Lilian Nattel 🇨🇦✍️📚

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Yikes! Wishing your thumb good healing and hope your tetanus shot is up to date.

Yay you!! That’s awesome

Omg that’s wild! We just missed crossing paths

Oh and we stayed at Saco Holborn. It was perfect for us, thanks for the rec!!

It was great! You?

Wait! We were in London too! Left on the 7th Oct.

Paris to Italy, and back again. With poetry for comfort, and a very great loss . . . . . . and the usual footnotes

My esteemed spouse Delia Sherman does not indulge in social media to the rapt extent that I do. But you can keep up with our shenanigans here:

Nalo Hopkinson wins 2025 Sunburst Award | CBC Books The B.C.-based writer has won for her latest novel Blackheart Man. The $3,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for fantastical writing.

CBC Books: Nalo Hopkinson wins 2025 Sunburst Award #CanLit #SpecFic
www.cbc.ca/books/nalo-h...

I haven’t been on bluesky on ages and just pipped in to see this. Wonderful 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for sharing this! I’m mostly on substack these days and I loved reading this.

I'm Done With Social Media Or: why I have a blog now.

My husband sent me this link last night. I've said the same before. Yet I can't shake the deeply ingrained "rule" that creators, especially indie authors, must maintain a social media presence.

Perhaps. But no more chasing algorithms for me.

www.carolinecrampton.com/im-done-with...

What You Should Know about the Author of The Secret Garden she's not what I expected! #booksbywomen

The author of The Secret Garden didn’t think of herself as a children’s writer. What she did think about and the subjects of the other 50 books she wrote are surprising open.substack.com/pub/lilianna... #booksky #childrensclassics #womenwriters

Come to MOTIVE this June 27-29 if you're in Toronto

Indigenous Toronto and Bronte’s Shirley. What about you?

Too hot even for #raccoons mom and baby clinging to cool balcony. Heat wave #toronto

Getting to Know You
Meghan Hildebrand
2023

A wonderful musician and great human being recognized for achievement age 68!! #jazz #canadianmusic oafdn.ca/pianist-mari...

Currently reading Skin by Catherine Bush while relaxing on the couch under a blanket. Love love the story about the mom who washes strangers’ feet. #literaryfiction #canlit thank you @hollay.bsky.social @catebush.bsky.social

Sending out love to UofT Scarborough library peeps for this amazing display of Spacing magazines & #Toronto books sold at the Spacing Store [@spacingstore.bsky.social].

Small Achievable Goals puts a mid-life twist on the coming-of-age sitcom | CBC Arts Screenwriter Catherine Hernandez and entertainment reporter Teri Hart share their thoughts on the new CBC original sitcom.

Women in midlife on TV only as Canadian comedy can do it! I love this show. #menopause #perimenopause www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...

Drink Deep-Voice Drink Deep is a group coaching experience from Graeme Seabrook for moms who are cycle-breakers.

drinkdeepmama.com/voice/ Ads for this were censored by Meta because they mentioned capitalism and patriarchy. #motherhood

REELpoetry — Public Poetry

My video Do You Know What’s Great adapted from a story in my short fiction collection Anecdotes will be screening online at the Reel Poetry International Festival.

Screening: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. CST and 7:00-7:30 p.m. CST

www.publicpoetry.org/reelpoetry

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I love this. "Already great, eh. Don't mess with the goose. Canada strong." On hoodies and t-shirts made in Canada. choosecanadian.ca/collections/...
#canada #tarriffs #buycanadian

The novel Chain Gang All Stars comes to life

Forms of Resistance Argentina: Books by Women Around the World

Women resisting and in so many ways. That's what struck me when doing the research for my Books by Women Around the World Project: Argentina. #booksky #translatedbooks https://liliannattel.substack.com/p/forms-of-resistance

Murmurations we are called to be starlings

In this moment, we are being called to be starlings. We are answering that call. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/murmurations

It's the 5th anniversary of my youngest brother's death, though it still feels like yesterday. The information below is being passed around on Bluesky right now and it's a good day for me to pass it on too.

Suicide Prevention Hotlines:
UK: 0800 689 5652
US: 1-800-273-8255
Canada: 1.833.456.4566I

Feels like the 🇺🇲 government is trying to erase us.
So I just made a small donation to the Internet Archive, the world's largest digital library and home of the Wayback Machine.
If you think you'd feel better if you did the same, join me.

The story that tells the story of my new novel Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story (Tursulowe Press, April 1) has been published digitally in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Print version in June. #writingcommunity #JAPA @tursulowepress.bsky.social