These days when going outside in the morning is like drinking a cool glass of water.

Both The Extra by Mel Anastasiou and Allaigna's Song: Overture by JM Landels are finalists in the MPS Readers Choice Awards. Please give them your votes today and every day till July 5th! Melanie P. Smith melaniepsmith.com/2023-readers-c…

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Bramah’s Quest: In the hands of readers: 🙏🏾🪷 gratitude Jared Hunt Ravi Kahlon Nightwood Editions Read Local BC Heather J Wood Iron Dog Books

Bramah’s train east bound James 🌻. GIFford @[email protected] 🙏🏾

My Pemmi-Con 2023 sched for today: 11:30 Kaffeklatsche (bring questions and coffee) 2:30 Authors are lifeforms too with Derwin Mak @ashleyhisson and Eric Choi (蔡文信) 5:30 David vs Goliath: writing the mismatched fight scene.

Also, I'll be at the IFWA table in the dealer's room from 1 to 2:30, where you can find amazing authors like Susan Forest Robert J. Sawyer and more!

Thanks Eric Choi (蔡文信) for moderating a great discussion on editing with Ashley Hinson Derwin Mak and me. No works were maimed in the making of this panel!📝🪓🪚

And thanks too to Susan Forest and Michael Gillett for being great sports on David vs Goliath. They showed up as panellists and ended up learning how take each other down. 😂

Last year, working in Ireland, having a pint in the cold outside a Dalkey pub with some new friends, a woman with purpose strode past us. Puffy parker zipped to the nape and her bowed head covered in a scarf. One of my new friends muttered an exclamation, jumped up

Allaigna's Song: Chorale by JM Landels is on deep discount on Amazon for the print edition. If you love to read paper, grab your copy now! amazon.com/Allaignas-Song…

Safety Razor, my debut book of poetry, is in this batch! So grateful and excited that one of my poems will appear on BC buses

My note on my new book of poetry and Old Norse translation didn't make it into the ASNC Cambridge Alumni newsletter, so, I'm waving hello to all ASNaCs past and present with news of it here! gordonhillpress.com/products/safet…

I love the inscriptions in old books, and the questions they invite. Here’s my copy of Flight to Arras, Saint-Exupery account of flying for the French while France was being overrun by the Nazis. “To Harry Irving, with love from his Granpa, Dec. 1973” 1/

Emily’s poetry is on a roll. 😉

Congratulations on a wonderful reading yesterday, Emily. I was especially pleased that you chose "Helicopter Father" as one of the other poems you read. It is one of my very favourites in "Straight Razor". As Daniel Cowper says, your work truly is on a roll. Congratulations again

P.W. Bridgman, Writer Daniel Cowper It's such a great book! (watch for my review of it, soon I hope). And I too love that poem of Emily Osborne 's.