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Very honoured and excited to welcome Lishai to @gritlitfestival!! (And very proud of gritLIT for its incredible team, history, and growth.) 👏🥳👏
As we enter our 20th year, we are thrilled to announce that Lishai Peel has joined the gritLIT team as Executive Director. Lishai is a writer and educator currently based in Hamilton.
For her complete bio, visit: writerstrust.com/authors/lis…
Welcome to the team, Lishai!
"In order to remember you as a practitioner of the utopian, I need to honour the intimacies of the unwritten" - @BillyRayB
"The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
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"[W]e were stitched together by our shared love of Jewish culture and a recognition that Jewish culture is for all of us, without exception."
@LishaiP on finding her people at PRISM, a Jewish Artists of Color convening
lilith.org/2021/11/i-no-long…
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Writing a book is hard. Writing a book during a global pandemic is even harder. Join us this Friday at 1PM to hear @LishaiP share about her experience bringing a book into existence in these uncertain times.
Lishai retweeted
@LishaiP is speaking at X-Camera this Friday and we could not be more excited about it!! It starts at 1PM and you won't want to miss it✨
Register here: eventbrite.ca/e/x-camera-pre…
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Connecting to My Jewish Indian Roots : “It was only in Mumbai, when I was standing in front of the synagogue my grandparents had been married in, that I felt what I had always dreamed of feeling – a sense of belonging. heyalma.com/connecting-to-my… via @hey_alma @LishaiP
This program was a real game changer for me. Apply, apply, apply!
writerstrust.com/programs/wr…
"Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches."
- Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities)
It was a pleasure to be a judge for the @malahatreview CNF Open Season award malahatreview.ca/contests/op…