Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Thank you Funicular and editor Jason Norman for including, "Vibration!" 000
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolStrider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The Starbeck Orion issue #14 Not Advent Anthology Day 16 of 25 featuring the reprinted poetry of Strider Marcus Jones open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...open.substack.comThe Starbeck Orion issue #14 Not Advent Anthology Day 16 of 25 featuring the reprinted poetry of Strider Marcus JonesA Feast Of Word And Image 0167
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolSHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Strider Marcus Jones and 23 other poets from around the world are included in the 1st anniversary of issue of SHINE Quarterly...coming out THIS FRIDAY, Dec. 5th. Stay tuned! #shinepoetry #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #internationalcommunity 085
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolRachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to? 758128773788
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolEva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Heya, if you're a Kindle user in North America, I've just been informed that the U.S. edition of my first book is gonna be $3 on there for all of April. That's like half the price of a latte! 32611
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolStrider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Thankye brilliant Editor Nolcha Fox for publishing these two poems. Delighted. chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/2...chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com2 Poems by Strider Marcus JonesSO OPEN, BUT SO SILENT TO YOURSELF so open, but so silent to yourself,like missing books messing up a shelf-some unfinished, the others read,somewhere else in someone’s head.reason is relucta… 0114
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolEva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Periodic reminder, amidst the mayhem, that my new nonfiction story collection NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS is in stock at Halifax's @kingsbookstore.bsky.social - and they ship!kingsbookstore.caNo Sleep 'til Fairbanks 26311
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 13/12/2024"When I rode the school bus to high school, a teenage boy regularly spat at me, his spittle hitting my jacket and slowly gyrating to the floor. Every school day my stomach lurched when I climbed the bus steps and stumbled to my seat." —Charmaine Arjoonlalanmly.orgCharmaine Arjoonlal – ANMLY 0124
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolJamie Etheridge @lescribbler.bsky.social · 24/01/2024"I looked up to see a short man trying to be tall, wearing cowboy boots. I felt a tingling I had never felt before. It felt funny but it was a nice kind of funny. He’s the laughing Buddha, I thought." - Charmaine Arjoonlal in @reckonreview.bsky.social #cnf #essay reckonreview.com/of-curry-and...reckonreview.comOf Curry and Men – Reckon Review 051
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolPinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Charmaine Arjoonlal joins our interview series today, sharing her poem ‘Wild Abandon,’ how she writes & revises her work, & the inspiration she finds in the world around her. Thanks for sharing your work & time with us Charmaine! read the full interview: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... 094
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 06/10/2024"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay." - Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS 133587
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Thanks to Editor Thomas Page! academyoftheheartandmind.com/2025/01/13/p...academyoftheheartandmind.comPlastic FlowersBy Charmaine Arjoonlal Vanity of vanity Vanity of vanity… All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:14 Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto I DODGED THROUGH the din and smells and shoppers to purchase ano… 1114
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy New Year. Wishing everyone laughter and joy and most of all, peace, in 2025! 080
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolSari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social · 01/01/2025"Around age 60 I finally discovered my ideal role: writing obituaries. I’ve now written more than 1,000 of them. I never tire of exploring how and why people take (or choose?) one path or another in life." - James R. Hagerty in Oldster Magazine. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-68...oldster.substack.comThis is 68: Obituary Writer James Robert Hagerty Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire"Obituaries are about life, not death. If obituaries can't be fun, I always say, what's the point of dying?" 0181
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolMichael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Nobody will ever have a cooler NYT obit photo www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/b...nytimes.comDorothy Allison, Author of ‘Bastard Out of Carolina,’ Dies at 75She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered. 314619
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolIryn Tushabe (she/her) @wordsweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I’ve been hanging out here for a day now, so let me introduce myself. I’m a Ugandan-Canadian writer of short stories, CNF, journalism. My debut novel comes out April 22, 2025 (House of Anansi). I’m working on a memoir-in-essays. Here’s one in The Walrus: thewalrus.ca/losing-my-fa...thewalrus.caLosing My Faith and Finding Other Ways to Pray | The WalrusFaith was something I shared with my mother. When she died, I didn’t know what to believe in 1429
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I'm delighted to have "Catharsis" included in Issue 19 of The Inflectionist Review! Warm thanks to editors John Sibley Williams & A. Molotkov for selecting my poem! www.inflectionism.cominflectionism.comThe Inflectionist ReviewThe Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive contemporary poetry that fosters dialog between the reader and writer, between words and their meanings, between ambiguity an... 1170
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Thanks Ravens Perch for publishing my CNF story, "Love in the Air"! @theravensperch.bsky.social 1132
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolDanny Ramadan @dannyramadan.com · 09/12/2024Had a good conversation with Stephen Quinn on the CBC Early Edition today about the fall of the Assad regime in #Syria www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...cbc.ca 082
Reposted by Charmaine ArjoonlolQuite Interesting @qi.com · 06/12/2024In the 1920s, dentist Samuel Aykroyd regularly hosted séances. Samuel’s son, Maurice, was a Bell Telephone engineer who tried to contact the dead via radio. Maurice’s son, Peter, wrote the book 'A History of Ghosts'. Peter's son is Dan Aykroyd, writer and star of Ghostbusters. 462429294
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Thank you Anmly (EIC Sarah Clark) for first publishing my CNF story, "SNAPSHOTS" and for Memoirland for including it in Memoir Monday! @anmlymag.bsky.social mag @saribotton.bsky.social @sarahclark.bsky.social 0168