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dⒶlton

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

i'm p useless when it comes to using social media. but here's a review i wrote recently for the woodlot:

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big thanks to lauryn @chly.ca for this awesome write-up! get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:

big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!

a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡

4mo

amazing turnout last night at the vault in nanaimo! shout out to featured readers Masha Zhaksybek + Lee Groen, and big big thanks to everyone who signed up to read at the open mic! see you at the next GRUB STREET reading series 🐛

our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!

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new work from yrs truly... email us at the press to order a copy!

i want you to put the word out that we're back

as someone who lived it, this is the exact advice ppl considering getting their cw mfa need to hear. & in fewer than 300 characters, no less!

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reviewed by dalton derkson In his 1906 novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair writes: “All this was bad, and yet it was not the worst.” Is it an odd choice of quotation with which to open a …

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A Review of Empties by Neil Surkan (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026)

Local poetry press creating space for indie, alternative and local writers. Listen—or read more—at www.chly.ca/news in #Nanaimo. Broadcasting on the Salish Sea.