Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
04 May 2013 at 07:59
Julija Šukys
Awards, Canada, Creative Nonfiction, Epistolophilia, Events, Ona Šimaitė
I’m so happy to announce that Epistolophilia has won the 2013 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature. Here’s the jury citiation: HOLOCAUST LITERATURE Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė By Julija Šukys Published by University of Nebraska Press Epistolophilia presents a new type of reading of Holocaust texts. Julija Šukys, a [...]
OMNIBUS 2012-3 CANADIAN AUTHORS SERIES EVENT, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 5 P.M. GERALD HILL. CASSIE STOCKS. JULIJA ŠUKYS. UPPER CRUST CAFE, SOUTH EDMONTON. 10909-86 AVE. Gerald Hill is the author of Fourteen Tractors (NeWest Press, 2009), for which he won the 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. He has published four other collections of poetry: My [...]
21 Mar 2013 at 11:54
Julija Šukys
Academia, Conferences and Symposia, Epistolophilia, Events, Feminism, Friendship, Journeys, Nebraska, Ona Šimaitė, Publicity, Publishing, Quebec, Uncategorized, Writing
Lately, I’ve been away from home a lot. And it’s all been in service of my book, Epistolophilia. My “book tour” — as my sister-in-law so generously called the series of lectures, conferences and readings that I almost single-handedly organized and raised money for — has, since November, taken me from Toronto to Chicago to NYC, [...]
28 Dec 2012 at 12:14
Julija Šukys
Biography, Canada, CanLit, Creative Nonfiction, Epistolophilia, Essays, Ona Šimaitė, Publicity, Publishing, Quebec, Reviews, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf
Maisonneuve Magazine is published out of Montreal and “has been described as a new New Yorker for a younger generation, or as Harper’s meets Vice, or as Vanity Fair without the vanity.” The quarterly offers “a diverse range of commentary across the arts, sciences, daily and social life.” When the publication asked its contributors to [...]
07 Dec 2012 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
Canada, CanLit, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Letters, Libraries, Ona Šimaitė, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
As I posted on Facebook, I will admit that my hands shook for a while after learning the news that my book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė has been long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in Literary Non-Fiction. It’s an enormous honour. THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in [...]
15 Oct 2012 at 11:01
Julija Šukys
Canada, CanLit, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Epistolophilia, Events, Ona Šimaitė, Quebec, Uncategorized
I keep wanting to sit down and write a thoughtful post for the blog, and then something happens that I realize I should share: a reading, a review, and so on. Mind you, I’m not complaining. I’m thrilled. So here’s this week’s announcement: my book has been shortlisted for a literary prize. The shortlist for [...]
03 Oct 2012 at 00:12
Julija Šukys
Canada, Conferences and Symposia, Epistolophilia, Events, Ona Šimaitė, Vilna Ghetto
20 Sep 2012 at 20:18
Julija Šukys
Archives, Biography, Canada, Catholicism, Creative Nonfiction, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Feminism, France, Friendship, Jerusalem, Journeys, Language and Multilingualism, Letters, Libraries, Life-writing, Lithuania, Memoir, Mothering, Ona Šimaitė, Paris, Translation, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
Thanks to Ramunė Jonaitienė for this review in Tėviškės Žiburiai, the Lithuanian-Canadian weekly newspaper. Among the phrases I’m really grateful for is her description of my tone as “calm.” Ačiū, TŽ.
13 Aug 2012 at 16:15
Julija Šukys
Biography, E-books, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Friendship, Life-writing, Lithuania, Memory, Ona Šimaitė, Research, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
A friend wrote me that she’d bought the Kindle version of Epistolophilia. She commented: “Really easy to read writing and I love the conversational style you use, although such a heavy topic. I find I have to read in doses. How did you keep from getting swallowed by sorrow while doing all the work and [...]
18 Jun 2012 at 09:43
Julija Šukys
Canada, Children, Domesticity, Epistolophilia, Events, Gardening, Libraries, Mothering, Ona Šimaitė, Publicity, Publishing, Uncategorized
It’s been an amazing few weeks: there have been fantastic reviews of my book Epistolophilia appearing from coast to coast. I’ve been out to British Columbia, where I gave my first real public reading at the beautiful Vancouver Public Library, and we launched the book with a splash on June 7, 2012 in Montreal. It [...]
