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Laurence Lumsden
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Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Mar 11
Gobsmacked and grateful to have won the 2025 Cúirt New Writing Prize. Thanks to @cuirtfestival.bsky.social (see you in Galway!) and to the brilliant @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social (whose comments on my story left me floating on air). www.cuirt.ie/new-writing-...
New Writing Prize Winners 2025 - Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2d
happy no novel november to all who celebrate in which we will continue to write new short stories instead of our novels
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14d
This is how you blurb
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 15d
My short story "The Leftovers of Sugaring Season", just published in the Canadian literary journal Agnes and True. www.agnesandtrue.com/the-leftover...
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 16d
Unless it’s a Robbie Keane joke, in which case please do continue.
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 20d
And now you need some more. youtu.be/0xLT2VLCJWU?...
5 Smiths Songs
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 20d
You love The Smiths, but you hate Morrissey. You need Adam Barrett. youtu.be/TbCYqkmBdcE?...
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes (cover)
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This post hasn’t aged well.
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Espaces autochtones @espacesautochtones.bsky.social · 23d
L’innu-aimun s’apprend aussi en jouant

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L’innu-aimun s’apprend aussi en jouant
Ce projet sera « libre » pour que d'autres nations puissent l'adapter à leur propre langue.
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Benoît Melançon @benoitmelancon.bsky.social · 24d
Dans @lapresse.ca du jour (plus.lapresse.ca/screens/bdba...), Régis Labeaume frappe juste et fort : «Je me répète, cette campagne sera sale, et ça pue déjà.»
Non, nous ne haïrons pas les immigrants et les musulmans !
Je ne dénoncerai jamais assez les cardinaux conservateurs de Rome, les leaders juifs orthodoxes, les imams radicaux, Trump et les politiciens américains évangéliques, Nétanyahou et ses ministres ultra...
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 27d
Good news for fans of poems about hedges, frogs and long-handled spades: The Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now. Here's a great review by Philip Terry:
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 29d
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · 28d
Saw Isabelle Faust play the Beethoven Concerto with the OSM @osmconcerts.bsky.social last night...and went back to see her again this morning. Such a brilliant and charismatic musician. #EmotionallyDrained bigloolaa.blogspot.com/2025/10/isab...
Violinist Isabelle Faust and conductor of the OSM Bernard Labadie being acclaimed by the crowd at La Maison Symphonique de Montreal, October 9th, 2025.
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 30
Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. www.tshakapesh.ca #JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
Cette image se dessine à la base par une plume, une assise appuyée par la désignation Kassinu auass apatenitakushu | Chaque enfant compte. Elle donne naissance à la représentation de deux jeunes enfants : une fille et un garçon. Ces derniers, se tenant par la main, révèlent ainsi un geste d’affection qui est rassurant et sécurisant et qui caractérise à la fois un lien de confiance, de force et de courage.
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 30
Get your orange shirt on!

"Le 30 septembre, nous encourageons tous les Canadiens à porter du orange pour rendre hommage aux milliers de survivants des pensionnats."
#JNVR, #VéritéEtRéconciliation, #JournéeDuChandailOrange #ChaqueEnfantCompte
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Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation - Canada.ca
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Espaces autochtones @espacesautochtones.bsky.social · Sep 29
Grand format | Le legs de Joyce
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Le legs de Joyce
Le décès tragique de Joyce Echaquan, le 28 septembre 2020, a eu des répercussions qui dépassent largement sa communauté de Manawan.
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · Sep 25
TODAY! If you live in #HFX/HRM, I'm leading a free 'FotoBalm' event (photo walk exploring the practice of #photography as healing for the #grief process.) Part of GriefMatters.ca Grief Gatherings Week happening all around Nova Scotia. Bring your camera and meet at The Dingle gazebo for 4 PM start.
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This week GriefMatters.ca is hosting "Grief Gatherings" Sep 19-28. Among them is a #photography walk by me tomorrow on how photography began/continues as a healing practice for me. If you're in #HRM, bring your camera to come 'draw light' together.

Pls register by e-mail. Deets in photo/ALT text.
poster for in-person 'FotoBalm' event on how photography began and continues as a healing practice. Poster text: Come draw light on Thursday September 25 4-6PM (backup weather day Fri Sep 26). A 'FotoBalm' event led by photographer Nancy Forde as part of Grief Matters' Grief Gatherings Week. Event Details All photography skill levels and cameras welcome (even if your 'camera' is a smartphone.) Organizer: Nancy Forde (nancyforde.com.) Location: In person at Sir Sanford Fleming Park/"The Dingle. Time: 4-6 PM. Please gather at The Dingle gazebo for the 4 PM start. Dress for walking/hiking/weather. Water bottles and Kleenex encouraged. This event is free. Donations are welcome. To register: e-mail nancyfordephoto@gmail.com with subject "FotoBalm Event." This event is limited to 20 participants only. Please register early to reserve your spot.
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 25
Brilliant article by Finn McRedmond @finnmcredmond.bsky.social defending the study of Shakespeare in Leaving Cert (I.e. high school) English. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Finn McRedmond: I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons
What kind of 'experience' do we expect our students of English literature to have if not reading Shakespeare?
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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · Sep 17
my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 23
How I "found the form" of my story Marcus of Montreal - an online exclusive at The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social . tnq.ca/finding-the-...
Finding the Form with Laurence Lumsden – The New Quarterly
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 23
"À l’école ou dans leurs équipes de sport, les jeunes côtoyaient quotidiennement des enfants d’immigrants dans lesquels ils voyaient des amis qui n’avaient rien d’inquiétant. [...] Aux yeux de plusieurs, le PQ est alors apparu comme un parti xénophobe"

Je suis séparatiste, mais M. David a raison.
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Chronique | Avec 22 points d’avance sur la CAQ, le PQ n’a plus besoin de renchérir sur l’identité québécoise. #polqc
Les jeunes, l’indépendance et le PQ
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 22
Delighted to be published in The New Quarterly!
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/marcus-of-montreal/
Excerpt from Laurence Lumsden's "Marcus of Montreal", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
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Nathalie D 🇨🇦 @natdalbo.bsky.social · Sep 14
Ishhh

Est-ce qu’on peut vraiment être fiers de ce que devient notre Québec quand des gens comme Kim Thuy pensent à le quitter parce que les discours de nos politiciens les ciblent?

Va falloir se parler avant les prochaines élections…
Kim Thúy au théâtre dans un Québec qu'elle ne reconnaît plus
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 18
100% d'accord avec Kim Thúy et Rima Elkouri @rimaelkouri.bsky.social www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
La peine d’amour de Kim Thúy
« J’ai eu une vraie peine d’amour. » Cette confidence de Kim Thúy qui suscite de hauts cris n’est pas tirée d’un site à potins, mais d’une entrevue poignante que l’écrivaine à succès a accordée à Radi...
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Alain Lépine 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @alainlepine.bsky.social · Sep 14
Il faut écouter Kim Thuy pour comprendre la toxicité du discours de ceux qui pointent les "immigrants" comme étant une menace pour le Québec. Les petits chroniqueurs agitateurs et les politiciens qui récupèrent ce discours (Legault et PSPP) font reculer le Québec.
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com · Sep 8
A brilliant article by Irish writer Cauvery Madhavan. @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love | Cauvery Madhavan
People from the Indian community, and others, are facing violence that was once unthinkable. We must not give in to the racists, says novelist Cauvery Madhavan
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