Mitchell Toews

🍁 Writing about small lives in hard places where love wins. "Pinching Zwieback" (At Bay Press, 2023)

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@Angelamac33367 No, sorry, I meant that the real world is filled with language trends, frequently used cliches and patterns and so it should be plausible that others in the main character's sphere (particularly if she is influential/a thought leader) would speak like her.

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@TomRachman As a boy in a small town I knew where all the best crabapple trees were. They each had a distinct flavor, a best time to pick, and individual rules about harvest/theft. If my grandmother had taken every tree in town and made jelly from its fruit, would I have enjoyed it?

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Results of the 2026 Magpie Poetry Award from Pulp Literature Magazine in Vancouver, BC.

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@jedwardkruft Do we need a prescription? 😃😃 Just kidding, I've enjoyed your writing in the past and will read this in the dentist waiting room today.

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@Smitroverse Yes, although the 867-word rejection concerning my 300-word micro fiction did give me pause.

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See you in YVR on Feb 22! https://t.co/FMZ9e1UbsA

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Cafe Duello in YVR! https://t.co/yoMQI5kU4s

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"Bike Killer" Translator-Curator Sam Kandej in Conversation with Contributor Mitchell Toews https://t.co/HpiUnseFla via @mitchell_toews

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@KarenSchauber This book joins Gordon, In-the-Pan, Be-with-You-in-a, Flood, Point, and News in the "Famous Flash" club. Congratulations and best wishes from cousins Sudden and Micro!

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@Bookexpert001 One out 2023, another two coming in 2026, all trad w small Cdn presses.

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@atbaypress Great photos!

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https://t.co/IZPBTdGfqc AIEEE! The silent auction Ebay would have been if your favourite CANADIAN AUTHOR had invented it! (Think how cool that would be!) Get on it!

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The Margin of the River by Mitchell Toews https://t.co/zfHHrhpblN via @LiterallyStory

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The Seven Songs by Mitchell Toews https://t.co/DIAYXBEUgz

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"Imaginary Dumbell" might be a pretty good Twitter handle, come to think of it...

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Photo of me by Jim H. at The Public Brewhouse & Gallery in Steinbach, MB discussing the 1928-1976 Tourist Hotel and its Mens-only Beverage Room (15¢ per 6.5 oz. draught). I appear to be doing wrist curls with an imaginary dumbbell as I read.

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Writer's Log, entry 3,650... One book out, another roasting on the spit. Looking for a collaborator-screenwriter to go book-to-screen with a third maritime story. 125 published stories, 700+ rejections, four Pushcart noms. Working the slush piles with a live list of 32 stories.