. Wait Softly Brother (Giller longlist), All the Broken Things (nominated for Canada Reads, Toronto Book Awards), Perfecting, The Nettle Spinner (nominated for Amazon First Novel Award, ReLit Prize), Way Up (Danuta Gleed Award). King's MFA Mentor.
Mostly nothing is important. But yesterday there were swallowtail caterpillars eating up all the parsley and now I know that parsley is important.
26.08.2025 00:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last night, Iβve just remembered, I dreamed I was invited at the last minute to a class that was reading my first book, a story collection, and one by one students came to the mic to expound their love for it and me, shaking my head, this canβt be true. It was a huge class, endless. My heart.
14.01.2024 03:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wrote an essay on language and forgetting and grief for a Lacanian issue of English Studies in Canada. Itβs an homage to my late friend and mentor, the critical theorist, Mari Ruti. π
14.12.2023 02:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On a long walk today, involving the exercising of dogs, some elicit rolling (the dogs not me), distant swans on lake Consecon, mist, and a lovely trudgy amount of snow, I had an epiphany concerning how to structure this new novel. #writer #writing #novel #lovestory
09.12.2023 02:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What beautiful noise might #jeremydutcher and #jonbatiste make together, I wonder.
08.12.2023 02:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Local birds discover new feeder: chickadees, juncos, doves, nuthatches, finches, song sparrows. I am lollygagging and hoping for actual #blueskies
07.12.2023 18:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This feels like a brand new notebook Iβm about to fuck up. #writer
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