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Echoes from the Other Land now available in e-book! Order here
Echoes from the Other Land is nominated for the world's largest short story award: Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize. Details
Echoes from the Other Land is one of the top ten winners of the CBC Reader's Choice Contest for the Giller Prize.
To see what reader's said about Echoes from the Other Land visit here.
 Praise for
Ava Homa
author of Echoes from the Other Land
"a prismatic portrait of Iran that resists both internal tyrannies and Western demonization."
Ava Homa is Canada’s exquisite answer to Raymond Carver. Homa announces new beginnings—less irony, more hope—and from a breathtakingly multicultural and international perspective. Readers will experience awe and beauty at the force of Homa’s art to convey female Iranian protagonists wholeheartedly grasping their lives. A taut and subtle plain-spokenness enlivens her writing, belying rich dramatic tensions that build just beneath the surface—which will surprise readers and then captivate them.
—Louis Cabri, author of The Mood Embosser
Echoes from the Other Land is carefully crafted in a realist style but, when compared to homogenized portrayals of Iran in the western media, the reader’s experience more closely resembles the surreal. For a western reader the conflict of the real and the surreal resonates – it echoes – and does not fade away.
— Gavin Wolch, Rudaw
What makes these stories work is the simplicity and directness of their telling. Homa suggests much and states little outright. Maybe this approach is, in fact, the true “echo from the other land” — Iran — in which much is unspoken and cannot be said, in which there’s no doubt a vocabulary of signs and signals and coded words with layers of meanings and suggestiveness. This elusive approach to storytelling is subtle and powerful, haunting the reader with the silence between the words.
— Carole Giangrande, author of A Gardener on the Moon
Ranging across regions, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and political dispositions, Homa’s characters give us a prismatic portrait of Iran that resists both internal tyrannies and Western demonization. Her style is elegantly spare, gem-solid. This is a voice we all need to hear.
— Susan Holbrook, author of Joy Is So Exhausting
Ava Homa's Echoes from the Other Land is an enchanting collection of short stories from Iran and Kurdistan, drawing readers into the complexity of the characters personalities and the societies in which they live and the simplicity of their wants and desires. I felt engaged from start to finish. I couldn't put the book down.
— Susan MacCllaland, journalist and author of The Bite of the Mango
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Fiction Workshop with Ava Homa
Are you looking for some help with your creative writing project, particularly short fiction? Ava can give you some exceptional feedback
individually or in a group workshop. She has been giving creative writing lessons for over six years.
contact: creativewriting[at]live[dot]ca.
Videos of Ava's readings and interview HERE
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Echoes from the Other Land now available in ebook format through TSARbooks.com
New Reviews:
- in The Toronto Quarterly here
- in the Black Coffee Poet here
- in the Carol Giangrade BookTalk here
- in Rudaw here
Winter 2012
- Ava Homa will be reading as part of Canadian Creative Writing Conference: here
- Ava Homa reads for World Literacy, KAMA reading: here
- NOW Magazine announces Ava Homa's reading as a can't-miss event of the week: here
- Ava Homa won a grant offered by Ontario Art Council
- Ava Homa was featured in Shahrvand Magazine
- Ava Homa taught a session on "Crafting a Piece of Fiction" in Oriol Community Center
Fall 2011
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Ava Homa participated in the World Kurdish Congress
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Ava featured in Shahrvand: here
- Ava recorded by BlackCoffeePoet.com
- Echoes from the Other Land reviewed here.
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An interview with Ava Homa by Black Coffee Poet
June 2011
- Ava Homa is featured in Open Book Toronto to talk about writing short stories. read here
- Echoes from the Other Land was reviewed by Farzana Doctor, author of Six Meters of Pavement. read here
- Ava Homa featured on North York Central Library blog. read here
- Echoes from the Other Land is nominated for the world's largest short story award, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize. Details here
- Echoes from the Other Land featured in a full page review in a Kurdish national newspaper, Bas. read
- Award winning novelist, Trevor Cole records Ava Homa for AuthorsAloud. Listen
- Ava Homa on ITC TV Farsi. Watch
May 2011
- Rudaw reviews Echoes From the Other Land. read here
- Ava Homa interviewed in Daytime, Rogers TV. watch here
- Ava Homa on Voice of America (Farsi). Watch here
- Echoes from the Other Land is reviewed in News4u. read here
April 2011
- Ava featured in Wrecking Ball event. read here
- Ava interviewed by Entertainment Windsor. watch here
March 2011
- Ava featured in the Toronto Star. read here
- CBC Windsor interviews Ava Homa. listen here
- OurWindsor writers about Ava's haunting stories. read and see photos here
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University of Windsor writes about Ava. read here
February 2011
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Voice of America (Persian) interviews Ava Homa. watch here
Jan 2, 2011
- Ava featured in Voices (Kurdish) read here
Dec 16, 2010
- Carole Giangrande reviews Echoes read here
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