Nadia’s Notables Newsletter
March 2024
Dear Readers,
This month’s newsletter is short and sweet. What a month it’s been. I write this as I recover from a cold which has kept me in bed, starting in Sudbury yesterday than upon my return to Toronto last night on to today. I feel blessed to do the work I do which takes me all over the world. I’ll continue reflecting on the highlights of these events with RECAP posts on my Instagram and Facebook accounts. In the meantime, I share my February highlight reel. I’m still available to schedule more presentations. So please reach out.
Best wishes,
Nadia
In this edition…
February 2024 Black History Month Recap Highlights
What’s Up Next?
February 2024
BLACK HISTORY MONTH Recap
This year I had the pleasure of sharing my words and presenting my stories at schools, libraries, conferences, and other institutions throughout the month of February 2024.
I presented:
at 10+ schools in 8 cities: #Toronto, #Mississauga, #Brampton, #Burlington, #Sudbury, #Markham, #RichmondHill, and #Peekskill, #NewYork
delivered two conference keynote speeches (1 each at #AndStillIRise and #BlackHistorySymposium)
flew ✈️ to two cities (#Sudbury and #NewYorkCity)
delivered #MalaikaCarnival storytimes at @30college_earlyon and @bridgewayfamilycentre #EarlyOn), plus presented a cooking event in collaboration with @earlyon_multicultural_centre in Sudbury
delivered 2 virtual presentations (1 live @torontolibrary and 1 for a #French school in #Saskatchewan)
Please see highlight video reel below.
delivered several presentations in #French
delivered 2 workshops at #ReadingfortheLoveofIt this year
2 live cooking demonstrations
What’s Up Next?
Articles and Podcasts
“What’s Literacy? Podcast- Nadia L. Hohn,” November 2023
“Finding an Ancestor: Behind the scenes with Malaika, Carnival Queen,” ByBlacks May 2023
“How To Create An Inclusive Literary Festival,” ByBlacks April 2023
“16 Reasons Poetry Is Essential For Black Canadians,” ByBlacks April 2023
“Part 2: Should I Self Publish My Book Or Get An Agent? Advice From Six Black Canadian Authors Who Have Done Both,” ByBlacks March 2023
“Should I Self Publish My Book Or Get An Agent? Advice From Six Black Canadian Authors Who Have Done Both,” ByBlacks March 2023
“Ainara’s Bookshelf is Diversifying What We Read One Book at a Time”, ByBlacks February 2023
Interview on the January 10, 2023 Soul Perspectives, CKUT (McGill University radio).
“Meet Dr. Suzette Mayr: The 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner”, ByBlacks January 2023
“Celebrate Black Canadian Authors This Holiday Season with These 36 Books”, ByBlacks December 2022
“If You Love Black Panther, Then You’ll Love These Books”, ByBlacks November 2022
“The Hairy Truth” and “A Deeper Meaning”, Owl Magazine, November 2022
“Three Black Organizations Working to Get Us Reading,” ByBlacks, October 2022
“Top 10 Summer Reads for Black Canadian Kids,” ByBlacks,
August 2022
Travelling Across Canada’s Underground Railroad, Owl magazine (January/February 2022)
“Kojo’s Holiday”, Chickadee magazine (December 2021).
“How Harriet’s Daughter Helped Me Find My Way as a Black Canadian and a Writer for Young People”, Arc Poetry magazine (Arc 96 Islands of Influence Caribbean Canadian edition) (Fall 2021).
“Writer with a Capital W”, University of Waterloo podcast
“Writer Finds Resilience Stories Black Women and Girls”, University of Waterloo magazine (Spring 2021).
Books
Patty Dreams, Owlkids Books (Spring 2025)
Getting Us to Grandma’s, Groundwood Books (Fall 2024)
Editor and Contributor, The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes), Orca Books (Fall 2023)
Malaika, Carnival Queen, Groundwood Books (Spring 2023)
“Louise Go a Country” short story in 100+ Voices for Miss Lou: Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays by Opal Palmer Adisa (ed.), University of West Indies Press (2022)
Malaika’s Surprise, Groundwood Books (2021)
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice, Owlkids (2019)
Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter, Harper Kids Publishers (2018)
Malaika Winter Carnival, Groundwood Books (Fall 2017)
Malaika’s Costume, Groundwood Books (Spring 2016)
Sankofa Music (Gr. 5) and Media (Gr. 6), Sankofa Series, Rubicon Publishing Inc. (2015)
© Nadia L. Hohn, 2024
Toronto, ON, Canada