Jade Wallace (they/them)

You can catch up with everything that happened to us and everything we loved over the past month!

Had a lot of fun writing this poem, even though it's a bit of a downer: "In the Third Sleep We Will Converge. After the Next Revolution We Will Stop Screaming." inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com/2026/02/in-t...

The latest addition to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic project is none other than Jade Wallace ( follow @nycterosea.bsky.social )! You can read Jade's poem, and all the others, right here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

A million thank yous to the @ontarioarts.bsky.social & the #canadacouncilforthearts for recently supporting our work(s) through the Recommender Grants for Writers & Literary Creation Projects for Publication programs (OAC) and the Public Lending Right (CCA).

New solo work by Mark!

Been a minute since we've been at a literary festival, so very much looking forward to this one coming up next weekend!! Join us online?!

Good luck with your iteration of it!

This was literally a quest I had (for years!) when I was a teenager and lived in a small town.

"you ask me what is my threshold?
on a scale of one to ten
ten childbirth
one, not being?"

A novel I have a copy of, obviously. Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social continues to publish fiction that doesn't quite fit a conventional mould, which some days I would argue is the only kind worth reading.

One of the underrated pleasures of being a writer is when writers you admire casually name drop you and your novel in their interviews. 😍 See, for instance, @hollay.bsky.social in an interview with @alllitupcanada.bsky.social, talking about her debut novel: alllitup.ca/i-became-enc...

We had a great time at our first @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social SUPER CONFERENCE this past Friday in TO! It's fun to give away free copies of your books to librarian-strangers in a 20-minute frenzy of chatting & signing. Many thanks to our publisher @palimpsestpress.bsky.social for sending us.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Dying. I'd swear I heard this scene word for word somewhere before.

I would love to offer an insightful reflection on this but I too subsist on neurosis. 🥲

Like when bestselling authors transcend capitalism by reminding us they "write for themselves," perhaps.

Constantly torn between "awards are an overhyped system that do not actually reflect merit but rather turn creativity unhelpfully into competition" and "I would really love a sign, any sign, that my work means something to someone." The existential perils of being a small-time writer. 😂

@literalnobody.bsky.social is this not you?

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I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.

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"We have common ground. And we're standing on it."

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Personally I love reading a set of yearly reviews like this! And very kind of Kevin to review ZZOO. 🦝

Amazing that rob has been doing this annually for 15 years!! And an honour to see ZZOO on the list.

MA|DE has now started our monthly newsletter, TWO-HEADED PARROT, over on Substack! 🦜🦜

This first iteration is a hello, recapping 2025 & offering a sneak peek at 2026 (incl. book news, dogs & a glimpse at the limited edition holiday card we mailed).

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That's so kind, thank you! ☺️

This is so sweet. 🥹

I was JUST saying this earlier. 😂 A movement needs to be started.

150 books is incredible!