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Maria Meindl

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Writer, editor, historian, Feldenkrais practitioner. Booster of works-in-progress @draftreadings. https://teapaw.org/t.co/TNfu9sIaXE https://teapaw.org/t.co/xXnYaK1LbX https://teapaw.org/t.co/AjnJt1dFfr

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I have been holding this news for months, and I'm happy it is how shareable. Thank you to everyone who has played a role in supporting me, lifting me up, and seeing the potential in me. You do not win this kind of award as an island of 1. #CRCTier2 #BlackScholar #MobaProjects
Research – Toronto Metropolitan University (@researchTMU) profile pictureResearch – Toronto Metropolitan University@researchTMU14 Nov 2024
Congratulations to @TorontoMet profs Cheryl Thompson, TMU’s new Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity, and Sharareh Taghipour for her renewed CRC in Physical Asset Management. Learn more: bit.ly/4hP9SJ1 @DrCherylT @RyersonRRMR @thecreativeschl
TMU researchers named Canada Research Chairs

TMU researchers named Canada Research Chairs

TMU professors Cheryl Thompson and Sharareh Taghipour are honored as new and renewed Canada Research Chairs for their outstanding research.

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Check out #CDTPS alumni Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton in their new show HONEY I'M HOME premiering at Factory Theatre from November 21 to December 1, 2024! @LesterTrips
Factory Theatre (@FactoryToronto) profile pictureFactory Theatre@FactoryToronto13 Nov 2024
Your boss has rejected your request to work from home, but would you consider… Homing From Work? HONEY I'M HOME by Alaine Hutton and Lauren Gillis of @LesterTrips runs Nov 21-Dec 1 in the studio theatre. Video shot by Andrew Jeffrey, edited by Ana Figo. factorytheatre.ca/shows/hone…
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Rough draft of WAKING IN THE DARK: THE BOSTON YEARS OF SYLVIA PLATH, ANNE SEXTON, ADRIENNE RICH, AND MAXINE KUMIN. Many more drafts to go, but I’m closing in…
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A poem I wrote for today, as part of my Poet Laureateship with @TwpofScugog. @ScugogArts #RemembanceDay2024 #RemembanceDay
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Excited to announce our first Archive of Care featured author: @typennock Known for their powerful poetry on Indigenous identity, resilience, and healing. Join us to celebrate voices that inspire and restore. Thanks to @TorontoArts for funding this event.
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afua cooper@afuacooper24 Oct 2024
Hey everyone check out my exhibit at the @Pier21 Canadian Museum of Immigration, "A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada." It's on now until January 2025. #blackhistory #canada #maritimes I was there Oct. 16th to give some media interviews.
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The FOLD
@TheFOLD_22 Oct 2024
Discover amazing virtual book events for kids, parents, and educators featuring incredible Canadian children's authors and illustrators. FOLD Kids Book Fest provides direct access to a diverse array of incredible authors, storytellers and engaging activities.

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This will be so good! So many superb writers on this list -- and they happen to be friends of Draft, too!
Gloria Blizzard|Writer (@GloriaBlizzard) profile pictureGloria Blizzard|Writer@GloriaBlizzard21 Oct 2024
This Wednesday for the #Toronto #literarycommunity @torontolibrary #highpark branch. Curated by the wonderful author Bernadette Gabay Dyer. See you there! #canlit #nonfiction #fiction @UrsulaPflug et al
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I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my second novel, THE FUN TIMES BRIGADE! Music and motherhood and identity crises (plural!) and grief and a song about crayons and more! Out with @bookhugpress: May 1, 2025! #TheFunTimesBrigade #CanLit #TBR
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Delighted to have my work included in the #anthology Bad Artist @cbcbooks #canlit #literature #fallreads
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This festive occasion is fast approaching. Off to work where I'll be wrapping up door prizes and questioning if I should have ditched the Mingle Bingo plans...à la Cesare: I shoulda, I coulda and I did.
Humber Lit Review (@HumberLitReview) profile pictureHumber Lit Review@HumberLitReview8 Oct 2024
Put this on the dance card. Join us from 7 to 10pm and gain sustenance through author readings, sweets, savories and swag.
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Myna Wallin@mynapoet26 Sep 2024
What a pleasure being interviewed by Brian Crombie about my new poetry book, The Suicide Tourist (Ekstasis Editions, 2024) and much more. #mentalhealth #Canlit #bipolar #ekstasiseditions
Brian Crombie (@briancrombie) profile pictureBrian Crombie@briancrombie26 Sep 2024
Tonight, Thursday, September 26th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Myna Wallin. ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 videocasts can be accessed any time on my web site briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Myna Wallin is a Toronto-born poet a...
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Really enjoyed Anomia, a novel by Jade Wallace @nycterosea new from @PalimpsestPress -- here's my review. #books #amreading boydwords.wordpress.com/2024…
Anomia, Jade Wallace

Anomia, Jade Wallace

Euphoria is a town nestled next to the Unwood, woods in which “You’ll survive,” but “don’t stay still for too long.” As a novel, Anomia successfully blends reali…

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It was a wonderful event @festivalofauthors with @jennyheijun and @angelynsaysh #toronto #canlit #diverseauthors #blackwriters. Had the opportunity to dig into my book of Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas @dundurnpress and Everything and Nothing at All @KnopfCA
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Kim Fahner@modernirish25 Sep 2024
I’m so excited to have two of my new poems, “Eclipse, not apocalypse” & “Orchid Killer,” published in the newest issue of The Temz Review! Glad to be in such fine literary company, including a few friends! (Mine are long lined poems, so best viewed on desktop.) @The_Temz_Review
The Temz Review (@The_Temz_Review) profile pictureThe Temz Review@The_Temz_Review25 Sep 2024
ISSUE 28 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! thetemzreview.com/issue-twen… We'll feature the contents over the next 1.5-2 weeks. This is probably our biggest issue yet :)
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ISSUE 28 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! thetemzreview.com/issue-twen… We'll feature the contents over the next 1.5-2 weeks. This is probably our biggest issue yet :)
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I am so excited to share that my book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic is available for pre-order. This is one of the first books of its kind to use the stage as the platform to explain Canadian history!! @wlupress wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Cana…. #NewBook #HistoryUncovered #PreOrder
Canada and the Blackface Atlantic

Canada and the Blackface Atlantic

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Congratulations to authors @Jennilee_A_B, Kristen Den Hartog, Connie Gault, @paulmcl and Maurice Vellekoop! Browse their shortlisted books 👉 ow.ly/4y6650Tgvsw
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City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library reveals the shortlist for the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Book Awards 📚 News Release: toronto.ca/news/city-of-toro…
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I cannot wait to talk to the novelist, Okechukwu Nzelu @NzeluWrites, about my award-winning 2013 novel Mr Loverman, broadcast on the BBC this autumn as an 8-part drama adaptation, at this @guardianlive event on September 26th. I absolutely love the adaptation! theguardian.com/guardian-liv…
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Much anticipated!
Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast (@ShortStoryToday) profile pictureShort Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast@ShortStoryToday4 Sep 2024
OUT NOW! Canadian author Hollay Ghadery's debut collection WIDOW FANTASIES (Gordon Hill Press) arrived just this week. “If Rumi and Alice Munro sat down to a meal, it just might be served by Hollay Ghadery." Molly Peacock, author of THE WIDOW'S CRAYON BOX shortstorytoday.com
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