Michelle Syba
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Flaming humanist and ex-Pentecostal. I have a book of stories called END TIMES out in 2023 with Freehand Books Finalist for the QWF Concordia First Book Prize
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Joined November 2020
Today on GET LIT we talk to author Michelle Syba about her collection End Times. Tune in! 1230pm 93.3/cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here: https://t.co/6W0oZzsaIl
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Thanks to @PL_Hensley for chatting with me about Pentecostalism and my conversion to literature on her excellent new podcast *How I Wrote This*, along with authors @Mikhail_Iossel @swanmichaels @lethal_heroine @BBaniahmadi Kim Thúy and Neil Smith https://t.co/3YrCLW80Vb
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Equally unhelpful comments: 1. Repent of your sins! 2. Stop believing in sky daddy!
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22 books have made the shortlists for the 2023 QWF Book Prizes. The winners will be revealed at the QWF Awards Gala on Monday, November 13. Follow the link to find out the finalists (and to buy your gala ticket!) 👉 https://t.co/lx01SpgCBl
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If you're in downtown Montreal this Saturday and feel like a chat, pop by 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest and say hi (in the McConnell atrium)!
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Many thanks to the Quebec Writers' Federation for selecting *End Times* as a finalist for the Concordia First Book Prize, along with some fascinating titles: @StoboSniderman, @SBenembarek. @OfficialQWF @AELAQ @fhbooks #canlit
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The endlessly curious Erica Schmidt talked with me about curiosity, evangelical culture, literature, assholes, and other timely topics. You can listen to a clip here: https://t.co/V4buveKGDs
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🎤 Ep. 13: Curiosity With Michelle Syba (Author of End Times) 👩🏻🎓📚📜 And here is the fabulous writer behind the fabulous book End Times. Michelle Syba is the first published author and Harvard...
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Many thanks to Jules @LibrairieDandQ for including END TIMES in her list of recommended summer reads! Unfortunately it was/is outta stock but more copies should arrive soon. #canlit #shortstories @fhbooks @OfficialQWF @aelaq @thenewquarterly
Let’s cut to the chase; it’s hot out, and you want a book! ☀ Jules is kicking off our Summer Reads selections on the blog, with plenty of upcoming releases to look forward to >> https://t.co/EqhBXW8T8n
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Midwestern and evangelical modes of chitchat have some overlap...except nix the talk about pinot grigio!
“I think he might be a bit in over his head” = This incompetent sloth is holding everyone back. Never in my life have I experienced such inadequacy. I get physically ill in his presence. His wife is lovely and we’re having them over for dinner next week. https://t.co/j7KtRZAZNF
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As a fiction writer inspired by evangelical culture malgré moi, I can’t resist sharing Pat Robertson’s take on feminism. If nothing else, it displays a talent for unexpected plot twists! #exvangelical #deconstruction #exfundie
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Belated thanks to Steven Beattie for his take on my story "End Times"! Did I mention that "vicissitudes" is one of my favourite words...? #canlit #shortstories @OfficialQWF @fhbooks @cbcbooks
From her debut collection (@fhbooks), Montreal author Michelle Syba offers a story about addiction and the vicissitudes of religious faith. https://t.co/vHCh7nOcdP
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Pssst. The END TIMES are here (virtually). https://t.co/UfJI2Y6Hio A free book launch on Wed, May 17 at 7 pm eastern/5 pm mountain. All are welcome and encouraged to join. Hosted by @NishaColeman.
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Belated thanks to Harvard's English department for helping make possible END TIMES--I took my first creative writing course there! If you want to see what I learned, join me & @NishaColeman for the online launch this Weds at 7 pm ET. Deets on Eventbrite #canlit @cbcbooks @AELAQ
Harvard Alumna Michelle Syba's book, End Times, will be released on May 1st! Read more about the book here: https://t.co/5vRkSQTyVm
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Did you know that @49thShelf runs giveaways? How about that @lit_zealot's END TIMES is up for giveaway? Enter now: https://t.co/etY1rXqGk0
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If you think "literature is still useful for people who seek out complex expressions of human life...that make us doubt our own certitudes," check out https://t.co/mqqeI1TgFk Thanks to the indefatigable @robmclennanblog for the chance to participate! #canlit @AELAQ
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Thanks to all the delightful and thoughtful people who attended the launch of END TIMES on Thursday at Librairie de Stiil. Such great questions from the audience and we sold out of copies! #canlit #shortstories #evangelicalish @AELAQ @OfficialQWF @fhbooks
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If you've been looking for a pithy exegesis of assholes in Middlemarch (or in fiction by Cusk or Thammavongsa), here's your chance! #canlit
Come read one of our favourite guest posts of the year! A focus on poignant assholes in Canlit, with so many acts of assholery we cannot help but be impressed. https://t.co/vrPr5YlvVC Thank you to Michelle Syba for this awesome contribution. @fhbooks @McClellandBooks @lit_zealot
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Montreal’s Emer O’Toole vouches that END TIMES “carves a space where orthodoxies secular and sacred are laid bare.” Stop by and interrogate an orthodoxy if the spirit moves you!
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Montreal peeps! Please join me Thursday May 4 at 7 pm for the launch of END TIMES, my story collection about people variously entangled with evangelical culture. At Librarie de Stiil on Duluth. I’ll be chatting with the inimitable Nisha Coleman. Come ask a Q and/or have a drink!
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O'Gieblyn concludes: "It’s rare to encounter the drama of faith and its aftermath rendered with such humanity, ferocity, and grace." #exvangelical #deconstructing #shortstories
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