Sharon Bala

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Books Essay

Good Country

Sharon Bala’s debut novel, The Boat People, is available now from McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday US (January 2018). The manuscript won the Percy Janes First Novel Award (May 2015) and was short listed for the Fresh Fish...

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More Folly than Sense

Mahindan remembered the hens, the little girl with the party dress. Okay, okay, he said, using the English expression. Just keep quiet and tomorrow, I’ll get you an egg.

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Bunky’s Obituary

BUNKY COULDN'T ABIDE any of that sentimental claptrap.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

In 2017, she won the Journey Prize and had a second story long-listed in the anthology. A three-time recipient of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Arts and Letters award, she has stories published in Hazlitt, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, Riddle Fence, Room, Prism international, The New Quarterly, Journey Prize 29, and in an anthology called Racket: New Writing From Newfoundland (Breakwater Books, Fall 2015).

Sharon is a member of the Port Authority writing group.

Sharon was born in Dubai, raised in the 905, and now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland with her husband, the mathematician Tom Baird.