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Feb 17, 2021 · In this episode, panelists Canisia Lubrin, Nigel Thomas and Téa Mutonji discuss why they write and how they deal with the power — and the burdens — of making art with language. Here are...
Feb 10, 2023 · Named a writer to watch by CBC Books in 2020, Mutonji is a Scarborough, Ont.-based author. Her short story collection Shut up, You're Pretty won the 2020 Trillium Book Award . Now her...
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Apr 15, 2019 · Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji’s debut collection Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first work to be featured. Canisia Lubrin calls the collection “a chronicle of millennial malaise, gendered and seaming with a discontent that does not sleep on the status quo of any page. Téa Mutonji is a writer who is assured and measured with a style all ...
— Canisia Lubrin, author of Voodoo Hypothesis and augur Téa Mutonji’s timely, original, and absorbing stories compose a shattered and shattering bildungsroman. Her lyric, dramatically charged fragments are linked by rich and vital prose, captivating and urgent storytelling, and an eye for the strange and striking detail.
- In The Upper Country by Kai Thomas. In The Upper Country is the story of young Lensinda Martin, who is summoned to interview an old woman who shot and killed a slave hunter.
- Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji. Shut Up You're Pretty is a short fiction collection that tells stories of a young woman coming of age in the 21st century in Scarborough, Ont.
- Black Boys Like Me by Matthew R. Morris. Matthew R. Morris was influenced by the prominent Black male figures he saw in sports, TV shows and music while growing up in Scarborough, Ont.
- River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta. River Mumma is a magical realist story inspired by Jamaican folklore. The main character is a young Black woman having a quarter-life crisis while adventuring through the streets of Toronto.
May 28, 2023 · The 33rd edition of Canada’s most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, and Canisia Lubrin. Partners. Presented by Writers' Trust of Canada.
In part one of a two-part series, Black Canadian writers Canisia Lubrin, Nigel Thomas and Téa Mutonji discuss why they write and how they deal with the power — and the burden — of making art with language.
