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This is a gallery of work specially created for #ThinAir2023. Spend time with writers you love, and discover some new favourites! Ceci est une galerie de travaux spécialement créée pour #ThinAir2023. Passez du temps avec des écrivains que vous aimez et découvrez de nouveaux favoris!Josiah Neufeld’s journalistic memoir The Temple at the End of the Universe (House of Anansi) about religion and spirituality in the Anthropocene was published in June, 2023.
Josiah grew up in Burkina Faso and now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 territory and homeland of the Métis nation. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.
His personal essays and long-form journalism on religion, activism, climate change, parenting, and Burkina Faso have appeared in The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Broadview, Utne Reader, Hazlitt, Eighteen Bridges, Plough Quarterly, Quill & Quire, The Vancouver Sun, The Ottawa Citizen, and Geez.
Two of his essays were finalists for National Magazine Awards.
His short fiction has appeared in The Walrus, Prairie Fire, and The New Quarterly.
Interview / Entrevue
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. My teacher recommended it to me. I’d never read a book with so much swearing, such explicit articulations of what goes on in an adolescent boy’s head. It was thrilling.
“My grandfather’s grave turned into the light, and the dew on his weedy little mortality patch was glorious.” – Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Clean desk. I have to organize my surroundings in order to organize my thoughts.
What crucial life lesson have I forgotten to teach my children?
To write a line that makes someone cry.
Elsewhere On The Web
Afternoon Book Chat with
Monia Mazigh &
Josiah Neufeld
Tuesday, September 26, 2:00 pm CT
