Tag: People Who Disappear
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People Who Disappear up for a Lambda Award
A couple days ago I found out that my book People Who Disappear is up for a Lambda Award in the LGBT Debut Fiction category. This is so exciting as the books nominated are from all over North America. You can see all the nominees here. Thanks to my press, Freehand Books, for all their…
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“The disappeared don’t simply vanish”
Thank you to Yutaka Dirks for his review of my book People Who Disappear in the activist magazine Briarpatch. “Leslie reminds us of the callous way the present attempts to deny a connection to the past. In Canada, and other countries established through settler colonialism, acknowledging that connection is a necessary pre-condition to accepting responsibility…
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Book forthcoming
My collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, will be published by Freehand. Some of the stories in the collection appeared in various literary journals. Thanks to the following: Descant, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Event, Joyland and Matrix. Thanks also to Oberon Press, specifically the anthologies Best Canadian Stories 09 (ed. John Metcalf) and Coming…
Alex Leslie 