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2027. Brick Books.
Preeti’s debut poetry collection.
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PREETI’S PUBLICATIONS
For an up-to-date CV of Preeti’s publications & literary work, please contact her.
creative
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![Illustration of two people holding hands outdoors with laundry hanging on a clothesline, set against a bright sky with clouds.]()
Unrepeat
Read more — Augur Magazine
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![A person walking on a grassy hill overlooking a city at sunset, with the title 'The Humber Literary Review' in the top right corner.]()
The Physiology of Home & Ephemerals
Read more — Humber Literary Review
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![A magazine cover titled 'The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing' with a purple background and an abstract illustration of a dark sky with red roses, yellow streaks, and a setting sun.]()
A Picnic with Aunties
Read more — The New Quarterly (Issue 161)
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![A person sitting on the ground near a tree, holding a small flower in their hand. The background has a cloudy sky, and a small unicorn sculpture is nearby. The text on the image reads 'ti-TCR 20' and 'a web folio,' with a label 'on collective care' at the bottom left.]()
3 poems
Read more — Ti-TCR On Collective Care (The Capilano Review)
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![A humanoid figure with a bird's head, wearing a black hat, a long pink and beige coat, gloves, and boots, holding a smoking cigarette holder in its right hand.]()
squash & transmissible thoughts
Read more - tbd: A Mixed-Mode Response to COVID-19, ed. Kyo Maclear
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![Three young girls walking through a grassy field with trees and hills in the background. One girl is wearing a red headscarf and glasses, another girl is carrying a coat on her shoulders, and the third girl is standing further back.]()
This is jurisprudence: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,
Read more — Alt Theatre Magazine, issue 14.1
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Bitter-Skinned with Okra
Read more — HELD Magazine
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Cut to Exist
Read More - Ex-Puritan
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![A stylized illustration of a flower with orange and red petals, with pink and white dripping paint on the petals, against a yellow background. The image includes a white box with the text 'PRISM international' and a quote 'BAD' SPRING 2018.]()
Body/Home,” in BAD
Read more — Prism International, issue 56.3
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![A woman wearing a saree is blindfolded and holding a walker, participating in a research study at a theatre research center in Canada. A researcher is standing beside her, touching her arm.]()
Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art
Read more — Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands
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![A black and white illustration of a crocodile holding an umbrella, wearing a hat and patterned clothing, walking on a beach with a landscape in the background.]()
On Survival and Exhalation
Read more — The Fiddlehead: BIPOC Solidarities, No. 290 Winter
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![The logo for 'grain,' a journal of eclectic writing, with the word 'grain' in large, bold, orange letters and the tagline 'the journal of eclectic writing' underneath in smaller orange font.]()
Gorgeous unknown, you fiction me
Read More - Grain Magazine
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![A woman with closed eyes smiling and holding a dark-colored book titled "We Were Not Alone" with an illustration of an angelic figure with wings.]()
“Lullabied Fractions”
We Were Not Alone: a Community Building Art Works Anthology, ed. Hari Alluri & Seema Reza, intro by Jewel (2020)
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When a mortal couldn’t do it, I found a god who could,
Read more - Poetry Pause
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![The image features the lowercase letters "t" and "q" with a capital "n" in the middle, arranged in a stylized logo design.]()
Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal’s Writing Space
Read more - TNQ Blog
academic
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![A digitally stylized portrait of a person wearing dark sunglasses and a hood, with a quote about disembodiment and terrorism from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book 'Between the World and Me', displayed in red text above and below the portrait.]()
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Apologies and the Komagata Maru
Read more — Times Colonist (op-ed).
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Book Review - Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination. Routledge, New York 2014.
Read here - NO FOUNDATIONS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF LAW AND JUSTICE
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![A woman wearing a traditional sari blindfolded and holding a cane, is being guided by another woman in an indoor setting. The scene appears to be part of a research or educational activity related to theatrical research in Canada.]()
Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art
Read more — Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands
creative & academic publications by genre
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Cosmic Mundane Mantra Human, Brick Books - 2027 (forthcoming)
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Cosmic Mundane Mantra Human, poetry collection, Brick Books (forthcoming) - 2027
“Haptic Mirror,”The New Quarterly - 2026
“Unrepeat: an incantation,”Augur Magazine - 2025
“Gorgeous unknown, you fiction me,”Grain Magazine - 2025
“Cut to Exist,”Ex-Puritan - 2024
“When a mortal couldn’t do it, I found a god who could,”Poetry Pause - 2024
“Almost an art poetica,” “Making a Bowl for Sweetness,” “More Lovingness,” 3 poems, Ti-TCR On Collective Care (The Capilano Review, online series) - 2024
“SEVA,”ARC Poetry, No. 103, Spring - 2024
“the physiology of home” and “Ephemerals,”Humber Literary Review - 2023
“She disarms me: a deconstructed pantoum,”Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 112 Fall 22/Winter 23 - 2022
“On Survival and Exhalation,”The Fiddlehead: BIPOC Solidarities, No. 290 Winter - 2022
“bitter-skinned with okra,”HELD Magazine - 2022
“Lullabied Fractions,”We Were Not Alone: a Community Building Art Works Anthology, edited by Hari Alluri & Seema Reza with an introduction by Jewel- 2020
“This is jurisprudence: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,”Alt Theatre Magazine, issue 14.1 - 2017
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“Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal’s Writing Space,” TNQ Blog - 2021
“squash & transmissible thoughts,”tbd: A Mixed-Mode Response to COVID-19, ed. Kyo Maclear - 2020
“Love Doesn’t Trump Hate. Empathy, Education and Care Trump Hate.” (4-6 May 2017), FOLD 2017 Literary Festival Program, Toronto - 2017
“Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Performance Art,”Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC), issue on Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands - 2018
“Waking up Desperate for Your Mother Tongue,”Looseleaf Magazine, vol 5 - 2018
“Body/Home,” in BAD, Prism International, issue 56.3 - 2017
“The Performativity of Evidence: Oral History Testimony & Aboriginal Land Claims,”alt theatre 10. - 2013
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“A Picnic with Aunties,”The New Quarterly, Issue 161 - 2022
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“Alison Young: Street Art, Public City. Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination,” No Foundations,
Interdisciplinary journal on law and justice, no 13 (book review) - 2016 -
“Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Using Theatre and Multimedia 2017 Arts-based Methods to Support Critical Thinking, Feeling and Transformation in Law,” UVicSpace (01 May 2015). Peer-reviewed thesis, online - 2017
“Apologies and the Komagata Maru” (24 May) Times Colonist (op-ed) - 2016
Dhaliwal, Preeti & Garrett Zehr. “McGill Law, Un Vehicule pour le Changement Social ou Pour la Promotion des ‘Corporate Interests” Quid Novi, McGill Law Weekly Newspaper, 33:20 (article) - 2012
“Private Property in the Canadian Classroom”Quid Novi, McGill Law, 32: 19 (article) - 2011
“Gay Civil Rights and Science: A Tug of War”UBC Political Science Undergraduate Journal (essay) - 2008
Bagan, Myanmar. Cover, UBC Journal of International Affairs, Vancouver, BC (photo) - 2008
PREETI’S VOICE AND MEDIA
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About Preeti's creative writing workshops with McGill law students - 2022
Preeti's FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe - 2022
“A Queer Love Story,” the 1st Place Story at the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ LitJam Competition - 2019
An article about a playreading that Adele Noronha organized where Preeti had her directing debut (by Charlie Smith, Pancouver) -2022
Preeti’s op-ed in the Times Colonist: “Apologies and the Komagata Maru” - 2016
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To Preeti’s interview on North by Northwest (CBC) - 2025
To Preeti chat with Stephen Quinn about being Upstart & Crow's poet-in-residence - 2025
To a podcast where Preeti chats with Noor Kidwai - 2020
to Preeti & Khari Wendell McClelland on the Early Edition about Indian Summer Festival's Artist Roundtable (CBC) - 2024
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Upstart & Crow Poet in Residence: The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn
Listen here— CBC Listen
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Creative writing workshops with McGill law students
Read more — News from McGill’s Faculty of Law
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Monsoon Festival's Adele Noronha on the complexity of South Asian identity
Read more — Pancouver
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![Photograph of Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal posing indoors, with her left hand resting on her head and gazing to the side, wearing a black top and gold earrings.]()
FIDDLEHEAD interview with Shauna Deathe
Read more — Fiddlehead
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![A cartoon head with a smiling face and closed eyes, making a hand gesture, with the text "GOD YAY OR NAY?" below.]()
Podcast with Noor Kidwai
Listen here - Spotify
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![People standing on stage during an event, with some clapping and smiling, while others are sitting at tables with drinks, and a large screen displaying text in the background.]()
“A Queer Love Story,” 1st Place Story at the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ 2019 LitJam Competition
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