UPCOMING EVENTS

February
Ava Homa is Open Book's Writer-in-Residence!
Follow her posts here.

04/20/12
Sasenarine Persaud at the University of South Florida
Sasenarine will be reading as part of the Humanities Institute Poetry Month.
Details to come

05/10/12
Ava Homa will be reading as part of the Canadian Creative Writers& Writing Programs Conference
Find full schedule here.

more upcoming events

RECENT NEWS & MEDIA

01/30/12
Love Cake was reviewed in Poets & Writers
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01/04/12
Cycle of the Moon was reviewed in Prairie Fire Review of Books
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12/14/11
To Love a Palestinian Woman was reviewed in Canadian Literature
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12/12/11
Jewels and Other Stories received an honourable mention in the Globe and Mail's best debuts of the year!
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Lantana Strangling Ixorawas reviewed on Generally About Books
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12/06/11
Read about our Fall Book Launch in South Asian Focus
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12/01/11
Lantana Strangling Ixora was reviewed on My Bindi
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11/28/11
Latana Strangling Ixora was reviewed in Boston University Creative Writing
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11/22/11
Jewels and Other Stories was reviewed in Wasafiri
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Sheniz Janmohamed was featured on Black Coffee Poet.
To read the interview with Sheniz click here
To read the review of Bleeding Light click here

11/02/11
Echoes from the Other Land was reviewed in The Toronto Quarterly
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Bleeding Light was reviewed in Fusia Magazine
Read on page 102

11/01/11
Love Cake was reviewed in Xtra
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10/24/11
Ava Homa reads from Echoes from the Other Land on Black Coffee Poet.
Watch here.

Bleeding Light was reviewed in Awaaz Magazine.
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Sheniz Janmohamed, author of Bleeding Light, was profiled on York Region.
Read Here

10/21/2011
Lantana Strangling Ixora was reviewed in The Florida Books News.
(Read Here) and in the Examiner (Read Here).

10/18/11
To Love a Palestinian Woman was reviewed in Canadian Literature.
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10/5/11
Love Cake was reviewed in Feministing!
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10/4/11
Jewels and Other Stories is reviewed on The Thoughtful Blogger.
Read Here

8/29/11
Numero Cinq calls Jewels and Other Stories "terse, direct, almost telegraphic tale of South Africa, race, danger, immaculate whiteness and denial. It’s haunting, disturbing—reminiscent of J. M. Coetzee himself."
Read the full article here

8/22/11
In a Boston Night by Sasenarine Persaud has been shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature.

8/17/11
Ava Homa is featured in Shahrvand magazine
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8/8/11
Ava Homa's interview with Black Coffee Poet
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8/2/11
Lives: Whole and Otherwise reviewed in World Literature Today
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Echoes from the Other Land reviewed by Black Coffee Poet
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7/19/11
Dawn Promislow interviewed on OpenBook Ontario
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6/14/11
Open Book Toronto's interview with Ava Homa
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6/7/11
Echoes from the Other Land reviewed by Farzana Doctor
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Ava Homa featured on North York Central Library blog
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