Antonio Michael Downing: “The mask is how we unleash [our stories]”

June 1, 2021Arts, Life, MusicAntonio Michael Downing, Authors, Memoir, Saga Boy, Sexual Abuse, Trinidad, Writingstoryuntold

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Raised “in the lush rainforest of southern Trinidad,” Antonio Michael Downing’s life was interrupted at age 11 when his caretaker grandmother passed. Uprooted and sent to live in Canada, Downing arrived in northern Ontario in a tiny, frostbitten community with no other Black people besides his Auntie Joan. In Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness … Continue reading Antonio Michael Downing: “The mask is how we unleash [our stories]” →

Carla Funk: “Small towns do something to the imagination”

October 10, 2019Arts, Life, SpiritualityCarla Funk, Every Little Scrap and Wonder, Memoir, Mennonites, Poetrystoryuntold

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Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. Part ode to childhood, part love letter to … Continue reading Carla Funk: “Small towns do something to the imagination” →