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SUMMARY:Ava Homa\,  Award-winning International Author & Activist: A conversation on recent developments in Iran and her work
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAva Homa is the award-winning author of  DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE 
 AND FIRE\,  a journalist\, and an activist. Her words have appeared in The 
 Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, BBC\, New Statesman\, Literary Hub\, Literary 
 Review of Canada\, and many more outlets. She holds a Master's degree in 
 English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada and 
 another in English Language and Literature from Tehran\, Iran. She was born 
 and raised in the Kurdistan province of Iran and now divides her time 
 between Toronto and San Francisco. \n\n Her debut novel\, DAUGHTERS OF 
 SMOKE AND FIRE\, won the 2020 Silver Nautilus Award for fiction\, was 
 shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan Writing Prize\, and was a Roxane 
 Gay's book club pick. Her collection of short stories\, ECHOES FROM THE 
 OTHER LAND\, was nominated for the 2011 Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize 
 and secured a place among the ten winners of the 2011 CBC Reader’s Choice 
 Contest\, running concurrently with the Giller Prize. Homa is also the 
 inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile 
 Scholarship.\n\nIn different settings across North America and Europe 
 -including the United Nations\, Geneva-Homa has delivered speeches on 
 Kurdish women's triumphs and struggles\, human rights in Iran\, writing as 
 resistance\, and many other topics. She has taught creative writing 
 workshops to writers from diverse age ranges and backgrounds\, has judged 
 writing contests\, and has served on the editorial board of The Writer 
 magazine and the National Council of the Writers' Union of Canada as its 
 second vice chair. \n\n \n\nModerator: Dr. Sabri Ates\, Associate Professor 
 of History and Senior Fellow Tower Center\, SMU\n\n\n\n \n\nHughes-Trigg 
 Student Center\, HT Chamber\, Ground Floor  \n\n3140 Dyer St\, Dallas\, TX 
 75205\n\n \n\nParking: Binkley Garage 3105 Binkley Ave. (between Airline 
 Rd. & Dyer St.)\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Hughes-Trigg Chamber
ORGANIZER;CN="Astrid Galvan":MAILTO:astridgalvan@smu.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Astrid Galvan":MAILTO:astridgalvan@smu.edu
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