Toronto Author – BEN BERMAN GHAN

Writing

After Crisis – short story for the holidays

December 18, 2021

Thick fear spoiled above the oily rooftops. A sterile and orderly world gave way to a teeming swamp. Wildness took root in the heart of things Perhaps, there was no after Crisis, but only deceptive periods of rest, where apocalypse dozed and waited until we believed in something called normal again. Excerpt from “After Crisis”…
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Launch[ing chapbooks and a novella]!

November 16, 2020

Come join me for a fantastic launch of works (including mine) this Saturday!
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Prepare for a visitor: Novella landing!

September 20, 2020

The Visitation Seeds have come! A new novella coming from me to you
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Essays, Poems, and Novellas incoming!

June 11, 2020

Hello all, First of all, though I’ve had some things to share for a while, I’ve been holding off because it has seemed strange and inconsiderate to announce good personal news in the present moment. But I have enough now that it seems worth putting out here, in gratitude of the great people I’ve been…
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Yorkdale Book Signing!

June 27, 2019

come join me for a book signing at the Yorkdale Indigo Saturday June 29th
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What We See in the Smoke

March 1, 2019

The world we know is coming to an end. How will we connect in the strange and frightening one that’s coming to take its place? What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next.…
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Writing

A Writer’s Q&A

February 19, 2019

Given to me by my publisher Crowsnest Books, this post is a sort of interview, to help me begin to actually talk about this new book of mine. What We See in the Smoke is coming May 2019! Q. Have you always wanted to be a writer? A: Actually, yes. My earliest attempts at writing predate my literacy – dictating my…
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I’m Back! Upcoming Book announcement: What We See in the Smoke

August 24, 2018

Hello, world. Is this thing on? It has been almost an entire year since I last wrote a single blog post. I’ve been keeping things very tight-lipped, close to the chest. My thinking was that I should not discuss any ongoing projects that I wasn’t sure the world was going to see. So I vanished…
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