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Atwood Award Deadline: 12/1/2015!
Margaret Atwood Society Awards are named each year; nominations are invited in all categories and should be sent directly to the appropriate judge (see below). Entries for the 2015 Awards are due by December 1st, 2015. Winners will be notified in early January. (Emailed entries should be in .docx or .pdf.) Best Undergraduate Essay: Mairin […]
Celebrating Atwood’s New Novel: A Sale
I was simply going to post a link to Atwood’s new novel, The Heart Goes Last (a revision of her Byliner Positron series). However, when I went to Powells to grab the link, I discovered that they’re having an Atwood sale. Stock up on Atwood while the sale lasts: http://www.powells.com/promotions/margaret-atwood-sale. –Karma Waltonen, Editor, Margaret Atwood […]
Atwood among literary luminaries honored by New York Public Library
See this article in Wall Street Journal about the Library Lions gala event.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
“In Margaret Atwood’s Latest, the Past is Powerfully Present.” NPR, Sept. 13, 2014
MAS-sponsored panel at MLA Friday, Jan. 10
If you’re coming to the MLA convention this week in Chicago, be sure to attend our panel on Friday on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Directly after the panel, the Margaret Atwood Society will hold its annual business meeting. Come to the panel for information. Current and prospective members are welcome to attend! Dr. Karma Waltnonen, Atwood […]
Ballet Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is featuring an adaptation of Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale from October 16 through October 20. On October 21, the ballet travels to Brandon to perform at the Western Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall.
Atwood to Revise The Taming of the Shrew
From The Atlantic: Man Booker Prize winners Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobsen have bravely committed themselves to writing contemporary versions of Shakespeare’s plays in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. Jacobsen will rework The Merchant of Venice and Atwood will take on The Taming of the Shrew as part of project put together by Penguin Random House’s Hogarth […]
2013 Atwood Society Business Meeting
Each year, Margaret Atwood Society holds its annual business meeting during the MLA convention. This year’s MLA convention is January 3-6 in Boston, and our meeting will be held the first night of the convention, Thursday, Jan. 3. at the conference headquarters hotel (the Sheraton Boston, 39 Dalton St.) in Beacon H. The meeting begins at […]
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