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Emily Strempler

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🏳️‍🌈✊🧡 (She/Her) Lit and lit-genre crossover author, work in Agnes and True, Broken Pencil, the BK, and many more. Editor at the Baltimore Review. Managing Editor at Li Isprii. Banff, AB, 🇨🇦 / Treaty 7 / Homeland of the Red River Metis www.estrempler.com

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Li Isprii: Red River Metis Arts and Culture Review @li-isprii.bsky.social · 1d

Jeremy Allard reviews Beaver Hills Forever, a new "Poetic Novella" by Metis author Conor Kerr, published by @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. Not sure what to expect from a "poetic novella"? Wondering if it's for you? We've got answers.

#metis #indigenous 🌎📚💙

www.liisprii.ca/magazine/202...

In a white frame a blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers the cover of "Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr" appears. The cover has the look of an ink drawing and features a beaver swimming through a liquid dark enough to be oil with a lit match in its mouth in the foreground, and a city skyline in the background.

A quote in white text on a blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “As poetry, it reminded me more of the popular 'slam' style, with larger-than-life characters baring their hopes and dreams directly to the audience in a way that felt distinctly 'oral, and somehow more real than reality...”

White text on a blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “Read the full review at liisprii.ca”

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · 1d

This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. What an amazing gift! Kudos to everyone who made this huge ekphrastic art project possible. telephonegame.art

TELEPHONE

Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

telephonegame.art

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 2d

It was!

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! It’s a great combo

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 2d

Solo dinner and a book ✨👌

Ramen from Ramen Arashi. #currentlyreading Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food, edited by Alex D Ketchum and Megan J Elias.

#books #reading 🌈📚💙

Foreground, in focus, a bowl of tantan ramen topped with greens, green onion, fried garlic, and two pieces of karaage chicken. In the background, a half-empty glass of water and an open book rest on a dark wood table.

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 2d

It’s newsletter time again! This month the emergent themes are travel, exploration, grief, transformation, and escape. Featuring great 🇨🇦 book recommendations you likely won’t find elsewhere.

Sign up to receive it in your inbox, bright and early on the 10th!

#books 🌎📚💙🌈📚✒️

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 3d

One of these days I should write a compact list of like Book Industry Stuff That Readers Should Actually Know That Isn't Arcane And Boring I Promise. One of those things might be: Amazon is just as awful as you think, and perhaps worse, to which, TODAY IS FREE SHIPPING @bookshop.org and this is COOL

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 3d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 7d

Bookish in the Banff area? Join me at Banff Pride's first ever book event! Bring a book to swap, sign up to share a personal favourite with the group, socialize, and enjoy a little something tasty from the cafe. All books, and book-lovers, welcome.

estrempler.com/banff-writer...

Grey text on a crinkly paper background reads "Spill the Tea, Oct 07, 6pm-8pm, Wild Flour Bakery." A grainy picture of a book sits open amind the text.

Grey text on a crinkled paper background reads, "Hosted by local author, Emily Strempler, this event invites you to spill the tea by sharing your favourite read and enjoy delicious selections from Wild Flour Bakery."

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Li Isprii: Red River Metis Arts and Culture Review @li-isprii.bsky.social · 10d

The October/November edition of Metis Reads is here! Featuring books by Brittany Penner, Emily Grafton, and other titles of interest. Jump in and find a few great books available for pre-order!

#Metis #Indigenous 🌎📚💙

www.liisprii.ca/magazine/202...

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Li Isprii: Red River Metis Arts and Culture Review @li-isprii.bsky.social · 11d

A small roundup of indigenous-owned shops selling orange shirts for Orange Shirt Day, and a few thoughts on a hard day.

#indigenous #metis

www.liisprii.ca/magazine/202...

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 18d

Small correction: Grace Flahive not Flavie. Literally have the book next to me, not sure how I managed to get that wrong.

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 18d

Joined briefly by this confident little magpie, who strutted around the place picking up snacks like they owned the joint. 😆

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 18d

Spent a lovely afternoon/evening reading Palm Meridian by Grace Flavie in a local Banff restaurant with walls open to the warm autumn breeze. Good beer, a good book, delicious snacks. What more can you ask for? ✨

#reading #booksky 🌈📚💙

On a restaurant table in the foreground, a hand rests on an open book next to a hazy golden beer. Through the open wall, patio tables can be seen, and beyond them a mountain view.

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 22d

@bulbculture.bsky.social is great and specializes in republishing stories that are inaccessible. If it’s been out since at least 2023, it probably meets their guidelines.

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 24d

Relatable

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 25d

“The threat of games is not in telling us who we are, but in telling us how the systems around us operate, revealing their hypocrisies, our own complicities, and how we are in fact produced through that system.”
- Of Floating Isles by Kawika Guillermo (p156)

#booksky 🌎📚💙🌈📚💡

A hand holds a paperback book. The cover fills most of the frame. The image shows stylized video game worlds as floating islands against a blue sky filled with soft clouds. Black text reads, “Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games.”

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 27d

Sounds excellent!

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 27d

I suspect a lot of people are busy with the start of the new school year and suspended their holds. I got four at once, and passed the problem on by deferring three of them because I also didn’t have time to read them.

But nah, it’s definitely the universe telling you to curl up and read. 😉📚

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 27d

I very very rarely DNF books (maybe one or two a year, if that), mostly because I’m an author and editor and read books for work, not just fun. When I do DNF something, it’s because it’s utterly intolerable. 🤷‍♀️

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · 27d

If they have a publisher, you might be able to follow the publisher either through their newsletter or social media. They will usually make an announcement when they make a book available in paperback.

Otherwise, I know bookbub does preorder alerts, but only if publishers/authors have set them up.

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · Sep 11

I have a tab group on my phone just called “books” that is basically this. I’m supposed to go through it periodically and sort things into my TBR and to-buy lists, but I never get around to it until it’s absolutely enormous. It’s currently sitting at… 🫣 …44.

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks! 😊

Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Very sick, but still at work, finishing up my newsletter. Some great recommendations in this one: a Palestinian novel and nonfiction about the US-Mexico border, plus a relaxing puzzle game, because we all deserve a break. Subscribe today to get it tomorrow!

#Booksky 🌎📚💙
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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · Sep 9

This morning, @bulbculture.bsky.social gave "Godsend" a new home online! This story is close to my heart and it's wonderful to see it made available again.

Read it here: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/godsend...

Godsend - Emily Strempler — Bulb Culture Collective

Is it because she isn’t the first? 

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social · Sep 9

The story was accepted by CLOVES at their next submission call and published online in November of 2022. Just a few months later, the magazine announced a hiatus, then, shortly afterwards, silently went offline, taking "Godsend" with it.