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How writing helps Iryn Tushabe recover what she's left behind

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Posted this 2025-05-05 1:06 PM CDT

Tushabe discussed Everything is Fine Here on Bookends with Mattea Roach

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It's been almost 20 years since Iryn Tushabe left Uganda to live in Regina, and she says that she writes to recover things she's left behind.

Tushabe was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021. In 2023, she won the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Tushabe was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize in 2016.

The 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions!

(House of Anansi Press)

The traditional stories of spiteful gods and triumphant heroes were one of t…

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