Danny Ramadan
@dannyramadan.com
🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆.
Former refugee.
I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely!
https://linktr.ee/dannyramadan
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆.
Former refugee.
I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely!
https://linktr.ee/dannyramadan
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Just finished reading this, and holy fuck is it good @dannyramadan.com
Inhaled it. What an incredible read after having similarly inhaled Loubna Mrie’s “Defiance” recently.
Inhaled it. What an incredible read after having similarly inhaled Loubna Mrie’s “Defiance” recently.
September 29, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Just finished reading this, and holy fuck is it good @dannyramadan.com
Inhaled it. What an incredible read after having similarly inhaled Loubna Mrie’s “Defiance” recently.
Inhaled it. What an incredible read after having similarly inhaled Loubna Mrie’s “Defiance” recently.
Was it a shit storm?
September 26, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Was it a shit storm?
Here we go! A SALTWATER REQUIEM is out April 6!
The historical novel follows the fates of a family of immigrants as they leave Ottoman occupied Syria to escape to the West and end up on board of an unsinkable ship…
The historical novel follows the fates of a family of immigrants as they leave Ottoman occupied Syria to escape to the West and end up on board of an unsinkable ship…
September 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Here we go! A SALTWATER REQUIEM is out April 6!
The historical novel follows the fates of a family of immigrants as they leave Ottoman occupied Syria to escape to the West and end up on board of an unsinkable ship…
The historical novel follows the fates of a family of immigrants as they leave Ottoman occupied Syria to escape to the West and end up on board of an unsinkable ship…
The Night Nobody Came to My Book Reading
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The Night Nobody Came to My Book Reading
So I ended up reading at a rubber fetish party instead.
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September 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
The Night Nobody Came to My Book Reading
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How delighted am I to see Danny Ramadan featured in Memoir Land's Author Questionnaire today! memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 231: Danny Ramadan
"The hardest part, I believe, in writing this book was finding a way to tell these more traumatic experiences while demanding respect and joy instead of pity and sympathy."
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August 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM
How delighted am I to see Danny Ramadan featured in Memoir Land's Author Questionnaire today! memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...
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★ In this deeply felt debut, Danny Ramadan details his path from Syria to Lebanon to Canada while interrogating the voyeuristic demands of memoirs about forced migration. Readers will find this both brilliant and destabilizing. @softskull www.publishersweekly.com/9781593768294
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August 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
★ In this deeply felt debut, Danny Ramadan details his path from Syria to Lebanon to Canada while interrogating the voyeuristic demands of memoirs about forced migration. Readers will find this both brilliant and destabilizing. @softskull www.publishersweekly.com/9781593768294
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NYC! Don't miss @dannyramadan.com in conversation with Alejandro Heredia at @strandbooks.com next Tuesday at 7pm!
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August 18, 2026 at 8:37 PM
NYC! Don't miss @dannyramadan.com in conversation with Alejandro Heredia at @strandbooks.com next Tuesday at 7pm!
RSVP now: buff.ly/vtDOyDa
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Today is pub day for @dannyramadan.com's CROOKED TEETH! ✨
✨ "It’s for anyone who has been on the outskirts of the community they were born into, and, with that, Ramadan writes a tender exploration of diaspora. A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews
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✨ "It’s for anyone who has been on the outskirts of the community they were born into, and, with that, Ramadan writes a tender exploration of diaspora. A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews
softskull.com/books/crooke...
August 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Today is pub day for @dannyramadan.com's CROOKED TEETH! ✨
✨ "It’s for anyone who has been on the outskirts of the community they were born into, and, with that, Ramadan writes a tender exploration of diaspora. A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews
softskull.com/books/crooke...
✨ "It’s for anyone who has been on the outskirts of the community they were born into, and, with that, Ramadan writes a tender exploration of diaspora. A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews
softskull.com/books/crooke...
Best day ever.
Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Fiction / @thewalrus.ca , @dannyramadan.com
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
July 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Best day ever.
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Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Fiction / @thewalrus.ca , @dannyramadan.com
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
July 20, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Fiction / @thewalrus.ca , @dannyramadan.com
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
Contributors: Raz Latif, illustrator; Siddhesh Inamdar, handling editor
🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/xDtKu
#NMA26 #CanadianFiction
So I won gold at the National Magazine Award last night for my short fiction published on @thewalrus.ca! I’m so honoured! Thank you! Please take a look at my acceptance speech! ❤️❤️❤️
June 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
So I won gold at the National Magazine Award last night for my short fiction published on @thewalrus.ca! I’m so honoured! Thank you! Please take a look at my acceptance speech! ❤️❤️❤️
Hey we just survived Puerto Vallarta’s influencers. Can the Dubai Gays not. For the love of god’s please don’t.
March 1, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Hey we just survived Puerto Vallarta’s influencers. Can the Dubai Gays not. For the love of god’s please don’t.
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Spotted in the wild! Such a great read. Thanks,
@dannyramadan.com
@dannyramadan.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Spotted in the wild! Such a great read. Thanks,
@dannyramadan.com
@dannyramadan.com
The Burrard bridge in Vancouver from my front door.
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The Burrard bridge in Vancouver from my front door.
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Author and LGBTQ+ refugee activist Danny Ramadan is a 2025 LAC Scholar Award recipient.
Discover his story, driven by his compassion: youtu.be/SJ2PVdfrgGs
Discover his story, driven by his compassion: youtu.be/SJ2PVdfrgGs
Danny Ramadan, Library and Archives Canada Scholar Awards 2025 Recipient
YouTube video by Library and Archives Canada
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Author and LGBTQ+ refugee activist Danny Ramadan is a 2025 LAC Scholar Award recipient.
Discover his story, driven by his compassion: youtu.be/SJ2PVdfrgGs
Discover his story, driven by his compassion: youtu.be/SJ2PVdfrgGs
Feast your eyes on my new memoir cover for its US RELEASE! Crooked teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir out in August 2027!
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Feast your eyes on my new memoir cover for its US RELEASE! Crooked teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir out in August 2027!
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Today is I Read Canadian Day, a nationwide initiative celebrating the richness, diversity, and breadth of Canadian literature. The list below includes Vinh Nguyen, Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien, Omar El Akkad, Sharon Bala, Samra Habib, @veenago.bsky.social, & @dannyramadan.com. #IReadCanadianDay 🍁
Did you know that today is I Read Canadian Day? To celebrate, we're sharing this great list by CBC Books from World Refugee Day:
"If you're looking for a book to help you understand what the refugee experience is like, check out one of these titles by Canadian writers."
www.cbc.ca/books/12-can...
"If you're looking for a book to help you understand what the refugee experience is like, check out one of these titles by Canadian writers."
www.cbc.ca/books/12-can...
12 Canadian books to read for World Refugee Day | CBC Books
June 20 is World Refugee Day. CBC Books has curated this list of books by Canadian writers (including Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien and more) that explore global diversity and the lived experience of...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today is I Read Canadian Day, a nationwide initiative celebrating the richness, diversity, and breadth of Canadian literature. The list below includes Vinh Nguyen, Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien, Omar El Akkad, Sharon Bala, Samra Habib, @veenago.bsky.social, & @dannyramadan.com. #IReadCanadianDay 🍁
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re going as Pepper’s rat tail in American Horror Story Asylum?
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re going as Pepper’s rat tail in American Horror Story Asylum?
Sometimes it takes a bully to reign in a bully and Doug Ford is nothing if not a bully.
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sometimes it takes a bully to reign in a bully and Doug Ford is nothing if not a bully.
WestJet’s next upgrade will be:
“passenger in a box!”
Can you fit in a box like a cat?! You can save with our latest seating arrangement! We now offer travel boxes for your convenience. Once you enter the box, you’re comfortably stacked in the back of the plane.
Air holes are extra.
“passenger in a box!”
Can you fit in a box like a cat?! You can save with our latest seating arrangement! We now offer travel boxes for your convenience. Once you enter the box, you’re comfortably stacked in the back of the plane.
Air holes are extra.
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WestJet’s next upgrade will be:
“passenger in a box!”
Can you fit in a box like a cat?! You can save with our latest seating arrangement! We now offer travel boxes for your convenience. Once you enter the box, you’re comfortably stacked in the back of the plane.
Air holes are extra.
“passenger in a box!”
Can you fit in a box like a cat?! You can save with our latest seating arrangement! We now offer travel boxes for your convenience. Once you enter the box, you’re comfortably stacked in the back of the plane.
Air holes are extra.
A trend I’ve noticed! Gay-baiting influencers on TikTok and instagram are suddenly affirming their heterosexuality. They post videos (scaled between funny and cringy) coming out as straight.
I guess now that the political climate is shifting, they will take the money and run back to safety.
I guess now that the political climate is shifting, they will take the money and run back to safety.
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A trend I’ve noticed! Gay-baiting influencers on TikTok and instagram are suddenly affirming their heterosexuality. They post videos (scaled between funny and cringy) coming out as straight.
I guess now that the political climate is shifting, they will take the money and run back to safety.
I guess now that the political climate is shifting, they will take the money and run back to safety.
It is so weird how obsessed Danielle Smith is with trans people. What’s going on, lady? What is haunting you?
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It is so weird how obsessed Danielle Smith is with trans people. What’s going on, lady? What is haunting you?
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
- Charlie Kirk, speaking in an Turning Point USA event on April 5, 2023.
#CharlieKirk
- Charlie Kirk, speaking in an Turning Point USA event on April 5, 2023.
#CharlieKirk
September 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
- Charlie Kirk, speaking in an Turning Point USA event on April 5, 2023.
#CharlieKirk
- Charlie Kirk, speaking in an Turning Point USA event on April 5, 2023.
#CharlieKirk