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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Writer Friends! I'm currently seeking new writing coaching and editing clients. I bring 20+ years of creative writing instruction experience and 10+ years as a creative writing coach and manuscript editor. Reasonable rates and flexible hours. coaching.neil-aitken.com #writing #writingcoach

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Please spread the word! I'm running a 10-day workshop for Emerging Poets (Sage Hill Workshops). June 30 - July 9. Apply by April 22! #poetry #workshop A mix of craft discussions, group workshops and writing, and one-on-one manuscript or work consultations. sagehillwriting.ca/writing-retr...

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Emerging Writers’ Courses - Sage Hill Writing

Sign up for our newsletter to hear first about program announcements and application deadlines. 2025 Emerging Writers' Courses Emerging Prose facilitated by Joshua WhiteheadEmerging Poetry facilitated...

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As always, I'm terrible at remembering to document things, so no pictures for last night's Poetry Potluck - but the food and conversation were excellent (and we had some top-tier desserts as well). Post potluck, a few guests lingered and we talked more about grief as a country and landscape. A+

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Vancouver poets and poetry-loving friends, I'm hosting a Poetry Potluck this Saturday (Nov 16, 6pm) for 6 guests and still have a few seats available. Guests bring a dish and a poem. We chat about literature, art, culture, film, and whatever else for 2-3 hours. DM me for more details.

A selection of home-cooked and restaurant food displayed potluck-style on a table.

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

What you can expect: posts about poetry and literature, obscure quotes from obscure books, pictures of dishes I make, updates on Star Singer (opera), interactive fiction projects, and other digital humanities projects

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Welcome to all my new followers!! I haven’t been posting much here, but expect to do so more often now that everyone is abandoning X

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Remind me why I decided to return for another grad degree? Some mornings I really want to go back to bed and hibernate.

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Cross-country trek to BC is completed. I'm mostly unpacked and starting to settle into my UBC dorm (yay, dorm-life for old people!) This poet is back to learn new tricks and the ways of the librarian Yedis before him.

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Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Less than a week before I embark on my dangerous journey to Vancouver, BC -- a path that it seems will take me through hellfire and precipitous mountain passes before ending in the western shores. Still packing. Still wishing I could take more.

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