Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 16

with Francine Cunningham and Samantha Jones

Hi friends,

Welcome to Issue 16 of Send My Love to Anyone where you will find a new story from Francine Cunningham’s debut short story collection God Isn’t Here Today, a poem by Samantha Jones, and my take on sharing ideas before they’re hatched.

Issue 16 Recommendations can be found below!

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Kathryn

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 16

Francine Cunningham | Issue 16

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Samantha Jones | Issue 16

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On Not Sharing Ideas Before They're Hatched

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Send My Love to Anyone Recommendations!

“Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” by Rachel Lachmansingh

Congrats to Rachel Lachmansingh who’s short story was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Puritan

Jasmine doesn’t do advertisements. Since her early 20s, she’s been staunchly anti-capitalist, believes ads are, at best, meaningless propaganda that only serve the ruling class. But she’s a businesswoman now and step one in becoming a #GirlBoss is putting yourself out there. At the Staples Copy and Print counter, she stares at a gloss-finish poster that reads JASMINE’S BROWS AND CUTS in Pinterest-ready cursive. The A in Jasmine and O in brow are substituted with two wonky asters, both missing half their petals. She stayed up till midnight designing the poster in Canva.

Read more of “Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” in The Puritan.

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I’m doing Jami Attenberg’s #1000wordsofsummer challenge. It starts June 4:

Writing My Way Through It

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A range of disability ‘Bechdel tests’:

Richard Amm ♿️🌍👨‍🦼 @Richard_Amm

A range of disability 'Bechdel tests', a thread :

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A review of “The Book of Grief and Hamburgers” by Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross @MrRazovsky

Kinda review I dream about. Zowee.

tinyurl.comMixed Grill | Literary Review of CanadaA review of “The Book of Grief and Hamburgers” by Stuart Ross.

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New series from The Tyee

andrea bennett @akkabah

This morning, @TheTyee starts an occasional series covering the day in the life of someone in a particular profession. I kicked off the series by interviewing an OBGYN who provides abortions here in BC.

thetyee.caA Week in the Life: An OBGYN Who Provides Abortions | The Tyee‘Only the pregnant person can know what continuing or ending a pregnancy means to them.’ First in an occasional series.

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New publishing program from Dionne Brand:

Knopf Canada @KnopfCA

Knopf Canada Announces the Launch of Alchemy, a New Publishing Program Under the Editorial Direction of Author Dionne Brand: bit.ly/3N2DFhD

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Some interesting writing website recommendations here:

birukti 🌻🇪🇹 says order THE STARDUST THIEF @BiruktiWrites

12 websites that've helped* me immensely as a writer🧵 *like i can't function without some of them

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The Art of Teaching Writing:

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Sarah Polley’s new book:

The Walrus @thewalrus

“Relieved and slightly shaken to realize that now, decades later, nobody recognizes her.” Rather than enjoy her new found anonymity, @realsarahpolley digs deep into the early, and often traumatic, experiences that shaped her.

thewalrus.caWho Does Sarah Polley Think She Is? | The WalrusShe first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever since

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On The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV by Soraya Roberts:

The Walrus @thewalrus

From the exclusionary collection of viewership ratings, to the lack of BIPOC in the writers’ room, @sorayaroberts argues that diversity in Canadian television is even more behind than we think.

thewalrus.caThe Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV | The WalrusHow risk avoidance shapes our entertainment

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The value of boring tasks:

Literary Hub @lithub

"There is value in boring tasks that engage the body but not the mind. Boring tasks and practices free the creative mind from the constant inundation of the ordinary."

lithub.comYou Can’t Have Creativity Without BoredomWhen I was a child, my mother used to tell me that boredom was just a lack of imagination. I’m sure her parents told her the same thing. The expression was probably everywhere in popular culture. I…

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On ADHD:

I particularly relate having recently been diagnosed myself.

Kelli María Korducki @kelkord

ADHD is real, wildly misunderstood, and one of the most annoying disorders to talk about or hear people discussing. I would know; I have it, too. For The Guardian, I wrote about why the ADHD landscape is such a big old mess, aka capitalism and bad faith

theguardian.comTikTok trends or the pandemic? What’s behind the rise in ADHD diagnosesBy 2016, the reported incidence of adult ADHD rose by 123% in the US – increases in stimulant medication prescriptions suggest its rise continues

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New short story by Zoe Whittall:

Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall

I've been working on my short story collection today. It's called Wild Failure and will be out next year. Still happy with this one:

hazlitt.netHalf Pipe | HazlittNow that strangers have seen me naked, I can move on to worrying about getting into college or my inevitable death.

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Here’s great webinar from the FOLD with Amanda Leduc:

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How Your Brain Conjures Dreams

You dream for two hours every night, but for something so common, it’s a remarkably enigmatic process. Only in the past few decades, with the advance of technology like fMRIs that lets us record and visualize activity in the brain, have neuroscientists begun to figure out how and why we experience these reveries. While sleepy interludes seem to rely on many of the same mental processes we use while awake, researchers are still trying to understand the way they work together during slumber. Here’s how we think our brains drive our nocturnal hallucinations.

Read more about how your brain conjures dreams

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

No one sets out to be a doormat. Yet some people are chronically passive, always putting other’s needs before their own. These are the folks who end up babysitting for an acquaintance instead of going to their yoga class. In the long run, being unable to express what you want is a recipe for perpetual dissatisfaction, because your needs always end up on the back burner. The good news is people can learn to ask for the things they want at home, at work and even at a local restaurant when you get a burnt steak and want a new one.

Read more about how to stand up for yourself by Catherine Saint Louis

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My Trainer Phil has started a newsletter! Check it out!

5 Life Lessons I Leaned From Running 5km Every Day For 30 Days

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Some good advice:

James Clear @JamesClear

If it works, keep doing it. (An idea that is ignored surprisingly often.)

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Issue #16 of Send My Love to Anyone

“Asleep Till You’re Awake” by Francine Cunningtom from God Isn’t Here Today: Stories

“Crybaby” by Samantha Jones

“On Not Sharing Ideas Before They Are Hatched” by Kathryn Mockler

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