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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 20h

Aw, thanks!!

Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to be among the Lower Mainland authors at the Richmond Library's Writers for Readers event today, Oct 7. Come say hi if you're around! Until 7pm. Brighouse branch. 📚

Blond white woman in a red sweater standing behind a table of books, with library bookcases in the background.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 5d

kermit the frog is dancing on a checkered floor .

Alt: kermit the frog is dancing on a checkered floor .

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 6d

Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 8d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 12d

A fine bookstore for a fine poet.

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 12d

I've finally put physical copies of my chapbooks in a brick-and-mortar store because my website is broken and I haven't had time to deal with it!

So they're now exclusively available at Audreys Books in Edmonton. Which is an absolutely excellent marketing strategy.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 17d

Just seeing this now. Warmest congratulations on being shortlisted, Rob. What a thrill! 💐

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 17d

Seeking that creative spark? Paper Covers Rock on Salt Spring Island, Oct 3-4, is an affordable, multidisciplinary festival for writers and other creatives. I'll be there to teach my Sentences with Style workshop (Oct 4) and to soak up the inspiration.
Details: www.papercoversrock.ca

Image of a piece of paper, folded like a tent and covering a rock. Text says: "Paper Covers Rock, 3-4 October 2025, Salt Spring Island, BC; workshops, live readings, music, and creative sparks shared in good company."

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 23d

Sorry to miss the launch party for The Fiddlehead issue 304, which (I'm still pinching myself) contains an essay I wrote. I'll be downtown at Word Vancouver all day, wishing I could do two things at once. If you're free, the Fiddlehead launch is open to all: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Poster for launch party of The Fiddlehead's special issue 304, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, Fredericton Public Library, 12:30-3:00pm (Atlantic time). Beside the text is the cover of issue 304, which features a painting of a hand holding a s'more.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 25d

I taught the a.m. workshop in the same room as lunch. Crossed paths with you and Michelle but was talking to participants and didn't manage to say hi before catching ferry home. Hope it's a good day for the Darling Axe.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 25d

Ditto! Lovely morning for it. ⛴🌞

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 25d

🙏

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · 28d

It was fun. Also tense...even though the pilot was there to take over in a moment if needed.

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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · Sep 7

Signed and shared. ✍🏽

“In 1991, Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child … This order stands to violate these rights and freedoms if implemented.”

Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans. #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli chng.it/msmGkKmbD7

Have you seen this petition yet?

Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Sep 6

I did a thing. A flying thing. A horror flying thing. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4B...
@newestpress.bsky.social

Horror Flying - Episode 3 - Frances Peck

YouTube video by Janine Cross

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Sep 1

If Stanley Kubrick were still around, he'd build a movie around that.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 28

Maybe go meta and get a tattoo of a book of tattoos?

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Aug 28

support the humanities

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks, Indigo Robson, for including "The Broken Places" in this display of fiction set in Vancouver. Thanks, too, to @lisabrideau.bsky.social (whose "Adrift" is set nearby, in Nanaimo) for spotting and photographing!

Photo of a round table in a bookstore. A sign on the table says "Set in Vancouver." A number of books are piled on the table. The most visible are "She's a Lamb!" by Meredith Hambrock, "The Gum Thief" and "JPod" by Douglas Coupland, "The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf" by Timothy Taylor, "Kill All the Lawyers" by William Deverell, and "The Broken Places" by Frances Peck.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Nice to see Meltdown, the science memoir by @snowhydro.bsky.social, in the North Vancouver District Public Library.😍📚

Cover of the memoir "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" by Sarah Boon. Cover background is a blue, grey and white glacier with two silhouetted figures climbing it. A red sticker in the corner says "New!"

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Give your writing project (or yourself) a kick in the you-know with my Getting Unstuck workshop. On beautiful Bowen Island, Sep 13, 9:30-11:30 am. Still some seats left. Register:
www.writeonbowen.com/event-detail...

Poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, www.writeonbowen.com, featuring a head shot of female author Frances Peck, blond hair, wearing blue, with the text: Getting Unstuck: Get out of the muck and back into the magic! Saturday, September 13, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Bowen Island Public Library Annex.

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 13

This was an amazing event, folks. I picked up Annalee's "Stories Are Weapons," the book I need to read that I didn't know I needed to read. Thanks, as always, to Iron Dog Books for bringing readers and writers together. 💗
wwnorton.com/books/978039...

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 10

@djkrushen.bsky.social Thanks for sharing my workshop, Juliann. 🌞

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:

NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · Aug 5

NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site.

#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit

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Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

Is your writing blocked? "Getting Unstuck" is the theme of a workshop I'm leading on Sat, Sep 13 (9:30-11:30am), at the Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers.

Cross the ocean to a Pacific island (i.e., hop the ferry to Bowen!) for this inspiring weekend.
www.writeonbowen.com

Blue and white poster for Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, September 12-14, 2025. Poster says: "Come write with us on beautiful Bowen Island! A weekend of words, craft, and connection. www.writeonbowen.com Discounted early bird registration now open!"

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