Debut Memoir
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I began journaling as a child and turned my writing into vignettes for a memoir in 2019. On September 7, 2021, I released my debut memoir, The Shayṭān Bride: A Bangladeshi Canadian Memoir of Desire Faith! This coming-of-age memoir on my journey from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Toronto, highlighting a pivotal experience at nineteen that prompted me explore gender, religion, culture, and race.
You can pre-order The Shayṭān Bride from: - Indigo (Canada- Amazon (Canada or international) - Your local independent - Indie Bound - Bookshop For more details, visit the Dundurn Press website. The Shaytan Bride is also available as an audiobook, voice-narrated by the author (myself). You can easily access a copy of the audiobook through Audible.
SELECT PANELS AND LITERARY PRESENTATIONS RE DEBUT MEMOIR
08/2023 Panelist. “Bengalis in CanLit,” Canadian South Asian Literary Festival.
06/2023 Featured Reader. Balderdash Reading Series. The Ex-Puritan.
07/2023 Panelist. “Student Success Panel,” Humber School for Writers.
04/2022 Panelist. “Not So Happily Ever After,” gritLIT Literary Festival.
06/2022 Author Appearance. The Word on the Street Toronto Book and Magazine Festival.
08/2022 Panelist. “Dark and Dangerous Debuts from Authors on the Edge,” Fan Expo.
11/2021 Panelist. “Navigating Ourselves,” Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival (8th Edition).
10/2021 Panelist. “Book Talk and Panel Event: Forced and Child Marriage Survivors Speaking Out in the U.S. and Canada,” Tahirih Justice Center.
10/2021 Panelist. “Dundurn Press Rare Machines Launch,” Dundurn Press.
07/2021 Featured Reader. Resistance Across Generations Launch. Living Hyphen Magazine.
01/2020 Featured Reader and Panelist. Poetry is Dead Magazine Final Issue Launch.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
02/2022 For A Different Booklist Cultural Centre: The People’s Residence Event. Interviewed by Gayle Gonsalves.
10/2021 For Diaspora Dialogues. Interviewed by Aparita Bhandari.
10/2021 For the Veranda Book Club. Interviewed by Tasnim Jerin.
09/2021 For South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. Interviewed by Sidrah Ahmad-Chan.
05/2022 “Mental health of Muslim Youth in Canada.” For Canada’s National Observer. Written by Morgan Sharp.
05/2022 “It’s like somebody’s whispering in your ear’: Inside the expansive, intimate world of audiobooks.” For The Globe and Mail. Interviewed by Marsha Lederman.
PODCASTS
06/2023 Humber School for Writers Love and Defiance’s Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
03/2023 The Vicars’ Crossing Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
05/2022 Podcast Show by Gray Miles Publishing Inc. – With Sumaiya Matin
03/2022 Trauma, Faith, and Courage (Roots and Resilience Podcast) – With Sumaiya Matin
12/2021 Wordstock Sudbury Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
10/2021 Your Favorite Book Podcast - With Sumaiya Matin
08/2021 JAYU Hum Podcast - With Sumaiya Matin
06/2021 Kaleidoscope Radio – With Sumaiya Matin
MENTIONS
10/2023 Islamic Herstory Reading List: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
08/2022 Book Review: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. Cloud Lake Literary.
03/2022 Women Changing the World. Legible.
03/2022 12 International Women’s Day Reading Recommendations from Orangeville Public Library. The Toronto Star local news.
01/2022 The Biography Shelf – The Shaytan Bride. Midwest Book Review.
12/2021 Review: The Shaytan Bride. Minola Review.
12/2021 The Shaytan Bride: A Bangladeshi Canadian Memoir of Desire and Faith by Sumaiya Matin. The Miramichi Reader.
11/2021 Book Review: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. I’ve Read This Blog.
11/2021 Sudbury's bookworms, favourite authors to mingle this week. The Sudbury Star.
09/2021 Publishing in Canada 2021: Scott Fraser on Expanding Diversity. Publishers Weekly.
09/2021 5 New Books To Read This Fall. Chatelaine.
08/2021 57 works of Canadian nonfiction coming out in fall. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Books.
10/2016 Interfaith student dialogue tackles role of women. The Catholic Register.