Two weeks away! 📚 Celebrate the Hamilton Reads 2024 finale with Anuja Varghese for a literary evening filled with food, dance, and more. Secure your seat and register to attend on Thursday, November 14 at 6:30 pm at the Valley Park Branch. hpl.ca/events #HamOnt #reading

Now more than ever the books matter. The challenging ones, the ones that make you uncomfortable, the uplifting ones, the ones that tell you a story you have never heard before. Books matter. Art matters. Don't let them take those away from us.

Let’s create the angriest, queerest, most fucked up art we possibly can over the next four years… Let’s disrupt everything.

This is gutsy as hell. So much respect for Madeleine Thien ❤️ Just a wee reminder - you can have an arts prize without massive corporate $$. You cannot have an arts prize without artists.

There is a certain type of liberal doubletalk where you say many very serious words such as “moral righteousness” and “solidarity” and “bearing witness,” and hope the language will fill the space so well that no one will notice you’re not actually saying anything at all

“The dead can never read our words and they certainly don’t care what measure of redemption we feel at having solemnly witnessed them while failing to stop it over and over” -@saeedteebi at the Writers' Trust awards earlier tonight

Some recommendations for y’all for holiday reading/preordering 👀✨ To Carry a Body to its Resting Place by C.S. Humble Club Contango by Eliane Boey Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese Psychopomp by Maria Dong The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong

📕🏆Fiction Award presented to Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese, published by House of Anansi Press (House of Anansi Press) Thank you Epic Books (Epic Books) for sponsoring this award! ✨ Hamilton PL gritLIT Festival

A really good conversation about why so many 🇨🇦 authors are boycotting the Gillers.. and why our actions are making a difference. Give it a listen! #CanLit #WritingCommunity #noarmsinthearts

DUNE (tv show) SPOILERS AHEAD ok.. so Ragnar is supposed to be Psycho Superior’s sister’s long lost son?? Aren’t they like.. the same age? Am I missing something here? 🤔

friends! next week is the last one of jan (finally . . . this month was a y e a r), which means my querybox will be open for the first time in 2025, and i figured it's a good time for a #mswl update in case folks in #amquerying are curious 🧵

NEWS!! I’ve been sitting on this for A WHILE and am so excited to share my first novel will be out in the world next year! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 If you’re into: Feminist fantasy ✨📖✨ Diverse main characters 👋🏾📖👋🏾 Spice of every variety 🏳️‍🌈📖🏳️‍🌈 This one’s for you. And for me. ❤️

We are delighted to announce Ryanne Kap as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Ex-Puritan! Ryanne (Ryanne) first joined The Ex-Puritan back in 2018 as a proofreader, and has recently been on the masthead as our Managing Editor. We are excited to continue working with them!

WRITERS: Submitting your work to a contest or lit mag? Querying agents or publishers? This is NOT THE TIME for your self-deprecating humor! The number of letters I’ve seen with some version of “I don’t know if this is any good or not” is 🤯🤯🤯 #WritingCommmunity

Spoke to The Nod + Pahull Bains about all things Samira Mohan, The Pitt, and my hopes for South Asian actors in entertainment ❣️ 📸: Lenne Chai MU: Anna Kato Hair: Lynnae Duley Styling: Amanda Lim, Asst: Ian Martin

“Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine” - Hannah Einbinder during her #EMMYs speech