Ukrainian – Page 6 – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Brantford Book launch for Standoff!

Ukrainian Heritage Month: my family’s journey

Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival

What an amazing Festival! It was so nice to see so many old friends and present books one and two of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy at the Speakers’ Corner.

Loved having kids from Act & Shine Kids’ Acting Studio read the opening pages of Under Attack, book #1 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy today at the BWV Toronto Ukrainian Festival.
I read and spoke, but unlike these talented kids, I neither sang nor danced!

t was nice to see Valentina Kuryliw today at the BWV Toronto Ukrainian Festival. I had the honour of working with Valentina’s Holodomor Research and Education Consortium – HREC in 2022/2023 when my Holodomor novel, Winterkill was brand new. In addition to my directly booked presentations. HREC funded 30 extra virtual visits with underfunded schools, meaning I was able to educate thousands more students who otherwise might not have known about this genocide, which in many ways is a precursor to what Putin is doing now in Ukraine.

Anya found!

How nifty is this? Dr. Mateusz Swietlicki, who probably knows as much about my books as I do, found the real-life girl while in Antwerp who became the image of Anya for Prisoners in the Promised Land.

Marsha to speak at Bloor West Ukrainian Festival

Standoff #1 new release!

Standoff, book 2 of my #KidnappedfromUkraine trilogy just popped up as number one for hot new releases in its category on both Amazon.com and Amazon.ca today. Standoff will be published on Oct 7th. Book 3 is also number 5 on the dot com site and 3 on the dot ca site. Readers of Under Attack, book one, have commented that reading it helped them understand on a visceral level what it’s like to be a kid in Ukraine right now.

Author copy of Standoff!

Standoff will be published on Oct 7th, but I got my first author copy late last week. A shattering book to write, but I hope it will help readers step into the shoes of Rada and her father as they endure the siege of Azovstal.

Speaking with day campers about Silver Threads

It was such a pleasure to do a book chat about Silver Threads with day campers from St Sophia Religious Assn of Ukrainian Catholics, USA. Thank you, Iryna Ivankovych for the invitation. You are an inspiration, as are your students.

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Hearty congratulations to Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki for winning the 2025 book award for best monograph from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature for his groundbreaking work: Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction. The Seeds of Memory. This is the first book to explore Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021.

Reading the backmatter for Standoff

I got to read the backmatter for the Scholastic audiobook edition of Standoff, book #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. Melanie Gagnon, the producer, arranged for me to do the recording at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton. Thanks, Emma Whale, producer/engineer for making the session such a great experience! This is the 8th time that I got to read my own backmatter!

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