does canada have any significant exports outside of alice munro

100 percent agree and this is one of my favourite memoirs.

The Massey Lectures this year will be about conversations. We'll even talk about what this space means going forward.

i'm getting some wonderful, finely-observed essays coming in for my course on Canadian cinema. Any suggestions of places/graduate student journals etc that accept submissions from students/early career film scholars?

Waking up to Anne Carson & thinking, oh dear god, yes. “People should just quit that stuff.”

Some news! This September I will be joining the English Department at the University of New Brunswick as an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing. Feeling immensely grateful to everyone who has supported me. Officially the first woman in my family to obtain a PhD!

This poem catches the feeling. No One Today lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

How I love being a young woman in higher ed

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.” ~ Alice Munro R.I.P.

It was a privilege to talk with Sawn Apel about Alice Munro. And by talk I mean gush 😊 Listen to our conversation and others at CBC Montreal's Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel - May 16, 2024: Alice Munro and her importance cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

The #GillerBookClub for June 11 is a virtual discussion about WE HAVE NEVER LIVED ON EARTH between author Kasia Van Schaik and Ruth Rakoff. We look forward to the evening! Register: bit.ly/3R2BPBs #ScotiabankGillerPrize #CravingCanLit The Giller Prize Kasia Van Schaik, PhD

the dream

Looking forward to this!

“What are your plans for the summer?” Me:

born to deliver baked goods via broom with my black cat. forced to send emails.

"We’re heading to an era where we’re going to start to tell the truth and it can’t hide anymore." The way the siblings have come together, and acknowledged their roles, their love, and their pain, is rare. So very, very rare.

Really looking forward to this event to celebrate The Fiddlehead's new issue--also my first public reading and community workshop in Fredericton!

The numbers show that the war in Gaza is one of the bloodiest in the 21st century. Yet so many political leaders – and journalists in our own media – keep asking: why do you care so much about Gaza? What crushing dehumanization has caused them to care so little?

Out now by rob mclennan. A collection of very short stories, “A novel in Polaroids: one hundred photographs, one to a page, that accumulate into a narrative.” For writers, readers of literary & experimental fiction, poets, readers who like to linger. UAlberta Press

There is just one more month to submit to The Fiddlehead this year!