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Sharon Bala

Born

Dubai, The United Arab Emirates

Website

http://sharonbala.com/

Genre

Fiction

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Sharon Bala is trapped on a rock in the cold North Atlantic. Please send mangoes.

Her debut novel, The Boat People, was published by McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday US in January, 2018. The manuscript won the Percy Janes First Novel Award (May 2015) and was short listed for the Fresh Fish Award (October 2015).

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).

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Riddle Fence

This Fall, I joined Riddle Fence as the Creative Non-Fiction Editor. Since then, I’ve been sifting through hundreds of submissions, searching for gold. A few people have asked what exactly I hope to publish so here are some suggestions.

First off, please don’t send me:

poetry (there are other editors helming that section)

fiction (ditto!)

reviews (they are published online; get in touch with the manag

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Sharon Bala’s books

Average rating: 3.98 · 7,345 ratings · 1,024 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Boat People 3.98 avg rating — 7,312 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers by Liz Harmer (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Greg Brown, Jess Taylor 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ru: Kanata Classics Edition by Kim Thúy, Sharon Bala (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Folly Than Sense 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Qu'importe le navire by Sharon Bala, Marc Charron (Translator), Véronique Lessard (Translator) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mülteciler 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Guys: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Sharon Bala (?)

“Did she now know what it was like to have so little agency? To be faced with such cruel options it was as if there was no choice at all?”
― Sharon Bala, The Boat People

tags: choice, freedom, immigration

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“I told the girls they could have new sandals. I was brokering a peace agreement.”
― Sharon Bala, The Boat People

tags: negotiation, parenting, peace

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“People who forget the wrongs that were done to them perpetuate those same wrongs on others.”
― Sharon Bala, The Boat People

tags: government, immigration

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Polls

What should our October Asian-American or Asian-Canadian -authored fiction read be?

Voting will close on 19 August. You can change your vote at any time prior to the poll closing.

Please note that a voting for a book implies an intent to read and take part in the discussion of it.

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

4 votes, 40.0%

The Boat People by Sharon Bala

4 votes, 40.0%

In the Country by Mia Alvar

1 vote, 10.0%

Chemistry by Weike Wang

1 vote, 10.0%

10 total votes

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