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Literary Journalism program, Banff

Application Deadline: July 17, 2024
Program Dates: November 18 - November 29, 2024

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On Writing Poetry

I’m not a poet. Yes, I wrote some shitty poetry in my teenage years, but didn’t everybody? And then, in my early twenties, I had a short-lived poetic spell after I broke up with my first love, in which I penned some terribly unoriginal poems about love and loss. But I’ve always been a fiction…

The Best Place on Earth in Hebrew (and other news)

I have not blogged in ages, but I have the best excuse. I’ve been writing! I’ve been hard at workon my memoir in essays. In fact, it is near finished. Which, of course, leads to a myriad of new anxieties. It just never stops, does it? I’ve been so consumed with work that I neglected…

Judging Event’s Creative Nonfiction Contest

In 2007, I submitted a nonfiction pieceabout my time in the army called “You and What Army” to Event‘s Creative Nonfiction contest. Iwas a couple of months intomy year at SFU’s Writer’s Studio, new to writing in English, and my teacher, Wayde Compton, encouraged me to submit. When I found out afewmonths later thatI was…

Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver

I have done a little bit of touring this fall. In the beginning of the month I participated in The Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo, whereI took part in an amazing panel on diversity with Jael Richardson and Tasneem Jamal. I just loved talking to these two intelligent, talented women.

Then, just yesterday, I came back fromThe Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver. I had a blast. In the photo,I amstanding with some of the other festival authors, including famed Israeli novelistAssaf Gavron (far r...

Estonian Cover

The Estonian edition is out! In Estonian the book is called Parim paik maailmas. It came out with Kunstin the last few days.

CBC Books’ List of 12 Amazing Canadian Short Story Collections

I don’t have time to write anything profound, but this crazything happened last month.CBC Books included The Best Place on Earth on their list of 12 Amazing Canadian Short Story Collections, alongside some of favouriteshort story collections, and … you know, a Nobel prizewinner, a Giller prize winner, and Margaret Atwood. I am stillblown away by this.

Book Tour in Italy

In June I travelled to Italy for my first ever foreign book tour. And it was amazing. It was amazing because, well, it was Italy in June. And because on my first night, at my book launch in Parma, I got to see a dear old friend I hadn’t seen in twenty years, not since our crazy days in Goa. Because everywhere I went I met readers who loved the book and had intelligent, thoughtful things to say about it. Because of the food, and the sunshine, and the wine. Because most of my events took place...

US Cover Reveal!

Here it is, the Random House cover in all its glory. Ilove it!

Cover girl and other news

Cover girl!

So, today I went to pick up the mail and was startled by the magazine I was holding, Jewish Book World, which had my face staring right back at me. And it’s big. Unphotoshoped, fucked-up tooth and frizzy hair big. Inside, there’s a lovely review of my book, a write-up about the award and my essay, “Keeping Promises.”

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More news. I wrote something in HEBREW!!! I know. It’s been so long that I was saddened to discover that I’ve now reversed my sense of insecurity to my mother ton...