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.

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

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...

This Magazine published my story Zora in their Summer Reading issue. The most amazing thing about it is the illustration! By the uber...

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...

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...

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...

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...