Useful Links

Margaret Atwood Chronologies/Profiles

• Contemporary Writers Profile: Margaret Atwood
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Authors on the Web: Margaret Atwood Site
• Lanvin Agency Profile
• Margaret Atwood Bookshelf at Random House
• Luminarium Margaret Atwood Page
• Wikipedia Entry: Margaret Atwood

Other Sites of Interest

• Margaret Atwood’s Website: O.W. Toad
• Margaret Atwood on Twitter
• Byliner (host of Atwood’s serial novel)
• The Margaret Atwood Society on Facebook (links, news, conversations–frequently updated)
• The Margaret Atwood Society on Twitter (more links and news, frequently updated)
• The Long Pen
• Fantastic Fiction (publication histories with cover art)
• Wattpad
• Why Wattpad Works (article) by Margaret Atwood
• Yahoo Groups Discussion Site (for Atwood Society members)

Video and Audio Clips

(Those listed below are notable and older interviews. For frequent, current links, follow our Twitter feed).

• Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit (CBC archives)
• Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid’s Tale, Part 1/3
  Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid’s Tale, Part 2/3
  Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid’s Tale, Part 3/3
• Lanvin Agency Interview (Negotiations with the Dead)
• Book Lounge Interview (Moral Disorder)
• Charlie Rose Interview (on Blind Assassin, 2001)
• Charlie Rose Interview (Moral Disorder, 2007)
• Bill Moyers Interview
• Poetry Readings: “This is a Photograph of Me,” “All Bread,” “Variation on the Word Sleep,” “Werewolf Movies”
• Poetry Readings: “The Immigrants,” “Siren Song,” “King Lear in Respite Care,” “The Moment”
• NPR Review : “‘The Penelopiad:’ A New Look at Homer’s Tale” by Alan Cheuse
• NPR Review: “‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage” by Matt Cowan
• BBC ~ Woman’s Hour: Margaret Atwood Discusses Payback
• BBC ~Today: Margaret Atwood Discusses Payback
• Piya Chattopadhyay talks with Atwood about debt as human behavior and a literary theme (14 Aug. 2012)
• LA Times interview with Atwood about her serial novel Positron (19 Oct. 2012)
• Talk with Margaret Atwood at the Sudbury News: Atwood likens Tweets to telegrams and discusses how each reading of a text is a performance (14 Nov. 2012)
• Neil Gaiman helps Margaret Atwood celebrate her 75th birthday
• Margaret Atwood interviewed on Late Night by Seth Meyers about The Testaments
• Margaret Atwood interviewed by Tom Power on her 80th birthday
• A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power trailer
• YouTube has numerous additional clips and interviews (here sorted by relevance)

Academic Organizations (of which the Atwood Society is an affiliate member and hosts conference panels)

• Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
• Modern Language Association
• Midwest Modern Language Association