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Emira Tufo

2019 CBC/QWF writer-in-residence

Emira Tufo is the 2019 CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation writer-in-residence. A lawyer and a writer, Tufo has written for The Globe and Mail, performed at Montreal's Confabulation, and is the co-author of Montreal Murmurs, a blog about the curious, the funny and the furious aspects of life in Canada's most mischievous city. She has been featured on CBC's Homerun and All in a Weekend.

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Sale away with me

In her fifth and final installment, 2019 CBC Montreal/Quebec Writers' Federation writer-in-residence Emira Tufo tells us nothing says summer like the sidewalk sale.

Canada Montreal June 29, 2019

Thoughtful Little Things

QWF/CBC Montreal writer in residence Emira Tufo has never seen the Montreal residents who sprinkle magic all over town — but they are there, like busy little bees, like Santa's helpers, working behind the scenes, breathing life and wonder into the cityscape.

Canada Montreal May 10, 2019

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Not Montrealers

There is a yellow-eyed wolf who makes the rounds of the Montreal Metro, violin in hand, mingling the melodies of Bach and Chopin with the roar of the passing trains. CBC/QWF writer-in-residence Emira Tufo brings you the musician behind the mask.

Canada Montreal April 21, 2019

O Come, All Ye (un)Faithful

The CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation 2019 writer in residence, Emira Tufo, notes that the Quiet Revolution may have emptied Quebec's pews — but strange are the ways of the Lord whose preachers descend upon Bonaventure Metro station and other not-so-secular haunts.

Canada Montreal March 23, 2019

C'est ma vie, Verdun

CBC's new writer-in-residence, Emira Tufo, thought moving away from the Plateau would be difficult — until she discovered all the quirks of her new neighbourhood in Verdun.

Canada Montreal February 2, 2019

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