Mavis Gallant
So busy have I been with the tenth anniversary of Canadian Writers Abroad, I overlooked the centenary of Mavis Gallant’s birth. Thanks to Bill Richardson for bringing this to all […]
Bill Richardson Rounds Up Mavis Gallant
I liked listening to Bill Richardson on CBC years ago, and so my ears perked up when I heard him talking to Shelagh Rogers (The Next Chapter) in June, about […]
Marius Kociejowski
I met Marius Kociejowski at his flat in London, UK, but learned about him from a journalist in Ottawa, Roberta Walker. That meeting evolved into the interview, Casting Himself on […]
Mark Sampson
Graduates who leave home to teach English as a Second Language abroad are not a rare species. What is rare is writing a book that enters into the controversial history […]
Stevenson in Nigeria
I made an impromptu trip to Nanaimo, British Columbia, but thanks to Covid fears, didn’t meet up with any local authors (you’ll recall that Robert Hilles lives there part of […]
The Return
Five years into Canadian Writers Abroad, I found Demetra Angelis Foustanellas, who was in Greece at the time. Her first novel, Secrets in a Jewellery Box, was reviewed by Sonia […]
Wheels
Is there anything that says freedom better than a bicycle ride in summer? Imagine losing that freedom, and what can replace it. Below Carolyn Gammon shares her poem, “The Little […]
Writing Migration
I wasn’t expecting to find a link between Theresa Kishkan’s thoughts on Ukraine and Merilyn Simonds’ ornithologist, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, but there is one: Russia. Read on to see […]
Ivankivtsi Dust
The fall of Mariupol coincides with this article from Theresa Kishkan, whose new book, Blue Portugal and Other Essays (University of Alberta Press, 2022), has an essay about her time […]
The Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red Army
Carol Berger is both an anthropologist and a writer, and she brings these skills together in her examination of the “lost boys,” in her book, The Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red […]
Learning to Listen in Mexico
Astute readers of Canadian Writers Abroad may have noticed that Wayne Grady’s name is twined with Merilyn Simonds‘s. Indeed, they are together in their personal lives as well as their […]
Merilyn Simonds
Readers of Canadian Writers Abroad met Merilyn Simonds through Mexico, in her article, Reading Abroad, which was swiftly followed by a review of her novel, Refuge. In addition to living […]
Darlene Foster in Spain
In our ongoing tenth anniversary series, Darlene Foster answers three questions. Foster is the author of the Amanda Ross travel adventures series for children. (The cover of Amanda in Holland […]
Eliza Reid’s Extraordinary Women
Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid (Simon and Schuster 2022, hardcover, 288 pages)Reviewed by Isabel Huggan I suspect that many readers, after finishing Eliza Reid’s engaging and accomplished study […]
Spring Equinox
Apologies to those looking for a poem. Canadian Writers Abroad did not receive the publisher’s permission in time to post a poem on March 20. Meanwhile, spring flowers from Scotland. […]
Surrendering to Gammon
Carolyn Gammon is no stranger to Canadian Writers Abroad, having been profiled by Gabriella Goliger (From Fredericton to Berlin) and having shared her poetry with us (“Fault Line“). Thirty years […]
Coming Up For Air
Sarah Leipciger’s first novel, The Mountain Can Wait (Tinder Press, 2015) was at the time, in London, compared to another novel set in the same part of British Columbia, Freya […]
Magie Dominic, Eight Years Later
In the autumn of 2014, Canadian Writers Abroad posted an interview with Magie Dominic, who has since kept us up to date with her activities in the worlds of writing […]
Isabel Huggan
I first encountered Isabel Huggan at a writing week in Kingston, Ontario, and met her again some weeks later in Gigiri, Nairobi, whereupon this generous woman kindly invited me into […]
Jane Christmas
Jane Christmas is a regular at Canadian Writers Abroad, which is a great thing, because I love her sense of humour. We’ve met in person, in London, but I don’t […]
Ten Years!
In the fall of 2011, our small family moved to London, England for a few years. There I set up office in a small dark room in a beautiful flat […]
The Longer War
A Gradual Ruin by Robert Hilles (Doubleday 2004), reviewed by Debra Martens When the Second World War ended in 1945, serving soldiers got to go home and live happily ever […]
Jack Wang on the Chinese Diaspora
Mark Sampson interviews Jack Wang
Poems for a Summer’s Day
Each season, Canadian Writers Abroad likes to feature a poet. Today we have two prose poems from Robert Hilles, who with his wife Rain, divides his time between Nanaimo, BC […]
Kim Echlin
Kim Echlin’s novel, Speak Silence, draws on the testimonies of the Muslim women of Foča.
Mary Lawson’s Solace
Review of A Town Called Solace, Alfred A. Knopf Canada (a division of Penguin Random House Canada) 2021, hardcover, 288 pages.Reviewed by Debra Martens. Crow Lake has its ponds, Road […]
The Alexis Puzzle
My initial reaction to The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction (Penguin Random House Canada 2020), the most recent book by André Alexis, was this: imagine that you are having the […]
Jessica Lee’s Two Trees
Tim Martin reviews Two Trees Make a Forest
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