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Amy LeBlanc
@amyjleblanc.bsky.social
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PhD candidate 🦊 “I used to live here” available now 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Jun 17
A lovely review of “I used to live here” from @robmclennan.bsky.social ♥️

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Amy LeBlanc, I used to live here
When a bird crouched on Anne Boleyn’s neck   The sweating sickness descends like a swallow to rest in the throat— if only she had ke...
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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Apr 30
Tonight! Book launch with @amyjleblanc.bsky.social in Calgary @shelflifebooks.bsky.social at 7pm:
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Apr 5
It was so well done. I binged it in a day and then needed to massively decompress before it’s so intense.
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Apr 5
It was such a joy to be talk about the new collection with @openbookontario ✨ link below!

Sidebar: a prolific AND renowned poet?? Who is she?? 💅
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Open Book @openbookon.bsky.social · Apr 4
Acclaimed author Amy LeBlanc (@amyjleblanc.bsky.social) explores what happens when a body no longer feels like a home in her new poetry collection, I USED TO LIVE HERE (Gordon Hill Press).
#AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #FridayReads
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Amy LeBlanc Explores What Happens When a Body No Longer Feels Like a Home in Her New Poetry Collection
There are many works of art about illness and disability, but the language and metaphors used to explore such conditions can often be infused with negative, ...
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Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social · Apr 3
up next!! reading at @teresempierre.bsky.social ’s launch at Society Clubhouse with @spondeee.bsky.social @faitharkorful.bsky.social and @suntorya.bsky.social 💐 rvsp via the link in Terese’s bio :)
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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · Apr 3
Feeling honoured to be an Alberta Literary Awards finalist! Thank you ❤️📚 #Poetry #OCD #CanLit #ReadAlberta @newestpress.bsky.social
Congratilations to Samantha Jones! Attic Rain is a finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. The promo image includes the book cover as well as the logos for the Writers Guild of Alberta and NeWest Press.
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Feb 25
It's hard to believe but we're 35 days away from release day! Big thanks to @danielcowper.bsky.social for this lovely blurb!❤️ Check the link below to pre-order from your local bookstore!

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A book cover with a Hoopoe bird in front of a brown floral background. Text: I used to live here, Amy LeBlanc Ivory floral background. Text: I used to live here Ready for pre-order Available april 1 Sensual, sinister, and self-aware, Amy LeBlanc’s poems in I used to live here are alert to matters of mind, body, and magic. These tense, hungry poems are not so much laid out on the page as lying in ambush for you. - Daniel Cowper, author of Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · Feb 13
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we now have a french version of our article, courtesy of D.M. Bradford and Nikki Walker! @thellpsx.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza
Les personnes handicapées en appui des eSims pour Gaza
Les personnes handicapées en appui des eSims pour Gaza   Traduit de l’anglais par D. M. Bradford et Nikki Walker Faites un don ici : 中文 Simplified and Traditional Chinese version En Espa…
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · Feb 12
The 2025 X Page Workshop is now accepting applications! Submit you application by February 28th: tnq.ca/x-page/join/
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Feb 14
He’s a thief
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jan 10
better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · Jan 3
Just $48,500CAD until $2M CAD! We are running critically low on funds and the pace of spending is higher than donations at the moment!

Please share and donate if you can <3

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Jan 2
So excited to read it!! We have the same release day 🥰🥰
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Dec 10
I'm really excited to be one of seven authors selected as a mentor for the Writers' Guild of Alberta 2025 Mentorship Program 🎉 I'll be working with Timiro Mohamed who is a brilliant emerging poet based in Edmonton.

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2025 WGA Mentorship Program Participants Announced
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Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social · Dec 7
Biggest congratulations ✨ you’ve worked hard for this!