📺 Maria Reva on Late Night with Seth Meyers!!— tune in tonight at 12:35/11:35c on NBC! Don’t miss the brilliant author of ENDLING bringing her wit to late night TV. ✨Photo credit: Lloyd Bishop/NBC @lloydbishop@LateNightSeth
Tonight was a celebration of sharp minds and seriously good writing ✍️✨
Drawing from her Booker-longlisted novel Endling, Maria Reva @revawrites joined Giller finalist Zsuzsi Gartner @zsuzser —editor of Best Canadian Short Stories 2026—for a dynamic conversation on craft, voice, and the ever-evolving literary landscape. 📚
Hosted on the Wordfest stage, the evening was full of wit, and insight. Thanks to our audience for one our liveliest Q&As, and to @shelflifebooks for keeping the energy vibing all through the signing line.
Thanks to @penguinrandomca and @biblioasis_books for helping bring these two Canadian literary heavyweights together ⭐️
We're thrilled to present Episode 1 of Kultura Rising: The Art of Defying Extinction.
Host Andrew Kushnir meets his new most-favourite author. @revawrites ’s Endling was a massive literary hit of 2025. It has also become a stunning example of how artists can be interrupted by war – but not stopped.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Kultura Rising is an original podcast of The Shevchenko Foundation.
Learn more: /introducing-kultura-rising/
#ShevchenkoFoundation #KulturaRising #UkrainianCulture #UkrainianCanadian
We are thrilled that Endling by Maria Reva has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025!
Congratulations to all other longlisted authors.
@revawrites #Endling #ViragoBooks #GordonBurnPrize
What does it mean to survive when the world seems set on destruction?
In her Booker Prize–long-listed novel Endling, Ukrainian-born Canadian author, Maria Reva explores the metaphor of the “endling” — the last of a species — to examine war, loss, and resilience.
Through the lens of feminist activism, environmental awareness, and the human capacity for connection, Reva’s work illuminates how individuals and communities persist against overwhelming forces.
Join us on Oct 29 at 6:30 PM at Teatro LATEA for a reading and conversation with the author as she discusses survival, memory, and the power of storytelling to resist erasure.
It’s amazing what you can build on a small budget when you have an amazing team. Loving being in the theatre with this crew workshopping my in-progress opera-theatre work THE CELLAR co-created with @revawrites . Join us on Friday, October 17 at 7:30 pm at Studio Theatre at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. We’ll show you a few scenes and talk about our creative process.
A huge thank you to Deer Lake Artist Residencies and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for hosting us and giving us this space to create. @deerlakeartists
The team:
@sopranoise@sarahjokirsch@kinoartann@mashabirkby@matpuli
Kadaitcha (@yurii.samson + kojoohar)
With work by:
@tereshenko_konstantin
Presenter:
@pickle_underground
Sponsored by:
@shevchenkofoundation
BC Arts Council
Canada Council for the Arts
What happens when a snail scientist and two activists kidnap 13 men to protest the Ukrainian romance industry?
That’s the story B.C.-based writer Maria Reva @revawrites was exploring in her debut novel, Endling. The Booker-longlisted novel incorporates some of Reva’s own experiences as a Ukrainian in recent years in the darkly comical story.
You can find Reva’s full conversation with host Mattea Roach @mattearoach on #Bookends wherever you get your podcasts.
Reva is also a judge for this year’s CBC Short Story Prize, which is open for submissions NOW until Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
Head to cbcbooks.ca for more!
#LiteraryFiction #CanLit #podcast #BookerPrize
