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Tama Leigh Ward

Outposted (blog), memoir, sacred story
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Read the story that was long listed for CBC’s 2020 Non-Fiction Prize. The all-female world of a dairy farm interweaves with a teenager’s take on the manager scene. 

The Sun Magazine on “Strangers” (September 2020) Scroll down through Reader’s Write to read of my unlikely encounter in a Cairo market. 

My Friend, Hafiz, was long-listed for the 2018 CBC Creative Non-Fiction Prize. 

Memoir recounting a road trip to a pilgrimage site in New Mexico.  

Post-Colonial Parenting published in the Globe & Mail, Oct. 4, 2017

Memoir that explores how my 6-year old daughter made peace with her white (privileged)-skin by enacting a ritual from her own cultural roots: high tea. 

 

 

 

School Mass was published by St. Anthony Messenger Press, November 2010

This piece recounts my first exposure as a Protestant to a Catholic mass.

 

Old Lesson Horse

Getting back on a horse at 50 and pushing through the tough stuff. 

Stage in the Desert published in Mosaic, Fall 2012

Sacred Canopy attempts to bridge Muslim and Christian communities in northeast Kenya through the retelling of a shared story.  

A Bridge Between in Church for Vancouver (July 2016)

A guest blog post that tells of a storytelling initiative bridging the biblical story of Samson with the contemporary story of the Unist’ot’en resistance in northern British Columbia. 

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