LINDA WALSH

Linda Walsh is a Canadian writer and artist born in London, England. Since coming to Canada at the age of seven, she has lived in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. Her love of travel has taken her to Europe, Asia, and South America. 

Linda has won the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for Canada and Europe and a People’s Poetry Prize. She has been on the shortlist for the Guernica Prize, the Eden Mills Writers' Festival Literary Contest, the Southwest Regional Arts Council of B.C. Writers’ Prize, and the Alice Munro Short Story Contest (renamed the Huron County Short Story Contest in 2025). She was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Contest. She has been published in Commonwealth Broadcaster, People's Poetry, and Existere Journal of Arts and Literature. She has read her work at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, the Guernica Prize Bash, and the Booming Ground Writers' Community and has been interviewed on CBC Radio.

Linda's first novel, At Half-Light: A Story of Tango and Memory was released in 2022. Her second novel, Interpreting Silence, was released in 2024.

A graduate of the University of Toronto and Queen's University, Linda's articles based on her Ph.D. research have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics and Human Heredity.

Linda is also an Argentine tango teacher and has been published in T.O. Tango and Dance Review and Dance Time. She was the tango instructor for the 2019 film, Into Invisible Light.

Linda is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and the Women's Art Association of Canada.

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Upcoming events:

Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025:  Linda will be at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Signed copies of her novels will be available on Publishers' Way.

Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025:  Linda will be at the Mississauga Literary Festival at  the Hazel McCallion Library, 301 Burnamthorpe Rd. W. Mississauga. Signed copies of her novels will be available.

September 20-21, 2025:  Linda will be showing her paintings at Arts on the Credit, 1352 Lakeshore Rd., East, Mississauga.

Linda's novels:

Interpreting Silence (Kenton Road Press) is available in paperback.

At Half Light: A Story of Tango and Memory, is available in paperback and e-book.

Publications and awards: 

Linda's story, Ghost Light, is in the 2022 Spring/Summer issue of Existere Journal of Arts and Literature, Vol. 41 (2).

Linda was a recipient of a 2021 Toronto Arts Council grant in support of a second novel in progress.

Linda was one of three finalists in the 2021 Alice Munro Short Story Contest (renamed the Huron County Library Short Story Contest in 2025). Read the story Landscape of Extremes.

Past events:

Linda and her books were at the 35th Annual Word on the Street Festival, Sept 28-29, 2024 in Queen's Park, Toronto. 

Linda was at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, Publishers' Way, on Sunday September 10, 2023, with her novel, At Half-Light: A Story of Tango and Memory.

A book launch party for Linda's novel, At Half-Light: A Story of Tango and Memory was held at Joy of Dance Centre, Toronto. Saturday, July 22, 2023, 7:30-11:30 pm.There was a reading and book signing by Linda and some special guests. Oscar Casas was there with an exhibit of his tango paintings. We also had the opportunity to hear the wonderful voice of tango singer Elbio Fernández and chat with Miguel Libedinsky, the producer and director of the film, Hearts of Tango. The evening was finished in style with some tango dancing.

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