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Writer. Editor. Reviewer. Visual Poet. Publisher.
Amplifying and Supporting Under Represented Voices
My curatorial and creative practices prioritize the voices of those who have been systematically excluded from literary and arts canons. I am tired of the erasure and harm done to women, D/deaf and disabled people, and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ communities. I work to make positive change.
With over 20 years of experience in literary and visual arts, I offer clients precise editing and caring consultations for a variety of disciplines, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual poetry and hybrids. I am also available as a writer and instructor.
Amanda Earl offered incredibly valuable feedback on some of my earliest poems. As a new poet, I felt she approached my work with sensitivity and care. With her keen editorial eye, she pointed out many areas of improvement in my poetry that I was unable to pinpoint previously. Amanda is also attuned to the broader circumstances of the writing and poetry community, which I believe goes hand-in-hand with editing. Not only did she provide in-depth edits in her services, she also suggested reading material and contemporary poets whose work has continued to be influential in my writing today. If you work with Amanda, she will continue to champion your writing throughout your career!
Manahil Bandukwala,
author of MONUMENT and Heliotropia, and co-author, with Nimra Bandukwala of Women Wide Awake."
Amanda Earl’s feedback on my poetry was incredibly constructive and insightful. She pointed out the strengths in my work and areas that could be improved. She draws on a vast reservoir of literary experience, having been successfully involved in writing, experimental poetry and visual poetry for many years, and having run AngelHouse Press for well over a decade. This means that she possesses invaluable insight as an editor and mentor in all kinds of writing and creative work. I can highly recommend her for creatives wanting to work with a caring, imaginative woman who knows her craft.
Katy Wimhurst,
author of the short fiction collections, Let Them Float and Snapshots of the Apocalypse and the visual poetry book, Fifty-One Trillion Bits.
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Amanda Earl (she/her) has been a working writer and editor in multiple genres for over twenty years. Her mission is whimsy, exploration, and connection with fellow misfits. She has published poetry, visual poetry, short fiction and a novel.
Earl is a queer writer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Ed
Earl is a queer writer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Ed
Amanda Thru the Looking Glass | Amanda Earl | Substack
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Amanda Earl : The Dysgraphxst, a poem by Canisia Lubrin
Frankly, I am envious of her ability to craft socially engaged poetry with strong foundations and evocative images to articulate what is difficult to talk about, to elicit or capture and communicate emotion, a shared feeling of helplessness, and compassion in a fucked up world.
is an exceptional articulation of survival despite everything: anti-colonialism, racism, climate crisis, oil greed. It is a celebration of family, mothering, community, identity, an exploration of Blackness, erasure and
is an exceptional articulation of survival despite everything: anti-colonialism, racism, climate crisis, oil greed. It is a celebration of family, mothering, community, identity, an exploration of Blackness, erasure and
“Finding Joy In Difficult Times: Part 1 – Shock,” by Amanda Earl | The Typescript
In November 2023, I went to Montreal to launch my latest poetry book, “Beast Body Epic,“ a long poem collection provoked by my near-death health crisis. Then I caught Covid 19, the first time I’d succumbed to the virus. A few days later, I was on the couch, struggling to eat a bowl of soup, all I could get down, when Charles, my husband showed up early from work. It turns out he was laid off from the company he’d worked at for twenty-six years.
When I was a child, my father lost his job often o
When I was a child, my father lost his job often o
Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl
In 2009, Amanda Earl became very ill. Beast Body Epic is a book encompassing an epic journey that takes place in fractured time and space. It is one long poem honouring life and death, the sordid, transcendent, and passionate places in between. It has eight connected parts, each of those made from many. It is a book about one woman whose life is a thread that suddenly frays into dysfunction, unnamed illnesses, long medical words, pain, surgeries, and psychosis brought on by drugs and confinement
Black Friday and The New Industrial Revolution: What Do We Do?
I’m no defender of Amazon. Its employment practices are tantamount to those during the Industrial Revolution. Read this article from the Atlantic about its practices if you are one of the few people who wasn’t aware of how terrible they are: “Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees.”
If you’re able to avoid buying stuff from Amazon, if you have local suppliers of goods that are affordable for you and available, that aren’t simply using Amazon themselves or other equally objectionable pr
If you’re able to avoid buying stuff from Amazon, if you have local suppliers of goods that are affordable for you and available, that aren’t simply using Amazon themselves or other equally objectionable pr
Beast Body Epic on longlist
BBE is longlisted for the League of Canadian Poets 2024 Raymond Souster Award
My Services
I write poetry, fiction, non-fiction and visual poetry. I edit all of the above. I also teach workshops and offer consultation services to the literary, small press and visual poetry communities
About Me
Writer, editor, publisher, reviewer, visual poet and mentor for over twenty-years, I provide affordable and accessible services to writers and artists worldwide.
How I work
I work remotely. For individuals, I charge a $10 CAD per page rate for editing and a $25 per 30 minute consultation fee.