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  • Photo Credit: Tina Adamopoulos/UTSC - Feelways
    Photo Credit: Tina Adamopoulos/UTSC - Feelways
    February 25, 2020

    A Love Letter to Scarborough Writers

    To busy writers, penning poems on the back of receipts, scribbling into notebooks on Line 3 — this is for you.I rarely find time to sit down and write anymore. Instead, I create fragments wherever I ...

  • The Need for More Non-Traditional Mentorship in Canadian Publishing
    The Need for More Non-Traditional Mentorship in Canadian Publishing
    January 06, 2020

    The Need for More Non-Traditional Mentorship in Canadian Publishing

    When I was in school, the act of reading books was just that, reading books. I wasn’t categorizing them. I wasn’t thinking about publishing, editors, marketability, or whether or not a book was considered ...

  • Creative Life
    Creative Life
    April 17, 2019

    Creative Life

    I was asked to give a keynote address at the launch of the student literary journal, Scarborough Fair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme was “The Creative Life”. As their Writer in ...

  • David Chariandy wins the 2018 Toronto Book Award
    David Chariandy wins the 2018 Toronto Book Award
    October 11, 2018

    David Chariandy wins the 2018 Toronto Book Award

    Last night at the Toronto Reference Library, in front of an audience of avid readers and members of the publishing community, David Chariandy won the Toronto Book Award for his second, critically acclaimed ...

  • So You Want to Write About Race
    So You Want to Write About Race
    November 29, 2017

    So You Want to Write About Race

    Somehow I have become on expert on writing race.This was not something I planned for. When I started publishing, I was writing fiction about Chinese Canadian characters, about families who had been invisible ...

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