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

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

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

Shortlisted for fiction award

June 2025, by Manahil Bandukwala, in Quill & Quire , Leila Marshy’s collection of stories, My Thievery of the People, is full of...

What Is and Is Not Ours By Anne Perdue, Plenitude Magazine , June 2025 In Leila Marshy’s The Philistine , (LLP, 2018)—a novel that...

MAY 2025. In this, her first collection of short stories, author Leila Marshy takes the reader to far-flung places. From Newfoundland to...

MAY 2025: Artisanal Writer 's Paul Dhillon talks to Montreal novelist, poet and activist Leila Marshy about her latest story collection....

The Philistine still gets a steady trickle of love and attention, which is astonishing to me. How lucky am I. This recent one is an IG...

Received this wonderful review today from the Literary Review of Canada . It's glowing and affirming and stunning, and left me a little...

Vancouver's Scout Magazine included this lovely review in their Spring Book Club. Thanks to Thalia Stopa for this! Probably my favourite...

The talented Léa Murat-Ingles interviewed me for the Montreal Review of Books , which came out earlier this month, March 2025. Ever ...

Very excited to see My Thievery of the People head out the door all alone. So brave! There are several events coming up, and one already...

The best thing about being interviewed for the TV5 show Chassés-croisés was meeting the incandescent Sophie Foiron. She's as warm and...

I wrote this poem some time after the assault on Gaza, then read it in December at the Poets Against War! event I co-hosted with Norman...