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my dear friend jaye simpson has been charged with mischief for participation in a solidarity action for Palestine. her community of writers, activists, booksellers, and so on is calling for the charges to be dropped

Very happy that my novel, A MINOR CHORUS, is on this illustrious longlist! Thank you to the Ottawa and Winnipeg Public Libraries for their nominations (love you forever)!

There is a certain thrill of discovery to reading CREE HOMO 🌾. His writing feels like a secret: something important, something to be shared. Learn more about the Georgia Straight's Breakout Author here: straight.com/living/breakou… Thank you to @kwantlenu for supporting this series.

"When I stand on stage or at the entrance of every poem I’ve written, the fact of my body, its myriad histories, deep histories are inscribed there too." - Liz Howard

His new collection of short stories, “Coexistence,” offers an expansive view of intimacy that resists colonial expectations. Why everyone should read Billy-Ray Belcourt, writes Jackie Wong. thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/0…

Happy World Poetry Day! A good time to read CREE HOMO 🌾's first suite of poems as our poetry editor, with beautiful illustrations from @EliotWhiteHill hazlitt.net/category/poetry

starred review in publishers weekly tonight queen? publishersweekly.com/9781324075943

I bothered CREE HOMO 🌾 until I got a restraining order but also a galley of the book and can say it's remarkable.

“What would it look like to ask readers to be in conversation with, or to bear witness to, all these Cree lives?” New collection by Billy-Ray Belcourt brings northern Alberta characters into his readers’ orbit #Indigenous #FirstNation #storytelling #books windspeaker.com/news/windspeak…

Join us Wednesday, May 29th at 7pm for a conversation between CREE HOMO 🌾 and Molly Cross-Blanchard in celebration of Belcourt’s new book, Coexistence! Register here: bit.ly/44JIDJI

From one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds comes COEXISTENCE - a dazzling and poignant collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt (CREE HOMO 🌾). Available now!

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And another author visit from earlier this week. Thank you so much to Billy-Ray Belcourt for dropping by Broadway and signing our copies of Coexistence! What a lovely surprise!

Alicia Elliot (Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now!) is the winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award. And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada) is a compelling novel that explores native life, motherhood, and mental health. Learn more at thewalrus.ca/afna. #AmazonFNA

Congratulations to this year’s Indigenous Voices Awards recipients for published work in English and French: Brandi Bird, Alicia Elliott, J.D. Kurtness, Soleil Launière, Georges Pisimopeo, and Alexis Vollant! indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page

New poetry: Fractal / Flood by Mary Jean Chan hazlitt.net/feature/fracta…

"Artists will always—and should always—pressure arts organizations to do the right thing. These are groups to which we belong, groups that would not exist without our labour, and we have every right to hold them accountable." thestar.com/opinion/contri…

"Freedom," a poem by Bahar Orang, with an original illustration by Lauren Crazybull hazlitt.net/feature/freedom

"My gratitude for them was already enormous. I could detect life stirring inside me, a feeling I knew was precious and rare." "Idealism and Despair," CREE HOMO 🌾's story about queer Cree love and intergenerational connection, is now paywall-free online: maisonneuve.org/article/2024/1…