Karin Hedetniemi
@karinhedet.bsky.social
Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.
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Hi friends. I’ve got a quiet corner I’ll slowly fill with Vancouver Island beauty, creative work, home life, travel dispatches, and a bit of levity. ☺️
#writing #lifewriting #streetphotos #enjoytheride
#writing #lifewriting #streetphotos #enjoytheride
Everything had been donated to the animal shelter months ago. I was doing okay until I found my sweet girl’s holiday collar in the Christmas box. 🥺❤️
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Everything had been donated to the animal shelter months ago. I was doing okay until I found my sweet girl’s holiday collar in the Christmas box. 🥺❤️
Incredibly delighted to receive this gorgeous handmade art in the mail today, as part of the second prize package! Every envelope and enclosure was decorated with care and love. I could not ask for a better home for my haiku poem. 🌸
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Incredibly delighted to receive this gorgeous handmade art in the mail today, as part of the second prize package! Every envelope and enclosure was decorated with care and love. I could not ask for a better home for my haiku poem. 🌸
My best friend visited and fell in love with Nova Scotia. Her retirement dream is to drive across Canada and explore the Maritimes. I made her this gift to keep her dreams in sight. ♥️
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My best friend visited and fell in love with Nova Scotia. Her retirement dream is to drive across Canada and explore the Maritimes. I made her this gift to keep her dreams in sight. ♥️
Words to enfold and warm you, from the storytelling hearth of Melissa. ✨
Excited to have a flash in the beautiful latest issue of The Maine Review.♥️
www.mainereview.com/the-wing/
www.mainereview.com/the-wing/
The Wing - The Maine Review
The morning Nadine’s feathers sprouted, a light snow fell. She was standing outside, watching Meg board the school bus, noticing how the little girl’s hair, frizzy like her own, glistened with snow, m...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Words to enfold and warm you, from the storytelling hearth of Melissa. ✨
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
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Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
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November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Went thrifting and found this vintage reindeer for an ornament exchange next month…but now I am attached, and must go thrifting again. 💛
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Went thrifting and found this vintage reindeer for an ornament exchange next month…but now I am attached, and must go thrifting again. 💛
Surprised and deeply honoured to have my haiku selected by the judges for second prize in this year’s Tokutomi Memorial Contest! 🌸🌸🌸
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2025 Tokutomi Contest Results - Yuki Teikei (有季定型) Haiku Society
2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest Results Contest Results Announced by the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society by Kathabela Wilson, 2025 Contest Chair, with Brochure Layout by Rick Wilson The Yuki Teikei Haiku Soc...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Surprised and deeply honoured to have my haiku selected by the judges for second prize in this year’s Tokutomi Memorial Contest! 🌸🌸🌸
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Peace, joy, love, beauty. ✨
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Peace, joy, love, beauty. ✨
Yesterday we adopted this sweet senior pup from the city shelter. His first 10 years are a mystery. He spent time as a stray, until a kind person brought him for help. Shelter staff gave him medical & dental care, a warm bed, a bath, and a full belly. He’s a total love bug! We named him Lucky.🐞❤️
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yesterday we adopted this sweet senior pup from the city shelter. His first 10 years are a mystery. He spent time as a stray, until a kind person brought him for help. Shelter staff gave him medical & dental care, a warm bed, a bath, and a full belly. He’s a total love bug! We named him Lucky.🐞❤️
I would love to read this in 2027! (and it may be the submission call that inspires me to write again, after a very long hiatus.) 🪺
#submissions are now open! Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. $3 reading fee. More here: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/34116...
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I would love to read this in 2027! (and it may be the submission call that inspires me to write again, after a very long hiatus.) 🪺
Found inside a free little library, a fortune from a jar called “Good for a Note.” 🩵
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Found inside a free little library, a fortune from a jar called “Good for a Note.” 🩵
‘a ghost rain in the leaves, something lost and searching’ 🍃🍂
Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest issue of Stone Canoe Journal. I’m excited it includes my short story, “Away.” Happy Monday, friends.📚🐶💚
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
‘a ghost rain in the leaves, something lost and searching’ 🍃🍂
On the same day, after five months, the universe said no to this dog, and no to the poem…but it said yes to faith and trust, and yes to this November blackberry, ripe and sweet in its own perfect hour.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
On the same day, after five months, the universe said no to this dog, and no to the poem…but it said yes to faith and trust, and yes to this November blackberry, ripe and sweet in its own perfect hour.
Spent time with my Mom on her 86th birthday. Cheered the World Series game with my brother. Felt grateful for autumn leaves, for life in this moment. Opened my grieving heart and offered to adopt a dog in need….waiting to hear if the Universe says yes.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Spent time with my Mom on her 86th birthday. Cheered the World Series game with my brother. Felt grateful for autumn leaves, for life in this moment. Opened my grieving heart and offered to adopt a dog in need….waiting to hear if the Universe says yes.
A warm hour of storytelling! Still thinking about the pieces shared. So proud to be part of this heart-full literary journal! 💜
We just spent the most wonderful morning listening to some of our contributors read their work. What an honor to publish these fabulous writers who are also such lovely people! Much love and thank you to everyone who spent time with us today! 🥹💜💜🙏
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a door that has a sign on it that says meeting in progress
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a door that has a sign on it that says meeting in progress
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October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A warm hour of storytelling! Still thinking about the pieces shared. So proud to be part of this heart-full literary journal! 💜
“Making money is, on its own terms, totally meaningless, an insufficient pursuit for the complex and decaying world we live in…
“Scientists, naturalists, essayists, and poets are offering us a vision, a means with which to see and understand the splendor and sacredness of life.”
— Paul Hawken
“Scientists, naturalists, essayists, and poets are offering us a vision, a means with which to see and understand the splendor and sacredness of life.”
— Paul Hawken
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Making money is, on its own terms, totally meaningless, an insufficient pursuit for the complex and decaying world we live in…
“Scientists, naturalists, essayists, and poets are offering us a vision, a means with which to see and understand the splendor and sacredness of life.”
— Paul Hawken
“Scientists, naturalists, essayists, and poets are offering us a vision, a means with which to see and understand the splendor and sacredness of life.”
— Paul Hawken
In honour of my sweet pup in the beyond…I’m finding my way back to the sea. I will keep a whimsy thread here. ✨🌊 This is today’s flotsam.
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In honour of my sweet pup in the beyond…I’m finding my way back to the sea. I will keep a whimsy thread here. ✨🌊 This is today’s flotsam.
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This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The sweet little painting I saw at a market, on my last day in France, that now hangs in my heart.
October 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The sweet little painting I saw at a market, on my last day in France, that now hangs in my heart.
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
✨ The first episode has arrived! ✨
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
The Time Pirate | Episode 1: The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore
YouTube video by jenwithwords
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October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
✨ The first episode has arrived! ✨
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️
If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!
youtu.be/scAoxNryyVA
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@triohousepress.org
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@triohousepress.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@triohousepress.org
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@triohousepress.org
A full and warm breeze of cherry blossom haiku to soften your day.
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Honoured to have two of my poems included…sharing haiku brings me joy!
vcbf.ca/winning_haik...
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Honoured to have two of my poems included…sharing haiku brings me joy!
vcbf.ca/winning_haik...
2025 Winning Haiku - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
Judged by Sonja Arntzen, Anne Elise Burgevin, and P. H. Fischer Read commentary on winning poems! All poems are listed in alphabetical order in each category. Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada | U...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A full and warm breeze of cherry blossom haiku to soften your day.
🌸🌸🌸
Honoured to have two of my poems included…sharing haiku brings me joy!
vcbf.ca/winning_haik...
🌸🌸🌸
Honoured to have two of my poems included…sharing haiku brings me joy!
vcbf.ca/winning_haik...
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
“The Heart of Ancient Earth”
I waited 10 years to take this self portrait - every time I visited this location there were tons of tourists (and I’m shy, haha). But last year, at 2am during midsummer, I finally found myself alone with these beautiful basalt columns. 🖤
#photography #selfportrait
I waited 10 years to take this self portrait - every time I visited this location there were tons of tourists (and I’m shy, haha). But last year, at 2am during midsummer, I finally found myself alone with these beautiful basalt columns. 🖤
#photography #selfportrait
February 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“The Heart of Ancient Earth”
I waited 10 years to take this self portrait - every time I visited this location there were tons of tourists (and I’m shy, haha). But last year, at 2am during midsummer, I finally found myself alone with these beautiful basalt columns. 🖤
#photography #selfportrait
I waited 10 years to take this self portrait - every time I visited this location there were tons of tourists (and I’m shy, haha). But last year, at 2am during midsummer, I finally found myself alone with these beautiful basalt columns. 🖤
#photography #selfportrait