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Jessica Coles

@prairievixen.bsky.social

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(she/her) Poet, editor, finder of lost things, singer of silly songs. Poems in Moist Poetry, Stone Circle Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead & others. Lover of beings that move between worlds. Endearingly uncool. Bestselling poet on a very local level.

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, sweet mercy, both my little chapbooks on Edmonton's bestselling books list?? What delightful nonsense!

Book Publishers Association of Alberta @abbookpub.bsky.social · 20h

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending October 5, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending October 5, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, sweet mercy, both my little chapbooks on Edmonton's bestselling books list?? What delightful nonsense!

Book Publishers Association of Alberta @abbookpub.bsky.social · 20h

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending October 5, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, sweet mercy, both my little chapbooks on Edmonton's bestselling books list?? What delightful nonsense!

Book Publishers Association of Alberta @abbookpub.bsky.social · 20h

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending October 5, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 19h

I'm thrilled to see you at the top of the list! Well done!

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 22h

To rest, go to the woods where what is made is made without your thought or work.

-- Wendell Berry

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 1d

My guitar teacher's obsession this week was Sarah McLachlan's "Building a Mystery". As a Canadian teen of the 90s, this song is embedded in my soul, and oh heavens is it delightful to play!

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Wuthering Heights because I need a book where I don't have to care if anyone is ever happy.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 1d

I have a pretty low threshold for dealing with crap today

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 1d

Well... she kinda figures out how to make use of them to suit her purposes. So they're a critical part of the plot, but they take up very little time in the text.

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 1d

The novel I'm writing has creatures called Squirrels of Ultimate Truth, which are basically forest pests that annoy travellers. My antagonist expresses a desire to make them self-destruct into extinction. Is that an acceptable use of fictional squirrels?

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 1d

A solitary* walk through crunchy leaves in the river valley would do my soul a heap of good today.

*open to including at most one other person who would definitely not speak except to share delight in squirrels or birds

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 2d

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

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Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social · 2d

no one prepares you for the part of parenting when your kid gets in trouble for drawing a butt on the whiteboard during class, and you have to act really serious about it

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Salad dressing is one of those things I kept buying in the store for way too long, and now I'm overexcited about making it at home. :)

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Of course! This basic recipe for proportions, but because of what I had on hand, I substituted agave syrup for honey and canola oil for olive oil. I added 1 tbsp of peanut butter & a generous ½ tsp of ginger powder (would have preferred fresh grated, but we had none). I would eat this with a spoon!

5 Minute Asian Salad Dressing

This 5 minute Asian salad dressing is simple, tangy and so delicious! Made with sesame oil, rice vinegar, honey and soy sauce, it is great on any salad.

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot to mention the very clearly visible spinach. 🤦‍♀️

But yes, this disappeared into my stomach quickly!

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Pleased with my lunch today! Fridge-pickled carrots, leftover roast chicken, cucumber, sunflower and sesame seeds, and wild rice mix, drizzled with homemade ginger peanut sesame dressing.

(@genuscorvidae.bsky.social, a small shiny for you)

A tasty rice bowl in a sunbeam on my kitchen table

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Is this like changing which side you part your hair on?

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Making disco fridge pickles

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 2d

TONIIGGHHTT! 7:30 CST! Show up (virtually! From the comfort of your own space! On Discord!) and write with a lovely encouraging group of your peers. Get that draft done! Do the research! Submit that piece! Ping me for an invite, would love to see you there.

a girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with a notebook .

Alt: A gif from an anime depicting a school girl with short brown hair sitting at a desk and writing furiously in a notebook, her arms becoming a flurry of limbs as she writes.

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, I also have some experience in knowing exactly how long my kids' interest in this will last and I'm tailoring my efforts accordingly.

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 2d

Day two of the teachers' strike: my children are insisting on at-home versions of in-school structures.

They don't go to the same school anymore. They don't have the same structures. Which means adapting and blending. I suppose it's a good thing I'm creative and have some experience with this.

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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes just making sure your teapot is fully ready to go, with no spent leaves in the strainer, for the next time you make tea is radical self-care.

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 3d

Curriculum consultant for hire.

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 3d

The province-wide teachers' strike started today in Alberta. I support the teachers who will be receiving no pay during this time and will be keeping an eye out for ways to help them.

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