In this moving collection, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. Tell Others explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination.

Looking to her favourite writers—Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Ma Jian, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Haruki Murakami, to name a few—Echlin grapples in fresh ways with tyranny, war, sexual violence, and censorship to bear witness to the past and look to the future. Written in characteristically unsparing and evocative prose, Tell Others is an invitation to all readers to acknowledge histories that are difficult to see and to make meaning from the stories that buried bones tell.

Kim Echlin is the award-winning author of Elephant Winter, Dagmar’s Daughter, Under the Visible Life, and Speak, Silence, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her novel The Disappeared won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and is published in 20 countries. She serves on the board of PEN International.

Marco Melfi won The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest and has had poems published in The Antigonish Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, EVENT Magazine, Funicular Magazine, Hungry Zine, Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and PRISM International. He lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory.