Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 20

with Lisa Robertson and Kirby

Hi Friends,

Big welcome to all the new subscribers! There’s been an uptick in subscriptions lately, and I’m grateful for your interest, time, and attention!

In Issue 20, Lisa Robertson shares a tweet memoir, Kirby writes about a reading and meeting of two bi-coastal poets at Great Escape Bookstore, and behold the Send My Love to Anyone October Gatherings below!

ICYMI, in Issue 19, Rebecca Fisseha shares a journal entry from early in the writing process of her most recent novel , and she describes this journal as “a testament to the utter unpredictability of the creative process” because a project she was journaling in 2009 “morphed into a … rom-com!”.

The audio versions of Susan Mockler’s excerpt of her memoir Fracture (Issue 18) is now available as are Kirby’s first two columns “Are All Booksellers Dreamers?” and “hearts ears eyes”.

If you are a past contributor and would like to create an audio version of your work, please get in touch.

And SMLTA Writing Prompts are back with a collaborative writing exercise.

In other news, I’ve been invited to talk about writer newsletters for the Federation of BC Writers Mini Summit November 25, 2022 at 11:00am (Pacific).

Having two years in the newsletter game, I have many many thoughts to share!

Let me know if you have questions about newsletters, and I’ll try to include them in the talk. It will be recorded as well.

I’ve been listening to many audio books lately. I’m currently listening to Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand, I’m making my way through Annie Ernaux’s novellas, and I’m listening to Poetry is Queer by Kirby, an excerpt is available on Bandcamp.

Other gatherings include Arc Magazine’s submission call for disabled writers and Wordstock Sudbury’s Masterclass with Tanis MacDonald on November 5, 2022. If you’re looking for a horror movie to watch, I highly recommend The Retreat!

Check out the rest of the October gatherings below!

Hope you enjoy this issue!

Kathryn

BC Federation of Writers @bcwriters

SAVE THE DATE for our Fall Mini-Summit! Over 5 days, learn the tools to advance your writing career. Our first-ever Mini-Summit will cover topics like newsletters, book covers, social media and more. More info: bcwriters.ca/minisummit/ #fbcw #bcwriters #writingcommunity

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Each month I collect a list of gatherings—what I’m reading, watching, viewing, or thinking about.

Comment below if you have any suggested gatherings.

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Kathy Fish on Radical Noticing

I highly recommend Kathy Fish’s newsletter The Art of Flash Fiction:

Radical Noticing*: Discovering the Metaphor

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Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems, Between the Covers Podcast

Tin House @Tin_House

On 🎙Between The Covers🎙, Dionne Brand and @DavidNaimon discuss the release of Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems and look at Brand’s work across the decades.💫 Listen: bit.ly/BTCDionneBrand

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Recommended Reads

I needed to read this book in my 20s. Better late than never.

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Diary Exercise with Lynda Barry

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Amy Jones @amylaurajones

At the perfect point in my current project where it exists solely in my head and I haven’t fucked it up by trying to write it yet

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Looking for a terrific horror movie?

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Opportunity for Disabled Writers

Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry

Disabled writers, writers with disabilities and writers who experience ableism: Arc 102 and our guest editor Therese Estacion are looking for your writing! Send us your poems, prose, essays, and reviews by May 15th, 2023 to be considered: ow.ly/1h6W50KZkmL!

ow.lyDisabled writers, writers with disabilities, writers who experience ableism—Arc 102 is calling you! : Arc PoetryCanada’s Poetry Magazine

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Masterclass with Tanis MacDonald

Wordstock Sudbury @WordstockSud

So you’ve got that elusive first draft – but is it ready for an editor’s eyes? walk through ways to prepare and polish their manuscripts before consulting an editor, where to find an editor, and what writers can expect from the editing process. wordstocksudbury.ca

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An October poem from Saeed Jones

POEM: "Everything Is Dying, Nothing Is Dead"

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Education Wellness

@auntyjocey#education #mentalhealth #indigenous #nativetiktok

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Lisa Whittington-Hill on OCD, perfectionism and Top Chef

Lisa WhittingtonHill @nerdygirly

Very excited to be writing a column for @CatapultStory on pop culture and mental health. The first installment is about OCD, perfectionism and how Top Chef helped me with both. Thank you to @tajjaisen who is always so great to work with.

catapult.co‘Top Chef’ Makes Perfection Impossible. And That’s Exactly What I Needed | Lisa Whittington-HillFear of losing control is one of the causes of OCD.

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A sonnet approximation by Roxanna Bennett

phillip crymble @phillipcrymble

This sonnet approximation by Roxanna Bennett in the new @thewalrus is exquisite.

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Kevin Chong has a new book coming in April

👁 Loan Le⁷ should be writing @loanloan

This blurb for @KevinChong1975’s THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BENSON YU, from THE @charles_yu 🤯😭. Book comes out in April: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Doub…

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CNF Workshop with Jenna Butler

CreativeNFCollective @CNFCollective

From pandemic narratives to stories of overcoming family trauma, creative non-fiction offers writers a nuanced way to tell detailed accounts of survival. Join us on November 12 @ 1:30 pm Eastern - @jennabutler leads this conversation. #CNFC #nonfiction …tioncollectivesociety.wildapricot.org/event-4964503

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News from Send My Love to Anyone Contributors

Book*hug Press @bookhugpress

Listen to @LWEstudio speak about the inspiration behind her debut novel, Junie, on @cbcradio's The Next Chapter with @RogersShelagh!

cbc.caChelene Knight on Junie | The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers | Live Radio | CBC ListenChelene Knight on the inspiration behind her novel, Junie.

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Sydney Hegele on stealing what was stolen from them

Catapult @CatapultStory

"Stealing my classmates’ key chains—symbols of their own childhood—was merely a reenactment of my trauma. Stealing what was stolen from me." @sydneyhegele on reading "It" as a child and stealing what was stolen from them:

catapult.coReading Stephen King’s ‘It’ As a Child Confused My Sense of Justice | Sydney HegeleLike Pennywise the Clown, I too was stealing childhood from those who had more of it than I did.

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Ramraggjh Sharvendiran interviews Susan Mockler about her acquired disability and how she is treated by society, Ontario Morning, CBC Radio

Ontario Morning @CBCOntMorning

A car accident changed @Smock18's life forever, coming up we'll chat with the Kingston resident about her new memoir that explores how an acquired disability altered the way she moved through life, and what she learned along the way about how disabilities are treated in society.

Listen to an excerpt from Fractured

Susan Mockler | Issue 18

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From Issue 19: Rebecca Fisseha

Rebecca Fisseha | Issue 19

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A post shared by Rebecca Fisseha (@rebeccafisseha)

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Audio Excerpt from Poetry is Queer by Kirby

Buy the book too!

Read an excerpt

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Issue #20 of Send My Love to Anyone

October 2022 Gatherings

“An Education” by Lisa Robertson

The First Time: “hearts ears eyes” by Kirby

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