On the city as a setting for writing:
I see Ottawa as a city of convergence: two rivers, two official languages (and many more), Indigenous and colonial histories, diverse neighbourhoods, urban and parkland spaces.
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the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird,
celebrating THIRTY-TWO YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fourteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents...
hey everyone! ive had a couple of dozen folk telling me they're going to this event on thursday, but only 5 tickets have sold, which is prompting the venue to talk about cancelling; if you are planning to go, could you please pre-purchase your ticket? thanks!
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Thank you @chaudierebooks.bsky.social and @robmclennan.bsky.social
for interviewing me about being part of Ottawaโs writing community.
When I started writing I thought it was a solitary, isolated activity - I was wrong! It has been a joy to meet so many talented writers.
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Handwritten transcription of Jacqueline Valencia's poem published in 2025 by Chaudiere Books - an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook page and coffee in a blue cup sits nearby
Close-up of handwritten transcription of Jacqueline Valencia's poem published in 2025 by Chaudiere Books
Screenshot of part of Jacqueline Valencia's poem published in 2025 by Chaudiere Books
"the mittened hands
somewhere between
strings attached
and comfort"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
by Jacqueline Valencia (2025 @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/223xdvms
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The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 20: Pirie, MA|DE, Bandukwala, Moran + Smith,
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: The Factory Reading Series the pre-small press book fair reading featuring readin...
THIS WEEKEND: the ottawa small press book fair!
TONIGHT: the pre-fair reading at Aninaโs Cafรฉ
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TOMORROW: the ottawa small press book fair (b. 1994) / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social ;
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You can find Arc Poetry at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair tomorrow (Saturday, June 21, 2025) from noon until 5pm at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road. We'll have copies of our Spring 2025 issue as well as a smattering of back issues, all at special fair prices. Come say hi!
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Chinese-Canadian writer, poet, economist, and developer (he/him)
words in Nightmare Magazine, Small Wonders, Strange Horizons, and more. SFWA, SFPA, Codexian.
https://ian-li.com
poet โจ๏ธ performer โจ๏ธ voice artist
neurodivergent badass
cat parent
& bibliophile
anti fash & socialist AF
exists in Mi'kma'ki
she/her
A haiku:
Older than I look
Smarter than I often sound
Cuter than I know
Visual art, writing
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ they/them โฟ๏ธ ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2
Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
x.com/thismagazine
linkedin.com/company/this-magazine/
Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
๐ the night, the knife, the river (forthcoming fall 2026 with @atbaypress.bsky.social)
elsewhere: @melaniebf@mstdn.ca; @melanie.b.f on instagram
Two-time Trillium award finalist for poetry. Books: โthese are not the potatoes of my youthโ in 2019 and โterrariumโ in 2024.
mole trapped in human body. writing, reading, drawing, and Hybla.
SFF author. Muddling through the pre-apocalypse. CSFFA SFWA. She/her. ๐๐พ
Unceded Algonquin territory. ๐จ๐ฆ Debut 2025: THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT with Poplar Press (Wolsak & Wynn). Repโd by Sara Megibow. Views my own.
www.christyclimenhage.com
Periodical literary magazine located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xสทmษฮธkสทษyฬษm people (Vancouver, BC)
https://prismmagazine.ca/
Innovative literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada.
Toronto writer. cybersecurity & compliance analyst. runner. vespa.
tm practioner. pequeรฑa y loquita.
https://linktr.ee/jacquelinevalencia
poet / seminarian / 'of the parish'
Founding editor of arts & literary journal Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, co-host and producer of the Meat for Teacast, publisher of Meat for Tea Press. meatfortea.com. NO UNSOLICITED DMs. Iโll block accounts sending unsolicited DMs.
Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26) | MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism ('21) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my ๐ bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
Writing in Fence, Conduit, HAD // ๐ซ๐ค // books w. Okay Donkey & X-R-A-Y // neonpajamas.com // free weekly writing prompt via Substack (neonpajamas) // editor at @pizamapress.bsky.social
Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. ๐ชฉ ๐ป
Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
Founded in 1997, Perugia is a nonprofit feminist press celebrating & supporting women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print & beyond.
https://linktr.ee/perugiapress
