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Ryanne Kap

@ryannekap.bsky.social
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writer & PhD candidate at the University of Calgary | editor in chief @ex-puritan.bsky.social

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.
Poster featuring chapbook cover and judges' citation for five from hem, a poetry chapbook by Annick MacAskill. The citation reads, “Within the span of five poems, Annick MacAskill’s five from hem manages a feat few achieve even in a full-length work: the articulation of a personal poetics. Laying classical translation against vibrantly contemporary re-imaginings, and forming them along the lines of her own distinctive shorthand, MacAskill creates a snowglobe cosmos that transcends millenia.”Poster with collage background, reading "the 2025 SHORT LIST" in cut-out letters. Poster also features the logo for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thrilled to share my chapbook failed (after)lives w The Blasted Tree has been shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award!!! Very very grateful and excited!
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I just fell to my knees
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“don’t ask me again for 30 days” why does multifactor authentication even offer that option when they FULLY INTEND TO ASK ME AGAIN JUST ONE DAY LATER like pls i just want to log into my student centre let me be 😭😭😭
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
leaned over after watching Superman and whispered “everything is adoption studies”
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Things I have done to get my students to wrap up their discussion: 1) increasingly loud HELLOs 2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn 3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
THE BESTIE AND I GOT SSHRC IT’S TIME FOR MATCHING JUMPSUITS @inkstainedwreck.ca
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
while working on my thesis about adoption, I’ve had super relevant and random encounters (ie discovering a stranger in the dog park had an incredible adoption story) and just as I’ve decided this novel is an archive of adoption I found out that China closed overseas adoption last year
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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Canada’s most unique poetry prize – deadline extended. 5 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings readings in the fall! Please repost! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn... @faitharkorful.bsky.social‬ @ryannekap.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social‬
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2025 Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize
Submit your poetry to the 2025 MURIEL’S JOURNEY POETRY PRIZE. What's Muriel's Journey all about? Find out here PRIZE:First Prize $100 First Prize for a poem by a Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) contributor $100 Second Prize $50 Fortuna's Choice: $35 for a poem selected at random from the longlist of general entry poemsAll winners and honorary mentions will be published in Fire In The Heart, the Muriel’s Journey Chapbook for 2025. CRITERIA: Content: Should meet one or more of these criteria:
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
the age of men is over. the time of the fool has come
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
nice
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
help
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Q: hey, what are you into? A:
Metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around
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Kyle Flemmer @kyleflemmer.com · 20/01/2025
Super excited to announce that my second poetry collection is now available for preorder! Supergiants is forthcoming from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social in April, and just look at the glorious cover they cooked up 🌞 Preorder a copy from them or an indie bookstore or request it at your local library!
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 13/01/2025
Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. " ~ Barbar Hurd, “Stirring the Mud" #SwampSunday #WitchSky
Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, of the Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, GA. Shows cypress trees, the dark tannic water, and lily pads with blooms.
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
my partner & I have decided to start a collection of children’s books bc they’re so charming & wholesome & it’s all starting with Little Shrew (he will always be famous to me)
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
YAY A GAME! I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun: -The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social -Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou -Held by Anne Michaels Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
was feeling guilty about switching pharmacies bc my current pharmacist is so nice I was like stop it’s fine they don’t care but then she said “I wish you could stay” like does she love me or is it just annoying for them to do a transfer do they benefit from my presence monetarily or just emotionally
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
OFFICIALLY A PHD CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!! 🎷🦖
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
every time I email someone and ask my question directly instead of prefacing it with “I was just wondering” an angel gets their wings
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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo ex-puritan.ca/the-garden
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The Garden
Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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Ellen Chang-Richardson @ehjchang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yes yes yes — very thrilled to have two brand new ekphrastic poems in the SCHISM issue of the Ex-Puritan. Read them here: ex-puritan.ca/ratchet-up-t... ❗️N.B.: the formatting of these poems is optimized for desktop viewing.
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I have a letter to my first/birth mother in @therumpus.net for Adoption Awareness Month! This is a dream pub in so many ways; I’m so grateful to be part of this series and I feel so encouraged to keep writing about the messy grief and strange joy of being adopted 🤍 therumpus.net/2024/11/21/t...
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To My First Mother - The Rumpus
It would be nice to look in the mirror and see you.
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Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you have benefitted from Kirby's time and labour in the poetry community or are a lover of poetry and have the means to do so, please consider donating to this emergency fund. Please share widely! www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p181/E... www.knifeforkbook.shop
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EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUND
​EMERGENCY REPLACE KIRBY'S COMPUTER FUNDShit happens. I was clearing space and backed into it. It's not reparable, and must be replaced. It's a rare specific ask, and you know she'll continue to retur...
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Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Madeleine Thien showing more principles and poise in one week than anyone on the Giller Foundation or advisory board has in entire careers
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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 20/11/2024
Now I’m more than ever we must make promoting ourselves into a silly little game and I will give a silly one sentence description of each piece I post
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer. She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross. www.cbc.ca/books/writer...
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Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners | CBC Books
More than $340,000 was given out across seven prizes, recognizing fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
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Brodie Conley @brodieconley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“Solidarity with everyone” may as well be solidarity with no one. This statement is a collection of meaningless words. A failing grade in human rights, morality, empathy and courage for the Giller Prize winner.
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
my pocket only ever wants to speak to one person ❤️
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Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi I’m Ryanne I write fiction and poetry and I research Asian Canadian lit & adoption studies but more importantly I have a tiny little dog like he’s just so small but he believes he rules the world and in a way he does
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