Sadiqa de Meijer
@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
writer of alfabet/alphabet (Palimpsest 2020), The Outer Wards (Vehicule 2020), Leaving Howe Island (Oolichan 2013), Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston (she/her) sadiqademeijer.com
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Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.
These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
September 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
My thanks to On Creative Writing for the chance to talk about the writing process & software that writes for us & other matters.
Such a thoughtful and insightful Q&A interview with award-winning writer Sadiqa de Meijer, author of the upcoming essay collection In the Field. Thank you, Sadiqa! @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
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Sadiqa de Meijer on language, place, and the prism of consciousness
In Sadiqa de Meijer on language, place, and the prism of consciousness, the author discusses how her writing is shaped by her experiences as an immigrant and her background in the sciences. She emphas...
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September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
My thanks to On Creative Writing for the chance to talk about the writing process & software that writes for us & other matters.
Some years require a lot of lanterns.
August 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Some years require a lot of lanterns.
Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.
August 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.
Hey, would you like to support Kirby's stellar small press, which nourishes writers and makes beautiful books, and also receive their chapbook in which I wrote about how literature is a miraculous and double-edged medium?
Only 5 copies remain of @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social KFB/ Fieldnotes chapbook, FIELDWORK, set aside for the next 5 new donors this weekend.
(a 'stand alone' work, not in their highly anticipated new collection of essays, IN THE FIELD @palimpsestpress.bsky.social which we also can't wait for!)
(a 'stand alone' work, not in their highly anticipated new collection of essays, IN THE FIELD @palimpsestpress.bsky.social which we also can't wait for!)
August 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hey, would you like to support Kirby's stellar small press, which nourishes writers and makes beautiful books, and also receive their chapbook in which I wrote about how literature is a miraculous and double-edged medium?
Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.
In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.
Thank you TNQ - & dear reader, I wrote about the remarkable Etty Hillesum.
Our summer issue is now LIVE!
Step into the extraordinary lives of others—where each story, poem, and essay is an intimate invitation driven by curiosity, admiration, love, or even bereavement: tnq.ca/issue/issue-...
#canlit #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #reading
Step into the extraordinary lives of others—where each story, poem, and essay is an intimate invitation driven by curiosity, admiration, love, or even bereavement: tnq.ca/issue/issue-...
#canlit #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #reading
July 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Thank you TNQ - & dear reader, I wrote about the remarkable Etty Hillesum.
When summer came, the reflective driveway marker was no longer lonesome in a white windswept vastness.
July 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When summer came, the reflective driveway marker was no longer lonesome in a white windswept vastness.
However they pull these pigments out of the soil makes each of them a genius.
July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
However they pull these pigments out of the soil makes each of them a genius.
Hello to the Summer issue of BRICK 💙 & thanks to the editors for including my essay Dwaallichtjes (little-wandering-lights) ✨.
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Hello to the Summer issue of BRICK 💙 & thanks to the editors for including my essay Dwaallichtjes (little-wandering-lights) ✨.
Wrote this poem for the Skeleton Press issue on 'Gatherings' based on the conversation at a community Iftar in March. My thanks to all who attended 💚.
June 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wrote this poem for the Skeleton Press issue on 'Gatherings' based on the conversation at a community Iftar in March. My thanks to all who attended 💚.
Upgraded the bike to gold duct tape ✨.
May 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Upgraded the bike to gold duct tape ✨.
'Before you tell the story, you have to prepare the room for the story.' Zehra Naqvi
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'Before you tell the story, you have to prepare the room for the story.' Zehra Naqvi
Hey #ygk, tell us what the Causeway meant to you & you'll be contributing to a collaborative community poem:
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May 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hey #ygk, tell us what the Causeway meant to you & you'll be contributing to a collaborative community poem:
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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