Christine Estima

Christine Estima's writing has appeared in VICE, The Globe and Mail, Metro News CanadaBitch Magazine, CBC, The National Post, NOW Magazine, The Grid, Notre Dame Review, The Antigonish Review, subTerrain Literary Magazine, The Puritan, Grain Literary Journal, EVENT Literary Magazine,Rabble, Blisstree, YYZ Living Magazine, Matrix Magazine, Exclaim!, Chart Magazine, The Madison Review, The Malahat Review, Descant Literary Journal, The New Quarterly, Room Magazine, UKULA, AufBau, CanPlay, The Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Canadian Theatre Review, the travel anthology Navigating Customs: A Tendril Anthology (Cumulus Press), and the literary anthology ToK: Writing the New Toronto. In 2017 her work will be included in ROOM's 40th Anniversary Anthology. Christine was long-listed for the 2015 CBC Canada Writes Non-Fiction prize and was a finalist in 2011 Writers' Union of Canada short-prose competition. Playwrighting credits include, Vignettes In The Dark (2004, Toronto Fringe Festival), The Spadina Monologues (2005, The New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre; 2007, Theatre Passe Muraille backspace, 2010 Foundry Theatre), and The Central Line (2009, International Women Playwrights Conference, Mumbai). As a Spoken Word artist, she has performed at The Moth (NYC), Spark London (UK), Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids (Toronto), Pressgang (Toronto), and Raconteurs Storytelling (Toronto). Christine holds a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from York Univeristy (Toronto, Canada). Christine was a cast member on the highly-controversial 2008 reality TV show When Women Rule The World, hosted by Steve Jones, which premiered on the Channel 4 network in the UK, and was produced by September Films. She was also a cast member on the popular documentary series First Dates, which premiered on Channel 4 and was produced by Twenty Twenty.