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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apparently you can do plays too? So I put together a separate one for plays. In case anyone cares.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In case anyone cares. (It's #BannedBookWeek, and I'm sure most or all of these have been banned at some point.)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lookie what I just got in the mail. It's the new @mgliterary.bsky.social anthology, Harvest Moon, Volume Two. Featuring my award-winning story "The Madness East of St. George". You can get yours at www.moonlitgetaway.com/category/har...

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starting right now at Word on the Street. Table IA23. By a wacky coincidence, I'm next to Silva Redigona again.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Word on the Street is back tomorrow, and once again, I'm an exhibitor on both days. Drop by table IA23 in Indie Alley to say hello, perhaps buy one of my two books, Hate Story and Performance Reviews.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pics from the Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Royal B.C. Museum

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Welcoming figure, from the Royal B.C. Museum. I think the Chinguacousy Library in Brampton had a similar sculpture when I was little, and it was a little scary.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The original courthouse (now empty and allegedly haunted), another harbour view, and Chinatown.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The iconic Rogers' chocolate shop, former B.C. customs house, and site of Fort Victoria.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pics from walking tour. Including a closer look at the harbour and Victoria's first brick hotel.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The assembly chamber, where the things happen.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stained-glass windows and shit. (The Queen Victoria one was locked up in the basement for sixty-two years. Everybody forgot about it.)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Legislature tour. Starting with a big canoe.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More totems, by the Royal B.C. Museum. I assume these are authentic ones.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Victoria City Hall... the actual front entrance this time. Also a nineteenth-century fireman bell, now a memorial.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Statue of Emily Carr and her monkey, plus a doggy. Also a better shot of the Empress Hotel, now that the sun had the courtesy to shine from the right direction.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The world's tallest totem pole

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Of course the whale's only thought is "Oh no, not again."

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

City Hall, the Empress Hotel, the B.C legislature, and the Harbour.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At last, the fabled Douglas Street. I know of it only because, in the Canadian Monopoly game from the '80s, Douglas Street was Boardwalk. (Because the street order ran from east to west. Yonge and Bay and Sussex Drive were the red properties.) Would you buy it for four hundred dollars?

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And here's my first look at Victoria: more totems, at the airport.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ready to go at @wordvancouver.bsky.social. Starts in three minutes, but folks are already wandering about...

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Apparently there's a B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame on Granville Street. Mostly folks I've never heard of. Also Diana Krall, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLaughlin, Nickelback (I thought they were from Alberta?), and... Terry David Mulligan? I remember him from MuchMusic. Has he done other stuff?

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two doors down from my hostel is an independent theatre, running a new play about Oscar Wilde. (The playwright's here tonight too.)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Exploring Granville Island. (I wish I'd known Fringe was on this week. My plans might’ve ended up somewhat different.)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A few shots at the Police Museum. (The lion costume was used for the Vancouver Police Department's Lion Dance Team. Something to do with Chinese New Year.) There was also a sad video about a police dog that lost its life in service.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More pics at the waterfront, including Canada Place and a couple of Boaty McBoatfaces.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Drunken Fighting Octopus is back. (Jericho Beach hostel)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Totem poles. All of them relatively modern.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Statues of Robbie Burns and Lord Stanley, along with some nuanced commentary regarding the latter.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Rose Garden and Shakespeare Garden

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I explored Stanley Park this afternoon. It had a lot of big, big trees.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lion's Gate Bridge, as seen from Stanley Park

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few shots at Vancouver City Hall.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Starting in twenty-five minutes. They got a poster up and everything.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Be relax? What if I no want be relax? Maybe I prefer be panic? Or have stressed? (At Pearson airport)

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And once again, my set is funded by the Writers' Union of Canada.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In two days. Tell your #Vancouver buddies who like poetry. @wordvancouver.bsky.social made a sweet poster.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just got my copy of the new Brownstone Poets anthology. My poem "Depressing Thoughts for Your Thirty-Fifth Birthday" is on page 63. You can get one too, from Amazon. There's a kitty on it.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh lookie, my name's on the #WordVancouver exhibitor poster. Very small, but still counts. (Full list with bios at www.wordvancouver.ca/exhibitors-2...)

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