"We had a slate of very strong applicants," said Kim McNairn, CBC Montreal's senior digital editor, who sat on this year's jury. The selected writer produces a series of nonfiction blog posts published on the CBC Montreal website and makes guest appearances on both CBC Radio and CBC TV. 3rd year for writer-in-residence gigĢ018 marks the third year for CBC/QWF writer-in-residence program, which is open to emerging and established writers in the greater Montreal region. Just last month, he was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize, for his story My Brother's Engagement Party. The QWF/CBC 2017 Writer-in-Residence is Joshua Levy #QWFAwards Recently moved to Montreal and is “on a mission to prove to his wife that Montreal is the best city in the world.” /kKclXJh1Sa- has found homes for his stories on CBC's DNTO, Wiretap and Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, has performed lives stories for QWF's This Really Happened, The Moth Toronto and The Raconteurs, and his work has been published in literary magazines including Maisonneuve, the Malahat Review, Event, Queen's Quarterly and the Rumpus. "I have a special interest in bridging the gap between past, present and future, as well as in connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated people and events," Levy said in his pitch for the writer-in-residence position. The streets of Dollard-des-Ormeaux are named after Levy's relatives: The city on Montreal's West Island was founded by Levy's grandfather, David Zunenshine, who, along with his brothers, ran Belcourt, a property development company that began with the construction of a handful of rental apartments in the early 1950s.Īll these connections make Levy passionate about Montreal's rich history. Listen to Levy's story of finding his great-grandfather's home recordings, which aired on CBC Radio's DNTO in 2015.Levy was raised on tales about that great-great-grandfather, whose Hebrew name of Baruch he bears - including the story of how he had 15 minutes to woo his future bride. Kaplan built the oldest synagogue in Canada still in operation today, the Bagg Street Shul. Levy's great-great-grandfather, Boris Kaplan, emigrated from Russia as a teenager in the early 1900s, working odd jobs to bring over the rest of his family and founding a construction company in 1915. Joshua Levy's great-great-grandfather built the Bagg Street Shul on the corner of Clark and Bagg streets, the oldest synagogue still in use in Canada.
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