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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 7h

The last reading on my prairie book tour is TOMORROW in Winnipeg. I'll be reading from Skin Hunger (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) along with Zilla Jones, Seyward Goodhand and M.C. Joudrey. I'd love if some Winnipeg folks came by to listen and say hi!

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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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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I loved being part of your Bed Lecture series in New Westminster!

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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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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I love that feature of Word! Good for chapters/ sections/ stories in fiction, but also great for rejigging poetry order.

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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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Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines

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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 · 09/05/2026

Not an answer to your question (though I suspect the answer is that they do not) but a suggestion to check out @jenbdelisle.bsky.social's great poetry collection "Stock": chbooks.com/Books/S/Stock

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Stock

Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubi...

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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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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Wow wow wow! Great news for a great book (and it's in pretty darn good company too)!

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!

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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 · 15/03/2026

So sorry for mis-handling you, Libby! Oh, I wish this site allowed edits.

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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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Vol 3.1 — The Sprawl Mag

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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 · 19/02/2026

I'm reading Iryn's (wonderful) novel right now and I've long followed Terese; will look for Phillip Dwight Morgan

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Coffee (and maybe a waffle) at The Cannon, browse at The City and The City Books across the street, wander down Ottawa Street to the huge antiques market.

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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 · 19/01/2026

Good eye! Yes, it is a detail of a Rousseau painting.

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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 · 05/01/2026

Probably my favourite book by Le Guin.

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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

Can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

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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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