Jane Austen and…
January 28, 2013, was the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. There was a readathon in Bath on the day, and by Jane Austen societies elsewhere in the world, with...
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Does winning an international prize count as abroad? The Neustadt prize “was established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, then renamed the Books Abroad / Neustadt Prize...
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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 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...
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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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