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When we see ourselves misrepresented on the page, it just feels like the writer has taken their pen and shoved it into our eyes, said Bala, who won awards acclaimfor her 2018 debut novel The Boat People. We can t pretend that we live in some rarefied bubble as writers where we are separate from the world. From using sexual violence against women as a plot point in a male hero s arc, to killing off an Indigenous character for dramatic tension, Bala said storytelling tropes often serve as a mirror of the systemic indifference toward the suffering of marginalized groups. But as society reckons with these injustices, the St. John s, N.L.-based novelist said a long-simmering conversation among authors about how to responsibly write about identities other than their own, whether that be a character of a different race, gender, sexuality, ability or class.

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