700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

Thank you to our 2024 RBC #BronwenWallace Award jurors!

◥@DerekBeaulieu, Kama La Mackerel & Joanna Lilley read 215 submissions to select 3 poetry finalists

◤Jessica Johns Jessica Johns, Maria Reva & @JackWangAuthor read 252 submissions to select 3 short fiction finalists

We’re also calling on cultural institutions receiving funding from Scotiabank, including Hot Docs, CONTACT and the Giller Prize, to end their complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Events are PWYC to cover screening and venue costs.

TORONTO: Join us for the #noarmsinthearts festival, a counter program to Hot Docs from April 25 - May 5 including actions, film screenings and talks centering Palestinian liberation and calling on Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit System.

CALENDAR:…

EDMONTON WE GO AGAIN
Saturday APRIL 27@1:30pm
Tipton park
#Edmonton4Palestine
#ArmsEmbargoNow
#YEG

Join FOLD executive director Jael Ealey Richardson and four of the CANADA READS finalists, Jessica Johns, Christina Wong, HOT FUNNY GIRL, and Catherine Leroux virtually on April 28, at 7:30pm ET.

Register today at thefoldcanada.org/register!

One more week to go!!
Head over to thefoldcanada.org/register for more info and to register for a pass!
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#BadCree by @JessicaStellaaa is shaping up to be a modern Canadian classic 🍁 This bestselling novel is a haunting and fierce story that is sure to break your heart—and stitch it back up again. Get your copy today!

Woohoo! Everyone go congratulate Jessica Johns on her phenomenal debut #BadCree making the shortlist🎉

Huge congratulations to our FOUR (!) authors — Brent Butt, Jessica Johns , Anuja Varghese, and Jamaluddin Aram — who have been shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize!

Check out this cool new literary magazine, Yarrow! I've got a piece in it, and there's lots to read:

yarrowmag.com

Yarrow Magazine is launching today! We've got new pieces from âpihtawikosisân, CREE HOMO 🌾, Kaitlyn Purcell, Molly Cross-Blanchard, tenille k campbell and Marilyn Dumont! Reviews of Waubgeshig Rice's new book as well as Leanne Simpson's Noopiming. Art by Michelle :D
yarrowmag.com

exciting day! there's a new digital Indigenous lit mag, Yarrow, and it features this absolutely John A MacDonald-stomping piece from âpihtawikosisân, along with other stunners. yarrowmag.com/issue-one/blog…

So honoured Bad Cree is shortlisted for the Emerging Writer prize! I’m next to some HEAVY hitters too ❤️❤️
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📢 EDMONTON - SUNDAY APRIL 21
VIOLET KING HENRY @ 1:30PM 📢
#YEG
#EndGenocideNow
#ArmsEmbargoNow

Can’t tell you how excited I am for this event 💀

Some excellent books on the Canadian bestseller list this week 😍 If you're looking for great fiction from local writers, we recommend #ThePhoenixCrown by Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, #TheInheritance by Joanna Goodman, and #BadCree by @JessicaStellaaa 📚

Why is Writers' Trust platforming Jason Kenney????? Do you know how hard Don Oravec worked to get the Ogilvie prize for LGBT writers off the ground and how much resistance he faced from the WT board at the time? Are we going backwards?