Tolu Oloruntoba

4 panel comic Panel 1: Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh” Panel 2: Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this” Panel 3: Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break. Panel 4: Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Congratulations!!!!

Motivation on! Nice, let's do the-- Motivation off Brain, how do you expect us to Motivation on Motivation off

Of course, Peter. My dream while in med school was to quit medicine at some point and devote myself full time to writing. I did quit medicine but lol & lmao I wish writing could sustain me financially.

2 of my 3 books have earned out their advances. In a good year I’ll make about $100 - 200 CAD total in royalties. Not counting the year in which I won 2 major prizes. Sales were quite good in that year although I forget how much I made on top of the $400 CAD advance.

My main income is the salary I earn as a manager in a provincial health authority. I get infrequent royalties for my books (minus ~$200 CAD total on my last statements, meaning I’ll need to pay back from future sales). Advances tend to be about $1k CAD with my current publisher, paid in 2 chunks.

I thought I was good with ROYGBIV! I have been shamed because apparently I don’t even know that one. Toh.

Lighting is certainly a factor. It would not explain it all in my case. Whenever I’m confusing a colour it’s usually in company, and they’re seeing a different colour than I.

And that, kids, is how I discovered I have some form of anomalous trichromacy (likely some species of tritanopia).

There have been many lively arguments in which I boldly misidentified a colour that the majority believed to be different. I now accept that I cannot tell the difference between some pinks and purples, and most colours on the blue-green spectrum. It has been quite humbling.

The kids confidently (and correctly) use like words cyan, magenta, teal, and aqua. I’m just glad they didn’t need to learn them from me. I can barely tell hues apart.

We’re about a year out from the publication of Best Canadian Poetry 2027. The team at Biblioasis has been reading diligently for most of the year, but requests your help with finding even more Canadian writing published in 2025. Details in the image and QP.

Thank you for helping me discover these poems.

“The unsent nature of these letters keeps them in a quantum state of emotional possibility, preventing closure.”

People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?”

There’s only one way, my friends.

If your file name looks something like this:

Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx

Then, and only then, is it time.

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.” ― Chinua Achebe.

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope

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This is fascinating, and a great to-watch list for me. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for these. I’ll look them up!

ASAP As Slow As Possible As Soft As Possible As Sustainable As Possible As Sincere As Possible As Steady As Possible Allow Space And Pause pics of laundry, plates food, coffee cups, journal

My new working definition for asap.

That’s an intriguing concept. Could you share a bit more about films with light as the main character?

What do you mean by “we have a few more months of this darkness”?

STOP THE COUNT!!

I realized (belatedly) that the season has been disordering my affect.

I’m usually depressed year-round but this? This is special.

Letting the hard animal of my body hate what it hates

Lunch Poems presents Tolu Oloruntoba & Karen Solie (Online) Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Reading with Karen Solie (who just won the GG for WELLWATER) at SFU's Lunch Poems. November 19, 12- 1 PM, PST. On Zoom. Registration at this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poem...

I hope you’re back in your groove and cooking again before long!

That plate of yam and eggs made me instantly hungry.

5 writers make the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist | CBC Books Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The winner will be announced on Nov. 19, 2025.

The CBC Poetry Prize shortlist is announced today! Congratulations to these poets.

www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

The “fajitas” pronunciation hurt me deeply.