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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful broadside made by Colby Clair Stolson of bald gopher press. Only $15 plus shipping. Let me know if you want one. Will bring some on tour for sure. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 11h

What a delightful Harvest book fair in Edmonton. With Alice Major, Colby Clair Stolson, Trisia Eddy Woods, Marco Melfi and Alexis Marie Chute! And thanks to Freehand Books for being there with copies of Moving to Delilah :) #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 12h

www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/sixteen-ho... a review is out from the ARC and it seems favourable ;) thanks Micaela and The Seaboard Review of Books. #canlit

theseaboardreview.ca

Sixteen Homes: a Memoir by Catherine Owen

A Review by Micaela Carcamo

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finished my book proofs! Now back to reading with the poetry cat. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Old school set type, my poem readied for printing as a broadside from Colby Clair Stolson. That equinoctial bee, thick-winged, sluggish in the sun's last hot huff over the earth, snugged deep in the corolla, hours of slow pollen accreting. We need you more than anything. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What the back of my next book says. Pre-order if so compelled at #wolsakandwynn. And thanks to those three valued reviewers. RIP Michael and Mark. You are much missed. #canlit.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's International Poetry Day I hear. Every day is poetry day for me and this is my John Deere Writing Studio where I write poems and much else in the way of words. And read read read! Real writers read a ton and buy books and support the art of others, n'est pas? #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not on Instasham but I was sent this lil preview of Sixteen Homes, which I appreciate, and so here it is ;) #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Somehow a symbol of today's fragilities and tenacities. #canlit.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wake up in the middle of the night and come up with ideas for my poetic forms talks and group work. The organic nature of evolving discourse is part of the essential connection teachers make with their students. The intent behind education. Irreplaceable. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Burning sexist manuals from 1983 left in my bookbox ;) Another gorgeous autumn day.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Comfy AND revolutionary. All Large and Unisex for now but I will print specific sizes in the future if needed. Let me know if you want one for 38 plus 5 bucks shipping across Canada. #canlit #don'tbedaftrememberduft

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Holding to these moments of fall light. #canlit.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A few semi-poetic notes I made this morning on the absolute idiocy of all these not smart, non-intelligent systems that are aiming to destroy all that matters about humanity including our environment. O how I want to return to a home phone, a set of encyclopedias and other systems of greater sanity.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, Toronto and Ottawa or literally anywhere in ON at present, where are your reading series for Non-Fiction or a poetry/prose combo? I have never had such a tough time finding anywhere to launch Sixteen Homes beyond BC and AB. Living room series are also fantab! Next Spring is best. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will just keep popping this reminder up. Fascist tools are designed to empty you of intelligence and imagination and even the will to live and thus make you easier to control and crush. Keep fighting. And friends don't let friends play with fascist tools "for fun." #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the semi-stressy time of prepping my book for publication my finally-rebloomed orchids keep me in the calm zone and remind me that patience is everything. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have a beautiful Equinox, thinkers and feelers of the world. #canlit

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Mark (Andrew) Witham ↗️ @puffmushroom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I support Univeral Basic Income. How about you?

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So excited to approve the copy edits of my next book, Sixteen Homes: a memoir, today. In the meantime, enjoy these shots of the stunning Cirque Kalabante from Guinea/Montreal who performed in my neighbourhood this weekend! #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The annual Kaleido Festival in my Edmonton neighbourhood is a timely reminder that people will always need to create and gather. So much beauty, music, hilarity and warmth. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, morning cat and books are everything. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am making this shirt. It goes for $38 plus shipping. They are all Large and Unisex. Let me know if you want one. Will be taking a few on my mini-book tours too. Down with the artificial thief. Nothing it offers is what you need. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All these beautiful faces to still wake up to. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A flicker's skull after months under leaves.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Students in university are knitting and collecting bread tags and making up imaginary worlds on paper with groups of friends and dressing up stuffies and wanting poems to sing in archaic languages. They are sick of your empty fascistic machines. Let them be fully human. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, it got frosty last night so I guess it's.....

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just so "you" know, when my book comes out I DO NOT want gushy blurbs masquerading as reviews. Obviously I don't seek silence but reviews that aren't intelligent, balanced, astute and willing to take risks are basically a waste of space. And patronizing. And robots? Stay away. Grrrrr. #canlit.

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Over the past year of writing reviews for Canadian periodicals I have learned: one cannot make but a teensy living off it; one is only allowed to write once a year for many; if one cannot say all nice things one should not say anything; they will "endeavour" to pay at some point. Come on #canlit.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Klein:The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking for published Canadian poets interested in form poems to answer a few questions on form and give me the permission to use one of their form poems for a manuscript I am working on! Please contact me at catherineowenwriter@gmail.com #canlit. THANK YOU!

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

notional.space/z-event-page... Vancouverites! This is THE launch for Sixteen Homes with Kevin Spenst and Chika Buston! #canlit

notional.space

KEVIN SPENST CATHERINE OWEN – Notional Space

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hope: a tech worker who made artificial thieves leaves to "study poetry." True news story. I hold to every shred of transcendence. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ian Brown, from 70. Bingo! and so so so many more reasons to not use fascist tools. #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A former student told me today she wished SO much she could take my Poetic Forms class again because she loved it SO much. And this is the kind of enthusiasm that keeps me going as a sessional instructor :) #canlit

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who knows about cortisol surges in peri-menopause? I didn't. And then I remembered my mother going to the hospital, thinking she was having a heart attack in the night. And I knew that is what this was. No doctors still have said a thing about this common symptom to me. Any personal tips?

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just finished doing the edits to this memoir out in a month, in time for Edmonton's Nonfiction Lit Fest on October 18th, and now feel relieved. Working with Noelle Allen off and on over the past two decades has always lifted my mind and given me the hope that the book will find its readership.

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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is worth reading. I listened to a panel including Ben MacIntosh last week, and she is very articulate and committed. A joy to listen to. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

thetyee.ca

The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee

Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And I wrote a poem about the Beautiful documentary too. Grab them out of the vortex now. #canlit

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 07/09/2026

Basic income is our share of the capital we all helped build.

It's a social media "screenshot" of BIA's earlier post.
"This Labor Day, ask where the returns on labor actually go. Basic income isn't about rewarding work, it's about making sure everyone shares in the wealth we all help create."

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