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At seen in Hotel Santo as I checked in. #theislandsaredrowning #Vanuatu #espiritusanto

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Also for anyone in their "second spring." orionmagazine.org/article/mone...

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My very deep gratitude to Vunisavisavi residents Mariana Sarawaqa and Lorima Bulimaitoga, journalist Lusi Banuve, and conservation officer Manasa Vula for showing me a moment in the lives of folks from Vunisavisavi, and putting up with my endless questions. ❤️ #coastalerosion #holdingground

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The Crane has landed! Can't wait to read this book by @monicakidd.bsky.social !

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I visited the village of Vunisavisavi in Fiji to meet headwoman Mariana and learn about her clan’s generations-long responsibility of protecting their land, which is increasingly difficult to do in the face of coastal erosion. She is fierce and kind and took me fishing for lunch. Stay tuned.

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Do any #fish people know what the English or Latin name of this fish is? Caught in Fiji.

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Thank you to All Lit Up for opportunity!

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Thank you Joan Sullivan for your constant efforts in support of NL lit and for the chance to talk about The Crane. nqonline.ca/article/its-...

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Oh, the exciting box opening moment! Stay tuned for details about readings and public events around Canada, beginning in March. #thecrane @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social

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Thanks to CBC and Krissy Holmes for this chance to talk about The Crane, published yesterday. @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social On The Go with Krissy Holmes: Monica Kidd's new novel 'The Crane' www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Well, there it is. Fledged the nest. 🪹

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Packing one of my most prized possessions for a major research trip this Friday to Fiji and Vanuatu. Boots on ground to learn about the effects of coastal erosion on folks living with the consequences of climate decisions made in rich countries like mine. #climatechange #sealevel #bluehumanities

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It’s my book’s birthday tomorrow! 😳 @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social #canlit #buycanadian #literaryfiction

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@karenpinchin.bsky.social put me onto these creative prompts written by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975. I think I’ll pull one every day. I quite love today’s.

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Picked myself up a piece of fashion history at the thrift store! #periodictabledress

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Things I have been vaccinated against in the last five months: influenza, COVID, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, typhus, hepatitis A, rabies. Thank you #publichealth #preventivemedicine

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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Oh, @thisisannick.bsky.social’s most recent poetry collection with @gaspereaupress.bsky.social, VOTIVE, broke my heart in ways I don’t quite understand: “… prayers to the absent, // a belief like holding breath // while underwater, and waiting, // waiting.” ❤️ #canlit #poetry

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Please read this crucially important feature on life of Afghan women by my friend @euamiri.bsky.social As we witness a systematic destruction of global cooperation and respect for human rights, Ehsan’s reporting serves as a reminder of who pays the cost. nationalpost.com/feature/the-...

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This is very interesting to me as a person whose new novel is launching next week blurbless! thewalrus.ca/the-case-for...

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I’ve been thinking about how loss of glaciers affects downstream communities. Today we paid a visit to Crowfoot Glacier near Lake Louise, one of the important sources of the Bow River. It’s lost a toe that used to signify a crow’s foot. #climatechange #bowriver #deglaciation #watersforfighting

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My whip-smart, big-hearted American friend Ari Fertig has begun this act of creative resistance. It's chilling. It's beautiful. It breaks my heart that it's necessary. If you're also having bad dreams about the direction of things, too, deposit them here. www.dreamsofthesetimes.com/about

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Patrons at some Alberta public libraries are throwing books with themes they find offensive (sex ed, gender identity) in the toilets. And amazing librarians are ordering new copies and putting them right back on the shelves. ❤️⭐️ #iheartlibrarians #freedomtoread www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

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The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. Entries are open until Feb 14! #poetry #health #medicine #humanities www.hippocrates-poetry.org/enter-the-hi...

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A bit of good environmental news? I reported on the arrival of Extended Producer Responsibility in Alberta for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social back in 2022. Now maybe some changes at the street level. #circulareconomy #plastic #recycling www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7450842

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We made macarons! #fancyfrenchcookies

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Just got a spot in the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference and poetry workshop! Off to Vermont in June to work on a neglected manuscript about Jeanne Baret, an 18th century female sailor & botanist. 🍃 #canlit #poetry #authors

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What if we thought about buying locally not as warfare but as community building? My parents owned the only grocery store in my town of 250 people. People buying locally meant they could offer a good selection, donate to charities, coach ball teams. (photo: Kidd's store, circa 1975) #buylocal

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A great starter pack from my buddy @acantle.bsky.social. go.bsky.app/84CZt65

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A personal essay about access to gender-affirming care in Canada from one heck of a brave teenager. #CMAJhumanities www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...

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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #nursesky #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

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A Canadian literature stalwart. #canlit

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Well done, @thewalrus.ca!

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Who owns the water is a question westerners have been asking themselves for a long, long time. Wallace Stegner: "That is the west's ultimate unity: aridity." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Slob ice on the Bow River on a twenty below day. These days a cold snap feels deeply reassuring. #postcall #nightshift #catchingbabies #watershed #rockymountains

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Some of the sources that went into the making of my upcoming novel The Crane. (Pst… never a better time to consider pre-ordering directly from an independent Canadian publisher… breakwaterbooks.com/products/the... @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social #newfoundland #factchecker #canlit #literaryfiction

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A reminder that there are options of resistance besides nationalism. Oof.

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“When [the West] fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it… then it has the chance to create a society to match its scenery.” - Wallace Stegner (1969)

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Do you have a story to tell about health and medicine that's heavy on craft? #authors #narrativemedicine #healthhumanities (ps. I have no affiliation there; sending for a colleague.) narrativebasedmedicine.ca/updates/case...

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Do we still call these press cards? I need to find a jaunty hat and put this in the band. 🎤#journalismmatters #media #freepress

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It was a pleasure to read with @razovsky.bsky.social and Laurie Ann Fuhr at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social last night to help launch Stuart’s new @coachhousebooks1.bsky.social poetry collection The Sky is a Sky in the Sky.

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Meanwhile, over on the other socials. My third novel, THE CRANE (Breakwater Books) drops soon! #canlit #literaryfiction #vietnamwar #conscientiousobjector #sixties #newfoundland #thecrane @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social

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It’s been a dry ol’ winter in Southern Alberta. #drought

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Having just booked travel to Vanuatu for a research trip I can safely say this book has taken on a life of its own… #coastalerosion #climateresilience

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Tonight! Join us for the launch of The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky by @razovsky.bsky.social featuring special guest @monicakidd.bsky.social and with a musical performance by Laurie Anne Fuhr. The event starts tonight at 7pm in-store!

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Mother-daughter climbing date. #iam12andiaminvicible #climblikeagirl

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