Interview - Hollay Ghadery and Widow Fantasies

Canada Reads American Style

Tara talks with Hollay Ghadery, an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishanaabe land. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions' Microland imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for nonfiction/memoir. (Check out Rebecca's interview with Hollay on the January 11, 2023 episode.) Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released with Radiant Press in April 2023. Her short fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, will be released on September 1, 2024, with Gordon Hill Press. Hollay is also the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township as well as the founder of and senior publicist with River Street Writing, a team of creatives who aim to produce and celebrate amazing writers. Books, authors highlighted:

• Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef
• Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
• Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
• The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
• Poet Bronwen Wallace
• Most of All the Wanting by Amanda Merpaw
• Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke
• A Simple Carpenter by David Margoshes
• Author Adele Wiseman
• Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy
• The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan
• The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross #1) by Peter Roman

Publishers:

• Radiant Press https://radiantpress.ca/
• Latitude 46 https://latitude46publishing.com/
• Wolsak & Winn https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/

Literary Festivals:

• The Word on the Street Toronto https://toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/
• Eden Mills Writers' Festival https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/
• The & Festival https://theampersandreview.ca/the-festival-2024
• Wordstock Sudbury https://wordstocksudbury.ca/