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🇨🇦🇬🇭🇬🇧 CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making. https://christinabrobby.com
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Hello 👋 💙 PEN Canada is on Bluesky! We fight censorship, campaign for the freedom of imperiled and imprisoned writers and journalists, and help writers who live in exile because of their written work. As part of an international network of writers, find more PEN centres here ⤵️ go.bsky.app/MhL7yQC

Uprooted.

Canadians are preparing to create a retail blackout on Feb 28 of all U.S retailers doing business here. For one day, show them we have the power when provoked. Absolutely no purchases from Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, Amazon, McDonald’s, Staples, Gap,Toys r Us, Costco or any other US retailers.

A quiet moment. #photography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature

The race to save data is on. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

A Cleanse for Imbolc by @jesstraynor.bsky.social #imbolc #stbrigidsday

Trends change, but Tin House is always in season! Applications for the 2025 #THSW close February 2nd. In addition to our general scholarships, we also offer many community-focused awards such as our Without Borders scholarship. Apply: https://buff.ly/2LgFf2w

Ice jam on the river, a metaphor for 2025 so far.

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’ https://buff.ly/3Ci3x98 #Publishing #Writing

Our submissions portal is now open! That's right, we're accepting direct submissions of innovative literary fiction, poetry, & narrative nonfiction until March 15, 2025. Interested in submitting to Book*hug Press? Read our submission guidelines here: bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-sub...

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

Join me, @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social & Sharla_R_Yates for a lively hour of frank talk about creating and publishing in uncertain times. Tomorrow, December 17th at 1PM EST - live and FREE on Zoom. No need to register or RSVP - Zoom link is below!

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We are again open for submissions, and for the first time, in addition to poetry flash fic and visual art, we are open to creative non fic! Check out the guidelines at thesprawlmag.ca

My agency is looking for an editorial intern, for November through May 2024! Details here: www.psliterary.com/opportunities/

An important read about how conservatives are finding ways to use foster parenting as a means to steal babies as traditional adoption pipelines dry up. It's particularly disturbing that so many of the cases involve the theft of nonwhite and especially Native kids from their biological families.

Here Is Every Book Banned in America Through the courageous work of PEN America, here is a scrollable, shoppable list of every book currently banned in the United States

Web submissions are open until 13th October: www.ellipsiszine.com/submissions/