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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Sep 16

Anne Carson on handwriting, on the inside and outside of things, on claiming home.

Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Sep 15

I have a new poem up on NewPoetry today. I wrote "The Aside" for a dear friend.

Thanks, George! (@bookninja.bsky.social)

George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · Sep 15

There's NewPoetry today from Christina Wells (@cgwells.bsky.social).

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The Aside

Christina Wells for William Phillips, 1970-2009 Tinman build but with the heart built in, you, a character square and shuffling through wonder, but the stars kept this from being a plotline …

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thanks, George!

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Paragon Press @paragonpress.bsky.social · Apr 13

Please join us for the launch of issue 10 of Paragon!

Monday, April 28th at 7pm at Peter Easton Pub.

Get ready for a fabulous night of readings from contributors to the new issue. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates!

This event is FREE to attend!

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Paragon Press @paragonpress.bsky.social · Apr 13

COVER REVEAL!

We’re so excited to feature visual art by Violet Drake in our latest issue.

Don’t miss our Paragon issue 10 launch party at 7pm on April 28th at Peter Easton Pub (the day after Sparks)!

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Apr 2

Have a listen to myself, @jessnolastname.bsky.social, Chris Peters, Marjory Doyle, and Joan Sullivan havin’ a gab with Adam Walsh on CBC’s The Signal — about our NF essays that came out in the spring issue of The Newfoundland Quarterly TODAY 🫶 ➡️ www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thrilled to have my creative essay, “The Third Line of my Haiku” find a home in The Newfoundland Quarterly. It’s an essay that’s near and dear to my heart. Thanks to The NQ and @writersnl.bsky.social for the opportunity! And congrats to the other winners, Chris and Jess!

writersnl @writersnl.bsky.social · Mar 28

WritersNL & NQ are thrilled to announce the winners of our first Creative Non-fiction Writing Contest!

🏆 The Third Line of My Haiku – Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social
🥈 Outside Into the World – Chris Peters
🥉 A House Downtown – Jess Richardson

For more info: writersnl.ca/winner-annou...

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Mar 27

So pleased to be shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s poetry contest!

The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · Mar 27

The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, judged by D. M. Bradford, Colleen Coco Collins, and Meghan Kemp-Gee! Thank you to all who entered, and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!

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A red and orange graphic for The Fiddlehead's 2024 Poetry Contest. The graphic reads: Can you paint with words! The Fiddlehead 2024 Poetry Contest now open for submissions. Opens September 3, 2024. Deadline December 2 2024. Enter via Submittable. $2000 prize plus publication! Judges: Meghan Kemp-Gee, D.M. Bradford, and Colleen Coco Collins. For more info: thefiddlehead.ca/contest Email: fiddlehd@unb.ca

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Mar 25

We carry on.

“God knows, we feel that anyway. We feel there is no point in our efforts. There is always someone, somewhere who is better, more famous, more lauded, more prolific, who rhymes more sweetly and catches the zeitgeist better. Soon, it might be a machine. But we carry on.”

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Mar 25

substack.com/@northseapoe... I wrote about a little brush with generative AI. NorthSeaPoets Substack.

Encounters with AI

Kathleen Jamie reflects on a recent poetry performance

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Feb 6

Yes! Let’s try for the fall maybe? When’s your next possible show? Let’s chat on the phone soon ❤️❤️❤️

Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Feb 3

Helloooo! ❤️❤️❤️

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Feb 2

Where are you off to!? ❤️

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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · Jan 29

Truth.

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 29

Interested in a writing and art retreat in Ochre Pit Cove, Newfoundland? Art therapist Katrina Grabner and I are facilitating one there from May 23rd to 26th! Check out the form for details ✨

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Listen Eco-Arts Retreat In Newfoundland, 2025: Application Form

“Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done.” -Ani Alber Join art therapist Katrina Grabner and poet Christina Wells for 3 days of slowing...

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 28

Let’s tear it down!

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 25

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Global Gallery - Poets for Science

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 25

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Jane Hirshfield on Substack

A Second Post Once again, history repeats itself. January 24th 2017, the newly arrived Trump administration ordered scientists working for the government to be silent, instructing them not to ...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jan 24

When they show you who they are, believe them. Christians against Christ.

Speaker Mike Johnson
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Jan 22
Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology.

This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division.

Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews.

Shamefu

Ben Garrett
@tompawnbadil
Do not commit the sin of empathy.

This snake is God’s enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response.

She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity. [with picture of the Episcopal Bishop of the National Cathedral--the one who spoke to Trump and Co. about kindness, thereby upsetting Maga very much]

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 24

So good.

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 21

It was the way he bit his bottom lip that is DOING ME IN! I can't watch.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jan 14

Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV
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Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV

be your own pony your own mother birth a world without fathers lose yourself in the holy ghost the cosmos is withdrawing but we just...

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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social · Jan 14

Proud to have my poem, "Four-Chambered Heart" published in issue 172 of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social. The poem, written after a friend's first ultrasound, received honorary mention in the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse contest. Thanks, TNQ!

The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our fall issue is now live on our website and available for purchase! Discover astonishing short fiction, essays, and poetry, featuring pieces by our annual contest winners🎉

Please note that there may be delays receiving our physical copies due to the ongoing Canada Post strike.

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Paperboats Writers @paperboatswriters.bsky.social · Dec 27

Paperboats Zine is open for submissions.
Deadline for Issue 5 is 11.59pm GMT, 31 January 2025.

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Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social · Jan 13

What better way to pass a long, cold evening than to curl up by the wood stove and listen to a ghost story?

You can find Tom Dawe’s audiobook of AN OLD MAN’S WINTER NIGHT on our website.

An illustration from An Old Man's Winter Night. A mostly black-and white wood cut of an old woman in a rocking chair, with her feet up on the open door of her old-fashioned woodstove. She has a shawl over head head that she is holding tighter around her shoulders. The eerie shape of a hand appears on the window behind her

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