{"id":1408,"date":"2012-09-19T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:42:32","slug":"writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Essays<\/a><\/h3>
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Writings \/ Essays: Akin Adesokan<\/a><\/h3>
Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole\u2019s World* \r\n \r\nOf the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist o...<\/div><\/div>\n

Reviews<\/a><\/h3>
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Writings \/ Reviews: George Elliott Clarke<\/a><\/h3>
Poetry and Film Reviews \r\nThe Deer Yard\r\n by Allen Cooper and Harry Thurston\r\nKentville NS: Gaspereau,...<\/div><\/div>\n

Fiction<\/a><\/h3>
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Writings \/ Fiction: Yutaka Dirks<\/a><\/h3>
Pull of Gravity \r\n\r\nYou can see the light of Calgary for an hour before you see a single street lamp,...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Dolly Reisman<\/a><\/h3>
Summer Lessons \r\nI\u2019m stuck inside with my mother and my sister. We\u2019re at the back of the cottage in ...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Tashania Colquhoun<\/a><\/h3>
Strangers \r\nWhen I was 14, my mother moved a stranger into our apartment. A few days before he arrived,...<\/div><\/div>\n

Creative Non-Fiction<\/a><\/h3>
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Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni<\/a><\/h3>
George or Holidays By the Sea \r\n\r\nSouth Africans who lived in the landlocked Transvaal or Free State...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten<\/a><\/h3>
Premature \r\nAmy Ghostkeeper was born twenty-four weeks after conception: too early to survive, but that\u2019s e...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi<\/a><\/h3>
Today I left \r\n \r\nToday is the day I will leave, not tomorrow, not the day after but today. It has to...<\/div><\/div>\n

Poetry<\/a><\/h3>
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Writings \/ Poetry: Afam Akeh<\/a><\/h3>
American Trauma \r\nThere is a hole in the ground the dead cannot fill.\r\nOnly memory can feed it. And silence,\r\n\r\nthat...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3>
Yes \/ No \/ Yes \r\nThe day after that unexpected night,\r\nTrees were set to scatter blossoms; the sun\r\nEvaporated...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Chielozona Eze<\/a><\/h3>
Poetry \r\nIt is not speaking in tongue, child;\r\nit is baiting fish with fish. \r\n\r\nAnd so, I, a blind,...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Emily Izsak<\/a><\/h3>
Do We Not Laugh? \r\nYou've been Shylocked,\r\nI said,\r\nas I dipped the tip of my nose\r\ninto pursed lips.\r\nThis...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}