Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentAnna Swanson @annajswan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025So 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...eventbrite.caArsenal Pulp Spring Poetry Launch: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber DawnJoin us for a triple poetry launch from Arsenal Pulp Press: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn! Hosted by Kai Cheng Thom. 162
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I 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...arcpoetry.caOrgasm, Pain, and The Void: An Interview with Amber DawnBuzzkill 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. 040
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025www.bgsqd.com/event/strang...bgsqd.comEvents for April 2025 – BGSQD 000
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025See you tomorrow, NYC. I be reading with @aaantons.bsky.social @emializh.bsky.social and Dia Felix. Swoon! 190
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentisabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Canada’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.socialmoritherapy.wixsite.com2025 Muriel's Journey Poetry PrizeSubmit 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: 021
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentg @thrillandgrace.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Happy #NationalPoetryMonth day 18 c/o X. Rae Alessandro from the Hustling Verse anthology, curated by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social and Justin Ducharme 022
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentarsenalpulp.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)arsenalpulp.comThe Fates Spring Poetry TourArsenal 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 ... 021
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...prismmagazine.caTeeth, Guts, and Growths: A Review of Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn 1102
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentrob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025happy 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...the-wood-lot.ca“12 Questions Of My Own” For Canadian poet rob mclennan12 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… 1206
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025One week from today: @jayesimpson.bsky.social and I launch our poetry collections. 071
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentTorrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I 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. 513816
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentMargo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell 0101
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Canada’s literary institutions are banding together about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...ctvnews.caCanadian book industry calls on government to keep it out of trade warCanada’s literary institutions are banding together on the eve of an expected announcement about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books. 020
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentRyka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Wow...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! 1344
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025So, @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... 1197
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentAmanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A 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 032
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Thank 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...49thshelf.comMost Anticipated: Our 2025 Spring Poetry Preview · Blog Post · 49th ShelfPoetry to look forward to in the first half of 2025. 094
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 0114
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentarsenalpulp.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... 0112
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentâpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Na 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. 28922
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentrob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Terese Mason Pierre, Myth / @teresempierre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/tere...robmclennan.blogspot.comTerese Mason Pierre, MythTransfer Much occurs in the glow behind my eyes. With every blink, memory expires, guides me to a new construction. In an ideal wo... 0103
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentJane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Hi 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 #ConnectingGazabit.lyCrips for eSims for GazaCrips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 2201374
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Thank you, brilliant friend. I’m sure I can get myself around the PNW too. 110
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025www.eventbrite.ca/e/arsenal-pu...eventbrite.caArsenal Pulp Spring Poetry Launch: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber DawnJoin us for a triple poetry launch from Arsenal Pulp Press: jaye simpson, Kyo Lee, and Amber Dawn! Hosted by Kai Cheng Thom. 000
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Save 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 1174
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025BAD 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 185
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentSparkle Plenty @sparkleplentys.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Fuck this and fuck ABC 1103
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025With 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. 020
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025a 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. 131
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentCasey Plett @caseyplett.com · 23/02/2025A 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.open.substack.comEvery Living Transsexual Is A Republican Policy FailureLiving in spite 211455303
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025In a wonderful alternate universe, we’re reading poems together 110
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025A 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 1246
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentKai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 18/02/2025A 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...open.substack.comWhat’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025A Primer for Allies & Comrades 07522
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentmanywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2025happy 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/manyworlds.placeIssue 7 -a creative place for the space (in) between. 185
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025This new poem in @manyworlds.place is dedicated to babes with chronic pain 051
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Honored to have a poem included in the gorgeous issue. 110
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Thank you, @razorfemme.bsky.social for reading my weird, filthy book. 0192
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I 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. 0187
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Following! Thank you for the recommendation. 💫 Thanks for reading SRE too! 010
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentHeidi Klaassen @heidiklaassen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Choose 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 122
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Thank you! I’m truly touched to have made your list of 20. 020
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Book 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 0122
Reposted by Amber Dawn is bentSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/01/2025I loved & love this book. You will love this book & want to give copies to all ur nearest, queerest & dearest. So pre-order a 💐 122
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2025😭 Honoured to be small part of your shine 110