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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted that my Skin Hunger is among these great fall offerings from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social . I'm especially pleased that River of Dreams by my friend Robin Blackburn McBride is among them, but I am looking forward to reading them all.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Official release date for Skin Hunger is two days away! In the lead up, I'm sharing some words of advance praise I was so grateful to receive! I've known Paola Ferrante for some time as a fine writer and engaged community member. I am touched by what she's written. @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm delighted that the wonderful @wildroofjournal.bsky.social is highlighting an excerpt from Skin Hunger, my debut novel! Officially in the world as of October 1, 2026 but available for pre-order now! @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #womensfiction #canlit #bookstagramcanada #canadianauthor

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Skin Hunger” is a translation of the Danish term hudsult which literally means “starved for touch”. It relates to psychologist Harry Harlow’s comfort-contact theory and his experiments with baby rhesus monkeys during the 1960s. Learn more: guernicaeditions.com/products/ski... #animalrights

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A snapshot of where I and my @guernicaeditions.bsky.social novel, Skin Hunger, will be over the next couple of months. More details to follow (including who the wonderful folks I'll be reading with are). I'm hoping to catch up with many friends, old and new, in all these places!

green and blue background for list entitled Skin Hunger fall 2026 book tour with cover image of Skin Hunger beside the list
September 12, St. Lawrence Literary fest, Brockville
September 24, Ottawa book launch (DM for details)
September 27, Picton, Prince Edward County
October 6, Winnipeg, Speaking Crow series (poetry!)
October 8, Regina, Black Bird Commons bookstore
October 13, Calgary, Shelf Life Books
October 14, Winnipeg, Wild & Wonderful Words series
October 17, Winnipeg, Whodunnit Books
October 25, Ottawa International Writers Festival
October 27, Kingston, Novel Idea Bookstore

(stay tuned - more to come for November & onward)

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm so grateful to the Access Copyright Foundation for this generous grant to continue work on a new short story collection.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I had fun creating a playlist for my novel, Skin Hunger, which lets me introduce my main characters and some of the other women in the book. Read on the @guernicaeditions.bsky.social blog about how I chose the songs for them, and click through to the playlist.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

for city’s 200th, Ottawa’s English language poet laureate David O’Meara hosting the inaugural (annual) poetry reading at Beechwood Cemetery, by Frances Boyle, Cameron Anstee + Jean Van Loon, centred on (and on the birthday of) important early Bytown poet William Pittman Lett (1819-1892),

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Toxemia is an impressive and deeply moving evocation of survival, and of remembering.” @francesboyle19.bsky.social reviews @christinemcnair.bsky.social's "powerful and emotive collection of lyric essays" for @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ch...

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Review of Christine McNair’s "Toxemia" | FreeFall Magazine

By Frances Boyle Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*Hug (2024) Toxemia, the first work of creative non-fiction by multiple-award-winning poet Christine

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

News! My @guernicaeditions.bsky.social novel, Skin Hunger is now available for preorder from your local independent bookstore (or the big retailers, but I'd love if you'd support indies!). Pre-orders are important: for the publisher to establish print runs, and for bookstores to order and promote.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 01/07/2026

And the auction has started!

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Issue #66 of Gone Lawn is nearly filled, and we'll be closing submissions on Monday morning, so if you have something we should read then send it to us this weekend! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Delighted to be part of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social again. And this list of contributors!!!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Great thoughts as ever from @kateheartfield.com . And, if you'll be popping in to @booksonbeechwood.ca this Sunday morning to see Kate, consider sticking around to say hi to me and Wayne Ng, who will be the #cibd resident authors there to sign our books and chat from 11:30-1 pm!

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VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

2:30pm TODAY Presented in partnership with CU's Dept of English, join us at @carleton.ca (2017 Dunton Tower) for a FREE reading + Q&A with Karen Solie! Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural Saskatchewan. She is the author of six books. Her most recent, Wellwater, won EVERYTHING.

The words "VERSeFest EXTRA - Monday, March 30 - 2:30pm - Carleton University - Dunton Tower Rm 2017 - Reading and Q&A with Karen Solie" appear in white text against a pink background, next to a photo of Karen Solie - a white woman with sharp features. Her hair is pulled back in a pony tail, and she's wearing hoop earrings and a turtleneck.
Please note: This image is totally a screen-shot from our instagram account, which is why it's pretending there's a second slide.
There is no second slide.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I'm very happy to have my poem "Umbra" in the lovely spec lit magazine Sprawl. Thanks so much to editors @mahailasmith.ca and @oklibby.bsky.social . www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1#umbra

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Grateful to the editors of Great Lakes Review for publishing my poem Air, Locked. Check out fine writing from the regions in the US and Canada that touch on the lakes: greatlakesreview.org/air-locked/

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Air, Locked

To break the window glass, to merge air and air ― Cynthia MacDonald “The Triborough Bridge a Crown for his Head” Airy hands locked in challenge, a wealth of worries wrung from the embrace. Breath e…

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here's the first sneak peek at my novel Skin Hunger (upcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Oct 1). This tiny snippet appeared in the "micro-excerpts" issue of the great online mag, @gonelawn.bsky.social , thanks to EIC @owenwyke.bsky.social .

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Thanks @majorseventh.bsky.social and EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social for putting my Joni-Mitchell-inspired poem on repeat (and for publishing it in the first place!)

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Delighted that I'll have a poem in here! Coming soon!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Since I can now say "later this year" instead of "next year", here is the COVER REVEAL for Skin Hunger, my forthcoming novel. It will be published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social on October 1! Stand by for more soon.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm delighted that my first 2026 acceptance is from the wonderful print magazine @stanchion.bsky.social edited by Jeff Bogle. I've been submitting to them for several years and glad my poem "Misty Mountain" landed. It will appear in the upcoming Music themed issue 21. Available for pre-order now!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

By chance, two (fine) books I just finished are by profs at University of Regina, where I did my B.A. looong ago. Melanie Schnell's novel blends buried secrets, little-known history and environmental magic. @jesbattis.bsky.social's poetry collection is strong, witty and very moving.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My 2025 publishing numbers: - 33 pieces published - 180 rejections/ 26 acceptances, best ratio since 2020 - chapbook ms an award finalist - 6 public readings - 2 grants thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social & recomending publishers AND - 1 novel, edited & ready to meet the world later this year!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

@versefest-ottawa.bsky.social aka VERSeFest is a registered charity! If you have the means, consider making a gift TODAY to receive a 2025 tax receipt. E-transfers (verse2transfer@gmail.com) go directly into our bank account, but you can also donate via PayPal. verseottawa.ca/en/site/supp...

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The @glasspoetry.bsky.social archives are well worth dipping into! While you're there, if you're so inclined please check out my poem "Combustion" from April 2025 -- one of several magazine publications I was honoured to have this year. www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2025...

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Frances Boyle | Combustion | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I've likely posted this poem of mine here before, but thought I'd share it again for Solstice.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is tonight! Please join us in just a few hours.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thanks @anncavlovic.bsky.social for these answers about life and your wonderful new book (and for the shout out to me). And thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social as ever for highlighting our community's creative folks and their great stories.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

My penultimate 2025 reading, next Monday Dec 15. I'll be reading from work once rejected, and ultimately published. This slate of "refused" readers is stellar: half are friends whose writing I know and admire, the rest are friends yet to be met! If you're in Ottawa, it'd be great to see you there.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Here's my poem for the Hallows, and for my mother who would have turned 105 today. Like many other poems in Openwork and Limestone, my most recent book, this brings together the mythic/deep time with the familial/personal.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This book is such a great read! Meticulously researched history meets beautifully imagined magic.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I've been lucky to have several poems and a short interview in this lovely magazine, and it's always been a great experience. Check it out and don't hesitate to submit some work if you think it would be a good fit.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Happy that my poem "Day Break" is in Anacapa Review, thanks to guest editor Santa Barbara Poet Laureate @gyatchisin.bsky.social. I learned of the mag when Ottawa poet friends David O'Meara & Katherine Leyton had work in the prior issue so I took the chance to submit. anacapareview.com/frances-boyle/

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Day Break …the acoustic nature of sheets―Brian Turner “Alexa, Awake” What whispers in the corners, whiskers feline in the dawn light? Sounds I assemble from the silent slip of feet on sheets, ears tun...

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you're in or near Ottawa, don't miss this!

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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

talking about strawberries all of the time seeks submissions for our 15th issue of unpublished poetry, including visual and concrete poetries, as well as lyric and postcard prose. Send as .doc or .docx with author biography. No homophobia, racism or hate. October 1. strawberriesjournal@gmail.com

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

What a joy to come home from vacation to this gorgeous new book by my friend @kimfahner.bsky.social ! Bees and magic and fantastic poetry -- I've been looking forward to this for a while!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Received my contrib copy of dream publication @prisminternational.bsky.social with my poem "Likeness". My brother Peter's been gone 25 years but grief remains fresh. Happy to see friends @rsitoski.bsky.social, Susan Wismer, @snehaskanta.bsky.social here. Thanks to Poetry Editor Ayda Niknami & team!

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Annexing territory by force is illegal under international law. 🚫🌍 The UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions are clear: no country can take land during war or occupation. ⚖️📢

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

@pinholepoetry.bsky.social makes gorgeous chapbooks! If you have something to send them, now's the time!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm not doing #sealeychallenge this year (too many other deadlines/projects) but if you're looking for a book to add to your list, please consider downloading (for free) my Light-carved Passages from Doubleback Books @doublebackreview.bsky.social doublebackbooks.wordpress.com/poetry-books...

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Light-carved Passages by Frances Boyle

The poems in Light-carved Passages knot and weave, tracing connections through tangles of family histories, and paths along rivers. Shadows and absences permeate the collection as does an intensity…

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Just finished Zilla Jones's stunning novel The World So Wide. I can't say enough good things about it. Fascinating immersion in the world of opera and political upheaval in Grenada, a nail-biting plot, and a fierce, flawed and beautifully nuanced main character, Felicity Alexander. A fantastic read!

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