Sharon Berg 🇨🇦 🇸🇪
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Poetry: 3 books/ 3 chapbooks; Short Fiction: 1; CNF: 1 FN history
2020 IPPY Nonfiction Award/ Finalist: 2022 International Book Awards
Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review (London, ON, Canada)
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@sharonberg.bsky.social
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Sharon Berg 🇨🇦 🇸🇪
@sharonberg.bsky.social
· May 19
![2025-03-19 2:33 pm
Dear [blocked] -
I've been sitting with a certain degree of shock and horror after the recent Zoom meeting held with the jurors for the category of books I read. I still cannot believe that [blocked] spoke so openly about her 'moral' indignation, which she directed at [blocked]'s book. For one thing, it is a well-researched academic book that condenses what First Nations have been saying for centuries and places emphasis on the need to establish kinder interactions with the planet we all share. However, when she continued and claimed that the book was filled with 'lies' and 'mistruths' that really shook me hard.
[blocked] brought a level of judgement to that book that I believe displays her personal position in opposition to anything said by First Nations. I am speaking about censoring, a position no Juror of a book contest should ever bring to the table when discussing the books they are judging. Yes, I feel it lies in the same arena as book banning. I really feel very strongly about this. So strongly, in fact, that though I've tossed and turned over what I should do about it, I’m compelled to take this course of action.
To complain about a fellow Juror is not something I'd ever seen myself doing before that Zoom meeting. I’m still shaking with horror that I feel compelled to do this. However, as I said at the time, 'I'd like to see her take that attitude into a [blocked]'. I was being sarcastic, of course, meaning exactly the opposite. I believe [blocked] should be barred from being asked to fulfill the position of 'Juror' ever again. During that Zoom meeting, she tried to dominate the conversation with a loud voice. When she didn't succeed, she immediately pulled down her image for a few minutes. Coming back on she argued for cutting the meeting short or rescheduling, claiming she had medical issues to address that were at no time evident before she lost her argument.
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