How delighted am I to see Danny Ramadan featured in Memoir Land's Author Questionnaire today! memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 231: Danny Ramadan

"The hardest part, I believe, in writing this book was finding a way to tell these more traumatic experiences while demanding respect and joy instead of pity and sympathy."

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★ In this deeply felt debut, Danny Ramadan details his path from Syria to Lebanon to Canada while interrogating the voyeuristic demands of memoirs about forced migration. Readers will find this both brilliant and destabilizing. @softskull www.publishersweekly.com/9781593768294

NYC! Don't miss @dannyramadan.com in conversation with Alejandro Heredia at @strandbooks.com next Tuesday at 7pm! RSVP now: buff.ly/vtDOyDa

Today is pub day for @dannyramadan.com's CROOKED TEETH! ✨ ✨ "It’s for anyone who has been on the outskirts of the community they were born into, and, with that, Ramadan writes a tender exploration of diaspora. A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews softskull.com/books/crooke...

Best day ever.

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Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Fiction / @thewalrus.ca , @dannyramadan.com Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu #NMA26 #CanadianFiction

Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Fiction / @thewalrus.ca , @dannyramadan.com Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu #NMA26 #CanadianFiction

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So I won gold at the National Magazine Award last night for my short fiction published on @thewalrus.ca! I’m so honoured! Thank you! Please take a look at my acceptance speech! ❤️❤️❤️

Hey we just survived Puerto Vallarta’s influencers. Can the Dubai Gays not. For the love of god’s please don’t.

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Spotted in the wild! Such a great read. Thanks, @dannyramadan.com

The Burrard bridge in Vancouver from my front door.

Author and LGBTQ+ refugee activist Danny Ramadan is a 2025 LAC Scholar Award recipient. Discover his story, driven by his compassion: youtu.be/SJ2PVdfrgGs

Danny Ramadan, Library and Archives Canada Scholar Awards 2025 Recipient

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Feast your eyes on my new memoir cover for its US RELEASE! Crooked teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir out in August 2027!

Today is I Read Canadian Day, a nationwide initiative celebrating the richness, diversity, and breadth of Canadian literature. The list below includes Vinh Nguyen, Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien, Omar El Akkad, Sharon Bala, Samra Habib, @veenago.bsky.social, & @dannyramadan.com. #IReadCanadianDay 🍁

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Did you know that today is I Read Canadian Day? To celebrate, we're sharing this great list by CBC Books from World Refugee Day: "If you're looking for a book to help you understand what the refugee experience is like, check out one of these titles by Canadian writers." www.cbc.ca/books/12-can...

I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re going as Pepper’s rat tail in American Horror Story Asylum?

Sometimes it takes a bully to reign in a bully and Doug Ford is nothing if not a bully.

WestJet’s next upgrade will be: “passenger in a box!” Can you fit in a box like a cat?! You can save with our latest seating arrangement! We now offer travel boxes for your convenience. Once you enter the box, you’re comfortably stacked in the back of the plane. Air holes are extra.

A trend I’ve noticed! Gay-baiting influencers on TikTok and instagram are suddenly affirming their heterosexuality. They post videos (scaled between funny and cringy) coming out as straight. I guess now that the political climate is shifting, they will take the money and run back to safety.

It is so weird how obsessed Danielle Smith is with trans people. What’s going on, lady? What is haunting you?

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, speaking in an Turning Point USA event on April 5, 2023. #CharlieKirk

I wonder how Charlie Kirk feels about gun control reforms in the US now.

I know no one cares because this is not some clever one liner or a comment on current affairs: but my agent read my latest manuscript and loved it. #books #author #writer

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ALT: a close up of an alien 's face with a light coming out of its ear

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Hey #writers friends: do you engineer your #book titles according to marketability? My next novel is The Saltwater Requiem [working title] and I love it. It also works with my previous titles. But whenever I share it with others I get “huh?” As a response.

Hey so when you say GoodReads reviews are not for the authors, why do you directly talk to the authors in your reviews?

Stories that honour identity, resilience, and joy 🌈 Explore our Rainbow Reads list for adults featuring both fiction and memoir. Find something powerful to read this Pride. buff.ly/vmP7g59

Your MC is here for the evening.

My mama didn’t raise a quitter. She raised an anxiety-ridden dysfunctional child with unreasonable expectations of himself but at least not a quitter.

I’m so glad this was one of the books I picked up at the recent @writersfest.bc.ca fundraiser book sale. Thank you @dannyramadan.com for trusting us with your extraordinary story: excellent writing and I really liked the structure too.

Capitalism is when you know in your heart that if we pay for oxygen, oil companies would rebuild the forests and create artificial woods in the middle of the ocean. As long as we pay extra for O2+ or whatever.