Building a #canlit community with all our favourite authors and presses. Stay tuned for some lists you can follow!
A place to find writers, lit mags and publishers who leap over genre boundaries & out of boxes, ignoring labels & definitions - in their own writing and in what they publish!
A group of prose poets, small to begin but sure to bloom given the popularity of the form!
Poets living in and/or from the place colonially known as Canada.
We'll see how many poets can restrain themselves to 300 characters.
Poetry and poetry-adjacent
A starter pack for students on the Poetry pathway of Royal Holloway's Creative Writing MA - and anybody else interested in all things poetry! The starter pack includes poets and publishers from across the course and beyond!
For Ottawans who travel by bike, foot or transit as their primary modes of transportation. Sharing info about sidewalk conditions in winter and other fun things about trying to get by in this car-centric city.
Some more poets I've found!
These are some of our awesome Resisters 🦋
Experimental, concrete, vispo, erasure/blackout poets, magazines, competitions and small presses.
writers and artists of all genres who live in the National Capital Region
If you make visual poetry, please let me know and I'll add you. Digital or analogies. Collage, erasure, asemic writing, typewriter poems, embroidered text, you name it.
Artists, writers, filmmakers etc who colour outside the lines. If you want in, let me know .
print & digital literary magazines in Canada
Ottawa history, community, & culture
People talking about a better city of Ottawa
Thanks to Trump, tensions are running high between the USA and Canada. But some of the best people I follow are North American. Writers, creators, poets, journalists, politicians, campaigners. Here's my second pack featuring a few of the best
A growing shelf of writers to enrich your life and feed, who also happen to be LGBTQIA+ Support libraries and indie bookshops!