Luanne Gauvreau

📣 Today’s the deadline for our fiction contest!

Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:

Tighten and tweak all you want—as long as you finally hit send! I submitted on the deadline date last year and look what happened: 😊 thefiddlehead.ca/content/cong...

Cover of Miranda July’s book All Fours.

Always worth reading Miranda July. This in the “burn it all down and you’ll get a book out of it” tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert or Glennon Doyle (though fiction). Some great ekphrastic writing about dance.

“Her butterflies “ — wonderful image!

So backwards. They should have run it on the QW through downtown to drop folks into the urban neighborhoods (Westboro/Carling, Hintonburg, Glebe/Centretown) then run along green space in suburbs so they can park-and-ride.

Toilet facts: “Comfort” height is not comfortable; “Standard” height is no longer standard.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
—Charlotte Brontë

Psychedelic baby supernova from Gary Barwin.

A film that takes place where you are from.

The Fiddlehead didn’t hold back on asking the big questions!

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Sad faces here in Ottawa, too!

corridor through tall leafy trees in the May sunshine. No one else about. Just us and the birds.

Travel through your ears with us to.... the Forest of Dean

Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins)

It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees.

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Pretty sure I’m going to be hearing “I’m sorry, grapes are for millionaires” every time I stand in the produce aisle, for the rest of my life.

The New Yorker’s not the only magazine with gallery-worthy cover art. Happy launch—wish I could be there!

“Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate.
Sail on, sail on—“
Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course.

A wonderful start to the new year! Thanks to judge Zilla Jones for her close and generous reading of my story. So pleased to have my work appear in the always great @fiddlehd.bsky.social

New chapter: In which I find myself on a list.

Oh my goodness…well, you did warn us.
Thanks for sharing the song—and that time in your life through the song.

This time of year I always remember how I was radicalized as a language-loving child by the crazy syntax of Christmas carols.

Reminder from Samuel Butler to help me resist the siren call of the end-of-year lists: “The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

Starting fresh on Bluesky this November with words from Susan Gillis’s Come In, Come In.

I'll begin with an ending. From "Faithful and Virtuous Night" by Louise Gluck.