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Shannon Bramer
@shannyraindrop.bsky.social
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poet, playwright, mama, friend, worrier,
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I’m home, sick & grumpy! Thank you for making my day!!
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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tenorina.bsky.social
Currently reading: Nightmare Jones by @shannyraindrop.bsky.social. Congratulations on this spooky masterpiece - now the scariest book in our library collection. 😍😍😍😍
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thank you!!!! That is an honour 🕷️🖤
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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hkubiw.bsky.social
Textured art like @mariemanon.bsky.social creates are always a "wow" for me. Manon Gauthier's latest picture book is ALL OF US from @runningthegoat.bsky.social. All animals may be different but we are all the same too. #cells #STEM #diversity canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
Book cover of All of Us by Manon Gauthier, translated by Michel Savard, depicts various animals made of cut-paper
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Boo! 🕷️👻
groundwoodbooks.bsky.social Groundwood Books @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social · 25d
Monsters everywhere just can't stop raving about NIGHTMARE JONES! ⚡️

🦇 Learn more about this collection of jaunty and mischievously unsettling poems for middle-grade readers (and the undead) here: houseofanansi.com/products/nig... #kidlit #halloween
The Bride of Frankenstein clutches her copy of the children's poetry book, NIGHTMARE JONES. Wednesday Addams holds her copy of children's poetry book NIGHTMARE JONES between crossed arms in a school uniform. Dracula passionately holds up children's poetry book NIGHTMARE JONES.
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thank you again for this, Helen!!! Just got home from Newfoundland & read your full review—which is also our first Canadian review 💕💕💕💕
hkubiw.bsky.social Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · Oct 26
There may be some scary poems in @shannyraindrop.bsky.social's recently published #MG NIGHTMARE JONES: POEMS from @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social but some of the scariest are those that make us feel. Illustrated by Cindy Derby. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/10/nigh...
Book cover of Nightmare Jones: Poems by Shannon Bramer and Cindy Derby.
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thank you!!!!🕷️💕🕷️
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
I hope so!!! Poems are my moon & stars ☺️
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Nightmare Jones is out in the world now…finding the feelings 🕷️🕷️🕷️
hkubiw.bsky.social Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · Oct 26
There may be some scary poems in @shannyraindrop.bsky.social's recently published #MG NIGHTMARE JONES: POEMS from @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social but some of the scariest are those that make us feel. Illustrated by Cindy Derby. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/10/nigh...
Book cover of Nightmare Jones: Poems by Shannon Bramer and Cindy Derby.
October 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thank you for this! Yes. 🖤
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Tomorrow night! 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️
knifeforkbook.bsky.social knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · Oct 7
THURSDAY NIGHT 6:30
at TYPE JUNCTION

An extraordinary cast has been assembled to celebrate the arrival of NIGHTMARE JONES the newest collaboration by SHANNON BRAMER & CINDY DERBY from @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #torontolitup

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October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Kirby!!! I’m so lucky you are available on Oct 9th you busy busy beauty!!!!! #inspired #grateful #poetry
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
UPCOMING:

09 OCT 6:30PM #TOR #TypeJunction in support of @shannyraindrop.bsky.social NIGHTMARE JONES #Launch
21 OCT @utsc.utoronto.ca Tysdal Creative Writing Class
26 OCT 7PM #TOR #ImperialPub in support of #StedmondPardy #DavidBateman TWO VOICES
01 NOV #TIFA #panel

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TOUR DATES BOOKINGS
2025 01 NOVEMBER 5:30PM VICTORIA COLLEGE UofT TIFA SMALL PRESS FAIR Panel “The State of Small Press Today” w/Kate Siklosi Dani Spinosa (&?) 26 OCTOBER 7PM IMPERIAL PUB TORONTO in su…
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October 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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LISA FISHMAN #TONIGHT @coachhousebooks.bsky.social #wavepoetry #OneBigTime
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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houseofanansi.bsky.social
Highlighting the incredible Indigenous stories and creators on this International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Explore our Indigenous Voices collection here: houseofanansi.com/collections/...
A stack of Indigenous literature on a concrete surface. Titles include: TAUHOU, SOFT AS BONES, OUR VOICE OF FIRE, RIVER WOMAN, NORTH OF NOWHERE, THE BREAK, ALL OUR RELATIONS and SEVEN FALLEN FEATHERS.
August 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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.
Etty Hillesum's thick book (dark red cloth cover with gold letters: ETTY HILLESUM HET WERK 1941-1943) lies on The New Quarterly, which is opened to my essay After Etty.
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thank you my beautiful friend!!!!
August 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
Thrilled beyond words!!!!!! 💫
August 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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groundwoodbooks.bsky.social
NIGHTMARE JONES (out October 7th) has received a STARRED review! ⭐

“Witches, ghosts, arachnids, and more abound in this terrifying compendium of verse. Delicious poetry paired with haunting art speaks with authority to the darkness so many kids crave.” — Kirkus STARRED review
A copy of 'Nightmare Jones' sits in front of a concrete wall. The cover features creepy abstract artwork of red, blue and purple.
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
shannyraindrop.bsky.social
still need someone to pinch me about this! 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️
May 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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groundwoodbooks.bsky.social
⚡ On our last #PoetryFriday of the month, we’re sharing a sneaky excerpt from shannyraindrop.bsky.social's forthcoming poetry collection NIGHTMARE JONES, illustrated by Cindy Derby! Available October 7th.

🔗 Learn more and preorder this collection: houseofanansi.com/products/nig...
ID: A poem describes the illustration beside it. Nightmare Jones comes to town with a bit of blood on his shoe a green drip in his nose a twist of stick in his yellow teeth and a snag of branch in his hair, black stench of ash in the air Nightmare Jones was a swashbuckler in his day A swashbuckler and fine dancer, that Nightmare But a barn fire burned in his heart and turned his soul to soot Now you can always smell the smoke when Nightmare Jones comes to town
April 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
"IF I DIE, I WANT A LOUD DEATH." - Fatima Hassouna

I recognize, echo these words #LOUDLY

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April 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Alison. Kirby. #LIVE
Thursday. @junctionreads.bsky.social junctionreads.ca/the-first-th...
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Zaho de Sagazan performed in Toronto tonight and I was lucky enough to be there. Thank you, Zaho. #beingsensitiveisgreat #beingsensitiveismyfuckingjob
April 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM