Rona Altrows

Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good: A Neurodivergent Writer on Life and Writing, my new book, comes out on Oct. 15. A memoir, in essays. You can pre-order it online or from your favourite bookstore now. My author copies have just arrived! #memoir #writing #canlit #ADHD #depression #anxiety

Discover #SmallPress #books: The Small Way by Onjana Yawnghwe, @caitlinpress.bsky.social & Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good: A Neurodivergent Writer on Life and Writing by @ronaaltrows.bsky.social, Now Or Never Publishing. See alt-text for book details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstagram

Calgary friends, you are cordially invited to the launch of my new book of essays, Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good, on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7 pm at Owl's Nest Books. In the photo,the luminous @lucianaerregue.bsky.social, helps me show off the book. #canlit #writing #anxiety #adhd #depression

Two good friends consider the joys of a Sunday morning. # cats #BennytheCat #blackcats #interspeciesfriendship

Hey friends, A Run on Hose, the book that won me the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize for 2006, is now available for purchase wherever you buy your ebooks. Thanks, @thistledownpress.bsky.social! (The physical book is now OP and the publisher has been gracious, so c'est la vie.) #canlit #womensstories

July 24 is International Self-Care Day. It's well worth checking out our anthologies: there is so much good material in these wonderful books! https://bit.ly/4vxwCCY @ronaaltrows.bsky.social @juliesedivy.bsky.social #books #reading #concussion #aging #identity #anxiety #TBI

Join Katherine Koller and Rona Altrows for the Calgary launch of Earthen, Stories! ☀️ 📍Shelf Life Books (1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB) 🗓️ Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00 PM #Calgary #BookLaunch #ShortStories #CanLit @Katherine_Koller

From The Benny Chronicles: Here, you see me in a small room where my subjects keep their own litterbox, a complicated mechanical device. The room is named NO! and they like to bellow that name whenever I enter that room. Strange creatures, those humans. #Caturday #Bennythecat #blackcats #cats

Unboxing video of the coolest box I have ever opened! The book is out 15 September, and you can pre-order from the usual places (partial list here: joannemerriam.com/books/aether...). 💙📚 #BookSky 📚❤️ #PrideAndPrejudice 🪐📚 #unboxingvideo #Austenauts

Joyfully rebelling against Alberta's repressive Bill 28, as part of the #READdom campaign. #thisbookwontburn

Join us at the Edmonton launch of Please Don't Interrupt at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social on April 9 at 7 pm. Beautiful brief readings by 9 Edmonton writers. Below, my co-editor @uumez.bsky.social Uche Umezurike and I, at different points in the editing process. @bibiukonu.bsky.social

Please Don't Interrupt, a 30-writer anthology on the theme of interruption, is now available. Uche Umezurike and I are co-editors. Here's Uche with our magnum opus. The book will be in bookstores soon. Or you can order from the publisher, Griots Lounge Canada.

Congratulations once again to Rona Altrows, winner of this year's Prairie Grindstone Prize. Here she is at a wonderful celebration at Shelf Life in Calgary (L: Rona / R: Lisa Murphy-Lamb). https://bit.ly/3zoWZAk Photo credit: Carol Gauzer. @ronaaltrows.bsky.social ‪@shelflifebooks.bsky.social‬

This fine figure of a cat has just turned 3. Thank you for adopting us, Benny. You are the best, in both your MOs, regal & goofball. #cats #catsofbluesky #Bennythecat #KingBenny

Lately I've been asked a lot, what's your main feeling about winning The Prairie Grindstone Prize for 2025? My answer: deep gratitude. Judges cited my "body of work and commitment to supporting emerging & established writers." Honoured. #writers #writing #gratitude www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca

Congratulations to @ronaaltrows.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Prairie Grindstone Prize! www.prairiegrindstoneprize.ca

The only king I bow to is Benny. #Caturday #blackcats #BennytheCat #NoKing #NoKingbutBenny

A little levity for my Bluesky friends.

Happy Mother's Day to all Bluesky friends who are mothers, foster mothers, surrogate mothers, mother figures, cis, trans, human, feline, canine, you get the idea. May your day be filled with positives. #Mother'sDay #mothers

When he was crowned, King Benny opted for a scaled-down coronation ceremony. King Charles did the same. Charles plans to visit Canada later this month to deliver the Speech from the Throne. Benny has not yet announced his plans. #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky #royalty

On my third reread of Moby Dick a couple years back, I skipped the cetology chapters as my recollection as I had previously found them boring. But on this fourth reread, I am finding the cetology chapters to be the most interesting of all. Go figure. #Melville #writers

From the comfort of his bunthouse, Benny oversees delivery of new catio furniture. #Caturday #cats #blackcats #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky

feeling of lostness after finishing a big project #writing #writers

Heard Islanders convene to discuss what they guano do about those tariffs. #Trumptariffs #tariffs #HeardIsland #penguins

So glad to see manifestations of continuing friendship between sane Canadians and sane Americans on border-spanning bridges etc. We can't let ourselves be brought down morally or politically by the actions of a guy behaving like a dictator. Also,well done, Sen. Brooker! #IwillnothatemyUSfriends

Benny: She'll NEVER find me now. #BennytheCat #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky

Benny has always nurtured his green housemates. Here's a memoryshot of him as a kitten administering heartfelt TLC to his spiderplant friend. #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats #Sundaycats

Please Don't Interrupt an anthology coming this fall 30 diverse writers on the theme of interruption co-edited by @uumez.bsky.social & me Preorder now: griotslounge.ca/product/plea...

Benny: You call this SERVICE? #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #cats

March 22 Benny says this is no time for bullshit. #caturday #cats #BennytheCat

As preoccupied as he is with critical matters of state, Benny nonetheless takes the time, sceptre by paw, to wish you, his followers a happy Saint Gertrude's Day. #cats #cats #catsofbluesky #blackcats #BennytheCat

a little levity #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #blueskywriters

Join us next Thursday, noon. Register here: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english... @wordsweaver.bsky.social

Mel & I crush it in our early-spring berets. #berets #hats #fashion #fashionismylife

Dear progressive friends in the US, Be assured, I have heard you and I know you don't want this tariff war any more than we in Canada do. You are not personally responsible for this destructive move by 47 or for that matter for any of his destructive moves. #tariffs #tariffwar

Happy to have my short fiction in Beyond Touch Sites, new anthology published by Laberinto Press. Narrator of my story, mere hours after her death, undergoes the tahara ritual while communicating, somehow, with her living sister. #writingcommunity #amwriting #shortstoryreaders

"Do you wanna do it the easy way or the hard way?" -Benny when he was a kitten. #cats #BennytheCat #catsofbluesky #blackcats

Dear friends, Am I the only person who identifies as female and is a fan of the book Moby Dick? #MobyDick

Dear #19thcAmericanLit Scholars, especially #Melville ones, I've read Moby Dick (or Moby-Dick, yr choice) 5x. The analyses, commentaries, etc., that I see are all by men. Is this b/c almost every character in the bk is a guy, or what? Am I the only fan who identifies as female?

And as writers sometimes it's good to remind ourselves that doing the work has innate value, as does the work itself. #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting

And Benny also says that to be loved, you don't need to do anything specific. You can just be. #BennytheCat #cats #catsofbluesky #philosophercats

And Benny also says that to be loved, you don't need to do anything specific. You can just be.

Benny, unaccustomed to playing with catnip-filled toys, is now stoned out of his gourd. #BennytheCat #CatsofBluesky #cats