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Lynda Williams (she/her)

@lwilliams-author.bsky.social
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Writer of unlikeable female characters. The Beauty and The Hell of It and other stories, Guernica Editions 2025.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
above/ground press author spotlight #29 : ryan fitzpatrick , a week at Banff Writing Studio! and celebrating their sixth title published through above/ground press, / @talonbooks.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...
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Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“All of those adjectives, accolades, or just titles, that implication of some sort of elevated insight or intelligence or whatever it is, into the world, that that writers are given, it's such bullshit.” - Miriam Toews Listen to the conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · May 4 · 31m
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Maleea Acker, / @emaleea.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...
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National Poetry Month : Maleea Acker,
Carpaccio   I’m under the blue tarp. My feet hidden in polyester onesie pajamas, Max’s wolf suit but without the trap door. Climbing...
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"We thought they would be parallel or even diverging tracks going on into the distance forever." Read a poem from Di Brandt's forthcoming collection LITTLE DRAGONS (Turnstone Press) and our interview with Di for #ALUPoetsResist here: alllitup.ca/poets-resist...
A photo of Di Brandt labelled Poets Resist with an All Lit Up logo.
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy Publication Day to Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability by Therese Estacion, a revelatory collection of lyrical, poetic essays that explores vital themes relating to her life as a disabled person. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/e...
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Lynda Williams (she/her) @lwilliams-author.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKLU... In which I talk about the pitfalls of rejection and the importance of community
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Standing Your Ground in Publishing: Lynda Williams on Reframing Rejection and the Power of Community
YouTube video by Project Seed Money
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Out of hope I write, and in having written, I find reason to hope." Richard Harrison is today's featured poet in our #ALUPoetsResist series w/ a poem from his book MY MOTHER JOINS THE RESISTANCE (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social). Read our interview and a poem from his book: alllitup.ca/poets-resist...
A black-and-white photo of Richard Harrison labelled Poets Resist with the All Lit Up logo with an inset photo of his book My Mother Joins the Resistance. Richard is a light-skin-toned man with grey hair, full goatee, and black-framed glasses. He is wearing a collared shirt and looking into the camera.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
small one returns to ukulele lessons, so working the ends of this essay on Don McKay’s 1975 long poem, Long Sault,
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Canadian Poets Series #25 : Gillian Sze / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/04/cana...
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Canadian Poets Series #25 : Gillian Sze
Gillian Sze is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including  Peeling Rambutan  (Gaspereau Press, 2014)...
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
👏🔥Congrats Lynda! (@lwilliams-author.bsky.social) 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️ Congrats to Tim Bowling and Kirti Bhadresa. Thank you, @writersguildab.bsky.social
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
❤️this @robattigelli.bsky.social!!!
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Wendy McGrath's "Portraits" from Issue 177! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/portra... #readersofbluesky #essay #amreading
Excerpt from Wendy McGrath's essay "Portraits" published in Issue 177 of The New Quarterly.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...
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Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella
Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Join us as we celebrate spring 🌷and launch more springtacular titles📚 on Sunday, April 26, 3:30 pm at Supermarket in Toronto!⁠
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Lynda Williams (she/her) @lwilliams-author.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"I’m the CEO of a mental illness and I approach my treatment as a management project because if I don’t run this thing, it will run me." boldjourney.com/meet-lynda-w...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Bennett Malcolmson : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Emma McKenna / reading next week as part of VERSeFest 2026! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/benn...
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Bennett Malcolmson : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Emma McKenna
Emma McKenna  [photo credit: Sarah Ziolkowska] is a feminist, bi, disabled writer. Born in Duncan, British Columbia, with a childhoo...
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"It’s been awhile since I’ve read such an original, exciting collection of fiction. Lynda Williams is a writer to watch." Jannie Edwards, Alberta Views. 🙏Jannie and Alberta Views! Yay @lwilliams-author.bsky.social 👏 albertaviews.ca/the-beauty-a...
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The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories - Alberta Views
Lynda Williams debut short fiction collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories, is as "if Raymond Carver wrote feisty women.”
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann / @saralippmann.bsky.social @tortoisebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks . Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Pri...
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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Incredibly grateful that my short story Part of His Cluster was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @minyanmag.bsky.social Thank you so much to their wonderful editor for her support 🩷🩷🩷📚🎉🥹
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Lynda Williams (she/her) @lwilliams-author.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bqh... Had such a great chat about all things writing related--my first byline, the novel I never finished, and how I came to short stories last.
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Bringing Life To Characters: Episode 52 Lynda Williams
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
above/ground press author spotlight #14 : Lillian Nećakov / @anvilpress.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...
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Tuesday poem #656 : Eva Haas : After you I walk through the desert, pretend I’m a pilgrim
I am a woman in the same way a skull in the desert remains a deer. You can hear echoes of the sky in me. I spend many nights drinkin...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
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this weekend! rob in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market,
In case you are around, I'll be (along with a mound of above/ground press titles + my new poetry title, the book of sentences ) participati...
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
What is the role of editor? What makes for a productive author/editor relationship? Join author Vinh Nguyen and editor Janice Zawerbny as they discuss the ins and outs of working on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/the-...
Wild Writers Literary Festival panel "The Fine Line Between Author and Editor: A Drop-in chat."
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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The Museum of Practical Things : , some notes from within the current work-in-progress, (and Ottawa book launch this Saturday,
In case you missed, I published an essay from within the current work-in-progress, "The Museum of Practical Things," over at my enormously c...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where / @writerstrust.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...
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Tuesday poem #654 : Nicole Mae : Your Skin is Where
I wrote my name on your back fifty-seven times in cursive           with a ballpoint pen.  Soft, speckled boy, your skin           i...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams / @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynda Williams
Lynda Williams ’ stories have appeared in Grain , The Humber Literary Review , and The New Quarterly , among others. She holds a graduate c...
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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended” www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
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A Place for People Like Us by Danila Botha
Reviewed by Jerry LevyDanila Botha’s novel A Place for People Like Us portrays, often in cringe-worthy detail, just how complicated and weird people can be. Is it any wonder then that some look to rel...
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gpgottlieb.bsky.social @gpgottlieb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
✨We're still celebrating these beauties! Happy Pub Day! 🎂 @lwilliams-author.bsky.social @nicolavulpe.bsky.social #CanLit #fiction #Nonfiction #essays #poetry
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bu...
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a bunch of poems, interviews + a new book soon + a review of a prior book + some other things (with a guest appearance by sean braune,
Hey! It's me and Toronto poet ( and above/ground press author ) Sean Braune ! We hung out together recently, the first in a long time, so t...
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Amy LeBlanc's poem "Letter to a Young Arachnid" from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/letter...
Excerpt from "Letter to a Young Arachnid" by Amy LeBlanc, published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...
A collage graphic featuring the six featured books in the All Lit Up 2025 Fall Preview: Suddenly Light, War Resisters, A Place for People Like Us, Beaver Hills Forever, The Hunt, and Syncopation.
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Christy Ann Conlin's "Displacement of Bodies in Time", from Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/displa...
Excerpt from "Displacement of Bodies in Time" by Christy Ann Conlin from Issue 174.
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Feed: "rob mclennan's blog" By: noreply@blogger.com (rob mclennan) on Saturday, August 16, 2025
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above/ground press author spotlights : substack,
Over at the above/ground press substack [free to sign up for and free to leave] I've been posting a series of interviews with above/ground ...
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Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn, / @ucpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...
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new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism, with Michael Boughn,
a new (online) workshop: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book : The Roots of Modernism, conducted by poet, editor, writer and critic ( and above/ground...
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Rachel Top's "The Baker's Filia", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ba...
Excerpt from Sneha Rachel Top's story "The Baker's Filia", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario. Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. @twpofscugog.bsky.social
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/ceda...
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Cedar Sigo, Siren of Atlantis
Ode to The Hi-way House OK calm down, let’s also say there is no need to write anything down for a while, Let’s think back on all the ...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
penultimate day of middle daughter swimming lessons [which she claims she does not need, she can already swim well enough to save herself and an underweight child, she says; the fact that her younger sister is not an underweight child is not something she is concerned about];
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Click here to read "The Not-To-Do-List" by Mimi Mahmud, an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop: tnq.ca/the-not-to-d...
Excerpt from Mimi Mahmud's "The Not-To-Do-List", an exclusive story from the 2025 X-Page Performance Workshop.
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her debut as author of the week and much more! southsidebroadcasting.podbean.com/e/lynda-will...
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Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A very special blurb from the inimitable @jessicastellaa.bsky.social! This one made me cry. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN, out September 9 in Canada, September 30 in the US!
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GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Go listen to Lynda Williams discuss her latest novel 'The Beauty and the Hell of It' with Inside the Minds of Authors! www.youtube.com/live/_l5_vA0...
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Cara Lisette @caralisette.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s publication day! The ED Recovery Journal got to number 1 in the charts when it was released and it would be a dream come true for that to happen again. You can order here on Amazon, but it’s also available online from the publisher and all major bookstores. amzn.eu/d/9CQ194G
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Your Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Get Started and Keep Going (From Someone Who Has Been There): Amazon.co.uk: Lisette, Cara, Nwuba, Dr Chukwuemeka: 9781805017110: Books
Buy Your Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Get Started and Keep Going (From Someone Who Has Been There) by Lisette, Cara, Nwuba, Dr Chukwuemeka (ISBN: 9781805017110) from Amazon's Book Store. ...
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