Paper Boat (New and Selected Poems): 1961-2023 coming in October 2024

A new poetry collection from Margaret Atwood will be released October 8, 2024 Paper Boat can be preordered now! Description of Paper Boat from Penguin Random House An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the […]

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Congratulations to the winners of the Margaret Atwood Society Poster Prize!

The University of Innsbruck, Austria, had a one-day workshop, “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited – An Intermedia Workshop,” June 2nd, 2023, organized by Prof. Dorothee Birke, Dept. of English, and Dr. Doris Eibl, Canadian Studies Centre, in collaboration with Dr. Dunja Mohr, University of Erfurt, European Representative Margaret Atwood Society and Head of the Women, Gender, and Diversity […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Fourteen Days, a collaborative novel set early in the Covid-19 pandemic and edited by Margaret Atwood, out 6 February, 2024

A groundbreaking idea that could only come from the brilliant mind of Margaret Atwood is a new collaborative novel that Atwood has co-written and edited. From the publisher: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an […]

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MLA 2024 CFP

Dressing the Part: Fashion in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations The Margaret Atwood Society invites papers on depictions of fashion in Atwood’s works and adaptations, understood broadly as relating to clothing, style, or expressions of socio-political or technical change. 250-word abstract and bio due 3/15. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Lauren Rule Maxwell, The […]

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Atwood to release first short story collection since 2014

Margaret Atwood’s next book, Old Babes in the Wood, will be her first short story collection since 2014’s Stone Mattress. The collection is available for pre-order now and will be released on March 7, 2023. Penguin Random House promises “a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, […]

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Anthology featuring Atwood to be released March 6

Touted as a “fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday,” Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild, and Untamed will be released on March 6, 2023, and will include new and original short stories by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, […]

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