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Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

January 18, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England

Everyone wants to be liked, Americans, I think, more than most people, and English husbands of American wives want their…

My Cousin in Pittsburgh

My Cousin in Pittsburgh

November 4, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in USA

On October 29th, two days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. and shot eleven people dead,…

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

October 9, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in USA

If you’d asked me before the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings how I felt about them, I’d probably have told you I…

Wallis, This One's for You

Wallis, This One’s for You

December 2, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in England, USA

Finally, some good news for a change. Amidst the debacle of “tax reform” and what appears to be rampant sexual…

Persistence

Persistence

February 24, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Germany, Russia, USA

In our elementary school, we start teaching children about character traits in the third grade. We teach them to recognize…

De Ja Vu All Over Again

De Ja Vu All Over Again

March 9, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, USA

There it was again. That feeling. The feeling that I hadn’t felt in a long time, but that I still…

O Canada

O Canada

November 2, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in Canada

A flash of light rent the October sky, lasted a few short moments, and then vanished as quickly as it…

They Flew Through The Air

They Flew Through The Air

June 13, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in USA

One of the things the new Common Core emphasizes is the ability to distinguish between serious and not-so-serious sources of…

Native Son

Native Son

September 8, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in Syria, USA

It’s been a very bad week. First of all, Obama, he’s my guy, but he’s really made a mess of…

It's Not a Riot Any More

It’s Not a Riot Any More

October 28, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

The trial was over. The appeal had failed. The world’s press had gone home when last weekend, Maria Alyokina, age…

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All countries are strange, none stranger than your own.

December 2024
It is with great pleasure that I announce that my essay Navalny, Poetry, and Truth has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pangyrus Literary Magazine. Should you wish to read or reread my essay, click here. If you would like to see all six of Pangyrus’s Pushcart Prize Nominations, click here.
October/November 2024
One of the short stories in my Island Girl series, Graduation Day, has been published in the 2024 Connecticut Literary Anthology in conjunction with Woodhall Press. Unfortunately, there is no online link to the story, but if you would like to hear me reading excerpts from my story, you can RSVP here for the online reading on Wednesday November 13th at 6:30 pm.
April 2024
Check out my essay about the tragic death of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and the repression of independent voices in present day Russia that increasingly mirrors the repression of the Stalin dictatorship. You can read it in Pangyrus Literary Magazine.
Check out my latest short story Island Girls in Marrow Magazine about young girls of color growing up in a neighborhood that isn’t particularly kind to them.
January 2023
I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.
September 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.
July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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