EventsPEN Canada Empty Chair Festival of Authors Sidney Literary Festival Bruce Hutchison Memorial Lecture The Heliconian Club Chicago Council on Global Affairs Columbia University Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept 17, 2017 Politics and Prose, Washington, DC Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference Knight-Wallace Fellowship North Shore Writers Festival Readings by the Salish Sea The Vancouver Institute, lecture, Nov 26, 2016 Green College, UBC, Reading and Reception, International Festival of Authors, Toronto Ottawa International Writers Festival, Oct 24-25, 2016 Vancouver International Writers Festival Whistler Writers Festival Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton Oct 13, 2016 Edmonton Litfest WordFest Calgary, Oct 12, 2016 Word Vancouver, Sept 25, 2016 Artspring, Book Launch/Discussion on War Writing Gwynne Dyer Past Select Events:George Packer Telling True Stories Writing About Politically or Socially Charged Subjects #Revolution African Style Deborah introduces Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! “The Importance of Independent Media in a Time of War,” April 30, 2011 UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism UC Berkeley, Religion, Politics and Globalization Program International Center for Journalists National Press Club International Center for Journalists University of Western Washington Simon Fraser University Munk Centre for International Studies Liu Institute for Global Issues National Security Studies Programme |
Select News & PressDeadline Hollywood: Filmmaker Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, In the Name of the Father) options screen rights to A Disappearance in Damascus The Nation, “Fixers are the Unsung Heroes of Journalism,” by Nick Turse, Oct 5, 2017 The Guardian, “Who is hurt by Trump’s new refugee quota? People like Roqayah Mohammed,” Oct 1, 2017 WGN TV-Chicago (Video), Sept 21, 2017 BBC World, Sept 18, 2017 C-SPAN BookTV (Video), Sept 17, 2017 Think on KERA (Audio) New York Times Editors’ Choice Christian Science Monitor, “10 Best Books of September: Monitor’s Picks” Newsday Best Fall Books A Disappearance in Damascus makes CBC’s Great Canadian Reading List: 150 Books to Read for Canada 150 Deborah Campbell wins BC Book Prize’s Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize Deborah Campbell wins Freedom to Read Award A Disappearance in Damascus chosen as One Book, One Community by Ottawa Public Library A Disappearance in Damascus wins the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction A Disappearance in Damascus named a Best Book of the Year: National Post, Chatelaine, CBC Books, The Walrus, The Hill Times “In Search of the Facts, And A Fixer, In Syria,” OpenCanada.org, Nov 10, 2016 “How I Wrote It,” CBC Books, Oct 28, 2016 “A Life and Death Relationship ‘Built Entirely on Trust,'” TheTyee.ca, Oct 19, 2016 The Current, CBC: ‘Real heroes’: Journalist highlights invaluable role of fixers in foreign reporting, Sept 2016 North by Northwest‘s Sheryl MacKay interviews Deborah on A Disappearance in Damascus, Sept 2016 The Lonely Reporters’ Club Langara Journalism Review profiles Deborah on the risks and rewards of solo fieldwork, Spring 2016 “Lion-Hearted Woman” Erika Orban, editor of Hungarian magazine Alkotonok interviews Deborah about her approach to writing and fieldwork, March 2011 “Journalism Should be a Mission” International Journalists’ Network, a project of the International Center for Journalists, interviews Deborah about challenges faced by journalists today, Oct 2010 RAI TV News Democracy Now! WBAI Radio in New York |