B.C.'s Louie Leyson wrote about Filipino overseas workers in Canada — and won the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize

- Louie Leysonbegan as an exercise in a writing workshop, run by Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt.

"He had the same assignment for all of us to write in the form of a glossary. You may have noticed that the essay is in this experimental glossary format. He provided us with the examples of other writers who have similarly mixed the creative nonfiction genre with the format of a glossary," Leyson told CBC Books.

"I thought at the time my glossary wasn't as focused. It didn't have the focus on overseas Filipino workers that the final product did. After the seminar, I went back to it and I thought this format is cool, but I also wanted it to be about something. I did a lot of research on Filipino overseas workers for different projects and I ended up returning to that research.

Each fragment intimately situates the reader within the loneliness, isolation, injustice, violenceand even death faced by those who leave their families in search of a better life. The writer demands that you look, and not look away.

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