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Iryn Tushabe

Iryn Tushabe
Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. She is the author of Everything Is Fine Here. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, Adda, Prairies North, the Walrus, and on CBC Saskatchewan. Her short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology, and the Journey Prize Stories. She won the City of Regina Writing Award in 2020 and 2024, was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and won the 2023 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. She lives in Regina.


Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

The Author of “Everything Is Fine Here” Recalls a Seminal “This American Life” Episode
June 13, 2025  By Iryn Tushabe
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