Tessa McWatt's guest appearances

Tessa McWatt

The Next Chapter

2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival

Writers Festival Radio

Lorna Crozier

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Mona Awad

Ashley Audrain

Norma Dunning

Mary Lawson

Zoe Whittall

Katherena Vermette

Shani Mootoo

Emma Donoghue

Gary Barwin

Jordan Tannahill

Francesca Ekwuyasi

Jael Richardson

Naben Ruthnum

OwlTail

Join us for a conversation between poet Manahil Bandukwala and Tessa McWatt, the author of The Snow Line, a novel that explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered.Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books.The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy initiatives.

Join us for a conversation between poet Manahil Bandukwala and Tessa McWatt, the author of The Snow Line, a novel that explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy initiatives.

The Snow Line with Tessa McWatt

CBC's Idil Mussa hosts Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt. This episode of the podcast takes a hard look at racial belonging in contemporary Canada. For too long the conversation on race in Canada has been framed by issues south of the border. Here, we examine our own culture and some of the ongoing barriers to equity and inclusion.  They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis is a powerful memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience. Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Shame on Me is a personal exploration of history and identity, colour and desire, from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.

CBC's Idil Mussa hosts Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt. This episode of the podcast takes a hard look at racial belonging in contemporary Canada. For too long the conversation on race in Canada has been framed by issues south of the border. Here, we examine our own culture and some of the ongoing barriers to equity and inclusion. They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis is a powerful memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience. Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Shame on Me is a personal exploration of history and identity, colour and desire, from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.

23 Yes, It's Systemic featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt

In a pair of moving memoirs, Guyana-born Canadian writer Tessa McWatt and Zeba Talkhani, who was raised in Saudi Arabia, explore themes of race, feminism, heritage and belonging. McWatt’s Shame On Me is a journey through the multiple threads of her identity. In My Past Is a Foreign Country, Talkhani charts her experiences as a British Muslim feminist with nuance and generosity. They come together at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 to share their stories in an event chaired by Nadine Aisha Jassat.

Tessa McWatt & Zeba Talkhani at the Edinburgh International Book Festival