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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 […]
CFP for MLA 25, due 3/31/24
CFP: MLA 2025 9-12 January 2025, New Orleans “A word after a word after a word is power” We invite proposals on any topic concerning the works, adaptations, and/or career of Margaret Atwood that address the MLA presidential theme of Visibility. What are the purposes and perils of art in unstable times? 250-word abstract and […]
Winners of the 2023 Margaret Atwood Society Awards
Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the Margaret Atwood Society Awards! Best Book on Atwood and Her Work:The Fiction of Margaret Atwood, by Fiona Tolan, Bloomsbury 2023. Best Article: “The Shape of Your Absence”: Coming to Terms with Loss and Grief in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly” in Canadian Studies June 2023), by Pauline Montassine, Université de Reims Best […]
Pilar Somacarrera Íñigo publishes a new book on Atwood
Learn about it here.
2021 Annual Society Business Meeting
Our annual business meeting with be over Zoom, starting at 3:30 PST p.m. on Saturday, 1/9. Zoom meeting ID: 971 2932 5493. The meeting requires a password; contact one of the officers if you want to join!
Tour dates for The Testaments announced
Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited followup to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, will be released in September, and along with it, Atwood will embark on a reading and speaking tour. We are releasing information on our Twitter page as we learn of individual dates, but all of them can be found on the events page of Atwood’s […]
The Guardian chooses Cat’s Eye for April reading group book
The Guardian recently took votes (which we at Atwood Society participating in, nominating Cat’s Eye as a matter of fact) for which Margaret Atwood book should be their reading group’s pick for April. In their announcement, The Guardian explains their choice, “the 1988 novel was shortlisted for the Booker prize and the Canadian Governor General’s […]
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