Gatherings | Issue 18

Recommended readings, viewings, calls, events, and more from Send My Love to Anyone

This album. My god. Gutting. I’ve been obsessed and going back an listening to all of her other albums.

‘I want people to listen’: songwriter Nina Nastasia on surviving abuse, grief and psychosis, The Guardian

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Good Tweets

Paul Fairie @paulisci

A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles 🧵

Beautiful CanLit @ILoveCanLit

Plenty of contemporary Canadian novels challenge longstanding stereotypes, for example some take place in summer

Elisa Gabbert @egabbert

I'm entering my Old Poet stage... I don't have experiences per se anymore, I just go into the backyard and remember I'm going to die

Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga

"To some perhaps it’s comforting to think of the Earth scratching at its ear (good dog!) and us no more ​than fleas in its coat" #todayspoem Le Temps des Cerises by @RheaTregebov from All Souls' (2012 @VehiculePress) and collected in @WatchYrHead (2020)

bit.lyPOETRY: RHEA TREGEBOVLE TEMPS DES CERISES Massacre in my kitchen, the counter spatter incarnadine, my hands bloodied with the juice of cherries splayed, gutted, for dessert at a friend’s; my fingers dyed a red that...

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Susan Mockler at the Kingston WritersFest on September 29, 2022 leading a memoir writing workshops for writers 13-19.

“Bro” by Ian Williams, The Walrus

“starry and full of glory”: Phyllis Webb, in Memoriam, Spoken Web Podcast

Screenwriters: “How to Handle Blocks of Scene Description” by Scott Myers, Go Into the Story, Blacklist Blog

A fantastic writing prompt

Gabrielle Drolet on Food and Disability, The Walrus

I finally joined the Succession binge

I’m currently reading Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin

On Main and Broadway, We Were Living and Dying by Michael V. Smith, subTerrain Magazine via The Tyee

I just finished Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos. A must read for all writers. I particularly like the discussion on the ethics of including other p