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Writer and editor. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. And Then She Fell Sep 2023

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This land was never discovered by Columbus. It was raided, mutilated, and enslaved. We do not recognize him as anything but a greedy, invading tyrant that committed genocide against the indigenous peoples of this continent. However, we do recognize that the history of the Americas, the Caribbean, and most of the world, is of colonial resistance. Indigenous nations are still here, still creating, still thriving!

Here’s our call to action on this day:

❤️‍🔥 Support, follow and especially patronize your local indigenous-owned businesses and creators. One of our favorite local indie bookstores, @emandemsbooks would be a great place to start.

❤️‍🔥 Read books written by indigenous authors. Let indigenous folks tell their own stories, and support them when they do.

Looking for a good indigenous horror book recommendation? These are just a few of many incredible indigenous voices and stories within the horror genre.

Check out:

🧡 Everything written by @stephengrahamjones

🧡 Incredible anthologies by shane.hawk and @tvayyyy Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood is finally here!

🧡 And Then She Fell, a mind-bending work about motherhood by @ellialic

🧡 That Which Feeds Us @kealakendall’s debut YA Hawaiian gothic horror novel

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A few books. Countless stories. So much more to discover. 📚

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, explore a small selection of powerful reads. Stories that preserve culture, widen perspectives, and invite us to listen, learn, and keep turning the pages.

Today is a good place to start. It shouldn’t be where we stop.

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New books and bestsellers comin' in hot in the last week or so with bangers out the gate from Eden Robinson, @vivekshraya, @awestoll, @tidydissolve, and titles that are still gettin' after it by @amandapetersauthor, @vikkivansickle, and the anthologized work of @nakinisowin, @ellialic, @jessicastellaa, @ericajtremblay, and @jwhitehead204.

I essentially live at @bookbarto now so this is what's happening from here on in, at least whenever I get a chance to post between the waves of word and drink thirsty folks that keep on showing up, and have some gumption left.

Buy these or you might as well just go take a nap... 😴

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#AmReading #Bestsellers #CanLit #Bookstagram

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Rainbow stacks 🌈📚 Some of my favorite books that I own sorted by colors

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Spent some time browsing Bison Books in downtown Winnipeg and predictably left with a little stack

So many good Indigenous books tucked into the shelves, shared some of my favourites that are available!

I ended up bringing home The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp (very fitting, since I’ll be sitting down with Richard at @WPGBookFest to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Lesser Blessed ❤️ Tickets are available now!), Second Place by Rachel Cusk, and A Feather and a Fur by Crystal Wapepah.

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For Gryphons Read 2026, we’re bringing together the Creative Writing Program faculty at the University of Guelph for a very special evening of conversation and celebration.

Join acclaimed authors Catherine Bush, Lawrence Hill, Canisia Lubrin, Alicia Elliott, Blain Watters, and Carrianne Leung as they talk about writing, art, and language as forces for change, hope, and imagining better futures.

The evening will also mark the beginning of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the University of Guelph’s nationally acclaimed MFA in Creative Writing.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the program beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 1, 2026, in Room 113 of the Arts Research Centre, in the performance wing of the MacKinnon Building. A reception will follow in the Arts Research Centre Atrium.

For accessibility concerns or accommodation requests, please contact coaevents@uoguelph.ca

[Descriptive text: A red event poster for “Gryphons Read 2026: A Creative Writing Event.” The poster features six circular author portraits arranged in two rows: Catherine Bush, Lawrence Hill, Canisia Lubrin, Alicia Elliott, Blain Watters, and Carrianne Leung. Event details at the bottom read Thursday, October 1 at 6:30 p.m., Arts Research Centre, University of Guelph, with a registration link.]

#GuelphMFA #GryphonsRead #CreativeWriting #UniversityOfGuelph #LiteraryCommunity

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👀 good thing there are 5 weeks in october

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‘Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood’, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., published by @ireadvintage

stories by @thischerokeerose @pat.the.carroll @tvayyyy @jimterryart @jessicastellaa @ajeversole Sonia Marie Barry @shane.hawk @stephengrahamjones @ellialic Mat Rude Walker, Shaawan Francis Keahna @nakinisowin Jake Arrowtop, Aline Pete @magpiecap @jwhitehead204 Tommy Orange @reelindian @ericajtremblay @kblaeser8

#horrorfiction #horroranthology #horrorshortstories #nativehorror #indigenoushorror

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I like feminist horror because it lets me be fucking furious.

It gives me somewhere to put the rage. It indulges my revenge fantasies. It understands that sometimes, I don’t want a story about finding peace with the thing that hurt me. Sometimes, I want to watch the thing that hurt me get teeth sunk into it.

And feminist horror doesn’t ask women to make any of this pretty. It doesn’t require us to be nice, palatable, forgiving, desirable, or even particularly sympathetic. We can be hungry and grotesque. We can be selfish and excessive. We can haunt the house. We can burn it down. We can become the monster.

So, ahead of scary season, I’ve sorted 48 feminist horror books according to the particular nightmare each one is interested in.

This is *a* taxonomy, not *the* taxonomy. These categories bleed into each other, plenty of these books could live on three different slides, and feminist horror is much messier than eight neat little boxes. But mess is kind of the point.

Swipe through for 48 books (including a few upcoming releases!) about bodies, gender, power, and what happens when women stop behaving. And swipe all the way to the end to read about my mutual aid fundraiser. 💚

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feminist horror books | horror books by women | feminist body horror | queer horror books | body horror books | haunted house books | women in horror | horror books about cannibalism

OUR BODIES AREN’T PROPERTY: books exploring beauty, consumption, bodily autonomy & the grotesque feminine

The beauty imperative becomes body horror.

These books ask what happens when women’s bodies are treated as things to perfect, study, consume, discipline, correct, surveil, or possess. Beauty and “wellness” stop looking quite so benign when you follow their demands to their logical extremes.

- Youthjuice by E.K. Sathue
- Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Violent Faculties by Charlene Elsby
- The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
- Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

WOMEN SHOULD BE HUNGRY FOR LESS: books about appetite, food, cannibalism & feminine hunger

Hunger is such a useful feminist-horror metaphor because femininity is so often constructed around the regulat

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August week 5 reads! So glad it’s almost fall 🍁👻🎃☕️🍂 So many excellent books this week. Thank you so much to my bestie @thee_river_rises for recommending The Book of Eels 🫶

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Read more books by Indigenous authors! Some of my favorite horror and thriller books have been written by indigenous authors- and I think if you pick one up, you’ll realize the amazing stories you’ve been missing out on.

From rich culture and oral traditions passed down for generations, no one else can tell stories like this- haunting, ancient, and original.

We all know and love Stephen Graham Jones, but that’s just the tip of this amazing iceberg.

QOTD: which one of these books is going on your TBR?

#indigenoushorror #whattoreadnext #homelibrarygoals #horrorbookstagram #indigenousbooks

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From People: Get a jumpstart on spooky season with BACK FOR BLOOD: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT PART II, an Indigenous horror anthology with stories by the likes of Jessica Doe, P.C. Verrone, Jim Terry, Jessica Johns, A.J. Eversole, Sonia Marie Barry, Stephen Graham Jones, Alicia Elliott, Mat RudeWalker and others!

“It’s [LOOKING FOR SMOKE by KA Cobell (Heartdrum)] a whodunit used to face the real pain of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis head-on. The narrative holds you inside a community’s generational grief until its gut-punch of a finale that’ll have you staring at your ceiling at 3 a.m. wondering if you actually know your neighbors.” —Shane Hawk, from People, “Nine Terrifying Native American and Indigenous Books to Welcome Spooky Season”

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