web01.fireside.fm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:59:47 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Era - Episodes Tagged with “Francesca Ekwuyasi” https://snowy-dew-6832.fireside.fm/tags/francesca%20ekwuyasi Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:00:00 -0500 Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal en-us episodic Dedicated to asking authors the right questions. Weird Era Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal yes Bookstore, Books, Fiction, Literature, Bookclub, Authors, Interviews, 2024books, Montreal, Montrealbookstore, Indiebooks, Indiebookstore, Bookish, MTL, PulBooks, PulpBooksandCafe, Weirdera, Weirderapod Weird Era sruti.islam@gmail.com Episode 4: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Francesca Ekwuyasi https://snowy-dew-6832.fireside.fm/4 c0f716fa-7788-4766-9924-2b07c7985b64 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:00:00 -0500 Weird Era full 1 Weird Era Alex talks to Francesca Ekwuyasi about her novel Butter Honey Pig Bread, food, and her 2021 Canada Reads nomination. 44:05 yes About Francesca Ekwuyasi: Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story "Orun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is her first novel. About Butter Honey Pig Bread: Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family. Bookstore, Books, Fiction, Literature, Bookclub, Authors, Interviews, 2021books, Butter Honey Pig BreadMontreal, Montrealbookstore, Indiebooks, Indiebookstore, Sthenri, Bookish, MTL, Librairiesthenribooks, LSHB, Weirdera, Weirderapod, Canada Reads, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Canadian Black Authors About Francesca Ekwuyasi:
Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story "Orun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is her first novel.

About Butter Honey Pig Bread:
Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family.

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Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story "Orun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is her first novel.

About Butter Honey Pig Bread:
Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family.

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