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Love & Defiance Podcast


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This is the Humber School for Writers Love & Defiance podcast. I’m David Bezmozgis, creative director of the Humber School for Writers. The Love & Defiance podcast features Humber students and graduates who’ve lived interesting or extraordinary lives and who have brought those experiences into their writing.

Season 4 Episode 4 - Sumaiya Matin

In today’s episode I’ll be speaking with Sumaya Matin who worked on her memoir with Shyam Selvadurai. Titled The Shaytan Bride, it was published in 2021 by Dundurn Press and it is an account of Sumaiya’s immigration to Canada from Bangladesh as a young girl, her attempts to reconcile her Muslim faith with secular Canadian society and the patriarchal strictures placed on Muslim girls and women from within their own community which culminates, for Sumaiya, in an attempted forced marriage.

This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Evan Gravelle.

Thanks for listening. We’ll be back next year with more students and more remarkable stories from the Humber School for Writers.

Season 4 Episode 3 - Craig Shreve

In this episode, I speak with Craig Shreve about his novel The African Samurai, a fictionalized account of the tragic and heroic life of Yasuke, an African slave and warrior who became the first non-Japanese samurai.

This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Evan Gravelle.

All Episodes  

A Showcase of Student Success

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CHEAP THRILLS

David Kloepfer

Look After Her book cover

LOOK AFTER HER

Hannah Brown

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A DARK HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES

Ian Colford

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PERFECT WORLD

Ian Colford

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THE ALLSPICE BATH

Sonia Saikaley

A Girl Like That

A GIRL LIKE THAT

Tanaz Bhathena

we show you how

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School for Writers

Maria Saba Wins 2020 Writers-in-Exile Scholarship

Maria Saba Wins 2020 Writers-in-Exile Scholarship

Mon, October 26, 2020

Meet thethe recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship, Maria Saba.

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A Q&A with Marthese Fenech

A Q&A with Marthese Fenech

Mon, July 20, 2020

For Marthese Fenech, the inspiration for her novels struck when she was just a teenager, and it has stuck with her ever since.

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A Q&A with Sidura Ludwig, author of You Are Not What We Expected

A Q&A with Sidura Ludwig, author of You Are Not What We Expected

Wed, July 08, 2020

You Are Not What We Expected, a new collection of stories by School for Writers graduate Sidura Ludwig, wasn’t the book she expected it to be.

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A Q&A with Sharif Khan

A Q&A with Sharif Khan

Mon, July 06, 2020

School for Writers graduate, Sharif Khan, published his first novel, Brave Fortune. He told us how it came to be and how Humber helped along the way.

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A Q&A with Madhur Anand, author of This Red Line Goes Straight To Your Heart

A Q&A with Madhur Anand, author of This Red Line Goes Straight To Your Heart

Thu, July 02, 2020

Two-time School for Writers grad, Madhur Anand, told us a bit about her latest book and about what she learned during her time at Humber.

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