I’m proud to share that I’ve received a journalism grant o help me report on how coastal erosion is affecting communities in Canada’s north. IJNR

Mail Routledge Books. Research comes from places, see McMaster University - Waterloo Regional Campus in bio. Alastair Morrison from WRC in here. So many more 🇨🇦poet/md/scholar friends on X: Sarah Fraser Peter Stilwell Erin soroS Tolu Oloruntoba Monica Kidd Sarah de Leeuw Cover design Anstruther Press

Congratulations, Monica Kidd! 🥳

So excited about this! The film adaptation of Michael Crummey’s novel Sweetland.

It’s here! My colleagues Shane Neilson and Alan Bleakley literally wrote (or edited anyway) the book on medicine and poetry. I’m delighted to have contributed a wee chapter.

You know who needs their own serialized TV drama procedural? Hospital cleaners. They’re here all night with the rest of us and the place shuts down without them.

Our May 2024 issue is hot off the press. Spanning 60+ pages, it features in-depth reporting from the likes of Samia Madwar, Monica Kidd, and Jamie Levin and Sarah Treleaven—plus fiction by Randy Boyagoda and poetry by Kayla Czaga. Dive in now!

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Call me old fashioned, but I still love seeing things in print the best. I worked on this feature about phage therapy for The Walrus for a year and it’s now out in the May issue. #antibioticstewardship #phagetherapy

Here we go. The Power of Narrative conference at Boston U.

Sometimes writing is a bit like looking through the fridge to see what there is for supper and the neglected old bottle of mustard is just the thing.

There is a plant called poverty dropseed. That is all.

In our May 2024 issue: author and physician Monica Kidd explores how an experimental treatment could transform the way we combat antibiotic-resistant infections.

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My piece on bacteriophage therapy research was published today by The Walrus thewalrus.ca/antibiotics-ma…

Well b’ys it’s been almost a decade in the making and it’s still not done, but I’m very pleased to tell you now that Breakwater Books . will take on my third novel, working title THE TERRIBLE DISCIPLINE OF HER FACE. Still working on publication date but probably 2025.

Imagine if memorials Ike this were in front of public buildings rather than on a lightly-travelled footpath on the other side of the river? #treeoflostsouls #yyc

Wild to be able to Zoom today with folks from Vanuatu, and learn about the work of the Santo Sunset Environment Network to improve the resilience of coastal people the face of climate change and coastal erosion. Thank you Allan and Joses!

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'A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins.'
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This is a great resource from the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma. And here’s a stat on suicide that knocked my socks off: each year, three times as many people die by suicide than in wars.

Back on my old stomping grounds teaching obstetrical skills to an amazing group of docs from rural Newfoundland and (mostly) Labrador. These folks are my heroes.