CanadianPoetsSpotlight

In just a couple days I’m scheduled to pop on over to the 2026 Winnipeg Book Festival for two panels. 📚 🪻Misidentification on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM. 💕 In Short on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. plumewinnipeg.ca/

In this NBN interview, I speak with Adriana Oniță about her poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue (Palimpsest Press, 2026). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/desc%C3%… @NewBooksNetwork #poetry #translation #romanian

In this NBN episode, I speak with Liz Johnston about her eagerly anticipated debut novel, The Fall-Down Effect (Book*hug, 2026). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/the-fall… #canlit #climateaction #falldown #ireadcanadian #ecoliteracy @NewBooksNetwork

In this NBN episode, I speak with acclaimed poet & biographer, Molly Peacock, The Widow’s Crayon Box (WW Norton & Co)—a book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/the-wido… #poetry

Sarkhosh! The Unravelling of Ou, my debut novel about a woman and her sock puppet, was The New Books Network Book of the Day. 📖 You can listen on YouTube: youtu.be/blWQUUQnZVQ?si=0YgC… More about The Unravelling of Ou: palimpsestpress.ca/books/the… #queerlit #books #iran

“[…]a brilliant examination of the psychological need humans have to separate ourselves from trauma and loss in order to cope.” -Shirley Hay Thank you to Shirley Hay for a thoughtful response to The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press). #bookreview shirleyhaywrites.com/book-re…

My scrappy wee story narrated by a sock is longlisted for the Giller Prize: gillerprize.ca/2026-finalist… Stay whimsical, friends. 🪻 #BookTwitter #litfic #whimsy

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. theampersandreview.ca/hollay… 💕: @ampersandreview . . . #publicity #bookpublicity #canadianauthor #iraniancanada

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. subterrain.ca/issue-103

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. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/hollay… #publicity #writer

Thinking about dinos since 1981. — 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) — #poetry

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: pinholepoetry.ca/21812-2/ #poetry #poet

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: newbooksnetwork.com/jaime-fo… @NewBooksNetwork #poetry