Now that my knee has healed over the summer, I’m having a few appearances over the fall. I was in Michigan and then Huntsville, Ontario, to speak to Lithuanians about my memoir, The Death of Tony, and will be doing the same in Montreal in October, as well as an English talk at  Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore.

I interviewed the Indigenous Canadian author, Drew Hayden Taylor at the By the Lake Book Club on the occasion of his new novel, Cold.

The Estonians are doing a conference on the anniversary of the flight from the Red Army, and since The Death of Tony is at least partially about that, they have asked me to speak there as well. The Great Escape of 1944 – The Baltic Experience.

I teach a masterclass in fiction at the Toronto International Festival of Authors, attend the Writers’ Trust Storytellers’ Ball as a guest author in November, and also speak about writing with the Writing Community of York Region.

An Essay called “Barbers I Have Known” will appear in the very fine literary journal, Queen’s Quarterly.

I continue to scribble away on various writing projects but am also devoting a little time to the newest addition to the Sileika clan, baby Alma. See below: