I'm pleased to announce that singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Eliza Rankin will be joining me on April 26 for a celebration of the end of winter in poetry and song! 2pm EDT. contact me for the Zoom link if you might be coming. Thanks to the Writers Union of Canada for supporting my reading! and the City of Ottawa for funding my manuscript of winter poems!

I have one scholarship available for my poetry mentorship, thanks to a generous patron! For more information about the mentorship: https://amandaearl.substack.com/p/poetry-mentorships-with-amanda-earl

Paid subscribers to my Substack will receive a free pdf of Welcome to Upper Zygonia, my 97-page hybrid work of poetry, visual poetry, collages, doodles and asemic writing in May 2026.

Bywords.ca invites current & former Ottawa residents, students & workers to submit poems. Deadline of February 2026 issue is January 15, 2026. See guidelines on site. Queries: [email protected]

Thank you to the @cityofottawa for the 2025 Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers grant! I'm working on a collection of poems provoked by a woman's anxiety and winter. The working title is Winter, An Epic. I will be reading from the work in progress at the forthcoming Peter F. Yacht Club regatta/xmas party tomorrow (December 27, 2025). Doors 7pm. @aninascafe with a pile of great friends & writers who are also reading. @rob_mclennan_writer is hosting.

Dear current & former Ottawa students, residents & workers, I warmly invite you to send poems to Bywords.ca for our January 2026 issue. The deadline is December 15, 2025 & all the details are on Bywords.ca under Guidelines, but you can ask me questions at any time: [email protected]. Happy December!

Bywords.ca will be at the ottawa small press book fair on Saturday, November 22, 2025 at the Tom Brown Arena between noon and five pm. Come by and pick up a chapbook and talk poetry with me.

I'm preparing the free pdfs that I give to paid subscribers to Amanda Thru the Looking Glass in 2026. The first will be the second volume of Beast Body Epic, which includes a haiku series, visual poems, various playful long poems of disorganized shape and line. I am ever so grateful to all who read my posts and to those who subscribe! All of the free pdfs come out on the 11th of every month. The photo is part of a series Charles took in 2009 where I balanced various objects on my feet upside down.

Every month on the 11th, I give paid subscribers to Amanda Thru the Looking Glass, my Substack a gift of a free pdf. The final gift of 2025 in December will be a digital copy of Beast Body Epic, my long poem collection inspired by my near death health crisis. You can become a paid subscriber here: https://amandaearl.substack.com/. Those who subscribe for free, or anyone who wants to read are always welcome to read all my other posts for free as they are published. I share quotes that have helped me cope with this shitebox of a world, inspired my creative work or made me think; I share weekly recipe ideas and money saving ideas for groceries and various other musings relating to finding joy in difficult times and being a misfit who questions the trappings of convention for most things. https://amandaearl.substack.com/