Katherine Govier
@kmgovier
🇨🇦novelist, founder of The Shoe Project, fond of the Rockies and Japan, reader, feminist, free speech and human rights defender. repped by Inkwell. www.katherinegovier.com
I love my #bluesky feed because it is full of birds. Here's another one. watercolour, 2025 by emilyhonderich.ca
Today's walk Bow Lake toward Bow Falls. Air was a bit yellow, but the water sounded great.
Thank you! The book is called Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty. And my essay is about how we create a culture through immigration. www.indigo.ca/products/rec...
I have an essay in @bobbyrae48.bsky.social 's upcoming book www.indigo.ca/products/rec.... Just appeared on Indigo's list of most anticipated books for #fall2026 #theshoeproject
Postcard #65 is up on katherinegovier.com Did Marilyn have a Room of her Own?
Thank you Mum for sharing your love of books and reading, not just with me, but with the many members of your Doris Govier Fiction group in #Calgary. It's still running, though you are gone and much missed.
#katsushikaoi makes it to Paris Fashion Week on the backs of garments by Yohji Yamamoto. This is her groundbreaking image of courtesans behind the lattice in the brothel district. Will it begin to rival her dad's #greatwave?
hey #bigfive if the #shygirl #catastrophe freaks you out, maybe try more #writers with #trackrecords? Promise, we're #human art by Emily Honderich
I'm loving reading Gallant's reportage from the Paris '68 student riots-- which shut down the whole city as everyone wanted a new world.
Long Lance, pretendian who was "Indian" though not the Indian he claimed to be, graced #Banff #BanffSpringsHotel #calgary in the 1920's. He has a role in my novel The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel. Read about him in The Atlantic "Who Gets to Be Indian". www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
My novel RED FUJI AND THE BOSTON BOYS #2 in lit critic Masao Higashi's BEST of 2025 list! Oi rises from the dead to confront the American collectors: why is her dad Hokusai world famous and she forgotten? Now for an English-language edition, please. #womenartists #japan #translation #canlit
Take a trip to the #canadian #rockies through my new #audiobook. It's all local talent with @NanHughesPoole narrating and @CoriBrewster's music. #alberta #Banff #Canmore
Japanese (and only!) edition of RED FUJI AND THE BOSTON BOYS gracing my office in Toronto.
Postcard #61 from Mitford Island is now up on katherinegovier.com Illustration by Emily Honderich
Mum went. up the Sulphur Mountain Chairlift in 1956. I went up on Thursday. Skipped the white high heels.
Years ago, I began writing short reflections on places, people, and moments that have stayed with me in the form of postcards. I now share them with my mailing list and recently had the chance to read and discuss a few on Writers Radio. Here is the link to tune in: writersradio.ca?utm_source=n...
RED FUJI out in Japan in a month. Here's the cover. A few Boston Brahmins adorn it. Wonder why... #canlit #translation #Japan #Japaneseart #Hokusai #Boston
With my incredible, girlish, 89-year-old friend Joy Kogawa at the Toronto Reference Library where she wrote the groundbreaking novel OBASAN about the Japanese-CDn internment. She wanted to see if her plaque was still there. It is. 5th floor!
This gin, made in #quebec from #arctic botanicals, makes a wicked G&T. #buycanadian
on #InternationalWomensday I am thinking of my many friends and colleagues of #TheShoeProject. Women from around the globe who came to #Canada as #immigrants or #refugees telling their stories and making us all stronger. Happy Day to you all, and I miss you!