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 is the author of two novels, At Half-Light: A Story of Tango and Memory and Interpreting Silence. She was the recipient of a Toronto Arts Council grant for Interpreting Silence. 

She 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). 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 been interviewed on CBC Radio.

Linda is also a visual artist and Argentine tango teacher. She was the tango instructor for the 2019 film, Into Invisible Light.

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

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 Photo credit: Daniel Walsh

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NEWS!!

On Fridays in July: Linda will be at Arts at the Market at St. Lawrence Market with her paintings.

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Past event:

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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