Manahil Bandukwala

is a writer, visual artist, and editor.

Manahil was born and raised in Karachi and is currently a settler on unceded Algonquin and Anishinaabe territory (Ottawa).

She holds a BA in English from Carleton University and an MA in English at the University of Waterloo.

Her 2024 poetry collection Heliotropia was the winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry, and a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. 
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In 2024, Manahil was a finalist for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction for "The Shopkeeper's Remedy." In 2023, she was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star by Shani Mootoo.

She is currently Managing Editor at Brick Books, and on the board of Canthius. 

Editorial Services
My goal as an editor is to help you develop a manuscript that speaks to your lived experience and enchants your audience.

​By working with me, you will develop your own unique voice as you find a home for your writing. ​

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