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Write to Reconcile: An Anthology
Write to Reconcile, is a creative writing project in English undertaken by The National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, in conjunction with the internationally renowned Sri Lankan author, Shyam Selvadurai, who serves as Project Director. The First Write to Reconcile project took place between January and Sept 2013. The aim of the project was to bring together emerging Sri Lankan writers within the country who were interested in writing creative pieces (fiction, memoir or poetry) on the issues of conflict, peace, reconciliation, memory and trauma, as they related to Sri Lanka. Write to Reconcile sought to develop a community of like-minded individuals committed to contributing, through their writing, to the process of peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka; a community of individuals committed to also reflecting the different points of views from the multiple communities that make up Sri Lanka.
Write to Reconcile was conducted free of charge for 24 selected participants consisting of a mix of beginning and emerging writers between the ages of 18 to 29, as well as teachers interested in creative writing.
Entry into the project was competitive, with interested participants submitting a creative piece for evaluation.
The Project, sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the American Centre, consisted of two four-day Residential Workshops and two Online Forums, followed by the publication of the participants' work in an anthology at a book launch on September 4th 2013. All costs were borne by the project. It was open to all applicants who were Sri Lankan or dual citizens.
www.writetoreconcile.com
Write to Reconcile was conducted free of charge for 24 selected participants consisting of a mix of beginning and emerging writers between the ages of 18 to 29, as well as teachers interested in creative writing.
Entry into the project was competitive, with interested participants submitting a creative piece for evaluation.
The Project, sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the American Centre, consisted of two four-day Residential Workshops and two Online Forums, followed by the publication of the participants' work in an anthology at a book launch on September 4th 2013. All costs were borne by the project. It was open to all applicants who were Sri Lankan or dual citizens.
www.writetoreconcile.com
288 pages, Paperback
First published September 4, 2013
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About the author
Shyam Selvadurai
14 books441 followersShyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998). He currently lives in Toronto with his partner Andrew Champion.
Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father--members of conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles form a major theme in his work. Ethnic riots in 1983 drove the family to emigrate to Canada when Selvadurai was nineteen. He studied creative and professional writing as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at York University.
Selvadurai recounted an account of the discomfort he and his partner experienced during a period spent in Sri Lanka in 1997 in his essay "Coming Out" in Time Asia's special issue on the Asian diaspora in 2003.
In 2004, Selvadurai edited a collection of short stories: Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, which includes works by Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, and Hanif Kureishi, among others. He published a young adult novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, in 2005. Swimming won the Lambda Literary Award in the Children's and Youth Literature category in 2006. He was a contributor to TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1.
Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father--members of conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles form a major theme in his work. Ethnic riots in 1983 drove the family to emigrate to Canada when Selvadurai was nineteen. He studied creative and professional writing as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at York University.
Selvadurai recounted an account of the discomfort he and his partner experienced during a period spent in Sri Lanka in 1997 in his essay "Coming Out" in Time Asia's special issue on the Asian diaspora in 2003.
In 2004, Selvadurai edited a collection of short stories: Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, which includes works by Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, and Hanif Kureishi, among others. He published a young adult novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, in 2005. Swimming won the Lambda Literary Award in the Children's and Youth Literature category in 2006. He was a contributor to TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1.
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April 20, 2022
A must read. The complexities of war and post- war Sri Lanka related by multiple voices and writing styles.
March 14, 2015
awesome book with really beautiful short stories and poems loved it found it in the U ot T library, was very surprised but delighted
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