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Hollay Ghadery
@hollay.bsky.social
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Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · Jan 3
My novel, The Unravelling of Ou, is featured in the Foreword Reviews Writers of Color column and I’m delighted. Not just because it’s marvellous review, but because as an “ethnically ambiguous” mixed race individual, it’s wonderful to be seen.

www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

#bookreview
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@theptessadactyl.bsky.social — It arrived!

Can’t wait to dive in. 🌊

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788256...
September 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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In what might be the understatement of the century, Brockville Recorder & Times reporter Catherine Orth called me “an extrovert”.

Here’s a link to the full article via a LinkTree link.🔗

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#iran #canada #litfic #brockvilleontario #books

@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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In this NBN episode, I speak with award-winning author and journalist Ian Brown about his bestselling memoir, 70: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year (Penguin Random House, 2026).

Listen in:

newbooksnetwork.com/seventy

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

#nonfiction #memoir #nonfictionbooks
September 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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If you don’t already, and you are interested, please sign up for my newsletter:

You can do so here:

www.hollayghadery.ca/newsletter

I don’t have any regular cadence for how often I send it out. Maybe a handful of times a year.🪻

#author #writing #poet
September 11, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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In this episode, I speak with the iconic Kirby about their joyful and powerful new book, Fairy (Palimpsest Press, 2026).

Listen in:

newbooksnetwork.com/fairy

🧚‍♂️: @itsakirby.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

#queerlit #fairy #nonfiction
September 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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My novel, The Unravelling of Ou, is on the 2026 Giller longlist and in some fine company!

#books #litfic #speculativefiction
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Two of the books we’ve been celebrating are on the 2026 Giller Prize Longlist!

gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p...

🪻: Unravelling of Ou by Iranian-Canadian author Hollay Ghadery, Palimpsest Press.

🌊: Your Breath in Charcoal by acclaimed maritime author Nicholas Herring, Goose Lane Editions.
September 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Great news for "friends of the house"! Congrats:
rob mclennan's the book of sentences is up for the Archibald Lampman.
Hollay Ghadery is longlisted for the Giller for The Unravelling of Ou.

@hollay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
September 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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“[…]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

www.shirleyhaywrites.com/book-reviews...
September 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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✨New 3%: A CanLit Publicist’s Diary column on Substack!

Inspired by the publicity blackhole at the end of summer, this instalment is part one of a multi-part series on what authors can do to take control of their own content.

Read the article:

hollayghadery.substack.com/p/the-summer...

#writers
September 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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In this NBN episode, I speak with retired lawyer and award-winning author of 10 books, Darlene Madott about her new book, Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times, published by Guernica Editions, September 1, 2026.

Listen in:
newbooksnetwork.com/closing-cere...

#shortstories
September 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
Catch Ian Brown—award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon—on Global News talking about his new #book, SEVENTY (Penguin Random House Canada, 2026).

Watch the full interview:🔗

globalnews.ca/video/120395...

In SEVENTY, Brown recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy.
Ian Brown on aging with humour and humility in his new book ‘Seventy’ | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Ian Brown on aging with humour and humility in his new book ‘Seventy’ Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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September 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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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?...

More about The Unravelling of Ou:

palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un...

#queerlit #books #iran
August 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
You may recognize Catherine Owen as River Street’s current Reviewer-in-Residence.

You may also recognize her as the award-winning author of seventeen collections of poetry and prose.

If you live in Edmonton, you may know her through her arts work and advocacy.

#housing #nonfiction #memoir
August 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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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-widows-c...

#poetry
August 24, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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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-ghade...

💕: @theampersandreview.bsky.social

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#publicity #bookpublicity #canadianauthor #ketabdoost #iraniancanada
August 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Interview on HOWL Radio CIUT 89.5FM
So very grateful to @hollay.bsky.social for inspiring, energizing, generous conversation about Mega-Galaxies, my poetry chapbook from @DriftwoodPress
Listen to episode here: howlciut.podbean.com/e/howl-tuesday…
🎙️ Host: @newbooksnetwork & @howl895fm
August 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Rachel Phan about her powerful memoir, Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family & Belonging (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025).

Listen to the conversation:

newbooksnetwork.com/restaurant-kid

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

#memoir
August 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Moteshakeram, my extraordinary friend Reil Munro, for these stunning pictures of me captured in Winnipeg earlier this year.

Reil Munro is a writer/director of short films and documentaries, and a professional in the electrical and camera departments for commercial films.

#writers
August 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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oceanleaving by Daze Jefferies, (The Porcupine’s Quill, September 1, 2026.)

Request a review copy:

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In oceanleaving, Daze Jefferies offers a counter-history of rural trans & sex worker resistance in Atlantic Canada.

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#poetry
August 8, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Return of the Nish by Tyson Stewart, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social & The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay @hollay.bsky.social, @palimpsestpress.bsky.social. See alt-text.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram
Book covers for 1. The Return of the Nish by Tyson Stewart, Cormorant Books: Gerry Smith grew up fifty-five kilometres from Temagami, the hometown of his long-absent father, Dale King, but he didn’t know the once-legendary hockey player. Even after Gerry reconnects with the Anishinaabe relatives on his dad’s side of the family, Dale remains a mystery. It’s not until Gerry’s in his late twenties that Dale finally drops back into his life. In a sports bar in Toronto, Dale pitches a lucrative but illicit business venture, setting in motion an unlikely partnership that will test how far both father and son will go in the name of family. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/T/The-Return-of-the-Nish and 2. The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery, Palimpsest Press: On what should be one of the happiest days ever, the day her granddaughter is born, Minoo is faced with a terrible choice: make a clean break from her constant companion, a sock puppet named Ecology Paul, or lose her daughter and granddaughter, and maybe all of the people she loves. On an emotional drive home from the hospital, Ecology Paul shares the story of how Minoo got to this point, recalling Minoo’s early teenage pregnancy in Iran, her exile to Canada, her questions about her sexuality, and how a ragtag sock puppet came to her when she desperately needed to be seen. https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-unravelling-of-ou-hollay-ghadery/
August 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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The Quill & Quire has featured two of the phenomenal nonfiction books we’ve been celebrating in their fall nonfiction preview!✨

Sixteen Homes by Catherine Owen (Wolsak & Wynn) & Lovable by Roxanna Bennett (with Gordon Hill Press)

quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa...

#nonfiction
August 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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From Mike Blouin — the writer whose poetry I once called a “a wet kiss in a dirty bathroom” (and meant it in the best possible way) — comes the most recent review of my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which appears in ubTerrain Magazine—and I’m floored with gratitude.

www.subterrain.ca/issue-103
August 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Matthew D. Del Papa, one of the editors of SuperCanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Superheroes (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2026).

Listen in:

newbooksnetwork.com/supercanucks

#canada #authors #superhero #shortstories #readers
August 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Celebrate International Cat Day on August 8, 2026 with award-winning author and friend of felines everywhere, Rod Carley, who’s partnering with Purrfect Cafe in Scarborough to raise funds for Finally Home Cat Rescue.

#torontolife #catsoftoronto #scarborough #nationalcatday #catlovers
July 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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“Why go after authors? We have no money. But that’s exactly the thing the scam is exploiting.”
—Samuel Ashworth, Electric Lit, December 9, 2025

Head to my Substack to read the post:

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#writerslife
A Boil on the Butt of My Professional Life: Author scams
Also, a video story time with Ameh Hollay where she shares a shameful, shameful tale of tech phobia but mostly, laziness.
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July 29, 2026 at 1:24 AM