Today's #fridayreads is Emily De Angelis's debut YA novel THE STONES OF BURREN BAY (@Lat46Publishing), a compelling story about grief and creativity, with just a dash of Celtic mysticism.

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Today's #excerpted : read from Jess Taylor's new novel PLAY (Book*hug Press), about the insulating power of imagination, and what happens when you have to reckon with the truth.

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'I only harvest when something is both common and in abundance and I try not to take very much of it.'

Ariel Gordon, author of the creative essay collection FUNGAL (Wolsak & Wynn), tells us about foraging & and her love for the urban forest

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'Not so easy to forget the puppet show of my past lives / might anyone have left some instructions behind?'

Michael Trussler reads two poems from his latest collection REALIA (Radiant Press) for Poetry in Motion

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Happy #PrideMonth ! These 30 books by LGBTQ+ writers are a way to keep the celebration going well after the end of June. Browse the list here:

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Boum's stunning graphic medicine THE JELLYFISH (Pow Pow Press) is a story of a young twenty-something with vision loss as she navigates love and life.

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'I know the wide currents / kneeling on the gunwhale / kneeling astride jetski'

We share #twopoems from BC poet Hamish Ballantyne's new collection, TOMORROW IS A HOLIDAY (New Star Books): both have the spirit of summer in them.

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'Malls can be transformative. An electric current of social issues flows through them.'

In their personal essay 'Malled In,' Jes Battis writes about how malls serve as safe spaces and cultural hubs, a connection to the larger world

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'Why do memories arrive as if ex nihilo, out of nothing?'

Read more about Matthew Tierney's latest collection LOSSLESS (Coach House Books) & listen to Matthew read from his book

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Today's #excerpted feature is the prologue from Ellen Anderson Penno's memoir, COUNTING BONES (@newestpress). The book is a 'dissection' of memory: to carry on with med school while grieving the tragic loss of her partner to a mountain climbing accident.

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'I wrote about relationships and identity and I realized how much I love to write morally complicated female characters.'

DanilaBotha talks to us about writing & her new collection THINGS THAT CAUSE INAPPROPRIATE HAPPINESS (@guernica_ed) #alushortofit

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In our final week of #alushortofit , we ask M.V. Feehan about her new book IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROWS (Baraka Books) and what she loves about the short story form: 'it is often the forum for small epiphanies that are not necessarily plot driven.'

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'Heads' up, horror fans: we chat with Robyn Braun about her horror novella THE HEAD (Great Plains Press), the writers of the uncanny she reads and re-reads, and what she's working on now.

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'[I began with] a memory of lying in the sand on a beach.' We interview Dave Margoshes about his beguiling new novel, A SIMPLE CARPENTER (Radiant Press), where a man with no memories may or may not be the second coming of Christ.

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This week's excerpt is about the confusion and wonder of childhood from Dave Lapp's new graphic novel memoir THE FIELD (Conundrum Press)

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For today's #alushortofit , we chat with Lulu Keating about her debut short story collection SPLINTER & SHARD (@ecwpress) and get a view of her preferred workspace: a balcony on the Greek coastline (Mamma mia, truly!).

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'There wasn’t one particular eureka moment, but a smattering of breadcrumbs that made me realize how writing was an inevitable and joyous need.'

Playwright Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) talks to us about writing & his acclaimed play COCKROACH (Playwrights Canada Press)

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'Often I find each character’s voice as I’m writing them, and more specifically, as I’m engaging them in conversation.'

AGA Wilmot talks to us about developing characters, horror writing, and their new queer paranormal horror novel WITHERED (ECW Press)

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Get a sneak peek of EL GHOURABAA: A QUEER AND TRANS COLLECTION OF ODDITIES (Metonymy) -— check out two excerpts from the book!

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For #alushortofit , we talk with microfiction writer Barbara Black, Author about LITTLE FORTIFIED STORIES (@caitlinpress), and how they began, in Lisbon, as tastes of a little fortified wine.

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