Kim Fahner
@kimfahner.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.)
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Finished reading Shani Mootoo’s beautiful new novel, Starry Starry Night, this evening. If you haven’t read it yet—why not? Borrow or buy it! ❤️📚 (You’ll fall in love with the character of Anju…and wonder where she’ll go after the very last line on the very last page.)
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
Thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for her chat with me earlier this week for On Creative Writing. (I’ll share that link once it’s published).
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Thanks to Sheelagh Caygill for her chat with me earlier this week for On Creative Writing. (I’ll share that link once it’s published).
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
Here’s a chance for one lucky person to win a copy of The Pollination Field.🐝🐝🐝
www.oncreativewriting.com/win-copy-of-...
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Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
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Congratulations to Kim Thúy, winner of the the $25,000 Writers’ Trust #EngelFindley Award, supported by the Estate of Timothy Findley and the Writers’ Trust prize fund. #WTAwards #canlit
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Congratulations to Kim Thúy, winner of the the $25,000 Writers’ Trust #EngelFindley Award, supported by the Estate of Timothy Findley and the Writers’ Trust prize fund. #WTAwards #canlit
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Julie Flett wins the $40,000 #VickyMetcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Writers’ Trust is extremely grateful to the Metcalf Foundation for generously increasing their longstanding commitment to this award and the Book to Schools program. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Julie Flett wins the $40,000 #VickyMetcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Writers’ Trust is extremely grateful to the Metcalf Foundation for generously increasing their longstanding commitment to this award and the Book to Schools program. #WTAwards #canlit
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Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Congratulations to Sheree Fitch, winner of the $40,000 #MattCohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. #WTAwards #canlit Thank you to Lorraine Greey for her continuous support of this prize.
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
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The $12K #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers goes to... Roza Nozari for All the Parts We Exile! The prize was founded by Robin Pacific and is supported by the Dayne Ogilvie Endowment Fund, Anuja Varghese, and the Writers’ Trust Prize Fund. Published by Knopf Canada. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The $12K #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers goes to... Roza Nozari for All the Parts We Exile! The prize was founded by Robin Pacific and is supported by the Dayne Ogilvie Endowment Fund, Anuja Varghese, and the Writers’ Trust Prize Fund. Published by Knopf Canada. #WTAwards #canlit
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It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it.
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It’s #NonfictionNovember. I want to show some love for my book, Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. It won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Thankful to everyone who’s read it.
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
guernicaeditions.com/products/fuse
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some above/ground press author updates: The Nelson Ball Prize, Pushcart Prizes, the bpNichol Chapbook Award + the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading,
and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...
and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
some above/ground press author updates: The Nelson Ball Prize, Pushcart Prizes, the bpNichol Chapbook Award + the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading,
and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...
and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : UNMET, by stephanie roberts / @biblioasis.bsky.social ;
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Kim Fahner : UNMET, by stephanie roberts
UNMET , stephanie roberts Biblioasis, 2025 UNMET , the second collection of poetry by stephanie roberts, asks readers to conside...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : UNMET, by stephanie roberts / @biblioasis.bsky.social ;
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periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/kim-...
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Answering my own question :) A little cross-socials sleuthing and I found the details on Facebook.
The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner Virtual Launch
Event in Winnipeg, MB by Turnstone Press on Wednesday, November 5 20255 posts in the discussion.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Answering my own question :) A little cross-socials sleuthing and I found the details on Facebook.
My book launch (for The Pollination Field) is online tonight at 8pm EST. You can register to get an invitation to the Zoom session by checking out Turnstone’s FB page or website.
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My book launch (for The Pollination Field) is online tonight at 8pm EST. You can register to get an invitation to the Zoom session by checking out Turnstone’s FB page or website.
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
Thanks to brilliant Edmonton poet, Alice Major, for hosting!
Thanks to Bryn Robinson for her review of The Pollination Field in The Seaboard Review. 🙏❤️📚
@theseaboardreview.ca
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-pollin...
@theseaboardreview.ca
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-pollin...
The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner
A mixture of feminist fairy tale and fantastical verse
www.theseaboardreview.ca
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thanks to Bryn Robinson for her review of The Pollination Field in The Seaboard Review. 🙏❤️📚
@theseaboardreview.ca
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-pollin...
@theseaboardreview.ca
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-pollin...
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Archipel Alumni #2: 5 writers making waves: Featuring: @kimfahner.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, Virginia Ryan, @kevinspenst.bsky.social & Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi.
Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf
#Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity
Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf
#Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Archipel Alumni #2: 5 writers making waves: Featuring: @kimfahner.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, Virginia Ryan, @kevinspenst.bsky.social & Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi.
Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf
#Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity
Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf
#Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity
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Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia / @manahil.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/mana...
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Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia
My review of Ottawa poet Manahil Bandukwala's Heliotropia (Kingston ON: Brick Books, 2025) [ which won the 2025 Archibald Lampman Award, by...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Manahil Bandukwala, Heliotropia / @manahil.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/mana...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/mana...
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hey! im launching my new poetry book, the book of sentences, this saturday 5pm at plan 99/the manx pub w zane koss! you should come! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection:
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...
here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection:
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...
the book of sentences
, notes on my new poetry title, available from University of Calgary Press,
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October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
hey! im launching my new poetry book, the book of sentences, this saturday 5pm at plan 99/the manx pub w zane koss! you should come! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection:
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...
here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection:
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...
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Maggie Helwig wins $20K Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work Encampment #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/maggie...
www.cbc.ca/books/maggie...
Maggie Helwig wins $20K Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work Encampment | CBC Books
The prize is awarded annually to a book that tells the stories of Ontario's capital city.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Maggie Helwig wins $20K Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work Encampment #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/maggie...
www.cbc.ca/books/maggie...
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My book babes. ♥️
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
My book babes. ♥️
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
✨Fuse, a memoir of mixed-race identity & mental health, Guernica Editions, 2021. Won a 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award.
🐝 Rebellion Box, poems, Radiant Press, 2023.
🩷 Widow Fantasies, flash fiction, Gordon Hill Press, 2024. Long listed for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
#canlit
I’m having an online launch for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, on the evening of November 5. It will be hosted by the brilliant Alice Major. ❤️📚More details to come. Sudbury folks—have to delay my in person launch until early 2026, once I’m past my surgery & recovery, but it’ll happen!
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m having an online launch for my new book of poems, The Pollination Field, on the evening of November 5. It will be hosted by the brilliant Alice Major. ❤️📚More details to come. Sudbury folks—have to delay my in person launch until early 2026, once I’m past my surgery & recovery, but it’ll happen!
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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After a summer of wildfires, heat & toxic air, 250+ city leaders urge Ottawa to fund “nation-building, not nation-burning” projects.
Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Back ‘Nation-Building, Not Nation-Burning’ Projects, 250 City Leaders Urge Carney
A coalition of more than 250 mayors and city councillors from across Canada is calling on the federal government to keep #ElbowsUp with nation-building projects that respond to the climate emergency, ...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
After a summer of wildfires, heat & toxic air, 250+ city leaders urge Ottawa to fund “nation-building, not nation-burning” projects.
Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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For the @halifaxexaminer.ca, I wrote about the federal government launching its own AI translation service, our credulous minister for AI, and how we are deskilling and undervaluing labour in the name of progress (with a nod to @techwontsave.us).
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Here we go: federal government rolls out its first AI 'flagship project' - Halifax Examiner
AI translation is not better than human translation. But it provides an excuse for attacking labour under the guise of progress.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For the @halifaxexaminer.ca, I wrote about the federal government launching its own AI translation service, our credulous minister for AI, and how we are deskilling and undervaluing labour in the name of progress (with a nod to @techwontsave.us).
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.