Michelle Willms
@michellewillms.bsky.social
NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
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Thank you CBC Books for including my memoir, Northern Girls (Baraka Books), in your list of Canadian nonfiction books you’re excited about!
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
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@michellewillms.bsky.social' debut memoir NORTHERN GIRLS (Baraka Books) is a collection of 9 true stories navigating generational trauma, parental addiction, & resilience. For Writer's Block, Michelle speaks to writing as a means to heal & overcome fear.
Read more at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
Read more at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
May 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
@michellewillms.bsky.social' debut memoir NORTHERN GIRLS (Baraka Books) is a collection of 9 true stories navigating generational trauma, parental addiction, & resilience. For Writer's Block, Michelle speaks to writing as a means to heal & overcome fear.
Read more at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
Read more at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...
A big thank you to @theseaboardreview.ca, and @yukondawn.bsky.social (a fellow northern girl) for reviewing my memoir Northern Girls! Full review linked in my bio. #canlit #memoir #northerngirls
March 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A big thank you to @theseaboardreview.ca, and @yukondawn.bsky.social (a fellow northern girl) for reviewing my memoir Northern Girls! Full review linked in my bio. #canlit #memoir #northerngirls
Thank you CBC Books for including my memoir, Northern Girls (Baraka Books), in your list of Canadian nonfiction books you’re excited about!
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
March 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Thank you CBC Books for including my memoir, Northern Girls (Baraka Books), in your list of Canadian nonfiction books you’re excited about!
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
For those interested in reading Northern Girls, or learning more about it, please visit the link in my Bio.
My memoir, Northern Girls: True Stories (Baraka Books), comes out on April 1st.
“Fierce, harrowing, and lyrical, these stories ask what it means to survive.” Anna Leventhal, author of Sweet Affliction.
To preorder a copy, please visit: barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
#memoir #cnf
“Fierce, harrowing, and lyrical, these stories ask what it means to survive.” Anna Leventhal, author of Sweet Affliction.
To preorder a copy, please visit: barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
#memoir #cnf
NORTHERN GIRLS - Baraka Books
Brave, engaging, electric, Northern Girls is a collection of true stories about the fractured legacy of growing up in rural northern Ontario.
barakabooks.com
February 24, 2026 at 3:21 PM
My memoir, Northern Girls: True Stories (Baraka Books), comes out on April 1st.
“Fierce, harrowing, and lyrical, these stories ask what it means to survive.” Anna Leventhal, author of Sweet Affliction.
To preorder a copy, please visit: barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
#memoir #cnf
“Fierce, harrowing, and lyrical, these stories ask what it means to survive.” Anna Leventhal, author of Sweet Affliction.
To preorder a copy, please visit: barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
#memoir #cnf
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I don't just read your script.
Nearly all of my services go through an undisclosed:
first read
initial notes
second read
additional notes
story breakdown
& then story breakdown notes before finally writing my report.
That's what it is to be Philmscribed.
philmscribe.com
#scriptsky
Nearly all of my services go through an undisclosed:
first read
initial notes
second read
additional notes
story breakdown
& then story breakdown notes before finally writing my report.
That's what it is to be Philmscribed.
philmscribe.com
#scriptsky
November 14, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I don't just read your script.
Nearly all of my services go through an undisclosed:
first read
initial notes
second read
additional notes
story breakdown
& then story breakdown notes before finally writing my report.
That's what it is to be Philmscribed.
philmscribe.com
#scriptsky
Nearly all of my services go through an undisclosed:
first read
initial notes
second read
additional notes
story breakdown
& then story breakdown notes before finally writing my report.
That's what it is to be Philmscribed.
philmscribe.com
#scriptsky
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“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin
June 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin
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Deadline Today - Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival
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We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
2 festival screenings. Interviews. Feedback video.
filmfreeway.com/Environmenta...
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
2 festival screenings. Interviews. Feedback video.
Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
Tier ...
filmfreeway.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Deadline Today - Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival
filmfreeway.com/Environmenta...
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
2 festival screenings. Interviews. Feedback video.
filmfreeway.com/Environmenta...
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
2 festival screenings. Interviews. Feedback video.
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Someone needs your art. Keep creating 🖤
May 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Someone needs your art. Keep creating 🖤
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Imagine if burglars openly complained about how asking for permission to enter victims homes would ‘kill’ the burglary business.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Imagine if burglars openly complained about how asking for permission to enter victims homes would ‘kill’ the burglary business.
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"For years, I’ve put my grief down on pages, taken it off my back and out of my body, shaped it in a new way, thrown it out to the sky. By doing so, I’ve honored, owned, and transformed my own losses..." ~ Anne Pinkerton
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Writing Through Loss
By Anne Pinkerton I always start with the words of poet Ada Limón: “I think poetry is a way of carrying grief, but it’s also a way of putting it somewhere so I don’t have to heave it onto my back o…
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January 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"For years, I’ve put my grief down on pages, taken it off my back and out of my body, shaped it in a new way, thrown it out to the sky. By doing so, I’ve honored, owned, and transformed my own losses..." ~ Anne Pinkerton
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/w...
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How did I not know about this mag? “Speculative stories about our inner lives” are very much my kind of thing.
We're open for submissions to our sixth issue through January! 🌟
Read the guidelines and submit here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
#SFF #SpeculativeFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
Read the guidelines and submit here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
#SFF #SpeculativeFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
January 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How did I not know about this mag? “Speculative stories about our inner lives” are very much my kind of thing.
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#Poets, if you feel your work needs a kick start for the new year why not join me for a 2-part #poetry workshop - relaxed, non-judgemental but challenging. Details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-yo...
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Finding your Voice on the Page
Join us for this two-part poetry workshop with Jenny Mitchell
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December 6, 2024 at 9:10 AM
#Poets, if you feel your work needs a kick start for the new year why not join me for a 2-part #poetry workshop - relaxed, non-judgemental but challenging. Details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-yo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-yo...
Dear fellow eggnog lovers, this cartoon is for you!
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist #eggnog
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist #eggnog
November 20, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Dear fellow eggnog lovers, this cartoon is for you!
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist #eggnog
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist #eggnog
Based on true events with my daughter. 😂
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist
November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Based on true events with my daughter. 😂
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist
#cartoon #artistsonbluesky #writersonbluesky #rejectednewyorkercartoons #cartoonist
I am learning that the best way to get into a starter pack is to make your own. Please comment below if you'd like me to include you in "Writers who wave back at that one leaf on the tree that is waving at the world" Starter Pack.
November 18, 2024 at 2:59 PM
I am learning that the best way to get into a starter pack is to make your own. Please comment below if you'd like me to include you in "Writers who wave back at that one leaf on the tree that is waving at the world" Starter Pack.
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In honour of my eldest child becoming a teenager today, here is a cartoon I wrote/drew earlier this year, inspired by him and what he likes to remind me of quite often. 😂
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
In honour of my eldest child becoming a teenager today, here is a cartoon I wrote/drew earlier this year, inspired by him and what he likes to remind me of quite often. 😂
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The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat
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Posting this here cos it's from the only tweet I ever bookmarked, and I'd like to be able to find it quickly now that's gone. Also because, as a writer, it kind of knocks me out.
November 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Posting this here cos it's from the only tweet I ever bookmarked, and I'd like to be able to find it quickly now that's gone. Also because, as a writer, it kind of knocks me out.
In honour of my eldest child becoming a teenager today, here is a cartoon I wrote/drew earlier this year, inspired by him and what he likes to remind me of quite often. 😂
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
In honour of my eldest child becoming a teenager today, here is a cartoon I wrote/drew earlier this year, inspired by him and what he likes to remind me of quite often. 😂
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The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
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My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
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Rankings | Brecht De Poortere
Ranking of the best literary magazines and journals
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November 16, 2024 at 7:59 AM
My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
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An escape room for writers:
You must finish your current draft. That’s it.
You must finish your current draft. That’s it.
November 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
An escape room for writers:
You must finish your current draft. That’s it.
You must finish your current draft. That’s it.
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This is the vibe I hope to bring to Bluesky. 😉
November 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
This is the vibe I hope to bring to Bluesky. 😉
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My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
November 16, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
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