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Ariel Gordon
@ariel-gordon.bsky.social
Winnipeg/Treaty 1-based writer, editor & enthusiast. Recently - Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest w/W&W. Now - Blood Letters w/GPP. WiR at Winnipeg Public Library.
So @karendudley.bsky.social has been stained glassing up a storm and I recently got to visit her studio, drink tea/eat cake and look at glass. Which is a pretty good time to begin with, even without her gifting me one of her scrap-glass birbs (note the rubber boots).
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
When you have been sick all week and you text your partner for a sweet treat and he brings home A GOODLY WODGE OF VINARTERTA!
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So last Friday puzzle-setter (puzzler? riddler?) Derek Bowman used my book Fungal in his crossword, which appeared in the Free Press. Which basically means: I’m a crossword!l
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Went to visit my latest book, Blood Letters, at @mcnallyrobinson.com ’s in the YA graphic novel section. Why hello, little weird book! @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social @greatplainspress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So I will be offering a Writing Circle through the @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social that meets monthly from December through April. And the deadline is THIS FRIDAY, November 21.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Frozen walking-to-the-bus-stop crabapples. So, tell me, what are you going to make this week?
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Happy Halloween, dollface! (This is an oldie, circa 2023, but a goodie…)
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m grateful for this re-anthologizing, even if the poem Joanne selected for me is ANCIENT.
1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
You don’t get to be on McNally’s bestseller table very often, so I try to enjoy it… @greatplainspress.bsky.social @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social @mcnallyrobinson.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So it was an honour to host the launch of Duncan Mercredi’s 7th poetry collection this afternoon at McNally’s. Poetry forever! @mcnallyrobinson.com @atbaypress.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So I spent the morning at Winnipeg Comic Con with @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social, chatting with people and looking at things. And, of course, I bought poetry at a comic con. Next: Duncan Mercredi’s launch (@atbaypress.bsky.social)
at McNally’s at 2 pm, which I’m hosting at @mcnallyrobinson.com.
October 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So yesterday I facilitated my first WPL WiR workshop, a nature-focused workshop in the trees surrounding the Windsor Park Library. We wound up ranging from the Windsor Park precinct over to the Bonivital Pool next door, which was closed for renovation. And it was a gorgeous day…
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Robot mixtape!!
In BLOOD LETTERS (@greatplainspress.bsky.social), co-authors @ariel-gordon.bsky.social & @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social tell the story of siblings separated by flesh-eating fog & mechanical monsters.

Tune into the #mixtape inspired by their oddly hopeful dystopian story: alllitup.ca/mixtape-bloo...
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Yay! Thanks everyone! (And would you looooook at all the Manitoban & CDN writers on this list…) @mcnallyrobinson.com @greatplainspress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’ll be at Winnipeg Comic Con on Sunday morning, sitting at @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social’s booth, signing copies of Blood Letters! Come visit! @greatplainspress.bsky.social @winnipegcomiccon.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Looking forward!
October 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There are a few spots left in this Saturday’s FREE urban nature creative writing workshop! Sign up/help me get the word out! @greatplainspress.bsky.social @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social @atbaypress.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So today I was heckled by the RRC Polytech Heritage Group in the middle of my presentation about mushrooms and foraging. They were not fun guys…
October 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The launch should be great fun!
October 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Spotted at @mcnallyrobinson.com! I’m looking forward to launching this book with @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social and @greatplainspress.bsky.social!
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So last night I hosted the launch of Melanie Dennis Unrau’s visual poetry text Goose, which culminated with me asking the audience to HONK at her instead of applauding. @mcnallyrobinson.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The launch for Blood Letters is TEN DAYS away, friends. It would be great to see you October 17 at @mcnallyrobinson.com! @greatplainspress.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Look what I found on the book sale shelf at the Millennium Library for seventy-five cents - Priscilla Uppal’s memoir Projection: encounters with my runaway mother.
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM