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Falling for the Love of Books
“Let me tell you what it’s like to be edited by Doug Gibson. If he’d edited Shakespeare, there’d be no Shakespeare, it’d all be on the floor.” Douglas Gibson(from ECW Press) On the evening of 20...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now?
Back in March when Canadian travellers were urged to come home, I thought of the small community of Canadian writers living abroad. Would they stay or go? As Antony Millen in New Zealand puts it, “It...
View ArticleBack Again
Last week Canadian Writers Abroad reported on writers who opted to stay put. This week we hear from those whose plans were interrupted by COVID-19. D. W. Wilson had plans to return to the UK with his...
View ArticleWinner Abroad!
Canadian Writers Abroad used to announce newsy items on its Facebook page, but now Meta has made that difficult… Congratulations to Sarah Bernstein, last night’s winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize...
View ArticleHot
This is the hottest day in London so far this summer, or in the last seven years. But you know what? Somewhere else in the world it is hotter. Like Ontario. Or Somalia. Here is an excerpt from Margaret...
View ArticleAre Writers Unfun?
It’s Canada Day, and I am thinking about that poet at the Vancouver Olympics: Shane Koyczan, spoken word performer. I think that was brilliant, figuring out a way to put a writer into an international...
View ArticleEmily in Dulwich
Coming out of the Emily Carr exhibition, “From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia,” at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, I heard the family behind me speculating whether they could make a...
View ArticleLondon Short Story
I was sitting at a table in the Waterstones Piccadilly lower cafe, sipping my water and watching people trickle in to the opening of the London Short Story Festival (18-21 June 2015) on Thursday...
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