Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I guess it's finally time for me to read Normal People. And as always, Free Palestine. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's gorgeous! I love this cover, and discovering a new artist. 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think I have imposter syndrome about imposter syndrome 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I wrote this piece the moment I found out my little forest had burned down, last November. At the time I was in the middle of writing an essay about my dead dad, so inevitably the two collided. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Whistler will stay with me forever. Favourite book of the year so far. Quite disappointed by The Things We Never Say, I found it very superficial. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026September is going to make that @duotrope.com tracker grow by a mile! #writerslife #litmags 110
Reposted by Lys GranierTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 01/09/2026How I support myself as a writer is by not supporting myself as a writer and having an entirely different job and pretending this is a fun adventure I get to go on to make friends 643856
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I took this picture on April 20, 2022, two days after my dad's death. It was my first time being back in my native village in 10 years. This place, Assas, is so very important to me. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I have a dispatch out in @commonmag.bsky.social today! It's about a small forest where I spent many important moments of my youth, and finding out it burned down in a forest fire. thecommononline.org/mon-petit-bo... #cnf #nonfiction #literarynonfiction #writing #forestfire #france #montrealthecommononline.orgMon Petit BoisLYS GRANIER <br> The only time I saw the woods in the snow. I threw a handful of road gravel in the tiny stream every time I crossed the bridge. The wood where I pictured my dad reincarnated as a fox.... 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The nausea doesn't ever really go away either, although it becomes more about being vulnerable in public about my thoughts. It is a mystery to me why I keep writing these essays, considering how they make me feel. #essay #essaywriting #writinglife #writerslife #criticalessay 021
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I am not sure if I am over stimulating my brain, or pushing it beyond what it can do. I never feel this way writing fiction or personal essays. 111
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Writing critical essays makes me feel nauseous and restless. When in the midst of developing them, I have agitated nights where my brain desperately tries to connect thoughts, form sentences and edit them, and I can't snap out of it. During the day, I am nauseated at any thought of my essay. 120
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I love adding whimsy to my neighbourhood 💙 #whimsy #trinketbox #montreal 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Sometimes I hesitate between the two, but I noticed there is a facial expression I make when I read a parenthesis that I don't make when I read between em-dashes. It's like micro-sarcasm, an almost invisible wink. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My favourite form of punctuation since I could form a sentence in my mother tongue, French. When I started writing in English I converted to mostly using the Em-dash because I didn't see the parenthesis used much, but recently I've started incorporating it more in my writing (and it's delightful!) 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026As a person living with agoraphobia and social anxiety, and above all deeply, deeply, attached to my cat, this was a nightmarish day and night. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 16/08/20263. I was alone at home so I called an Uber and rushed her to the emergency veterinarian. She was back to normal, but her bloodwork showed a bunch of worrying stuff. She's back home with us but I am terrified. She'll undergo more tests this week. 200
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 16/08/20262. I let my adrenaline lower over the course of hours, my body had fully gotten ready for a fight. As I was just reaching a state of relative rest, my 16 y/o cat collapsed and started convulsing. 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yesterday was one of the most chaotic days of my life. 1. I witnessed a man attacking a woman and her toddler with a knife in my back alley, ran out at the same time as other bystanders to stop it; the man fled. It was a stranger attack, he had followed them from the grocery store. 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is how I feel when I pitch an essay. #litmags #writerslifestatic.klipy.comCharlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe SilviaALT: Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Received two rejections this morning. Which French saying will apply? - Jamais deux sans trois. - La troisième fois sera la bonne. #litmags #writing #literaryrejection 010
Reposted by Lys GranierProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)projects.propublica.org“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless SweepsCities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th... 29637336
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Running to add them all to my library queue! Read John of John last week, favourite book of 2026 so far. 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Read or listen to me read my CNF piece "Red Velvet Bag," about the day of my father's cremation and a walk at the Cathedral of Maguelone, by the Mediterranean sea. lysgranier.com/2026/07/28/r... #CNF #nonfiction #memoire #writing #literary #grieflysgranier.comRed Velvet BagRegarding April 21, 2022, the hardest day of my life. I climb in the passenger seat of the rental car, parked outside the crematorium. My partner follows the GPS to a parking lot by the Mediterrane… 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026What an amazing reading month it has been! Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod was delightful. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Have you seen an influx of submissions since the whole cyclospora debacle? It must have fed (pun intended) inspiration on Taco Bell related matters. 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Finally got myself to submit again after a 34 days dry spell. 6 submissions today, including poetry, which I might suck at and have shown no one, but let's give it a try! 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm intrigued. What kind of black tea is it best with? 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is my Storygraph profile, if anyone cares to see what I'm reading, what I'm liking and what I'm not into. Don't judge me for the fluff, sometimes it's nice 🙂 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/agne...app.thestorygraph.comagneslys's profile on The StoryGraph 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026John of John by Douglas Stuart is my second 5⭐ review of 2026 (the first one was for A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar). A masterpiece that I will think about for a long time to come, both from a story point of view and for its magnificent prose. 010
Reposted by Lys GranierALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026One month to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi... 01715
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Lovely launch of Ahoy Literary #5 tonight at Word Bookstore. I have this little bilingual story in it, half in French, half in English. Quintessentially Montreal! 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I have weird little story out today in Hobart! Read it here: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...hobartpulp.comPhysical Confirmation by Lys GranierThey call them residual items. My task is to record, photograph and label every item the unclaimed dead leave behind. Each file arrives in a brown envelope stamped Housing Bureau - Unclaimed. The i... 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I rushed so much to get mine in that I did the whole process on my phone without my glasses on, quite risky really 020
Reposted by Lys GranierSean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma. 844222163624
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm going to try not checking Submittable, Duotrope, The Submission Grinder, and my emails today. I have an urge to get some mental peace after yesterday's double rejection. #litmags #writerslife 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I received two rejections in the span of 16 minutes tonight, the second being after making a shortlist for a publication I love. And now I'm questioning everything, as one does, and one shouldn't. #litmags #litrejections #literature 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I repaired my trinket exchange and got it back and running with a few of my own treasures! 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026And again no one answered, and the membrane stayed strong. My tears dried, leaving behind salt pulling at my skin. The wound is closed again, for now. In a few weeks it'll reopen, and it'll feel as raw as April 18, 2022, and I will call for him, and dry my tears, and resume my day. 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026And the wound reopened, as deep as it ever was, for maybe 30 minutes. I cried, and I cried, and I tried to break through the invisible membrane between me and death to let him know that he's still missed. I called him, "Papa, papa," the same way I have done since day one. 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026On grief, four years on. Today, I saw a post on Instagram about French politics and, somehow, my first thought was to send it to my dad. He died more than four years ago. 100
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Heartbreak of the day: my trinket exchange was vandalized last night, just as I am writing an essay about it and public generosity 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I recently read a book about the Great Auk and it made me so mad and sad 000
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Really cool map, but yeah, I was surprised to find you in the SFF loop! 010
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Insights from someone who discovered lit mags 8 months ago at age 32 and got really into submittinglysgranier.comThings I’ve learned in 8 months of submitting my literary work, in no particular order.Submitting is highly addictive. Tracking submission is also highly addictive. So much so that I had to stop tracking Submittable, Duotrope, and the Submission Grinder from my phone for a bit (but t… 000