Awards

Elaine and SiWinner: 1999 QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize
for Non-Fiction

Immigrant writers who have made their homes in Montreal grapple with difficult questions like reconciling loyalty to their origins and to their own most private selves with the need to find a readership, and their desire to belong to the society where they live. Putting Down Roots follows the author's exploratory journeys among writers of Italian, Haitian, Arab, South Asian, and Chinese origin, as well as those writing in Yiddish, Spanish, and Hungarian. 

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Elaine, with co-editor, Bryan Demchinsky, at the launch of Joel Yanofsky’s posthumous memoir, How to Move on. (Véhicule Press, 2025.) Pictured on the far right is Yanofsky’s widow, Cynthia Davis. Photo by Jennifer Varkonyi

How To Move On: An Unfinished Memoir of Loss, Love, and Surviving Your Family

Elaine and Bryan fulfilled a deathbed promise to Joel to complete his memoir of love and loss.

Read the full article in The Gazette