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Dorothy Ellen Palmer
@dorothyellenpalmer.bsky.social
Writer, mom, grandma, retired improv coach, teacher, and union rep. Binge knitter and multiply disabled, award-winning writer and disability advocate. Grateful escapee from other social media sites that shall not be named.
I'm over the moon delighted to announce that The Scooter Twins is longlisted in excellent company for The Hamilton Literary Awards. Many thanks to Hamilton Arts Council @gritlitfestival.bsky.social Maria Sweeney, @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#Breaking: Air Canada flight attendants’ union head defies back-to-work order: ‘If it means jail, so be it.’
Air Canada flight attendants’ union head defies back-to-work order: ‘If it means jail, so be it.’
CUPE union president Mark Hancock refuses to obey Ottawa orders. 'If Air Canada thinks flights will be operating this afternoon, they're sorely mistaken,' as picketing continues.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Lots of folks will be all about green smoothies, vitamins, sunglasses, sun hats, health tracking apps & watches, yoga, supplements, the gym.

But the minute you mention masks as a health precaution, they have a total
meltdown & refuse to do that
August 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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CBC Kids News is inviting Canadian youth with disabilities to share their voices in upcoming sessions.

This is what public broadcasting should be — inclusive, curious, and empowering.

🔗 lnk.bio/cbckids
#SaveTheCBC #CBCKidsNews #DisabilityRights #PublicBroadcasting
July 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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💛 On the Blog: Reflecting on THE SCOOTER TWINS with author Dorothy Ellen Palmer and illustrator Maria Sweeney for Disability Pride Month.

Read the blog post here: houseofanansi.com/blogs/anansi...
July 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Delighted to see my book, The Scooter Twins, included in this excellent companyfor #DisabilityPrideMonth! @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Adam Pottle's "The Reluctant Cyborg: On Disability, Science, and Technology", from our latest Issue 174! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/the-re...
April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I'll be on CBC Radio's All in a Day this afternoon at 3pm! Tune in to hear me, @domparisien.bsky.social and @textcurious.bsky.social discuss and read from #poetry anthology Speech Dries Here on the Tongue theporcupinesquill.com/products/spe... #mentalhealth #environmentalcrisis
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue is an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health. This threat of environmental collapse has bro...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Congratulations to Mariam Pirhbai on winning the Sarton Award for Nonfiction for her fabulous essay collection Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging:
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The Sarton   ~   The Gilda
Congratulations to the 2024 Sarton and Gilda Women's Book Awards Winners! The Sarton Award honors May Sarton, who is remembered for her contributions to women's literature as a memoirist, novelist, an...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Happy publication to Elegy for Opportunity by Natalie Lim and Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer, both released today by the stellar Canadian Press, Wolsak & Wynn. ✨

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@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

#NationalPoetryMonth
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I spy with my little eye, The Scooter Twins in excellent company in Italy at the Bologna Book Fair! TY, @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social !
April 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Delighted to share the honour of this nomination with these very deserving authors.
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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The 2025 CCBC Silent Auction is now open! Browse the items and place your bids. Visit www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/ccbc-silent-auction.

Funds raised go directly to supporting Canadian Children's Book Week. Thank you for your generous support!
CCBC Silent Auction
Funds raised go directly to supporting Canadian Children's Book Week, a celebration of Canadian stories that tours authors, illustrators, and storytellers across the country, connecting them with more...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Celebrate International Children's Book Day with us! We're raising funds to support Canadian Children's Book Week 2025 #ICBD2025 #BookWeek2025
April 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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CONTEST! Our friends at Groundwood Books (bsky.app/profile/grou...) are celebrating the publication of the latest of their Big Books for Little Naturalists with a fantastic giveaway including all 3 titles in the series! Full entry details here!
#Contest #Giveaway #CanLit
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Big Books for Little Naturalists Giveaway from Groundwood Books!
Groundwood Books, one of the most respected children's publishers in Canada, is jumping into spring with the release of My Book of Frogs and Toads. ...
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April 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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AboutFace is kicking off their Move It Campaign. Raising a kid with a facial difference is a unique & challenging experience, but being a kid or adult with a facial difference, there is no greater comfort than hanging out with people who understand the challenges!

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Because Duncan Moves It!
Almost 20 years ago, we arrived at the family picnic in High Park, kids in tow, nervous to meet other families and kids who had a facial difference. It changed our lives! Anyone who knows Duncan will ...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I like this campaign. “The stakes of this election couldn't be higher. Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives want to take us backwards.”#DontGetPlayed

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Don't get played by Pierre
We get it. Things are broken and life feels impossible. And now Pierre Poilievre is running a slick comms campaign to try to convince us that he’s going to fix things. But we know a Conservative gove...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Happy publication to Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman, published by Wolsak & Wynn (November 2024).

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#nonfiction
March 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Looking forward to moderating this panel with Edward Y.C. Lee (The Laundryman’s Boy) and Kath Jonathan (The Resistance Painter) at @gritlitfestival.bsky.social in April! www.gritlit.ca/festival-eve...

@harpercollinsca.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social #gritLIT
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Friends, just a reminder that we're a completely Canadian-owned company that publishs Canadian authors. And we print our books in Canada. And our books are fabulous, of course. If you're looking for Canadian options for your reading pleasure, why not take a look at our website: www.wolsakandwynn.ca
March 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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A bit of pleasant news: my dark fantasy musical play THE BLACK DRUM has been shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Thank you to the Awards for considering me, to Playwrights Canada Press for publishing the play, and to all who worked on the play for their generosity and talent.🤟🏼
March 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Snag yourself a copy of this extra large issue (208 pages!) and read all about Dorothy Ellen Palmer's clucks left to give, along with the work of 24 other fabulous ladies in 50 Over 50, part one! Dorothy also sent us this picture of a quilt she made. Thanks, Dorothy!

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November 21, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing
Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing
TORONTO - Following reports of Trump Cabinet members including journalists on private Signal threads, Trump officials have reportedly texted similar plans for an invasion of Canada to anchor of CBC's ...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM