Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

• The finalists for the Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson Prize for Fiction have been announced. Find out whose books you’ll be adding to your reading list.

• “Boyle uses physical detail and locale to excellent effect; she handles relationships with economy and wit, and her narrators are restless in their search for what’s next as they zoom along through time.” Nice review of Frances Boyle’s story collection Seeking Shade in The Malahat Review.

• And for good measure, another review of Seeking Shade in Foreword Reviews—five stars!

• This is a meditative look at the culture of poetry in the networked age that prizes cultivating influence—all via the poetry of John Ashbery.

• And finally, for fun, on the accidental invention of the colour mauve.

Happy October, Quill friends! We know it’s unofficially fall because of the increasing references to “spooky season” and the inescapable creep of pumpkin-themed decor. Embrace it or ignore it—but do enjoy a good book this weekend, at least.

Cheers,