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Eulogy for Emily

My mother died on August 23, 2022, at the age of 88. A long life, dementia at the end to allow her to go out in style. Fuck dementia....

Where is My Country

This poem was published in the April 2022 edition of Font (fontmag.ca). The accompanying photo is a something I took in Egypt many moons...

Review: "A story that asks to be heard"

I sent my novel to the reviewer at Seven Circumstances a couple of years ago. She has reviewed several LLP books and I like her honest...

Where Trend Meets Tradition

North American Podcast looks at the overlapping phenomenon and cultures between the US and Canada. In September, Lia Grainger contacted...

BlueMet: Love Came Here

The festival Metropolis Bleu asked me and a handful of other writers to write about a place, landmark or monument in Montreal. I chose...

Review: "Art, Love, Family in Cairo and Palestine"

This review is among the best I've ever received for The Philistine. It's kind of left me breathless. How honoured I feel to have had...

CultMTL: Top 10 Living Author

Maybe it was my mother's Bingo club, or maybe I just baked bread for enough people over the years, but it has all culminated in being...

I've been podcasted

The exceedingly curious and gallant John Faithful Hamer brought me into the studio for his unbelievably wide-ranging podcast, Likeville....

Smashed

Montreal Writes, a local literary journal, has published a selection of my photographs. You can see the collection here.

Heard the buzz

Montreal writer Toula Drimonis posted about my book on Instagram. It was beyond thrilling. I don't know her personally, but she's got a...

Review: "a bittersweet story of barriers and restrictions"

This was in the Globe and Mail today. Not accessible if you don't have a paid account - I subscribed just to see this lol. It's part of a...

Review: "A five star debut"

This review is from The Miramichi Reader, a great site that is quickly growing to be a player on the Canadian literary scene. Montrealer...

Winter, the Waiter, Water

This story was recently published in the final edition of Danforth Review. Helmed by Michael Bryson for the past 20 years or so, it was a...

Review: "care and sensitivity"

This review by Piali Roy is from the June issue of Quill & Quire. Set in the late 1980s around the time of the first Palestinian...

All that effort for the very last ditch

I wrote a guest blog post for Gail Anderson-Dargatz (here), who helped me work through the last drafting of The Philistine. Her input and...