PUBLICATIONS

Memoir forthcoming 2025 with Book*hug

Longlists/Contests  
“Listening to the Great Teacher Might Get Your Ass Kicked” Room’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Contest: The Longlist
“Listening to the Great Teacher Might Get Your Ass Kicked” 2022 gritLIT Writing Contest Shortlist
“What We Get to Keep: A Triptych” finalist, creative nonfiction, 2021 Open Season Awards, The Malahat Review
“What We Get to Keep: A Triptych” finalist, nonfiction, 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest, The Fiddlehead
“Vessel” 2nd place, nonfiction, 2020 Read at the Fringe Writing Contest, Eden Mills Writers Festival
“Bad Jobs: Why We Stayed” essay, à la carte blog, carte blanche Great Canadian Longreads Best of 2019 #GCLbestof2019 
“Thanks for All the Lice, Pharaoh” The 2019 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist, The New Quarterly

Non-Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
“Saint, Fears. Fathers, Origins: A Diptych The Humber Literary Review
Podcast Write, Publish & Shine with Rachel Thompson 56 // Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong
Tamara Jong’s Reading and Music Recommendation The Fiddlehead
Lessons” No. 290 (Winter 2022) BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue The Fiddlehead
From A Writer’s Diary with Charlotte Donlon: A New Episode of A Writer’s Diary: Tamara Jong On Drawing and Taking Notes
“In Between” The Nasiona Podcast, The Nasiona Magazine
Fiction Baby” Tiny Essays
All of Us in Our Own Lives
Manjushree Thapa book review, “Borderlands,” Room Magazine 42.2
Bookish Radio Episode #23 Tamara Jong interview by Kim Davids Mandar
“The Will” Emerge 18
“Daddy Doesn't Know” “Secrets” Room Magazine 41.1
“Father Hallowed Be Thy Name” Ricepaper Magazine 20.1

Graphic Narrative
Partial reprint of “Fear, a Short-ish History” in Nicole Breit’s essay “When Words and Images Collide: Crafting the Visual Essay” from the anthology Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction
“No Title” Sweet: A Literary Confection
“Fear, a Short-ish History” Anomaly

Anthologies

“Daddy Doesn't Know” Blood & Water Lit Mag Love Anthology 1
“Are You There, God? It’s Me, Talking to Mary Karr” Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers, Caitlin Press

Blogs
“Writers: The Truth Can Set You Free” QWF Writes
“Bad Jobs: Why We Stayed” à la carte blog, carte blanche
My (small press) Writing Day: Tamara Jong” rob mclennan's author site
The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes Book Review Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“She Ain't Heavy She's My Sister” #LWE Life In CanLit blog, Chelene Knight.com
“There's Something About FOLD”  Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Book Vs Movie” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Reading Differently Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
On Rejection Collaboration for The New Quarterly Blog, The New Quarterly
The Back StoryThe New Quarterly Blog, The New Quarterly

Interviews 
“Room’s 2021 Emerging Writer Award Winner is erica hiroko isomura!” Room Blog, Room Magazine
“Scratching Until You Find The Itch: A Conversation With Yi Shun Lai” The Rumpus
Hair Origins: Dr. Cheryl Thompson On Connecting the Past and Present Roots Through Narrative” interview for “Hair” issue Room Magazine 43.1
26 Knots: An Interview with Bindu SureshRoom blog, Room Magazine
“WUXIA FICTION AND URBAN SPACES: AN INTERVIEW WITH YILIN WANGAugur Blog, Augur Magazine
Interview with Kerissa Marie Dickie, Episode 43, Bookish Radio
Interview with Charlotte Henay, Episode 41, Bookish Radio
Interview with Sanchari Sur, Episode 38, Bookish Radio
“An Interview with Catherine Hernandez: Room's 2019 Fiction Contest JudgeRoom Blog, Room Magazine
Interview with Carrianne Leung, Episode 35, Bookish Radio
Interview with Manahil Bandukwala: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2019” Room blog, Room
More than Five Questions with Writer Alicia Elliott” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Five Questions with Writer Jael Richardson” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“More than Five Questions with writer Shazia Hafiz Ramji”  Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Five Questions with writer H.B. Hogan” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Five Questions with writer Tyler Hellard” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Interview with Leigh Nash, Publisher of Invisible Publishing” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing   
Interview with Writer Phoebe WangRoom Blog, Room Magazine



Tamara gratefully acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council and TWUC.

 
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