nest & story

creative support for writers

Hi! I’m Jaclyn.

I write sometimes-award-winning stories, poems, and picture books. I also offer creative support for emerging writers through mentorships, workshops, and classes.

Learn about my writing.

Join me in the Poem Garden.

📊 I created this flow chart for the Poem Gardeners tonight, and I made myself giggle, so I had to share. Because sometimes you just need a slightly sassy decision tree to help you decide where to send your poems! Silliness aside, I think this cha
🌷🌼🐝 PUBLISHING AS CROSS-POLLINATION Tonight is the second last class of this round of Poem Garden! We're going to be talking about publishing, which can be a bit nerve-wracking... especially for poets. (We're sensitive!) But publishing isn't rea
As Membership Committee Chair at @canadianpoets, it matters deeply to me that as many poets as possible can be part of our incredible community... and right now, we have an amazing opportunity to help make that happen. Thanks to the incredible genero
Such a beautiful afternoon reading at @riversideseries! Loved sharing space with @antopunfu (matching bright hat energy) and @dellybeannn — thank you both for sharing your incredible work.✨ The magic of literary events: ran into someone from my
✨ Some sparkly news to share: my novelette “Mothworld” has been shortlisted for the inaugural @craftliterary Novelette Print Prize! This story (one of the pieces in my forthcoming collection WEIRD BABIES) found its way onto a shortlist of
Entering my aviator era
Does anyone else really love bulletin boards? Should be ordering my coffee and I’m over here all heart-eyed, looking at fonts. @mulberrycoffee #bulletinboard #analogsocial #coffeeshopfinds #paperlove #typographynerd #smalljoys #distractionwin
📚 Treasure haul from @meetthepresses! My TBR stack just got deliciously taller: - Microchimaera by Jeremy Luke Hill (@baselinepress) - in the third person reluctant by brandy ryan (Gap Riot Press) - Kneeling in Our Name by @conyerclayton (Gap Riot
✨ A little surreal to see my first-ever published poem finding a new home in The Anstruther Reader. “Lacuna” was my first tiny light in the literary universe, and now it’s part of this beautiful constellation of voices curated by Ji
✨ Writing isn't just one thing - it's four things. When I finally understood this, the ebb and flow of my creative practice started making a lot more sense. Your creative practice is a constellation of: 🌌 Dreaming (letting your mind wander) ⭐️ Readi
Had such a wonderful time at @meetthepresses today! So lovely to see @poetryisqueer for the first time in a long while, and to meet my new awesome publisher at @porcupinesquill. @wolsakandwynn was there, and @augursociety, and @baselinepress, and @da