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McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We're so excited to announce two of our amazing 2026 Spring Residents — Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum! We're honored to be able to support these writers and hope you will, too. Learn more about our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...

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Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hi everyone, My third collection, Empties, is out in March! "Empties" as a verb, "empties" as a plural noun. And how empty bottles can sing. 💛 I'll share details about upcoming launches soon. Here's the cover (design by David Drummond)

Book cover with a skipping stone mid-splash

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MW @emdubbleu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I returned to Blue Sky and I am going to make a valiant attempt to post the books I have read this upcoming year. You may also see doodles.

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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that our 2025 – 2026 Poet-in-Residence will be Cassidy McFadzean! From November 2025 to July 2026, Cassidy will be mentoring poets and creating new work for a future issue of Arc Poetry. Do you want to workshop your own poetry with Cassidy? Details here: buff.ly/B072bOs

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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress captures seasons as an artistic expression occupying our internal state. Reviewer Margaryta Golovchenko reflects on the seasons presented in individual sections as the “self that never stops growing, despite the weather.” Read the full review here: buff.ly/nZKdJUc

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 13/05/2025

The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller forced the prize to drop Scotiabank over its ties to Israel’s biggest weapons maker—and sparked a broader reckoning in CanLit. Josiah Neufeld tells the inside story of the organizers who made it happen. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...

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Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach

The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community

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Cassidy McFadzean @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A new review of Crying Dress in the spring issue of @arcpoetry.bsky.social 🌸 "McFadzean creates the sensation of time unravelling on an individual level as the speaker moves across geographical spaces and emotional states"

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"All the apartment's doorknobs have been removed The last tenant afraid of being locked inside In a house with no exits" #TodaysPoem #poetry Storm King by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social (2024 @longconmagazine.bsky.social) in Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (@Biblioasis.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex

Poet Cassidy McFadzean reads at the Best Canadian Poetry 2025 book launch at Queen Books in Toronto - The poet is in the background, against book shelves. Her poem "Storm King" is held up in the foreground.

Poet Cassidy McFadzean gestures, standing in front of bookshelves, as she reads at the Best Canadian Poetry 2025 book launch at Queen Books in Toronto.

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Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

excited to read with @teresempierre.bsky.social and @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for the @theampersandreview.bsky.social reading series at Sheridan College next Thursday!

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Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It’s publication day for Dead Writers, a collaborative fiction project by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. 💀 invisiblepublishing.com/product/dead...

The book "Dead Writers" by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum against a dark wood background.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/03/2025

In writer @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social’s “Forest Hill Gothic,” a woman reflects on the domestic routines she witnessed in childhood as she takes up the project of repairing her in-laws’ home: thewalrus.ca/forest-hill-gothic/

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/03/2025

“It seemed like an easy fix, replacing the rusted old hose with a shiny new one.” Read “Forest Hill Gothic,” a new short story from writer @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social: thewalrus.ca/forest-hill-gothic/

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"I first found them in the forest at Blanket as a girl, not knowing their purpose, drawn to their pale colour, petals flecked with black and sometimes glowstick pink." #TodaysPoem #poetry Ghost flower by @CassidyMcFadzean.bsky.social (2025 Etcetera Poetry) tinyurl.com/2cn9nz2n

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Cassidy McFadzean — Etcetera

“I remember a professor at Iowa warning me against reading too much Lucie Brock-Broido, that the baroque exuberance of her poems might send me even further towards the esoteric and obscure. But what I...

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Cassidy McFadzean @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Creative Writing & Publishing students at Sheridan have collected nearly 700 signatures to save their program! www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

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Sign the Petition

Stop the Suspension of Sheridan’s Creative Writing and Publishing Program

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thanks to @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for writing this piece. The problems that CW&P faces are problems many institutions face at the moment. Oh, and I can't help but think that valuable programs could be saved only –– oh, if only –– some restructuring *cough*cuts*ahem* could be made at the top.

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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is more than scary! And pretty clear the G1ller Foundation has lost all integrity. Nevermind boycotting, it needs to be entirely dismantled. It's currently being run by directors & staff that are not arm's length, which means it is being run with the inherent biases of ER and related directors.

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Cassidy McFadzean @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

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CanLit Responds

Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

"My mask soaks up my tears I'm just so happy to be here singing Lucinda Williams's "Like a Rose" I never stutter when I'm alone" #TodaysPoem #poetry Little Island by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social from Crying Dress (2024 House of Anansi Press) tinyurl.com/yc5ahtuh

I hold the poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean (House of Anansi Press), with its intriguing cover image of, oh, is it a wooden doll? The sleeve of my purple hoodie is visible. A gray carpet and white walls can be seen in the background.

I hold open the poetry collection Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean to the poem "Little Island".

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