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Amber Dawn is bent

@amberdawnwrites.bsky.social
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Kitchen witch, sparkle mind & aging whore. Wrote SUB ROSA, SODOM ROAD EXIT and other queer weird books. New poetry collection BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL Spring 2025. arsenalpulp.com/Contributors/D/Dawn…

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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just messaged you!
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wait, will you be there?
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Anna Swanson @annajswan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So excited about this launch on Wed hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social. The books all look amazing, but I was lucky enough to have the chance to read Buzzkill Clamshell by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social pre-pub & I can tell you it's truly spectacular. Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/arsenal-pu...
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Arsenal Pulp Spring Poetry Launch: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn
Join us for a triple poetry launch from Arsenal Pulp Press: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn! Hosted by Kai Cheng Thom.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I didn’t know it was a life goal to be featured in an interview titled “Orgasm, Pain, and The Void” until now! arcpoetry.ca/editorials/m...
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Orgasm, Pain, and The Void: An Interview with Amber Dawn
Buzzkill Clamshell, a book that "flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power," is Amber Dawn's eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Events for April 2025 – BGSQD
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
See you tomorrow, NYC. I be reading with @aaantons.bsky.social @emializh.bsky.social and Dia Felix. Swoon!
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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn... @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social‬‬ @christinashah.bsky.social‬‬ @arielletwist.bsky.social‬‬ @sannawani.bsky.social‬‬
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2025 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize
Submit your poetry to the 2025 MURIEL’S JOURNEY POETRY PRIZE. What's Muriel's Journey all about? Find out here PRIZE:First Prize $100 First Prize for a poem by a Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) contributor $100 Second Prize $50 Fortuna's Choice: $35 for a poem selected at random from the longlist of general entry poemsAll winners and honorary mentions will be published in Fire In The Heart, the Muriel’s Journey Chapbook for 2025. CRITERIA: Content: Should meet one or more of these criteria:
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g @thrillandgrace.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth day 18 c/o X. Rae Alessandro from the Hustling Verse anthology, curated by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social and Justin Ducharme
Text of poem “Noon prayers on rug-burned knees” by X. Rae Alessandro from the collection, Hustling Verse.
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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
👉 View event details: arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/Th... (Amber Dawn @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social) (jaye simpson @jayesimpson.bsky.social)
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The Fates Spring Poetry Tour
Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
""Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in [Buzzkill Clamshell], Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies." This review means everything; thanks @margolapierre.bsky.social prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/04/t...
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Teeth, Guts, and Growths: A Review of Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
happy poetry month! i got interviewed by Chris Banks for The Woodlot @thewoodlot.bsky.social ! thanks much! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; the-wood-lot.ca/2025/04/03/1...
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“12 Questions Of My Own” For Canadian poet rob mclennan
12 or 20 Questions? Two can play at that game! But seriously, rob mclennan is a prolific Canadian writer and tireless community organizer who has been interviewing other writers for decades with hi…
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
One week from today: @jayesimpson.bsky.social and I launch our poetry collections.
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Torrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I wrote about trying to figure out how bad you have to make things in a story so that your novel seems realistic in the near future. It’s funnier than it sounds.
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Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Canada’s literary institutions are banding together about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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Canadian book industry calls on government to keep it out of trade war
Canada’s literary institutions are banding together on the eve of an expected announcement about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books.
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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wow...I've not written poetry in a while. But I have a reading tomorrow, and nothing I've written is saying what I want to say. SO I'm writing something brand new! :) If you're in LA ,come join me, @charliejane.bsky.social, @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social and a whole lineup of incredible writers!
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
So, @margolapierre.bsky.social asks the greatest questions. This interview with @arcpoetry.bsky.social online newsletter is the most fun I've had talking about my work in my 25 years of publishing. mailchi.mp/fa5f77dae6f1...
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Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A wee bit late on getting my mail, but so happy to have this gorgeous poetry collection by my deeply talented friend @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social in hand. Congratulations, you beautiful soul. I’m taking it to bed right meow ✨ #poetry #canadianpoetry #arsenalpulppress
Displayed on a windowsill, the cover of Amber Dawn’s newest collection of poetry, Buzzkill Clamshell.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank you @49thshelf.bsky.social for including BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL in your Most Anticipated Spring Poetry Collections. Also, I want every collection listed, right now! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/03...
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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Spring Poetry Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Poetry to look forward to in the first half of 2025.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#awp offsite @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social
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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🐚🫧 New! #BuzzkillClamshell, the latest poetry collection by Amber Dawn (@amberdawnwrites.bsky.social), flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power. 👉 Out now in Canada (USA April 1, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Buzz...
The cover of the book "Buzzkill Clamshell" by Amber Dawn, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com.

At the top of the book cover is the book title, “Buzzkill Clamshell,” and the author’s name, “Amber Dawn.” At the bottom is a large pink clamshell opened to reveal three pearls in its centre. On the left are two plants, one with wavy multi-branched stems ending in round buds, and the other with three stems ending in yellow bell-shaped flowers that dip over the book title. In the bottom left corner, beneath the plants, is the word “Poems.” The cover is illustrated in a hand-painted semi-realistic style by Rebecca Chaperon.Amber Dawn, self-portrait.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Na na na na na, goodbye. The HBC paved the way for Canadian colonialism, "acquiring" hundreds of thousands of acres of land (how? No one knows!) then selling it as Rupertsland to "Canada." Then came the violent and genocidal push west.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Terese Mason Pierre, Myth / @teresempierre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/tere...
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Terese Mason Pierre, Myth
Transfer Much occurs in the glow behind my eyes. With every blink, memory expires, guides me to a new construction. In an ideal wo...
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hi everyone, We aren’t receiving funds quickly enough for our current spending. Remember: if we do not raise enough, we will have to potentially cut thousands of people off from the Internet, during Ramadan. Let’s not let this happen. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thank you, brilliant friend. I’m sure I can get myself around the PNW too.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.eventbrite.ca/e/arsenal-pu...
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Arsenal Pulp Spring Poetry Launch: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn
Join us for a triple poetry launch from Arsenal Pulp Press: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn! Hosted by Kai Cheng Thom.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Save the Date, Toronto. April 30. Triple poetry launch with Kyo Lee, @jayesimpson.bsky.social and me. Hosted by the luminous @razorfemme.bsky.social. Book sales by your favourite indie @anotherstoryto.bsky.social The Eventbrite is ready, if you'd like to pre-register. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
BAD ROMANCE #AWP Offsite - readings for the filthy bent & heartbroken. 💦 dream line up: @rykaaoki.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @clementgoldberg.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social @alexmlwrites.bsky.social

Background photo is of a pink vibrator discarded on a dirty sidewalk near a bus shelter. 

Readers: 
Adèle Barclay
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Amber Dawn
Brandi Bird
Britt McGillivray
Charlie Jane Anders
Clement Goldberg
Dora Prieto
Nisa Malli
Ryka Aoki

Thurs Mar 27, 7 pm

North Figueroa Bookshop
6040 N Figueroa St
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Sparkle Plenty @sparkleplentys.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fuck this and fuck ABC
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
With poems populated by severed heads, domme swan maidens, horny oracles, and other horrible purveyors of pleasure, Buzzkill Clamshell reads as if a leather dyke and a demonic goat had a baby - gleefully embracing the perverse while stomping its way through chronic pain and complex PTSD.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. It examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception.
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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 23/02/2025
A decade ago, I went on book tour with Sybil Lamb. We did 32 cities across the US/Canada, read with dozens of writers and met hundreds of people. So many of them are now dead. All of them are transsexuals. The oldest didn't make it to 50. I say this because I want you to live and I'm going to too.
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Every Living Transsexual Is A Republican Policy Failure
Living in spite
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In a wonderful alternate universe, we’re reading poems together
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A perfectly bent serendipity has happened to me. I share a publisher and launch season with poet and artist jaye simpson, which means we get stomp around on book tour together. Find out more about our new poetry collections with @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @jayesimpson.bsky.social
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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A while ago, I made an IG post to explain some of the material threats to life and wellbeing that trans people are currently facing - just cross-posted to Substack since I heard some folks are finding it useful to share What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025 open.substack.com/pub/kaicheng...
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What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025
A Primer for Allies & Comrades
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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2025
happy release day to ISSUE 7 ❤️‍🔥 we hope this issue warms your hearts as much as it did ours while curating it. click through for some brand new, stunning works from some of our brilliant contributors 💫 manyworlds.place/issue-7/
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Issue 7 -
a creative place for the space (in) between.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This new poem in @manyworlds.place is dedicated to babes with chronic pain
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Honored to have a poem included in the gorgeous issue.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ty, babes 💖
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thank you, @razorfemme.bsky.social for reading my weird, filthy book.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I don’t know how tariffs will impact Canadian books (doesn’t look good). Now would be the time to ask your local indie bookstore and libraries to stock up on trans and queer books published in Canada.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Following! Thank you for the recommendation. 💫 Thanks for reading SRE too!
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Buzzkills unite! 💕
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Heidi Klaassen @heidiklaassen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 2/20 How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir, by Amber Dawn @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Thank you! I’m truly touched to have made your list of 20.
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Book Unboxing at the @arsenalpulp.bsky.social office. I am happy to my core to share a launch season with @jayesimpson.bsky.social and her sophomore collection, a body more tolerable
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thank you dearly ♥️
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/01/2025
I loved & love this book. You will love this book & want to give copies to all ur nearest, queerest & dearest. So pre-order a 💐
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Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
😭 Honoured to be small part of your shine
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