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Leigh Matthews is a British-Canadian living in Gibsons, BC, where she works as a freelance medical copywriter, novelist, and poet.

Leigh has published four works of fiction:

Colony - September 2017.

Go Deep - April 2016 (Book Two in the All Out Vancouver series).

Don't Bang the Barista! October 2014 (Book One in the All Out Vancouver Series).

The Old Arbutus Tree - July 2013.

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Thanks to all 781 of you who entered the giveaway for Eat to Beat Acne! How a plant-based diet can help heal your skin. The three winners' copies are now in the mail and heading to Pennsylvania, Texas, and North Carolina. What a well-travelled book.

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“To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Formas de volver a casa

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“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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Goodreads Authors/Readers — 54813 members — last activity 2 hours, 10 min ago
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New Adult Book Club — 20060 members — last activity Sep 06, 2025 01:36PM
This group is for everyone to share their love of New Adult fiction - the rapidly growing catagory for books that have the same coming of age feel as ...more

AfterEllen.com Book Club — 1025 members — last activity May 03, 2016 03:13PM
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This group hs been retired. Please join LGBTQIAP+ Lit Lovers: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1225037-lgbtqia-lit-lovers

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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