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Lit Window begins! Today’s post is a list of what you’ll need to gather in order to participate. Lit Window: An Esoteric Course in Literary Artistry is a free, open resource I’m creating live and in public on my Substack. Link in
The Table of Contents is now available for Lit Window, the free creative writing course I’m running via Substack. Hope to see you there! #creativewriting #howtowrite #freewritingclass #writewithme #litwindow
Work on Lit Window continues! I have made collages for each of the four elements, which correspond to each of the chapters of Lit Window. Check out my Substack (jaclyndesforges.substack.com) to learn more about this free writing course I’m crea
Lately I’ve been interrupting my already-slow novel progress by writing notes about how I would teach creative writing if I had absolutely no restrictions on how to teach creative writing. No grades, no trying to be academic or logical or reaso
What a lovely birthday surprise! A capsule review of Weird Babies (@ghp_pql) by @krwbooks: “The deliciously odd, sometimes myth-like stories in @jaclyndesforges’ new collection Weird Babies feel like glimpses of a hidden, perhaps perilous
It’s my birthday! I’m 37. It’s been quite a year. 🩷
My in-laws rocking matching balaclavas from @girlonthewinghamilton !
Merry Christmas! I got these mermaid-y earrings and The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (@bookhugpress). And a tamagotchi oh no I left the tamagotchi at home I hope it’s still alive
I must be doing something right in my life if my pal @mending.moon___ saw this book and thought of me 🥰💖💖💖
The portrait shots! I love the one with the broken tree mirror. #fılmphotography
Fave shots from my two most recent rolls of film. B&W taken with my Spotmatic and colour with my Pentax 17. The satellite/moon photo is maybe my favourite picture I've ever taken. Portrait shots TK
Fave pic of me of 2025 (thanks @jbwoodworx)
Dan got me an early Christmas present and I am now some form of floppy dog or sheep
It’s snowy and cold and I am sooooo glad we get to have a Cozy Community Coffee Hour over Zoom! See you at 10 ET, League of Canadian Poets members 🩷 ☕️ 🖊️
“When I’m not writing, I am very grouchy. I am very grouchy about not writing in particular, and I’m also very grouchy in general. The grouch is something that exists within my body and is directed at whatever situation my thinking
Hey League members! I will be hosting a Cozy Community Coffee hour this Saturday on Zoom. Come hang with me? December 6, 2025 | 10am ET Connect with fellow League members over a cozy Saturday morning coffee in the comfort of your own home! We&rsquo

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⦿ I live, work and write on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississauguas. In addition to these territories being covered by the Upper Canada Treaties, these lands are protected by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement based on peace, friendship, and respect between the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas to share and care for the land. Learn more about the land you live on here.

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