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Kirti Bhadresa

@beingkirti.bsky.social
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she/her Author of An Astonishment of Stars (ECW Press 2024)✨💕✨ Living and writing in Calgary - Treaty 7 www.beingkirti.com

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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Send in your work, friends! I am super excited to read some great stories!
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
When Words Collide is a fantastic, vibrant festival for writers, readers and fans. I’m thrilled to be part of this panel this year and hope you can join us! All the details at www.whenwordscollide.org
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So exciting! Thrilled to be listed alongside these authors 💕
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Searching for the perfect bookish gift? Calgary short story writer @beingkirti.bsky.social shares four thoughtful titles to round out your holiday shopping list in our latest #ALUGiftGuide. Read her picks: alllitup.ca/gift-guide-w...
A graphic reading "Gift Guide Week with Kirti Bhadresa" There is an inset photo of Kirti and her four book picks: The World So Wide by Zilla Jones;  All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong; Contraband Bodies by Jide Salawu; The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Denison Avenue (both book and audiobook versions) is one of my all time favourites! Read it for free this week! It will change you. 💚
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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Congratulations to Kirti Bhadresa whose book An Astonishment of Stars was longlisted for The Giller Prize! @gillerprize.bsky.social @beingkirti.bsky.social #gillerprize
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/07/2025
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The targeting of a Globe reporter needs to be fully investigated
Journalists have been targets of intimidation forever, but unfounded attacks on the fourth estate have become more common in recent years
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thank you Calgary for reading my book!
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Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Win $1000 dollars and get published! Calling all Alberta writers to submit to the 26th annual Alberta Views Short Story Contest. Entry deadline: June 30. Learn more at albertaviews.ca/short-story-... #shortstory #fiction #ABleg #ABwriters #ABAuthors #writingcontest
Short Story Contest.
Prize: $1,000
Submit your previously unpublished story of a chance to be published in Alberta Views magazine. 
Entry Deadline: June 30, 2025
Full Rules: albertaviews.ca/short-story-contest
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Overjoyed, shocked and SO grateful to see An Astonishment of Stars on the short list for a 2025 Alberta Literary Award. 📚💚
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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🇨🇦 While many of us are looking to “buy Canadian” these days, it can be difficult to figure out how Canadian a product really is. Our publisher, David Caron, has put together 4 pieces to consider when it comes to buying Canadian books: ecwpress.com/blogs/whats-...
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A guy walked past yesterday was wearing a highly unflattering (size up, dude!) shirt that said "Make White Babies" and apart from being gross on so many levels, I wonder if the shirt has the effect on the ladies that he's hoping for? Even the racist ones? Anyway,living in Alberta isn't always easy.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
❤️❤️❤️
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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#SettlerSaturday #treaty7 Donate your empty bottles with this link app.skipthedepot.com/reconciliation Or send funds directly to; reconciliationactiongroupyyc@gmail.com May 5th Red Dress / Ribbon Event www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
# Settler Saturday

Settler Treaty 7 partners participate in community care!

We have an ongoing fund, so we can contribute to honorariums, food and legal fees when needed and we accept contributions year-round. 

Did you know we have a Skip the Depot account? 
You can get your empty bottles out of your way and donate the proceeds to RAG

Contributions are also gratefully accepted at

reconciliationactiongroupyyc@gmail.com
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Helllooooo so we are still very very in the red. This continues to because of the # of top ups, which keeps Gazans connected continuously. We are nearly at a million and a half USD. Help us reach this goal by March! Donate: 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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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I LOVE to talk craft so I really can't wait for this event. I hope you can join us! Wed Feb 26! shelflifebooks.ca/events/18250...
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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Speaking of book besties… you can come hang out with @beingkirti.bsky.social and me (and other folks) tomorrow night at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social for Woolf’s Voices! #CanLit #yyc #yycarts #events @newestpress.bsky.social
Woolf’s Voices. An evening of poetry, writing, art, and music. Curated and hosted by Adrienne Adams. Performances by Brittnev Pickett, Julie Sedivy, Kirti Bhadresa, SallvVTruss, Samantha Jones, and Talia Larsen. February 12, 7 PM, Shelf Life Books, 1312 4th Street SW, Calgary, Alberta. Everyone Welcome. Supported by Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
These were fun questions! Thanks so much @alllitupcanada.bsky.social 💕✨
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm running a little story writing workshop for a Guides group TONIGHT for kids aged 8-10ish and it's my first time doing anything like this. If you have any fun tips please send ! #booksky
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The stunning realization as a mother-writer that my kids are old enough that I could slip away for a writing residency, something I've always dreamed of. Let the application process begin! #booksky
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/01/2025
Research suggests public support for climate policy is detached from emissions and economic trends, and instead driven by imagining a thriving, clean economy. 🌱
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Here’s How to Win Support for Climate Action | The Tyee
Talk about future economic benefits. Focus less on the carbon tax.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Love my hometown crowd 💕🎉
Calgary’s Bestselling Book list for the week ending Jan 23. An Astonishment of Stars is #2!
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SD Simper | Author @sdsimper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How it feels to be an author on social media rn
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
So happy to see An Astonishment of Stars here! Thanks to those who bought a copy. Love to the indies! 💕🎉💚
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
@manahil.bsky.social is such an brilliant, moving writer so this recognition means so much to me. 💕
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Putting this here because it’s such a beautifully written review of An Astonishment of Stars that I will keep forever. 💕 ✨ www.thetemzreview.com/hussain-bhad...
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Thank you for this kind and thoughtful review of An Astonishment of Stars @thegateway.bsky.social! 💕✨
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Casually recommend books by diverse authors. Gift loved ones poetry not written by Mary Oliver (yes, I think she's wonderful too). Read novels that don't happen in locations you are already comfortable with. Shift the centre.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The thing is, every 15 seconds or so, I thought the winner was going to address the genocidal elephant in the room, and she grazed it very lightly, which I get because...diplomacy. But also babies are dying every day and their lives deserve space. Their deaths deserve to be named for what they are.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Still over here watching this clip on repeat.
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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
i read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and it’s incredibly powerful & should be read by everyone. In the interest of making the words of @omarelakkad available to as many people as possible, we’re taking pre-orders at 40% off at kingsbookstore.ca/oneday
One Day Everyone Will Have Always  Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 17/11/2024
5 days left to get 10 free ebooks from Haymarket
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
ONE WEEK LEFT ✅ to submit to our 2025 issues! Put the final touches on your pieces, folks, and send it our way! 🔗 in bio to submit! 🧵
A transluscent illustration of a mystical hallway is overlayed with a red background. A thin, square, white border appears around the image, with the augur logo above the box and the augur website URL below. Inside the borders, the following text appears linearly: "dreamy. surreal. immersive. 1 week left to submit. $100 CAD per poem. $0.14 CAD per word (fiction, 800+ words). $112 CAD per flash fic (>800 words)." An orange banner appears beneath the text, with a white envelope graphic and the words "pass it on" inside.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I love Canada’s independent publishers and booksellers, so seeing my book on this bestseller list is such a joy. An Astonishment of Stars is in great company. ✨💕✨ hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/2024/11...
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The Hamilton Review of Books' Independently Published Bestsellers List: October 2024 — Hamilton Review of Books
Take a look at which independently published books Canadians are purchasing from independent bookstores.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
That feeling when someone you know tells you they just started reading your book then never mention it again.
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Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Okay so what would be extra helpful would be if those making “starter packs” did a quick scan for diversity, and consciously considered which voices they amplify from the start. It’s a 2 minute exercise, promise.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations." - Lauren Groff
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Sensitivity readers exist to help you tell your story without doing harm, not to help you tell someone else's story without anyone getting mad at you.
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