Alix Ohlin

On Oct 24, @csittenfeld.bsky.social will discuss her work to date and her dazzling latest short story collection, Show Don’t Tell, with @alixohlin.bsky.social

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Sittenfeld’s attendance presented thanks to the generous support of an anonymous patron.

21.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tear Gas, Human Stampedes, and ICE Raids: 100 Hours in LA On the ground at the protests in California, as Trump's shameful military-style birthday party goes on in D.C.

100 Hours in LA. Tear gas, dive bars, resilient Angelenos, and Melissa Hortman appear in my dispatch. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

16.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 72    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1

Cover of POST ROAD 43 in bright green and blue

Brown cat looking over the top of an open lit journal, the title WE DON’T JOKE ABOUT SUCH THINGS visible at the top.

Grateful to @postroadmag.bsky.social for publishing my story WE DON’T JOKE ABOUT SUCH THINGS, which I workshopped quite a long time ago in a Bread Loaf class led by @alixohlin.bsky.social

30.05.2025 22:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats, Neil!

01.06.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Donald Trump single handedly elected a new Canadian Liberal Government that was down 25 pts in January with his endless 51st State and annexation bloviation. Last night, Canada said. "Merci and could you now please fuck off and let us run our own country." My story. archive.is/wqkWa

29.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 171    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 1

Savage Meritocracies | Los Angeles Review of Books Alix Ohlin revisits Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

It's the 20th anniversary of the publication of Never Let Me Go, one of my favourite novels of all time. For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social , I wrote about what it means to me and how, in 2025, Ishiguro's vision is--alas--more resonant than ever: lareviewofbooks.org/article/sava...

28.04.2025 17:11 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 2

CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.

Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

15.04.2025 13:19 — 👍 106    🔁 102    💬 3    📌 32

The loneliness of climate change, part two: the less lonely spreadsheet edition! I made a thing! Please contribute--and share!

Vancouverites, I made a thing! Please contribute--and share!

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18.02.2025 19:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Zac Hug found his calling in writing Hallmark rom-coms—and so can you - Creative Writing Screenwriter Zac Hug shares tips for writing the romantic comedy.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, romance is in the air—and on the page. Screenwriter Zac Hug has built a career crafting heartwarming rom-coms. We spoke with him about his work with Hallmark and how he is helping aspiring writers shape their own love stories for the screen with a new online course.

13.02.2025 19:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Marginalia: Hiroko Oyamada | The Sewanee Review America's oldest continuously published literary magazine.

For The Sewanee Review, I wrote about Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole as a narrative of climate change: thesewaneereview.com/articles/mar...

18.01.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why inside my head is there an additional week of December that is infinity days long and in which all tasks can be accomplished

12.12.2024 22:56 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

#Job: University of British Columbia School of Creative Writing seeks a Professor in Black Speculative Writing (all genres); part of a university initiative to hire Black faculty. creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

05.11.2023 18:04 — 👍 114    🔁 116    💬 3    📌 1

thanks Alyssa! finding my way around

09.10.2023 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0