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Fiction & Literary Work
Dr. Nora Gold is the editor of Jewish Fiction .net, a prestigious new online journal. For more information about Jewish Fiction .net, please click here.
Nora Gold's first book, Marrow and Other Stories (published by Warwick in 1998) won the Louis Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction, one of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and also was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, a prize for the best first short story collection in Canada. Prior to the publication of the book, the title story, "Marrow," won a prize at the Eden Mills Fiction Contest, and was also included in Vital Signs, an anthology of promising new Canadian women writers. Since then, Gold has completed her first novel, Exile, and is now working on a second one.
Purchase Marrow and Other Stories
Download "Marrow," the title story
Download "The Prayer" from Marrow
Reviews of Marrow and Other Stories
Television Specials About Nora Gold
One-hour interview with Dr. Howard Adelman on his show, "Our Jewish World" (CTS), aired February 7, 2010. In this interview, Dr. Gold discusses her novel, Exile, and its relationship to her pro-Israel activism.
One-hour interview with Dr. Rachael Turkienicz on her show, "Uncommon Ground" (CTS), aired twice (November 29 and December 3, 2008). In this interview, Dr. Gold discusses her personal background, her writing, her activism, and her spiritual life.
Half-hour interview with Sara Horowitz on "Israel Today" (Vision), May 2002, on being a Jewish writer.
Half-hour interview with Elly Juliet on "Imprint" (TVO), February 1999, on writing and on Marrow and Other Stories.
Book Reviews and Essays
Strange Ways (by Rokhl Faygenberg, translated by Robert and Golda Werman). Reviewed for Nashim (Spring 2011).
The Four Walls of My Freedom (by Donna Thomson). Reviewed for the Literary Review of Canada (November 2010). (Read)
"Rachel and Leah: A Jewish model of sisterhood" (essay). In Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism (2010, Issue 12). (Read)
"Sad, yes, but also unforgettable." Globe and Mail, Nov. 8, 2008 (Saturday books section), p. 3. (Re: Edeet Ravel's Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth) (Read)
"Be happy it's Adar? Not easy when Purim coincides with Israel Apartheid Week." Canadian Jewish News, March 4, 2010 (The "Perspectives" essay).(Read)
Recent Readings at Literary Conferences, Libraries, Book Clubs, etc.
Brockton Writers Series, June 1, 2010
Hadassah-WIZO, April 26, 2010
National Havurah Committee Institute, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH, August 7, 2009
Hamilton Jewish Literary Festival, June 6, 2009 (Also moderated the main panel at this conference)
Toronto Public Library (Wychwood branch), Feb. 26, 2009
Narayever Congregation, Feb. 19, 2009
Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel (reading at Stern House in Jerusalem), Jan. 12, 2009.
Arts Seminar lecture and reading, Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program (on "Being A Jewish Writer"), January 8, 2008.
