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WINNER! Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Absolutely thrilled to have won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from The Writers' Union of Canada. it was an impressive shortlist and I honestly was not expecting this. I had to sit on the information for just under a week until the formal announcememt, which was done as an Instagram Live event. And keeping secrets is absolutely NOT my forte. To celebrate, had a lovely dinner with the Fam Four gang, including Lee Lai who is hot off several awards and high profile noms. Cannon

3 days ago

Interview: ReadQuebec.ca

Frances and I met at a café on Van Horne to gab for a couple of hours. We had a blast and this was the result. BUILDING TRACTION Frances Grace Fyfe When I went to print out these interview questions at Zoubris photocopy in the Mile End, one of the owners recognized Leila Marshy’s name and warned me “she’s trouble.” I brought the questions with me to Caffe della Pace, on the corner of Van Horne and Hutchison, the site of some of the writer/publisher’s previous rabble-rousing.

Jun 1

Interview: Junction Reads

I spoke with the lovely Alison Gadsby of the Toronto-based reading series, Junction Reads. This was part of their First Thirty theme: reading the first thirty lines of a book within a 30-minute interview setting. It was Instagram Live, which was a first for me. I feel I act goofy and laugh too much, but I guess that goes with the story I read: Blink Twice. Here's the link to the IG post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYVnmbrjbqm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ

May 15

FINALIST: Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Short Fiction

My Thievery of the People is one of five books shortlisted for this year's Writers' Trust Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Here are the jury's remarks: A fierce and dazzling debut, My Thievery of the People scrutinizes the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy with an unflinching eye to the damage wreaked on both oppressed and oppressor. Travelling between the Middle East and North America, and assuming a breath-taking array of fictional modes, from naturalism to surrealism to m

May 15

Interview: BTCH Media

12 March 2026 by Yara Jamal Read here and below. Publishing Against Erasure Baraka Books is a Quebec-based independent publisher that has positioned itself as a space for unfiltered political writing that challenges the status quo. At the centre of that work is Leila Marshy, a Montreal writer and editor of Palestinian-Newfoundland parentage. Marshy is the author of The Philistine and the short story collection My Thievery of the People. Her work, path and life are deeply sh

Apr 22

Review: Ottawa Review of Books

18 November 2025 by Ian Thomas Shaw Read here and below. Before picking up a copy of Razing Palestine, it is worth considering what this anthology is—and what it is not. It is not a collection of literary short stories, nor a volume of meticulously footnoted analysis; readers seeking either of those will find them amply elsewhere. Instead, the book gathers first-hand testimonies from Canadians who have confronted what many consider the defining moral dilemma of our era: the d

Nov 25, 2025

Review: The Miramichi Reader

17 November 2025 Review by Jeff Dupuis Read here and below. As the world nervously watches the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (one where the killing of Palestinians is still happening, albeit at a much slower rate), we have to begin examining how “never again” became hollowed out and meaningless. Although no one expects Nuremberg-style trials to hold the genocidaires to account, we require a deep probe into our institutions to examine how it is for all our laws

Nov 20, 2025