Myriam J.A. Chancy has the following recent accomplishments to share:
Publications:
Essays:
“Dancing with the Spirits: Home to Haiti,” Mosaic Magazine. Ed. Roberto Garcia Vol. 44 (James Baldwin Centennial Issue). February 2025.
Awards & Recognitions:
Village Weavers. (A Novel). Portland: Tin House, April 2 2024.
*CBC Best Fiction of 2024 List
*Chicago Review of Books, Best Reads of 2024
Haitian Diaspora Award, 9th Annual Haiti International Film Festival, Hollywood, CA, August 17, 2004.
Winner. Isis Duarte Book Prize, LASA, Haiti/Dominican Republic Section, Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters, Spring 2024.
Gold Winner. 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, LBGTQ+ Fiction Category, Spirit of Haiti: A Novel
Invited Talks, Interviews & Addresses:
Guest Speaker, “Philosophizing the Caribbean: Diaspora Panel,” w/ Chike Jeffers & Deryck Murray, moderated by Rawle Gibbons, Caribbean Yard Campus (via Zoom), Trinidad & Tobago, November 26, 2024.
Guest Author, “Coming of Age Amid Political Unrest” Panel w/ Joy Castro & Gina María Balibrera, Main Program, Miami Book Fair, November 23, 2024.
Guest Author, “Narratives of Resistance: Unbreakable Bonds and Revolutionary Love” Panel, w/ Edwidge Danticat & Fabienne Josaphat, Read Caribbean Program, Miami Book Fair, November 23, 2024.
Featured Author, Next Page Celebration Gala Dinner, Miami Book Fair, November 22, 2024.
Author Interview, “Trait D’Union” show with hosts Roberto Donerval and Djenane Saint Fleur, WSRF Radio, Miami, November 21, 2024.
Guest Author, “The Power of Character in Historical Fiction,” w/ Christina Henríquez, Texas Book Festival, November 17, 2024.
Guest Speaker, “Preserving Haiti: Inscribing Home, History, and Hope in New Fiction,” Henry Peyre Institute Lecture Series, Ph. D. Program in French at CUNY, Manhattan, November 1, 2024.
Guest Author, “The Afternoon Tea,” with Anne Fleming, Conor Kerr, Kirsten McDougall, Claire Messud & Jacob Wren, moderated by Bill Richardson, Vancouver Writer’s Festival, October 27, 2024.
Guest Author, “The Conversations,” with Anne Enright & Jón Kalman Stefánsson, moderated by Aislinn Hunter, Vancouver Writers’ Festival, October 25, 2024. (Rebroadcast in Digital Festival, December 16, 2024-January 31, 2025.)
Featured Author, Public Lecture, Writers in the Classroom (at SFU Department of World Languages and Literatures), Simon Fraser University, October 24, 2024.
Featured Author, 2024 Black & Caribbean Book Affair, Blackhurst Cultural Center, with Ita Sadu (moderator), October 18, 2024.
Guest Author, “Pushed Together, Forced Apart,” w/ Helen Benedict & Munir Hachemi, moderator Cliff Garstang, Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University, Virginia, October 16, 2024.
OMOB Author Tour, Author Appearances in Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council, October 12-14, 2024.
Guest Author, Main Stage Evening Event, w/ Dennis Cooley, Shani Mootoo, Thin Air Book Festival, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, September 27, 2024.
Guest Author, Afternoon Book Chat w/ Oona Kempadoo, Thin Air Book Festival, Bill & Helen Norrie Library, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, September 27, 2024.
Interview, “Talking Books & Stuff” Podcast, with Dennis Rimmer, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 19, 2024.
Guest Author, Page Turners + Interview, YouTube (Montserrat & other Caribbean Islands, UK & France), May 11, 2024.
Guest Author, Take Two Panel with Barbara Lalla, moderated by Alake Pilgrim, Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, April 28, 2024.
Guest Panelist, “Quarreling with History,” with Karen Lord and Christina Sharpe, moderated by Alyssa Trotz, Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, April 27, 2024.
Guest Author, Reading Series, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado, April 24, 2024.
Guest Author, Caribbean Today Podcast with Andre Clarke, April 23, 2024.
Guest Author, Haitian Art Podcast with Eveline Pierre, Haiti Heritage Museum, Miami, FL, April 20, 2024.
Guest Author, Creative Writing Class & Public Reading (Village Weavers & What Storm, What Thunder), Towson University, April 17, 2024.
East Coast Book Launch Events for Village Weavers, organized by Tin House, Harvard Bookstore (April 12), Center for Fiction/Brooklyn (April 15), East City Books (Washington, April 18), LA Festival of Books (April 21).
Guest Author, Caribbean Writers Series, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, April 15, 2024.
Guest Speaker, “Autochthonomies: Deploying an an African Diasporic Reading Practice,” Liberal Studies Global Cultures Committee Lecture, NYU, April 11, 2024.
Presentations & Conference Papers
Presenter, Programs & Fellowships, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Award Ceremony, Toronto, Canada, May 13, 2024.
Service to the Profession (National/International)
Jury Member, New American Voices Literary Award, George Mason University, with V. V. Ganeshananthan & Karin Tanabe. Summer/Fall 2024.