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I cannot speak of voting without speaking of citizenship the goal of many immigrants like me escaping home countries where they face persecution and death. Citizenship, for me, is a moving target. I’ve lived significant amounts of time in three different countries. I was born in Sri Lanka, lived most of my life in the US, and currently reside in Canada. Where many view citizenship as a fixed, stable connection, I see it as ever-shifting. I have little patience for nationalism or patriotic pride, and little faith in the stability of governments, no matter their power.
In Sri Lanka, I was born Tamil during a civil war where the Sinhalese-controlled government sought to dominate Tamils who wanted a separate state. And if domination wasn’t possible, then eradication. I spent my early childhood without wealth in cities on the borderlands between government and rebel control. I carry those memories of war with me as an artist and as a citizen. I’ve seen first-hand how gerr
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Publishing date: Feb 05, 2021 • February 5, 2021 • 6 minute read • Author Morgan Murray. Courtesy, Morgan Murray. jpg
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Morgan Murray’s first notable success as a writer came early.
It was 1990 or so and he was in Grade 2 in Rocky Mountain House. He submitted a short story to a writing contest that included entries from schools around the district. He took first place with an imaginative tale that had something to do with fleas helping cats outsmart dogs. The top prize may seem modest, but the seven-year-old fledgling writer was delighted.
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William Ping has moved from audience member to host for the 2021 edition of the Sparks Literary Festival. He says in times of isolation, literature remains a great way to connect with others.(Submitted by the Ping family)
Poet Mary Dalton has described the Sparks Literary Festival as a word spree.
It is just that a spell of unrestrained literature of all kinds being shared with any who care to listen. The St. John s festival founded by Dalton, a retired professor of English at Memorial University, is now an annual gathering of writers from here and abroad, engaged in readings and discussions of their work.
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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