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.

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

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