CanadianPoetsSpotlight

A celebration of Canadian poets and poetry. Discover new (or new to you) voices. Rediscover favourites. ✨📖

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

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.

https://t.co/Fyo8kDcVgu

💕: @ampersandreview

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#publicity #bookpublicity #canadianauthor #iraniancanada

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

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.

https://t.co/egS5f2EagG

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

ICYMI: you can check out my June post for subscribers at 3%: A CanLit Publicist’s Diary on Substack. In this issue, I share my thoughts on doing events for free as artists.

I even made my first flow chart!

Read the full article. 🔗

https://t.co/2HoDAbMkci

#publicity #writer

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

Thinking about dinos since 1981.

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they’re
not in the world
any longer, but

they’re not
in the past
either

they’re taking up
space, everywhere

and if
you can’t see
that, you need
to think

bigger.

—from “Dreadnoughtus”, from Rebellion Box (Radiant Press, 2023)

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#poetry

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

Thank you to the wonderful Kim Fahner for this love letter to my chapbook, the blades of grass are dreaming (Anstruther Press, 2025), which was published in the most recent issue of Pinhole Poetry.

To read the full feature:

https://t.co/SmD0SpaIDx

#poetry #poet

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

If you are curious about the topic of money in the 2020s, or interested in reading books that make us reconsider what wealth means, read our intern Michael Schmidt’s column:

https://t.co/1Y32o3bI5K

#wealth #economics #bookstagram #bookishcanadians #booksbooksbooks

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

Alex Boyd’s essay collection, Take This for the Pain (Palimpsest Press, 2026), received a brilliant review in Hippocampus Magazine by writer, scholar, and narrative medicine leader Renée K. Nicholson.

Read full review:

https://t.co/6IIxjr92tI

#nonfiction

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

In this NBN episode, I speak with celebrated poet Jaime Forsythe about Yield—her new long poem published by Wolsak & Wynn, 2026.

Listen to the conversation:

https://t.co/xhYABCqWxa

@NewBooksNetwork

#poetry

[Shab-e She'r @ShabeSherTO]

Join Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night) June 16, @Tranzac, Toronto, ft @LaraBozabalian & @Surveyclimat + #OpenMic for poetry in any language https://t.co/UukOtbXUcl

[Morning Live @morninglive]

4 Canadian authors are launching their speculative fiction books tonight at Hamilton's The City and City Books @Hollay2 @AnnetteHamm. FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/0iyE2x5x80

[Shane Neilson @Sneilsonwwh]

Hope some people can come. And hope all my disabled friends are "okayish" out there. Most we can hope for. READING: @splitendedpoem, Qurat Dar, and mis-piggy moi. @typebooks (2887 Dundas St. W. Toronto), August 6, readings start 7 pm.

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

Thanks to George Murray for inviting me to submit a poem to https://t.co/PkZjktBisM. The piece was written by my youngest daughter and me. We printed out lyrics from Raffi’s Baby Beluga, cut out each word, scrambled them, & used 20 or so to create.

https://t.co/PoxgLcC6Y9

[Hollay Ghadery (she/her) @Hollay2]

In this NBN episode, I speak with Griffin Prize winner Kaie Kellough about his new long poem, Interposition (McClelland & Steward, 2026).

Listen in:

https://t.co/mMffpS4l2W

@NewBooksNetwork

#poetry

[Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga]

"The boy remembers himself not the way he was,
but changed because he remembers."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Why the Boy Still Draws Superheroes by Richard Harrison from My Mother Joins the Resistance (2026 Wolsak & Wynn) https://t.co/3JPf36KSiS

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

Read more poetry! 🌊

Beloved Nova Scotia poet Jaime Forsythe was on CTV Your Morning Atlantic to talk about her new book of poetry, Yield (Wolsak & Wynn, April 2026).

https://t.co/1TFNdwTaEX

#nationalpoetrymonth

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

#NationalPoetryMonth spotlight: Calgary’s Governor General Award-winning poet, Richard Harrison!

Richard’s breathtaking new collection, My Mother Joins the Resistance, will be released by Wolsak & Wynn, April 14, 2026.

https://t.co/X3D0ePmIMI

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

April is #NationalPoetryMonth & we can’t wait for this event with beloved Canadian poets Rob Winger and Laurie D. Graham at Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, Ontario!

The event is from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m..

The event is free, but we urge you to RSVP: https://t.co/lBwHlvJy5r > Events.

[Michael Parkes Author @PichaelMarkes]

Today’s author interview spotlights @Hollay2, an award-winning memoirist, short story writer, novelist, publicist at @riverstwriting, and poet laureate of Scugog township.

You can read all about her at the link below!

https://t.co/jC40gkrkLu

#AuthorInterview #HollayGhadery

[River Street Writing @riverstwriting]

NEW EXCERPT from Tea Gerbeza’s acclaimed poetry, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2024)!

Visit our blog to experience the full excerpt:

https://t.co/u0M3Qx4kjV

#nationalpoetrymonth

[CanadianPoetsSpotlight @CanLitPoets]

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