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Tama Leigh Ward

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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.

 

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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