@harkback.bsky.social
Writing wrongs. www.harkback.org
Professional headshot of Matthew Heiti, against a photographer's gray/brown backdrop. He is propping his head on his right arm and looking off to the viewer's left
Read @harkback.bsky.social's bittersweet story "TP" in Issue 33!
... My father, far from a rolling stone, gathered no moss, or anything else, except, that is, for his one true passion: toilet paper ...
www.thetemzreview.com/heiti-33.html
A photo from the bank of the Thames River in London, Ontario in the winter. The photo looks out across the river. The river is grey with many ripples on its surface; there are the bare branches of shrubs and trees both in the foreground and across the river on the opposite bank
ISSUE 33 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.thetemzreview.com
The final straight? It's here.
It's been a wild ride.
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
Super Canucks features stories by yours truly, @premeemohamed.com, @melaniemarttila.bsky.social, @harkback.bsky.social, @niallspain.bsky.social, @pbarmby.bsky.social, Jim Robb, Chris O’Halloran, & Dwain Campbell. Coming March 2026! Preorder now! store.latitude46publishing.com/products/sup...
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Postcard promoting Super Canucks Anthology edited by Mat Del Papa and Andy Taylor showing the book cover and a graphic that says Coming March 2026
Reverse of postcard featuring the authors in the anthology.
It’s still a few months away from release but I’m at @canconsffh.bsky.social in Ottawa promoting the anthology about small town Canadian superheroes called Super Canucks that Mat Del Papa and I edited together. Coming March 2026 from @latitude46pub.bsky.social I have postcards to share. #cancon2025
18.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 035 Years Ago Today: Toronto #BlueJays pitcher Dave Stieb hurls the first no-hitter in team history vs. the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium! (September 2, 1990) #MLB #Baseball #History #LightsUpLetsGo
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Lots of love for our new episode and for its subject, Ursula Le Guin. Many thanks to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for his insights and sharing his passion for Earthsea with us (and you). Andy, Una, Tess and Nicky x open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...
02.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0This makes my brain itch in all the right ways.
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HAD for Squares One of my favorite things on the site is the way a solid, square block of text looks under the banner of skulls. So... let's do a call for all and only those pieces! Meaning, generally, one paragraph with 20 lines of text. Depending on the words themselves, I've figured out that that usually means ~280-290 words. If you want to be real specific (and, tbh, I'd love it if you do), you can figure that out for your piece exactly with HAD WYSISYG formatter: https://www.havehashad.com/pages/wysiwyg No real theme or anything. Mostly just give me text that looks like perfect squares of text. You can send up to 3 different pieces (submit them together please). Submissions will be capped at 150 — so, you (probably) know the deal: get 'em in fast. If you're reading this, you probably have a pretty good idea of what I/HAD like, but some stuff that jumps to my mind: Submissions will open at 10 a.m. ET, Tuesday, June 10. Thanks! 💀💀💀 Aaron
next submission call in ~48 hours!
Tuesday, June 10, 10 am ET!
looking for SQUARE blocks of text.
what that means, vaguely: ~280-290 words, no linebreaks, no paragraph breaks.
what that means, specifically: 20 lines of text w/ HAD formatting:
havehashad.com/pages/wysiwyg
John Carpenter, legendary director of classic horror films such as "The Thing" and "Halloween" is a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, most notably Sonic Unleashed in particular.
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Book cover of Brendan Vidito's Pornography for the End of the World. The image is a painting by Polish artist Wieslaw Walkuski which features a woman's nudes legs and torso covered in giant worms.
Y'all read this, or what? Shit rips. You need it. Let it in.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com or wherever you buy books.
New on the Q&Q Job Board: Writer in Residence
@ Regina Public Library • For more details: bit.ly/48CrXpc
A THOUSAND TINY AWAKENINGS (@latitude46pub.bsky.social) is an anthology that carries the hope and resilence of a new generation. Check out our interview with co-editors Lindsay Mayhew and Connor Lafortune.
#AmReading #Anthology #Fiction #CanLit
open-book.ca/News/A-Thous...
Keep the submissions coming over the weekend and next week. Let's gooooo! Thanks again for sharing.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day graphic, with illustrations of bookstores with books growing out of them.
This Saturday, April 26th is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Visit www.indiebookstores.ca/cibd/ to learn more about the indies near you and what they're up to, and make sure to stop by to pick up a book this weekend!
24.04.2025 17:11 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0eat a book to gain its vocabulary
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I’m so pleased to share this lovely cover reveal for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, w/ Turnstone Press. You can pre-order at the link below. This year, as I’m dealing with a very painful hip and body, a Sudbury launch won’t happen until summer.
turnstonepress.com/books/poetry...
We're celebrating our spring season on Tuesday, May 27 at The Society Clubhouse (967 College St.)! There will be short readings starting at 7:30pm by Heather Birrell, Christian Bök, Michael Chang, Adam Haiun, Maggie Helwig, Susan Holbrook, and Andrew Kaufman.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous...
