Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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THE BOOKS
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Ayiti by Roxanne Gay (goodreads.com/book/show/11535502-ayiti)
2:14 - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (goodreads.com/book/show/26192646-sweetbitter)
4:49 - A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (goodreads.com/book/show/44049371-a-history-of-my-brief-body)
7:04 - Rabbit by Sophie Robinson (goodreads.com/book/show/42292703-rabbit)
8:19 - All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard (goodreads.com/book/show/49569146-all-about-sarah)
11:15 - Red Island House by Andrea Lee (goodreads.com/book/show/54304139-red-island-house)
15:02 - Writers and Lovers by Lily King (goodreads.com/book/show/45289222-writers-lovers)
16:24 - The Lightness by Emily Temple (goodreads.com/book/show/51822833-the-lightness)
18:57 - Small Beauty by jia qing wilson-yang (goodreads.com/en/book/show/30326596)
20:16 - Saturn Peach by Lily Wang (goodreads.com/book/show/55156131-saturn-peach)

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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: puritan-magazine.com/never-tell-you-this
☾Solarium - Minola Review: minolareview.com/shaelin-bishop
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/prism-58-3-sprawl-is-live
☾Wishbone - video reading: vimeo.com/420052282
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: puritan-magazine.com/cherry-and-jane-in-the-garden-of-eden
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-till-i-see-the-light
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: roommagazine.com/issues/twine
☾Zugzwang - CBC [excerpt]: cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/zugzwang-by-shaelin-bishop-1.5977031

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