Welcome to MAS
The Margaret Atwood Society is an international association of scholars, teachers, and students who share an interest in Atwood’s work. The main goal of the Society is to promote scholarly exchange of Atwood’s works and cultural contributions by providing opportunities for scholars to exchange information. To reach this goal, we publish a journal, Margaret Atwood […]
Atwood wins the Freedom to Publish Award
The British Book Awards honored her. Read more about it here.
Atwood awarded Lifetime Recognition by the Griffin Poetry Awards!
Congratulations to Margaret Atwood on the Griffin Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award! Read more about it here.
PAMLA CFP
The PAMLA 2025 Conference will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025. This session, Adaptations of Atwood (co-sponsored by the Margaret Atwood Society), seeks papers on adaptations of Margaret Atwood’s work, including television, film, graphic novels, song, opera, theatre, and […]
MMLA 2025 CFP
MMLA Nov 14 – 16, 2025 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 40 Years of The Handmaid’s Tale In 1985, Margaret Atwood’s sixth novel was published. The Handmaid’s Tale was a finalist for the Booker Prize and won the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Prize. Impressive, yes, but the novel would not reach the height of its cultural […]
MLA 2026 CFP
MLA 2026: Toronto, 8–11 January 2026, CFP: The circle game We invite proposals on Atwood’s work and impact engaging with the theme of Families—broadly defined, including lineage, kinship, inheritance, found families, cross-species bonds, intertextuality and literary genealogies. 250-word abstract and CV due 3/23. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025 Lee Frew, York U (leefrew@yorku.ca)
MLA Panel 2025
The Atwood Session at this year’s MLA is on Saturday, Jan. 11th, at 8:30 AM Central Time. It’s virtual, so any registered member can join! https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/20698
Atwood Symposium: This Friday, September 13th!
‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium. University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne / UK Friday 13 September 2024 https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2024/09/atwood-symposium/ From the organizers: This is a one-day Symposium on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret […]
NeMLA CFP
NeMLA 2025 (Philadelphia, March 6-9) Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference – Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025 Contact email: riley.thomas@temple.edu Title: Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring […]