@melgaard.bsky.social
Author of Not That Kind of Place (2023) and the short story collection Pallbearing (2020).
A photo of Al Moritz holding a copy of Great Silent Ballad in one hand and his prize certificate in the other.
π π Exciting news! GREAT SILENT BALLAD has won the 2025 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize! Congratulations to our friend, the legendary poet afmoritz.bsky.social. π
Learn more about the winning collection here: houseofanansi.com/products/gre...
#poetrymonth #booksky #canlit
Every parent in the crowd:
20.04.2025 22:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There was karaoke at the Easter egg hunt for neighborhood kids and a lady did Squeeze Box. She knew all the lyrics, but I donβt think sheβs ever really *listened* to the lyrics.
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Friends in Victoria, come see me and @staranise99.bsky.social on February 21st at Russell Books!
05.02.2025 00:29 β π 22 π 7 π¬ 3 π 0Nothing has tripped me up more in life than:
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New copilot logo on word
Microsoft just added CoPilot to Word without asking me. I donβt want this to be the first thing I see when I open a new document but it seems impossible to get rid of? Anyone use a Word alternative they like?
16.01.2025 21:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Incredible answer from George Clinton. Itβs like that SNL skit.
05.01.2025 16:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βThank god thatβs the end of the first round.β
βThe host
Why not spend your Sunday morning watching Dave Mustaine clean up on Jeopardy?
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hHU...
(Also interns should make more than minimum wage in Toronto!)
18.12.2024 21:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 033k per year for a marketing coordinator is almost 3,000 less than minimum wage (35,775/year) and 500 less than minimum wage if youβre not getting paid for a lunch break (7.5 hrs a day; 33,540). Not even intern money for a non-entry level job. Bad look, Dundurn!
quillandquire.com/jobs/view/ma...
Text excerpt from Wikipedia article on Rick wakeman: Wakeman had difficulties from the start as he was not a competent singer or lyricist, had no band of his own, or any musical ideas
Starting a new writing project.
08.12.2024 20:10 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Horny Victorians justify their affair by using automatic writing to contact dead friends who tell them theyβve absolutely got to get it on with each other so they have a baby that will save the world. Absolutely wild story in the new Granta.
granta.com/the-messiah-...
TONIGHT 7PM @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
Celebrating 10 Years of Anstruther Press with this hefty line-up of poets & cake!
Itβs impossible to find even the most basic info on google. I feel like encyclopedia Britannia could seize the moment and make a huge comeback right now.
29.11.2024 00:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They did remember to do a save state, right?!
29.11.2024 00:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AI has made google useless. Time to admit itβs not working and reboot the internet to the 2019 save state.
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An excerpt form big mall by kate black, βaccording to enough guys in my undergrad polo science classes, about 100 million people died as a result of communism
Always cite your sources!
26.11.2024 02:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A photo of the cover of the book Big Mall by Kate Black
Love a writer that takes a universal passing thoughtβin this case βThe west Edmonton mall is a weird placeββand does you the solid of giving you a bemused, book-length deep dive into why that is.
But those poor dolphinsβ¦
"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
Really generous review of VANISHING MONUMENTS here, a book that you may have missed (bc it came out in April of 2020), and which I humbly recommend you not continue to miss. (The audiobook is also free on Spotify & possibly other streaming places.)
Take Edgar's words for it if you won't take mine!
Tuvokβs heroic slide entrance π
23.11.2024 03:59 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβve been learning html for just that reason! Iβm tired of the platforms and website templatesβgoing to go full geocities glory days soon. I found this website very helpful:
htmlforpeople.com
Good to know my aggrievement reflex is functioning at 100 percent though.
22.11.2024 18:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Briefly miffed I was left off a year-end list before remembering I did not publish a book this year.
22.11.2024 18:39 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0[weary sigh]
21.11.2024 01:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Tis the season to remind people that I think we need to stop listening too closely to awards and juries when it comes to what book/author we should read but, instead just look toward what our friends, our local booksellers, literally anyone else is reading and loving.
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