A word and idea extravaganza arrived this week from above/ground press.
Gratitude to @robmclennan.bsky.social
Excited to dive in ๐๐คฏโ๏ธ
#booksky
@wildsustenance.bsky.social
writing | walks | justice | foraging The Writer's Studio, SFU 2025 YVR, unceded Coast Salish territory
A word and idea extravaganza arrived this week from above/ground press.
Gratitude to @robmclennan.bsky.social
Excited to dive in ๐๐คฏโ๏ธ
#booksky
blackcap raspberries
dear disorderly angels
sweet aggregate bliss
#foraging
#raspberries
#wildfoods
I've never made them into powder for dye, but I'm intrigued. Hope you find a suitable replacement! ๐ฟ
24.06.2025 00:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nice! I love nettle tea but have used younger plants out of caution, but maybe unnecessary caution. โ
23.06.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Cool, I'd love to see what you create with it! ๐๐งก๐
23.06.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Stinging nettles thriving and exquisite, but already too big to harvest and consume. ๐ฟ
#foraging
#nettle #stingingnettle
"The experience of a young adult returning home after a long absence is not always a simple one. Warm feelings of nostalgia mingle with darker memoriesโthe ones childhood so expertly preserves."
From my review of Maeve Brennan's The Visitor
Peninsula Press, 2025
@necessaryfiction.com
#booksky
If you have the time, read this passage aloud, then read the margin note left by a previous borrower.
#marginalia
#georgesperec
#amanasleep
#foundpoem
Sounds delicious! I've never made it before. My son and I made salmonberry fruit leather together once--really good. And sticky!
13.06.2025 00:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Each year the seductive beauty of the #salmonberry tricks me into believing it will be more delicious than it actually is.
With a few wild rose petals I picked too.
#foraging #salmonberries #booksky
A snare drum lay abandoned, its #skin torn beyond repair. An empty barrel had been rolled into the fountain and now bobbed gently from the force of two pigeons attempting to rest on it but taking flight as Ilya came near.
People walked by these things as though they werenโt there.
#vss365
#small yellow flowers
surge across the crinkled cloth
spilling stamen stars
#vss365
A9. My TWS classmates are very skilled at invoking sound, smell, body sensations in their work. I think I probably overemphasize sight--what is the character noticing around them on a visual level. What draws their attention?
#TWSOchat
A7. Newer to my writing practice than most, and always wandering, wandering.
I keep track of "other ideas" on a Word doc or my phone. I fight no urges.
#TWSOchat
Identical needs @perkustooth.bsky.social
#TWSOchat
A4. I'm a compulsive re-reader, not just at the start of a writing session, but throughout, like every 30 minutes I go back and re-read a few passages, might edit for tone or flow, but mostly just trying to pick up on any vibes or images or themes unconsciously emerging. Trying to notice.
#TWSOchat
A5. Not so much a task as a mindset: remembering that my writing time is limited helps me focus and keep going, and to be productive while also trying to have some fun with the process.
#TWSOchat
Q3. If I have a deadline, that will focus my writing goals for the session. If no deadline, my goal is to make the piece better--can mean adding, deleting, changing, so I don't think too hard about word count.
#TWSOchat
No, but good idea! I'd be interested to hear if others use this type of thing.
I think I just have a vague "make it good" voice in my head. That sometimes shrinks into a less ambitious "keep it going" voice.
Always a treat to be in this space at Upstart and Crow. Even better listening to these talented women read and discuss their recently published books. ๐
@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social
@shashibhat.bsky.social
"Consider the intention of the mushrooms; help them deliver the message."
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@stepifany.bsky.social
Oyster mushrooms hiding among the moss - I sought and found and ate.
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First time to check out @twssfu.bsky.social Reading Series at Container Brewing. Great words and community - congrats to all the writers who shared their work ๐๐ฃ๏ธ
27.05.2025 05:38 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks for the encouragement Finn โค๏ธ
27.05.2025 05:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Growing up, I was always told it was an oyster factory.
26.05.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Nice to meet you, Shantell! I hope you enjoyed the program as much as I am. I'm doing fiction and hybrid forms, mentored by Leanne Dunic.
25.05.2025 18:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Greetings! I'm a creative writing student enrolled in SFU's Writer's Studio program. Working in fiction, nonfiction, and poetic forms, inspired by the mystery and meaning of the everyday. I look forward to connecting.
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