PUBLICATIONS
Worldly Girls, a memoir September 9, 2025 (Book*hug)
Longlists/Contests
“Listening to the Great Teacher Might Get Your Ass Kicked” Room’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Contest: The Longlist
“Listening to the Great Teacher Might Get Your Ass Kicked” 2022 gritLIT Writing Contest Shortlist
“What We Get to Keep: A Triptych” finalist, creative nonfiction, 2021 Open Season Awards, The Malahat Review
“What We Get to Keep: A Triptych” finalist, nonfiction, 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest, The Fiddlehead
“Vessel” 2nd place, nonfiction, 2020 Read at the Fringe Writing Contest, Eden Mills Writers Festival
“Bad Jobs: Why We Stayed” essay, à la carte blog, carte blanche Great Canadian Longreads Best of 2019 #GCLbestof2019
“Thanks for All the Lice, Pharaoh” The 2019 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist, The New Quarterly
Non-Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
“Saint, Fears. Fathers, Origins: A Diptych” The Humber Literary Review
Podcast Write, Publish & Shine with Rachel Thompson 56 // Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong
Tamara Jong’s Reading and Music Recommendation The Fiddlehead
“Lessons” No. 290 (Winter 2022) BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue The Fiddlehead
From A Writer’s Diary with Charlotte Donlon: A New Episode of A Writer’s Diary: Tamara Jong On Drawing and Taking Notes
“In Between” The Nasiona Podcast, The Nasiona Magazine
“Fiction Baby” Tiny Essays
All of Us in Our Own Lives Manjushree Thapa book review, “Borderlands,” Room Magazine 42.2
Bookish Radio Episode #23 Tamara Jong interview by Kim Davids Mandar
“The Will” Emerge 18
“Daddy Doesn't Know” “Secrets” Room Magazine 41.1
“Father Hallowed Be Thy Name” Ricepaper Magazine 20.1
Graphic Narrative
Partial reprint of “Fear, a Short-ish History” in Nicole Breit’s essay “When Words and Images Collide: Crafting the Visual Essay” from the anthology Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction
“No Title” Sweet: A Literary Confection
“Fear, a Short-ish History” Anomaly
Anthologies
“Daddy Doesn't Know” Blood & Water Lit Mag Love Anthology 1
“Are You There, God? It’s Me, Talking to Mary Karr” Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers, Caitlin Press
Blogs
“Writers: The Truth Can Set You Free” QWF Writes
“Bad Jobs: Why We Stayed” à la carte blog, carte blanche
“My (small press) Writing Day: Tamara Jong” rob mclennan's author site
“The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes Book Review” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“She Ain't Heavy She's My Sister” #LWE Life In CanLit blog, Chelene Knight.com
“There's Something About FOLD” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Book Vs Movie” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“Reading Differently” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“On Rejection” Collaboration for The New Quarterly Blog, The New Quarterly
“The Back Story” The New Quarterly Blog, The New Quarterly
Interviews
The Craft of Translation: Tamara Jong interviews Yilin Wang for Room Magazine
“Room’s 2021 Emerging Writer Award Winner is erica hiroko isomura!” Room Blog, Room Magazine
“Scratching Until You Find The Itch: A Conversation With Yi Shun Lai” The Rumpus
“Hair Origins: Dr. Cheryl Thompson On Connecting the Past and Present Roots Through Narrative” interview for “Hair” issue Room Magazine 43.1
“26 Knots: An Interview with Bindu Suresh” Room blog, Room Magazine
“WUXIA FICTION AND URBAN SPACES: AN INTERVIEW WITH YILIN WANG” Augur Blog, Augur Magazine
“An Interview with Catherine Hernandez: Room's 2019 Fiction Contest Judge” Room Blog, Room Magazine
Interview with Carrianne Leung, Episode 35, Bookish Radio
“Interview with Manahil Bandukwala: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2019” Room blog, Room
“More than Five Questions with Writer Alicia Elliott” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“Five Questions with Writer Jael Richardson” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“More than Five Questions with writer Shazia Hafiz Ramji” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“Five Questions with writer H.B. Hogan” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
”Five Questions with writer Tyler Hellard” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
Interview with Leigh Nash, Publisher of Invisible Publishing” Invisiblog, Invisible Publishing
“Interview with Writer Phoebe Wang” Room Blog, Room Magazine
Tamara gratefully acknowledges the support of The Ontario Arts Council and TWUC.
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