Both have so many secrets they don't share. For me, the mother /daughter relationship. About 10 years ago, I started to get interested in how those cultures blended. “My dad's family is Norwegian and for years, I've been piecing together the family tree. I teach kids with special needs.”įounded in 2014 by author Jael Richardson, he launched the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) - the first literary festival devoted to celebrating underrepresented authors and storytellers, in May, 2016.īecoming Leidah is based on “Norse and Celtic mythology,” as Ms. She learned about the FOLD festival, through the school library, telling us, “The year before we had taken students down to the FOLD festival. Grierson has been a teacher at ODSS for 20 years. But the FOLD session said they wanted a full manuscript from me if it was done, which it was. Then, there was a 20-minute session with them. If you win, you get the session with a publisher's editor. The contest was to submit the first 20 first pages of your unpublished novel. “I entered the competition that was part of the FOLD Festival, which is run out of the Rose Theatre, in Brampton. This has been no small feat: five years of research and writing a happy win in a competition. Michelle Grierson is extremely pleased to announce the release of her first novel, next week on April 13, 2021: Becoming Leidah is published by Simon and Schuster. Local women announces release of novel, ‘Becoming Leidah’
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