Michelle Willms

NORTHERN GIRLS - Baraka Books Brave, engaging, electric, Northern Girls is a collection of true stories about the fractured legacy of growing up in rural northern Ontario.

My memoir, Northern Girls: True Stories (Baraka Books), comes out on April 1st.

“Fierce, harrowing, and lyrical, these stories ask what it means to survive.” Anna Leventhal, author of Sweet Affliction.

To preorder a copy, please visit: barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/

#memoir #cnf

Thank you for your kind words, Kelly! It's great to meet you too!

Thank you too, ‪@ggcollins.bsky.social‬!

I don't just read your script.

Nearly all of my services go through an undisclosed:

first read
initial notes
second read
additional notes
story breakdown
& then story breakdown notes before finally writing my report.

That's what it is to be Philmscribed.

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#scriptsky

Loved Agassi's autobiography "Open."

Thank you.

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“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin

Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options: Tier ...

Deadline Today - Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival

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We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

2 festival screenings. Interviews. Feedback video.

I drank four cups of tea the other day and thought of you, Beth.

Someone needs your art. Keep creating 🖤

Imagine if burglars openly complained about how asking for permission to enter victims homes would ‘kill’ the burglary business.

Congratulations on being sober for 30 years!

Thanks, Melinda!

Writing Through Loss By Anne Pinkerton I always start with the words of poet Ada Limón: “I think poetry is a way of carrying grief, but it’s also a way of putting it somewhere so I don’t have to heave it onto my back o…

"For years, I’ve put my grief down on pages, taken it off my back and out of my body, shaped it in a new way, thrown it out to the sky. By doing so, I’ve honored, owned, and transformed my own losses..." ~ Anne Pinkerton
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Thank you.

Please add me, if still possible.

How did I not know about this mag? “Speculative stories about our inner lives” are very much my kind of thing.

I wish you could too, Sophie! It's so delicious.

Finding your Voice on the Page Join us for this two-part poetry workshop with Jenny Mitchell

#Poets, if you feel your work needs a kick start for the new year why not join me for a 2-part #poetry workshop - relaxed, non-judgemental but challenging. Details here:

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This artwork is priceless.

Annihilation. I was just thinking about how it might be time to rewatch that.

I drink too much eggnog. I drink it on its own, and I also add it to my tea and coffee too, in lieu of sugar and milk. I wish it wasn't so delicious.

😂

Dear fellow eggnog lovers, this cartoon is for you!

#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist #eggnog

Or any cooked vegetable, for that matter. 😆 Now we chop up veggies and serve them raw. The kids load their own plates and everybody is happy. 👍

Based on true events with my daughter. 😂

#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist

I always do too. 🌳😀👋

I am learning that the best way to get into a starter pack is to make your own. Please comment below if you'd like me to include you in "Writers who wave back at that one leaf on the tree that is waving at the world" Starter Pack.