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"THE LONGLIST"
It's really satisfying to see some of my selections make the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist!
Do me favour. Read ALL of the entries. It's worth your time.
Learn more about the authors and their entries below:
The winner will receive $6,000, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 18
By co-curating HOME GAME, our work continues to connect the dots.
My friends! In a week, I'll be moderating a public talk that explores how basketball empowers communities, connects people across difference, and inspires real change on and off the court.
The panel – which includes some great people — takes place at the exhibit site next Thursday, Aug. 21. Come on out!
Explore how basketball empowers communities, connects people across difference, and inspires real change on and off the court.
My HOME GAME chat with Jill Dempsey on CBC Metro Morning
Yeah, getting on the mic can be nerve wracking (I definitely need more reps) but I enjoyed this one. David Common was away, so I spoke with Jill Dempsey! She was warm and friendly; after the segment, we spoke about Andy Barrie and my lifelong listening to the show (not even kidding).
Anyway, check out the conversation here.
PART V – "THE CURATOR"
Toronto, please accept this gift – to treasure for years to come.
In collaboration with the Museum of Toronto, I have had the privilege to co-curate "Home Game: Toronto Loves Basketball," a new exhibition tracing Toronto's deep connection to basketball! This exhibit explores the deep roots of basketball history, culture, and life in this city – and its presence in a country turning to the game over the decades.
There is a main exhibit site, at the Harbourfront Centre (due to launch this month!), a mobile app developed with my co-curator, Professor Sarah Bay-Cheng, and a team from York University, and event programming that is on the way over the rest of 2025!
This has been a two-year-plus effort, after the Museum reached out to collaborate several years ago. After consultations with community members, and lots of fruitful conversations about history, culture, racism and built space, I hope you can bring your friends and family down and around the city to absorb and interact with.
"Home Game" feels like a physical manifestation of my first book, Rebound, but it goes so much further – and brings in so much more texture and context. This is a living exhibit, and we are hoping visitors contribute their own oral storytelling to our archives!
At the outset, this was always about reminding folks of the city at its best and ensuring we have that city as it evolves over the coming years. I hope this is as fulfilling an experience for you as it was for me!
I would like to thank the Museum staff for just an amazing undertaking: Heidi, Bria, Davin, Kayla and Katie, and a slew of others especially Nadine, who was my first point of contact, mere months after my first book was published in 2021.
Onward! Learn more about the exhibit here: https://museumoftoronto.com/collection/home-game-exhibition/
PART IV – "The Contributor"
Good work is coming to fruition.
I have contributed an essay to this wonderful compendium, Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything – which will be published by Coach House Books on June 3!
Forty essays, including one I wrote about local sport in global cities, makes one simple case: that a degree of messiness is an essential element in all thriving cities. I made an effort to learn about some incredible local sports stories (not professional sports, but acts of urbanism that supported active living and sporting).
Many congratulations to the Coach House on delivering this project and special thanks to John Lorinc, who helped edit my first book.
You can pre-order this collection here. I hope you can support us! https://chbooks.com/Books/M/Messy-Cities
Rebound, in the news
The Heart of the Game: Perry King on Sports, Community, and Belonging
Check out this lookback report from my Feb. 9 chat, from the Penticton Herald: https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_24a91e00-5881-5f29-b055-a4dc22192816.html
Part III - “THE READER”
Whoa! I've been named a Reader for the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize! For those who are wondering, in lay terms, every year, CBC Books enlists the help of established writers and editors to read thousands of entries submitted to their prizes. Yes, thousands (we have work to do)!
With my fellow readers, I will compile the longlist, which we'll hand over to the jury to deliberate later in the spring.
What can I say? I'm just trying my best. I'm just a neighbourhood kid who wanted a promising life and career that satisfied my talent and my ambitions. Never would I have seen myself sharing the same space of award-winning and bestselling writers and editors I've admired for years. I'm neither of those things!
I joke! I'm equally honoured to fill this role and excited to get to work. Wish me luck!
Learn more about the ins and outs of the award here: https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/meet-the-2025-cbc-nonfiction-prize-readers-1.7445829
Part II - “THE INTERVIEWEE”
In the shadow of the Super Bowl, it’s always a pleasure to sit down and discuss my first book, Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City — with folks who are curious about its ethos and motivated to think about bringing better ideas to the public good.
I would call this a clarifying conversation, speaking with a small crowd, in contrast to the NFL’s big party — which had a record-breaking audience, roughly the population of Japan!
Many thanks to the Burlington Public Library central branch for providing the space for me to go off on tangents, to the visitors for bending their ears, and to those who praised the book, and recommending it word of mouth.
The future is people-powered.✌🏾
Part I - “THE INTERVIEWER”
It was an absolute pleasure exploring the ins and outs of 40 Acres and pick the brain of executive producer Jennifer Holness. This R. T. Thorne-directed masterpiece is a post-apocalyptic setting with a lot of themes that hit close to home. I had a chance to sit down with Jennifer on Feb. 6 — at the famed Innis College theatre, a cathedral of film studies education — to chat about the film’s themes, talk about the role of equity in the strength of ideas (in film but really in all facets of life) and celebrate Canadian-made film.
Quite the chat! I love a good film and 40 Acres brings it! If you missed the chance to watch it at TIFF last fall, the film will be back on screens soon. Shoutout to Hungry Eyes Media, R. T. Thorne and my colleagues at OISE and the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute for Child Study for putting together a great gathering.
The screening and the chat were part of a fundraiser, bringing financial aid to nursery and primary aged children and students. Learn more about the elements of the event and film here: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/about/events/02-06-25-jics-movies-x-40-acres
Join us for an advance screening of 40 Acres. Tickets include an exclusive wine reception, a Q&A with the film's producer, and movie snacks,
🚨 We need your help! 🚨
🏒 Our/my work at the @futureofhockeylab continues and I need your URGENT help.
My cohort team is in the very early stages of an idea called Fresh Ice, a new way for girls and gender-diverse kids to experience hockey before hitting the ice. We're at the prototyping stage, where we are testing and refining the idea.
For you, please watch a short video and share feedback from youth who currently do not participate in hockey. Scan the QR code or use this link: https://lnkd.in/g5Ycgegy
Help us make hockey more accessible. 🙌🏒 #FreshIce #PrototypingForChange
Why not me?
For years now, I’ve been much more concerned about solutions as i have delved into the storytelling that I care about. Within my writing, I’ve realized that nothing gets done without collective action — systemic discrimination and abuse needs to be met with constructive, dynamic and creative ideas and output. And it requires all of us to act.
Why not us?
I always knew my words and stories were never enough — I was seeking to add to a larger, more complex conversation. And with that, with deep thanks to people in my circle pointing me in this direction, I’m involving myself with the Future of Hockey Lab this summer in their community cohort program!
There’s a lot to say but the Lab but, as a social innovation lab, they’re taking ideas sprung from the creative and passionate minds of journalists like me, parents and players, equity workers, hockey adjacent thinkers and everyone in between. In our community cohort this summer, we’re looking to create actionable items that ensure women, girls, and non binary folks have zero barriers now and forever more.
Truly, why not us??
Systemic change needs all hands on deck. This is not a drill, and we need to do something now in order to create a sport that reflects who we are — seeing the country and our communities in the faces of our players, coaches and personnel. Doing nothing does nothing. Really happy to have met with my cohort colleagues earlier in June — they are just a stunning combo of experiences and vantage points. I wish for their experience to be as valued as mine this summer!
And frankly, the story of hockey isn’t done being written. People can help steer that story, to change it tremendously and effectively. Let’s go! Shoutout to Scotiabank, Bauer Hockey and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities for their support of this enriching corner of sport development.
Many thanks to Ogen Kanu for these awesome photos! I actually look like someone folks listen to.
On my wedding day, before I stepped out with them arm in arm, my parents gave me advice to be mindful of. Moms was simple enough (and I’m paraphrasing): be selfless, give your time to serving others. Even in the most intense moments, she has been a guiding light. A calming presence. You have given so much of yourself to help my brother and I became the men we are today. She will always be in my debt. Happy Mother’s Day, momma. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdTKtslANOsvlZIkDZFanJFenC8hSrMU641Oog0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
We played the Squid Game. Happy Halloween!! (at Squid Game) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVtQQIKvK8eVyoztK4htuxl_M97CS5Lh6V6OIk0/?utm_medium=tumblr
Happy publication day to me! My debut book REBOUND is now available for order. Please pick up a copy (more information is available through that link in my bio)! I hope it helps you tell you more about your city and your story. Our future city needs you! (Also, shoutout to @millerdavidr for his take! It's an honour, truly.) #CanLit (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVNxLv2AM1O9ns4Zcv1WutCQRQ57-LzeriFR3w0/?utm_medium=tumblr
My book baby is here!
Just. Wow.
With the impending public launch of Rebound: Sports, Community and the Inclusive City, Coach House Books invited my wife and I to their printers so I could witness the gluing and cutting of copies of the book!
Check out the video of the cutting. (Note: I got to cut some myself! But not in this video.)
Want to learn more about my debut book Rebound?
On Sept. 16, 2021, I spoke about Rebound: Sports, Community and the Inclusive City with Gill Deacon, who hosts the CBC Radio 1 Toronto radio show Here and Now.
To learn more abour Rebound, and to pre-order the book, you can visit Coach House Books' page.
Hello friends! When I first announced that I would be undertaking a book about the future, all the way in 2018 and 2019, I was going into new territory (personally and journalistically). I wanted to dig deeply into a time that is not quite here, not quite tangible, and make sense of why sports is important and a valued practice in any city – not just the city of my birth, the city that raised me. The pandemic added its own wrinkles, but I think seeing how the world is changing before my eyes was the context that I needed to work from. Sports is about people. When we give people a strong quality of life, when we foster the sporting spirit in cities and communities, sports thrives. Anyway, my new book, REBOUND: SPORTS, COMMUNITY AND THE INCLUSIVE CITY is now available for pre-order. The link is in the bio. Please buy a copy for yourself and your circles. Read about where we are and where we can go! Thanks! Photography here is by the brilliant @jalanimorgan 📸 (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO2spwfNOhFuuupZreSdEJeNPmQjF7os0BIvIU0/?igshid=13le83e7yjgsd
