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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...

Review: "Lyrical but keen-eyed"

Montreal Review of Books, by Danielle Barkley Early in Leila Marshy’s novel The Philistine, the protagonist, Nadia, abruptly declines to...

Q&A: "It's like being a singer-songwriter opening for the Beatles."

Q&A with Linda Leith at Salon. Linda Leith: You’ve been working in the literary milieu here in Montreal for many years. Tell me a bit...

Review: "Superior writer of fiction"

Ottawa Review of Books, by Ian Thomas Shaw Leila Marshy's The Philistine is a rich portrayal of two young women's passionate love affair...

i have heard words by birds of chicago

The Philistine, trailer

The Philistine happened

I wrote a novel and said novel is being published. It will be out in the Spring 2018. This is an event in my life that is so massive, so...

Giving space

I was interviewed by Gideon Strauss of Convivium.ca for this article found here. “Something [Outremont borough counselor] Mindy Pollak’s...

Outremont’s Own Hate Problem: Incitement Masquerading as Journalism

We are, as the Chinese proverb warns, living in interesting times. The recent election in the US seems to have bequeathed a worldwide...

So long, and thanks for all the responsibility

Science fiction taught me everything I know about the world. As a kid in the 70s I was addicted to 1950s B-movies. They played late at...

The Proper Ting

This story was recently published in The Galleon, a literary journal out of Moncton, NB. The Proper Ting A little girl saw it first. She...

Mother, you had me

This is the third in a series of short films made from found footage. The footage belongs to Kathryn Harvey. I digitized it for her in...

The Plow

This story was recently published in The Danforth Review. It's the third of my stories they've taken. Makes me happy yes it does. Here it...