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Shirley Hay

@shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social
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Writer of survival and strength and slippery truths. Seeker of stillness in forests and open skies. Girl-Mom and dog wrangler. Canadian proud.

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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
She knows how memory gets smoothed down with time, everything flattened by the iron of acceptance and rejection - it comes to the same thing, she thinks. - Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
April Newsletter: Finding Extraordinary in the Ordinary There’s something about the prairies that lends itself to writing. Perhaps it the expansive sky or the interweaving of open land with forests and lakes and rivers…Read more: www.shirleyhaywrites.com/blog/finding...
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Finding Extraordinary in the Ordinary
There's something about the prairies that lends itself to writing. Perhaps it's the expansive sky or the interweaving of open land with forests and lakes and rivers, a landscape of
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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What is fate and what is choice? Does everything happen for a reason? Will one small decision or action put into motion a series of events that cannot be stopped? Read my book review of “Here One Moment” by Liane Moriarty here: www.shirleyhaywrites.com/blog/here-one-moment?categoryId=482523
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Here One Moment
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty is one of those novels that will stay with me for a long time. Usually, when I make that claim about a novel, it's because the character developme
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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Sometimes I still run my fingers over that spot of pitted wood. When remembering hurts less than forgetting. When touching the truth is all I can do.” From Righting My World: Short Story E-book www.nicolefrailbooks.com/shop/p/right...
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Caging the Shadows
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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In the past few years, I’ve started to read more and more historical fiction, especially about the world wars. It wasn’t intentional at first, but now it is. Read my Feb newsletter: The Power of the Past at shirleyhaywrites.com/blog/february-newsletter
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Caging the Shadows
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Marion Lougheed @marionlougheed.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
An excellent resource from those who have walked this road before. Please share widely! It's very readable and useful. #US #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Help #WhatCanIDo verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...
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Janette Watt (she/they) @janettewatt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Nikki Giovanni wrote a beautiful poem titled "A BENCH" about different ways we can belong together--she wrote that the bench is a metaphor for things like “friends we call on sad days”. I'd love you to read her poem/my reflection here janettewatt.substack.com #belonging #community #writers #poets
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Shirley Hay @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
‪Shirley Hay, @shirleyhaywrites.bsky.social Happy to be here! Looking for writers and bookish friends to follow! I'm a writer from the flatlands of the Cnd prairies; some published short stories and a debut novel searching for its home. Married, three-time girl mom, and every day grateful.
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