Kim Fahner
@kimfahner.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.)
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.)
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
Thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for her chat with me earlier this week for On Creative Writing. (I’ll share that link once it’s published).
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for her chat with me earlier this week for On Creative Writing. (I’ll share that link once it’s published).
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
My book launch (for The Pollination Field) is online tonight at 8pm EST. You can register to get an invitation to the Zoom session by checking out Turnstone’s FB page or website.
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My book launch (for The Pollination Field) is online tonight at 8pm EST. You can register to get an invitation to the Zoom session by checking out Turnstone’s FB page or website.
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
I’m having an online launch for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, on the evening of November 5. It will be hosted by the brilliant Alice Major. ❤️📚More details to come. Sudbury folks—have to delay my in person launch until early 2026, once I’m past my surgery & recovery, but it’ll happen!
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m having an online launch for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, on the evening of November 5. It will be hosted by the brilliant Alice Major. ❤️📚More details to come. Sudbury folks—have to delay my in person launch until early 2026, once I’m past my surgery & recovery, but it’ll happen!
Halifax friends—don’t miss seeing Zilla Jones when she visits your town on Friday, October 24th!
October 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Halifax friends—don’t miss seeing Zilla Jones when she visits your town on Friday, October 24th!
If you’re a fan of stories about WWII, Angela Antle’s The Saltbox Olive is a brilliant story of the history of Newfoundland and Italy, and how lives intertwined when soldiers from Canada went across the Atlantic to help fight fascists. Published by the brilliant @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social 📚❤️📚
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If you’re a fan of stories about WWII, Angela Antle’s The Saltbox Olive is a brilliant story of the history of Newfoundland and Italy, and how lives intertwined when soldiers from Canada went across the Atlantic to help fight fascists. Published by the brilliant @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social 📚❤️📚
Books I’ve read, loved deeply, and learned from…for today and everyday. Grateful for the writer friends and colleagues (here and away) on this list.
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Books I’ve read, loved deeply, and learned from…for today and everyday. Grateful for the writer friends and colleagues (here and away) on this list.
Given what’s happening in Alberta with book censorship, it was timely for me to read On Book Banning by Ira Wells. It’s part of Biblioasis’s Field Notes series of books. You can order it through their Windsor bookshop!
@biblioasis.bsky.social
@biblioasis.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Given what’s happening in Alberta with book censorship, it was timely for me to read On Book Banning by Ira Wells. It’s part of Biblioasis’s Field Notes series of books. You can order it through their Windsor bookshop!
@biblioasis.bsky.social
@biblioasis.bsky.social
Oh! This was a really lovely thing to find out about today! Honoured to have my essay, “Searching for Maud,” shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and lovely to be in such fine writerly company! Thanks to Nicole Breit for her time in reading all of our pieces!
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oh! This was a really lovely thing to find out about today! Honoured to have my essay, “Searching for Maud,” shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and lovely to be in such fine writerly company! Thanks to Nicole Breit for her time in reading all of our pieces!
TWUC members—check out this new program!
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
TWUC members—check out this new program!
If you haven’t read it yet, Heather O’Neill’s new novel, Valentine in Montreal, is stunning. It also features lovely drawings by Arizona O’Neill. Thanks to @gsplibrary.bsky.social for having such a great collection of books!
September 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you haven’t read it yet, Heather O’Neill’s new novel, Valentine in Montreal, is stunning. It also features lovely drawings by Arizona O’Neill. Thanks to @gsplibrary.bsky.social for having such a great collection of books!
Can’t really believe a year has gone by since Latitude 46 published my first novel, The Donoghue Girl. A year ago tonight, we celebrated at Knox Hall here in Sudbury! Thanks especially to Heather Campbell and Hollay Ghadery. @latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ❤️🙏📚❤️✨
September 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Can’t really believe a year has gone by since Latitude 46 published my first novel, The Donoghue Girl. A year ago tonight, we celebrated at Knox Hall here in Sudbury! Thanks especially to Heather Campbell and Hollay Ghadery. @latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social ❤️🙏📚❤️✨
My friend, Kern Carter, wrote his novel, And Then There Was Us, and it was published last year by Tundra Books. He was up in Sudbury for Wordstock last year, which was fantastic! This story is beautiful, heart wrenching, and I’d recommend it for kids and their parents! @kerncarter.bsky.social 📚❤️📚
September 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
My friend, Kern Carter, wrote his novel, And Then There Was Us, and it was published last year by Tundra Books. He was up in Sudbury for Wordstock last year, which was fantastic! This story is beautiful, heart wrenching, and I’d recommend it for kids and their parents! @kerncarter.bsky.social 📚❤️📚
I loved Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records. So many layers of time, philosophy, story, identity, and meaning. (The storyline with Hannah Arendt, in particular, is so fascinating…)
A beautiful, really thought provoking book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!❤️📚
A beautiful, really thought provoking book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!❤️📚
September 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I loved Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records. So many layers of time, philosophy, story, identity, and meaning. (The storyline with Hannah Arendt, in particular, is so fascinating…)
A beautiful, really thought provoking book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!❤️📚
A beautiful, really thought provoking book. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!❤️📚
I’ve loved Kaveh Akbar’s poetry for a long time now, so his first novel, Martyr!, was on my reading list. I can’t even explain how beautiful this book is…so you should just borrow it from your local library, or a friend, or buy it and find out for yourself. So well done!
September 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’ve loved Kaveh Akbar’s poetry for a long time now, so his first novel, Martyr!, was on my reading list. I can’t even explain how beautiful this book is…so you should just borrow it from your local library, or a friend, or buy it and find out for yourself. So well done!
The Pollination Field has made its way down to Guelph, to buzz around the banks of the Speed River. Thanks to Brigitte and Matt for this photo. 📚🙏❤️🐝
September 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Pollination Field has made its way down to Guelph, to buzz around the banks of the Speed River. Thanks to Brigitte and Matt for this photo. 📚🙏❤️🐝
If anyone still thinks book banning in schools doesn’t happen, they’re wrong. This is atrocious, and a breach of rights and freedoms.
August 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If anyone still thinks book banning in schools doesn’t happen, they’re wrong. This is atrocious, and a breach of rights and freedoms.
I’m an admirer of Steve McOrmond’s poetry, so when I heard he had a new chapbook coming out with Baseline Press in London, Ontario, I waited (im)patiently. Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City is a beautiful collection of poems. It’s about loss, and love, and grief…and how we work through those things.
August 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’m an admirer of Steve McOrmond’s poetry, so when I heard he had a new chapbook coming out with Baseline Press in London, Ontario, I waited (im)patiently. Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City is a beautiful collection of poems. It’s about loss, and love, and grief…and how we work through those things.
If you’re an emerging poet, you should consider signing up for this amazing online poetry editing workshop. One of Sudbury’s finest young poets—Lindsay Mayhew—is taking part as an instructor. 🌿✨🌿
August 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you’re an emerging poet, you should consider signing up for this amazing online poetry editing workshop. One of Sudbury’s finest young poets—Lindsay Mayhew—is taking part as an instructor. 🌿✨🌿
Really pleased to see that The Pollination Field has made its way to my friend Pam Steingard’s lovely home in Stratford. Pam and her husband Jerry have a gorgeous AirBnB you can book if you’re looking for a place to stay while you see a play or two. ❤️📚
August 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Really pleased to see that The Pollination Field has made its way to my friend Pam Steingard’s lovely home in Stratford. Pam and her husband Jerry have a gorgeous AirBnB you can book if you’re looking for a place to stay while you see a play or two. ❤️📚
I’m honoured to have been asked to write a poem for an anthology that raises awareness about gender based violence. All funds raised from the sale of this book go to My Friend’s House, a non-profit that supports abused women and children in the Georgian Triangle of Ontario. You can buy it online.
August 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’m honoured to have been asked to write a poem for an anthology that raises awareness about gender based violence. All funds raised from the sale of this book go to My Friend’s House, a non-profit that supports abused women and children in the Georgian Triangle of Ontario. You can buy it online.
Thanks to my friend, Lisa, who took Lizzie to Ireland. The Donoghue Girl visited Trinity College in Dublin and the Cliffs of Moher. ❤️☘️🙏☘️❤️
August 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thanks to my friend, Lisa, who took Lizzie to Ireland. The Donoghue Girl visited Trinity College in Dublin and the Cliffs of Moher. ❤️☘️🙏☘️❤️
My new book of poetry, The Pollination Field, arrived. You can buy copies from your favourite bookstore or directly from Turnstone Press. ❤️🐝
www.turnstonepress.com/books/pollin...
www.turnstonepress.com/books/pollin...
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My new book of poetry, The Pollination Field, arrived. You can buy copies from your favourite bookstore or directly from Turnstone Press. ❤️🐝
www.turnstonepress.com/books/pollin...
www.turnstonepress.com/books/pollin...
Grateful to be invited to take part in a local book club meeting for The Donoghue Girl. ❤️☘️🙏
@latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
@latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Grateful to be invited to take part in a local book club meeting for The Donoghue Girl. ❤️☘️🙏
@latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
@latitude46pub.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social