PUBLICATIONS
Proud Past Bright Future
Proud Past Bright Future celebrates the legacy and resilience of Montreal’s Union United Church, the city’s oldest Black congregation. Drawing on archival research and community testimony, it traces the church’s founding, its impact on the Little Burgundy borough of Montreal, and its challenges and victories over more than a century in Quebec.
Publisher: Union United Church of Montreal (2008)
Editor: David Austin
Status: Sold out
Genre: Nonfiction / History
Accolades: Silver Ippy Award winner (2009)
Short Story: “Ritual”
“Ritual” follows a young girl sent by her mother on an errand to the market, where she navigates cultural dialect, strict expectations, and vulnerability of childhood responsibility.
Published In: Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec
Publisher: Véhicule Press (2005)
Editor: Claude Lalumière
Genre: Short fiction / Anthology
Accolades: Shortlisted for the 2002 QWF/CBC Short Story Competition
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
“Interview with Lawrence Hill”
Mosaic Magazine | Issue 25, 06/2009
"The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson"
Book Review | Mosaic Magazine | Issue 22, 08/2008
"The Girl with the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer"
Book Review | Mosaic Magazine | Issue 20, 10/2007
“Unburnable by Marie-Elena John”
Book Review | Mosaic Magazine | Issue 25, 08/2007
“So what did they think of the book?”
Montreal Gazette | July 18, 2005
“Toward true multiculturalism, where all are equal”
A review of Where Race Does Not Matter | Montreal Gazette | February 26, 2005
“The struggle continues”
Interview with Cecil Foster |
Montreal Gazette | February 26, 2005
“Walker’s success hard-won,”
Montreal Gazette | December 3, 2004
“Street lit heads north,”
Montreal Gazette | August 7, 2004
"Foreign-Service Officer” & “So you want to be a diplomat,”
Interview with Bernadette Allen| Essence Magazine | June 2004
“Sushi Speak,”
Essence Magazine | July 2003