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Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · 2d

#yeg PARENTS. How's it going? Do you need a little coffee break? Bring the kiddos down to Audreys 10am-12pm weekdays. We're reading stories. Because we care about parents, kids and especially our teachers.
#storytimewithaudreys #booksky

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t know that feature existed. That’s a good tip!

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you—I was certain that I added alt text but I do have post-launch brain

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting as the first version was somehow missing the alt text.

Incredibly lucky to have @kimmannix.bsky.social and @prairievixen.bsky.social read with me today. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Stock!

Kim, Jen and Jessica holding copies of the book Stock and smiling in a bookstore

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly lucky to have @kimmannix.bsky.social and @prairievixen.bsky.social read with me today. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Stock!

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much for sharing!

Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 3d

Very much looking forward to this poetry launch by @jenbdelisle.bsky.social today at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton. Poems about stock images? I’m deeply intrigued.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

I’m launching Stock this afternoon at Audreys at 2! The wonderful @prairievixen.bsky.social and @kimmannix.bsky.social will be reading too, and helping me perform pieces in multiple voices. Hope to see you there! www.audreys.ca/events/34197...

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 3d

I’m launching Stock this afternoon at Audreys at 2! The wonderful @prairievixen.bsky.social and @kimmannix.bsky.social will be reading too, and helping me perform pieces in multiple voices. Hope to see you there! www.audreys.ca/events/34197...

Poetry Launch: Jennifer Bowering Delisle | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

www.audreys.ca

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 5d

October events. Edmonton, Oct 5. Stock launch, Audreys' Books, 2pm. Edmonton, Oct. 18. LitFest, Books with Buzz, Zeidler Hall, 7pm. Toronto, Oct 23. Coach House Fall Poetry Launch. Society Clubhouse, 7pm.

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 6d

A powerful debut by a talented poet. Congrats Jide!

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

woman sitting in a martini glass. Some of us feel there, surprised, splashing. Our stilettos kick carefree, we hold fruit

Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

Woman in snow. It does not snow in the city, but you can be a woodland creature if your knits are chunky

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

Mother and child baking. You make weather out of flour and laughter. You never need to sleep, the flour never falls to the floor.

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

Woman leaning over a man sitting at a desk. His hair smells like Excel, so I ask him to click on every picture of a bus

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

My new poetry collection is a feminist response to stock photography, so over the next couple of days I'm sharing a few images with lines that they inspired. Here are the first four! chbooks.com/Books/S/Stock

Stock

Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubi...

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to have Jessica and Kim Mannix help me perform some of my multi-voice poems—and to hear them read some of their own work!

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 10d

This is a brilliant poetry collection. Hope to see you at Jide’s launch!

NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 12d

🚀 YOU ARE INVITED to the launch of CONTRABAND BODIES, the brand new collection from @jidesalawu.bsky.social!

When: Oct 16, 2025
Where: Doors at 6:30pm @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social (10702 Jasper Ave)
Snacks: Of course!

#NeWestPress #BookLaunch #ContrabandBodies #Fall2025 #ReadLocal #BuyCanadian

Event Poster: Book launch. Contraband Bodies with Jide Salawu. October 16, 2025. Doors at 6:30pm at Audreys Books in Edmonton

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 14d

So happy for Danica Klewchuk. The launch of Standing in the Footprints of Beasts (@newestpress.bsky.social) last night was a wonderful event

Danica Klewchuk, holding her book, standing with Jennifer Bowering Delisle

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 15d

Tonight! So excited to host this event and chat with Danica about her wonderful book. At Arts Hab, 10131 97st, Edmonton. Sept 23, 6:30 @newestpress.bsky.social

Poster for launch of Danica Klewchuk’s Standing in the Footprints of Beasts. Author photo and book cover

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Writers' Guild of Alberta @writersguildab.bsky.social · 22d

The Writers' Guild of Alberta is providing free consultations with regional Writers-in-Residence for our members in under-served areas. Get one-on-one feedback on your writing by booking by September 30th, 2025. writersguild.ca/2025-regiona...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 22d

Happy pub day to Circumtrauma by Jumoke Verissimo!

From one of Africa’s most acclaimed writers, poetry about the Nigeria-Biafra War. Everyone carries a piece of the war within them: what happens when we neglect to consider each individual’s story?

Learn more here: chbooks.com/Books/C/Circ...

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 22d

Edmonton friends!
We are looking forward to the Harvest Book Fair at the CKUA building on September 27 and 28 from 1 to 5 pm. Come down and enjoy Edmonton's vibrant book culture.
Big thanks to Hungry Zine for all their hard work.
https://bit.ly/4px8hM3
##books #bookstores #publishers #festival

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Kim Mannix (she/her) @kimmannix.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you to @canadianpoets.bsky.social for re-running my poem "Alarm to Threat" today in their Poetry Pause series. ❤️

This poem will be in my forthcoming debut collection Confirm Humanity

poets.ca/alarm-to-thr...

"Alarm to Threat" by Kim Mannix - League of Canadian Poets

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Alarm to Threat" by Kim Mannix, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in December 2020.

poets.ca

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Writers' Guild of Alberta @writersguildab.bsky.social · 23d

We are excited to announce that the Writers' Guild of Alberta is now accepting applications to our 2026 Mentorship program! Seven apprentices will be paired with mentors in any genre. Applications close October 24, 2025. Learn more: writersguild.ca/2026-mentors...

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to Danica Klewchuk! Excited that readers can now get their hands on this sharp book

NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 23d

🎉 Happy Pub Day! to Danica Klewchuk and her debut memoir in essays, Standing in the Footprints of Beasts.

#StandingInTheFootprintsOfBeasts #NeWestPress #NewRelease #ABbooks #CanadianLiterature #CanLit #ReadLocal #BuyLocal #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian

Book Cover: Standing in the Footprints of Beasts. Danica Klewchuk. Memoir in essays. On a shiny black background cursive text wraps around the image of strange and beautiful flowers, some with eyes, an arm reaching out of one of the leaves and snatching a bee, a tentacle coming out of another.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social · 23d

My kids are voracious readers, but I think a lot about attention in the digital age, and the stakes are high: “The neural pathways…built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 23d

How can parents raise readers in the age of digital distraction? “Our job as parents isn’t to eliminate technology—it’s to create intentional spaces where deep attention can flourish.”
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How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

People make certain assumptions about you when you’re the CEO of a children’s book company. Some assume I must have spent my childhood summers in a hammock reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook…

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