In March 2026, the Vegan and Animal Rights Conference will open its doors in Manchester to advocates, campaigners, and movement builders for a three-day gathering. 🌱
https://veganfta.com/articles/2026/03/04/vegan-and-animal-rights-conference-varc-2026-to-focus-on-movement-building-and-resilience/
The Yukon Magazine has started including poetry! Such a delight to have a poem featured in this fine publication.
More about the magazine at: theyukonmagazine.com
@turnstonepress
The covers of five books – The Fleece Era, Endlings, If There Were Roads, The Birthday Books and Worry Stones by Joanna Lilley, plus Writing for Animals, in which Joanna has an essay.
Very grateful to be one of 18,661 creators receiving a #publiclendingright payment for having books in Canada's wonderful public libraries. Thank you, libraries, the Canada Council for the Arts' Public Lending Right Program and everyone who reads books!
#bringingtheartstolife @yukonpubliclibraries
This follows hot on the heels of Interpol's big wildlife trafficking sweep.
Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
The BC Foundation for Non-Animal Research (BC FNAR) is now open for applications for their 2026 non-animal research grants.
#nonhumananimals #morethanhuman
www.bcfnar.ca
The image shows green hills and a soft, cloudy sky, with the words Poetry Competition 2026. South Down Poetry Festival. Enter your original poems for the Binsted Prize.
Goodness, I'm honoured to be the judge of the 2026 South Downs Poetry Festival's Binsted Prize poetry competition. It's open to everyone, wherever you live and you have until 31 March to submit your entries. I can't wait to read them. Find all the details at www.sdpf.org.uk/competition/.
Such a phenomenal book by @trinamoyles.bsky.social. Had a sneak preview and can’t recommend it enough!
#borealbears
Congratulations on the publication of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles - out now with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the US!
Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2026/01/06/c...
Join us for an evening of art and storytelling about human-bear coexistence at 7pm on Friday 9 January 2026 at the Beringia Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Author Trina Moyles is launching her new book, Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival (Knopf Canada, 2026). Filmmaker, Allan Code, will screen "Grizzly Consensus", a short documentary film about Yukon salmon and grizzlies, featuring bear guide, Phil Timpany, shot at Bear Cave Mountain. Author/poet, Joanna Lilley, will be hosting an engaging conversation with Trina Moyles, Allan Code, and Phil Timpany, on the themes of human-bear coexistence, art, writing, climate change, conservation, and more. This is a free event, everyone welcome! DOORS OPEN AT 6:45 PM LIGHT REFRESHMENTS BOOKS FOR SALE BLACK BEAR: A STORY OF SIBLINGHOOD AND SURVIVAL (Knopf Canada, January 6, 2026): When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as “the bear guy,” brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings’ hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while her brother worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on t…
Delighted and excited to be helping @TrinaMoyles launch her new and very amazing book, Black Bear, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at 7pm on Friday 9 January at the Beringia Centre. Join us!
#blackbear
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
@transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
That's exactly why the van Gogh episode of Doctor Who is my absolute favorite episode of all time and I'll never be able to get through it without bawling through the museum scene...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
A pattern of ice on a window pane with snowy trees and a rising sun beyond. Indoors, a frosted window sill and three grey stones.
Ice inside and out as the sun slowly rises at minus 42 on the day after the solstice.
#Whitehorse #Yukon
'Don’t expect to be a genius; you get better by working hard. Don’t rip up your work in a fury if it’s going badly. Set it aside, sit in the garden, drink tea, read the Guardian for a while. Return to your desk. Try again.'
– @ameliagentleman.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The Whys, Why-Nots, and How-Tos of Writing about Trauma - my latest Substack for Day 14: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
shawandmoore.substack.com/p/day-14-16-...
“To what extent do we create these stories, and to what extent do they create us?” In Death of Persephone: A Murder, Yvonne Blomer reframes the myth of Persephone as a detective murder mystery set in a modern city. Discover this gripping mystery in verse reviewed by Kate Rogers here: buff.ly/QiIXpeJ
Emma Beddington @theguardian.com expresses so well a key cultural difference between the UK and Canada that I experience yet struggle to articulate. It feels all bound up in the class system to me as well, which I also haven't yet worked out how to express. (Oh, I live in Canada but am from the UK.)
If imposter syndrome was more contagious I feel like we’d be in a better place
A photograph of a circular hole in the ice which has itself iced over yet is not yet covered in snow. Around the hole are spiky and soft patterns of ice formations.
The snow came late this year to Yukon. The ice formed first and waxed and waned like the moon.
This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.
Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.
Does everyone in Britain say ‘I’ve not been there in years’ nowadays rather than ‘I’ve not been there for years’? Being English but living in Canada, my prepositions seem to fall with a splash into the mid-Atlantic.
#amwriting
#dividedbyacommonlanguage
dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/brit...
This will be terrific 👌
Oh, my productivity naturally also included attempting to accurately attribute the quotation my post was inspired by, regarding spending the morning taking out a comma and the afternoon putting it back again, which may or may not have been an Oscar Wilde gem: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c...
A black dog on a sofa, hiding her face between her white paws. There's also a part of a laptop screen showing.
What a productive time I'm having. I removed all the commas from a poem and then put them all back again.
#amediting #poetry
MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing.
https://bit.ly/41lawaq
#Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM
@snowhydro.bsky.social
Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
A photograph of a red poppy surrounded by green leaves. The photograph is taken from above, so the poppy's petals appear as a floating and none of the stem is visible.
A photograph by my sister the British artist Rebecca Lilley taken at Uppark House in Hampshire in 2013, not long after her cancer diagnosis. She posted a couple of her poppy photographs on social media at the time, titling one of them 'Fallen'.
#RemembranceDay #Lestweforget
#NationalTrust
There is no humane market for bodies. No ethical metric for killing. No “price” that makes oppression acceptable.
Delighted to be offering two writing workshops with @YukonWords on Sunday 23 November – in-person in Whitehorse from 9.30 to 11.30am and online from 1.30 to 3.30pm. All welcome. No experience needed. Free but email yukonwordssociety@gmail.com to register.
More to come at: www.yukonwords.ca/events
In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.)
newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price
