Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. FUSE @guernica_ed. Rebellion Box @radiant_press. Widow Fantasies @gordonhillpress. The Unravelling of Ou, Palimpsest Press.
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Feast yer glorious peepers on these wonderful words from reviewers of my newly released collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies! (@gordonhillpress)
Thanks to @ttbrader & @MERliterary Aurora R & @ampersandreview for uplifting my scrappy stories.
#shortstories #bookreviews
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These reviews arrgh worth the read!
Emily Mernin on “Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes,” (James Street North Books) by @MarkLeslie, and John Casey reads Adrian Michael Kelly’s “Maybe It’s Me,” (ECW Press) and a writerly panorama.
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Chris Banks about his stunning poetry collection, The Bureau of Useless Splendor (ECW Press, 2026).
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Li Charmaine Anne recently reviewed my debut novel, The Unravelling of Ou, in Plentitude Magazine, and we are tickled witless.
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“…a triumph of craft.”
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In this NBN episode, I speak with award-winning author Nancy Jo Cullen about her new steamy and soul-expanding new novel, Dish (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026).
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Malon Edwards about his book, If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes (Fireside Fiction Company, 2023).
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Joanna Cockerline about her acclaimed novel, Still (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2025).
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#opioidcrisis #whattoread #books
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Liz Johnston about her eagerly anticipated debut novel, The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug, 2026).
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#canlit #climateaction #falldown #ireadcanadian #ecoliteracy
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In this NBN interview, I speak with Adriana Oniță about her poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue (Palimpsest Press, 2026).
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#poetry #translation #romanian
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In just a couple days I’m scheduled to pop on over to the 2026 Winnipeg Book Festival for two panels. 📚
🪻Misidentification on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
💕 In Short on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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Acclaimed author Ed Seaward reviews The Unravelling of Ou—the Giller Prize longlisted novel by Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery, published by Palimpsest Press.
Read the full review:🪻
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In this NBN episode, I speak with award-winning author Rod Carley about The Great Catsby by Hilton, published by Canadian publisher Smart House (September 1, 2026).
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#yabooks #cats #youngadult
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In what might be the understatement of the century, Brockville Recorder & Times reporter Catherine Orth called me “an extrovert”.
Here’s a link to the full article via a LinkTree link.🔗
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#iran #canada #litfic #brockvilleontario #books
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In this NBN episode, I speak with award-winning author and journalist Ian Brown about his bestselling memoir, 70: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year (Penguin Random House, 2026).
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My scrappy wee story narrated by a sock is longlisted for the Giller Prize:
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Stay whimsical, friends. 🪻
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“[…]a brilliant examination of the psychological need humans have to separate ourselves from trauma and loss in order to cope.”
-Shirley Hay
Thank you to Shirley Hay for a thoughtful response to The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press).
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Sarkhosh! The Unravelling of Ou, my debut novel about a woman and her sock puppet, was The New Books Network Book of the Day. 📖
You can listen on YouTube:
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More about The Unravelling of Ou:
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#queerlit #books #iran
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In this NBN episode, I speak with acclaimed poet & biographer, Molly Peacock, The Widow’s Crayon Box (WW Norton & Co)—a book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation.
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A few years ago, I had a piece of short fiction published in The Ampersand Review and in this most recent issue, your girl here is on the cover.
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From Mike Blouin — a writer whose poetry I once called a “a wet kiss in a dirty bathroom” (& meant it in the best possible way) — comes a recent review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which appears in subTerrain Magazine. I’m floored with gratitude.
subterrain.ca/issue-103
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