Heather J. "I Should Be Writing" Wood
@rollwithheather.bsky.social
Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
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Sexual assault, femicide, domestic violence, etc. stories are all over the news these days and it can make us feel really overwhelmed and powerless.
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
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Come learn bystander intervention with me - It's free!
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November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sexual assault, femicide, domestic violence, etc. stories are all over the news these days and it can make us feel really overwhelmed and powerless.
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
Might I suggest signing up to learn bystander intervention? It'll give you concrete tools to feel empowered. And it's free!
Join me:
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What We Carry is our newest column tracing stories of migration, movement + ancestral memory from authors who write across intersections of identity, borders, cultures + generations. @ecwpress.bsky.social @playcanpress.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
What We Carry: Fall 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
What We Carry is a book list by managing editor, Justine Abigail Yu, tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory from authors who write ...
49thshelf.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What We Carry is our newest column tracing stories of migration, movement + ancestral memory from authors who write across intersections of identity, borders, cultures + generations. @ecwpress.bsky.social @playcanpress.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
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As a Toronto nostalgia fan, this was fun to see. Until January 11, 2026, you can get a rare look at vintage shopping bags from the likes of: A&P, Dominion, Eaton's, Honest Ed's, Simpsons, The Hudson Bay Company, Woolworth's, Zellers… and more! At the Toronto Reference Library.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As a Toronto nostalgia fan, this was fun to see. Until January 11, 2026, you can get a rare look at vintage shopping bags from the likes of: A&P, Dominion, Eaton's, Honest Ed's, Simpsons, The Hudson Bay Company, Woolworth's, Zellers… and more! At the Toronto Reference Library.
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✨Submissions are open for the 2026 Sunburst Award. 2025 fantasy, magic realist, science fiction, speculative, supernatural horror and surrealist novels/short fiction collections by Canadian authors are eligible to be entered. #SpecFic #CanLit
submissions.sunburstaward.org
submissions.sunburstaward.org
Sunburst Award Submissions – For Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
submissions.sunburstaward.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
✨Submissions are open for the 2026 Sunburst Award. 2025 fantasy, magic realist, science fiction, speculative, supernatural horror and surrealist novels/short fiction collections by Canadian authors are eligible to be entered. #SpecFic #CanLit
submissions.sunburstaward.org
submissions.sunburstaward.org
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Play this instead of "Wonderful Christmastime" this season.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Play this instead of "Wonderful Christmastime" this season.
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NEW: “We need a mass program of deshittification.”
In this exclusive interview, @avilewis.ca tells @christoaivalis.bsky.social how he would rebuild Canada’s public services and reshape the economy as NDP leader.
In this exclusive interview, @avilewis.ca tells @christoaivalis.bsky.social how he would rebuild Canada’s public services and reshape the economy as NDP leader.
‘We need a mass program of deshittification’: Avi Lewis on rebuilding Canada’s public services
In a wide-ranging interview with Christo Aivalis, NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis outlines his vision for Canada, advocating bold public ownership, stronger public services, and economic sovereignt...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW: “We need a mass program of deshittification.”
In this exclusive interview, @avilewis.ca tells @christoaivalis.bsky.social how he would rebuild Canada’s public services and reshape the economy as NDP leader.
In this exclusive interview, @avilewis.ca tells @christoaivalis.bsky.social how he would rebuild Canada’s public services and reshape the economy as NDP leader.
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These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!
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Terrific feminist analysis from Nancy |Wilson on the lost opportunity of intergenerational wealth. rabble.ca/economy/mone...
Money is changing hands, not the system
Over the last ten years, about $1 trillion has transferred from Canadian baby boomers to their Gen X and Millennial heirs.
rabble.ca
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Terrific feminist analysis from Nancy |Wilson on the lost opportunity of intergenerational wealth. rabble.ca/economy/mone...
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50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
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November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
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The myth that only uneducated people can be racist is doing us all serious harm.
Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The myth that only uneducated people can be racist is doing us all serious harm.
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Save the Date ✨ Help us launch books by Leo X Robertson and Mel Anastasiou, along with Issue 48, featuring work by Renée Sarojini Saklikar! Join us for this triple launch at Café Duello on November 30th! mailchi.mp/16e4194fb7d1...
#sff #magazinelaunch #booklaunch #scifibook
#sff #magazinelaunch #booklaunch #scifibook
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Save the Date ✨ Help us launch books by Leo X Robertson and Mel Anastasiou, along with Issue 48, featuring work by Renée Sarojini Saklikar! Join us for this triple launch at Café Duello on November 30th! mailchi.mp/16e4194fb7d1...
#sff #magazinelaunch #booklaunch #scifibook
#sff #magazinelaunch #booklaunch #scifibook
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest!
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Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! - PULP Literature
Taking Flight We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! Here’s what final judge Kelly Robson had to say about [...]
pulpliterature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest!
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
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I’m gonna be a little contrarian about the discourse surrounding the CPC and Pierre Poilievre. To pundits, PCs, basically the upper class PP is a disaster. But to his base that’s not the case. And I think that split is class-based
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’m gonna be a little contrarian about the discourse surrounding the CPC and Pierre Poilievre. To pundits, PCs, basically the upper class PP is a disaster. But to his base that’s not the case. And I think that split is class-based
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ICYMI, my @xtramagazine.com column: Provinces' cavalier use of the Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign #canqueer #cdnpoli
Provinces’ cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign | Xtra Magazine
There should be a political cost for using the clause; unfortunately, there isn’t
xtramagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ICYMI, my @xtramagazine.com column: Provinces' cavalier use of the Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign #canqueer #cdnpoli
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Vancouver wins "Least Worst Public Transit" award ninth year in a row
Vancouver wins "Least Worst Public Transit" award ninth year in a row
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - For the ninth year in a row, celebrations were held at TransLink headquarters after Metro Vancouver won the “Least Worst Public Transit” award from the International Associatio...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Vancouver wins "Least Worst Public Transit" award ninth year in a row
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Second Story Press is featured in a Publisher Spotlight by 49th Shelf! 🌟 @49thshelf.bsky.social
Read the full interview with Second Story Press co-publishers Phuong Truong and Emma Rodgers here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
#Publisher #booksky #CanLit #Interview
Read the full interview with Second Story Press co-publishers Phuong Truong and Emma Rodgers here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
#Publisher #booksky #CanLit #Interview
Publisher Spotlight: Second Story Press · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Welcome to our new Publisher Spotlight series, where we highlight Canadian independent presses doing standout work in the literary and academic world. ...
49thshelf.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Second Story Press is featured in a Publisher Spotlight by 49th Shelf! 🌟 @49thshelf.bsky.social
Read the full interview with Second Story Press co-publishers Phuong Truong and Emma Rodgers here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
#Publisher #booksky #CanLit #Interview
Read the full interview with Second Story Press co-publishers Phuong Truong and Emma Rodgers here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...
#Publisher #booksky #CanLit #Interview
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Chapbook reviews.
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Chapbook reviews.
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
Three fantastic poetry books from ANSTRUTHER BOOKS @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social (Jay MillAr)
@hollay.bsky.social
@inkstainedwreck.ca
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
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“Reading Worldly Girls was something I really needed right now, and I’m grateful.” @junctionreads.bsky.social reviews @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social 's debut memoir:
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Reading Worldly Girls was something I really needed right now, and I’m grateful.” @junctionreads.bsky.social reviews @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social 's debut memoir:
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
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2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations
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This was such a lovely surprise! It was so nice to hear that my short story collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was a finalist in the American Bookfest BBA awards, in the Fiction: Short Story category 💗💗📚
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This was such a lovely surprise! It was so nice to hear that my short story collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was a finalist in the American Bookfest BBA awards, in the Fiction: Short Story category 💗💗📚
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
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Katie Welch is on the Artsy Raven Podcast talking about her wonderful book Ladder to Heaven. You can listen here:
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
Ep 93 Climate Fiction and Magical Realism with Katie Welch
YouTube video by The Artsy Raven Podcast about Writing & Art
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Katie Welch is on the Artsy Raven Podcast talking about her wonderful book Ladder to Heaven. You can listen here:
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
Youtube: youtu.be/qXmSLzqqQbU
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Hundreds of workers making EV delivery vans were recently laid off by GM — and they’re threatening to take over the plant.
Huge solidarity to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88. If they come for your machines, do as they say in Argentina:
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
youtube.com/shorts/4INYf...
Huge solidarity to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88. If they come for your machines, do as they say in Argentina:
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
youtube.com/shorts/4INYf...
A Message to the Workers of Unifor Local 88 | Avi Lewis #cdnpoli #ndp
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hundreds of workers making EV delivery vans were recently laid off by GM — and they’re threatening to take over the plant.
Huge solidarity to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88. If they come for your machines, do as they say in Argentina:
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
youtube.com/shorts/4INYf...
Huge solidarity to the workers of @unifor.org Local 88. If they come for your machines, do as they say in Argentina:
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
youtube.com/shorts/4INYf...