Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale Wins 4 Emmys!
At the recent 2017 Emmys, Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale won the night, with four awards: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Bruce Miller) Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Elizabeth Moss) Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Ann Dowd) Outstanding Drama Series!
Trailer for Netflix adaptation of Alias Grace dropped
The buzz is growing over Alias Grace, and we can’t wait. The miniseries adapts Atwood’s book about Grace Marks, a Canadian maid who is accused and convicted of murdering her employers in 1843. See the official trailer on Entertainment Weekly.
Atwood wins the St. Louis Literary Award!
Margaret Atwood is the 2017 winner of the St. Louis Literary Award. The ceremony will be on September 19th at the Sheldon Concert Hall in Grand Center, St. Louis.
MLA 18 Call for Papers
“Renegades and Revenge: Hag-Seed &/or The Heart Goes Last.” 250-300 word abstract and a short bio by 15 March 2017; Eleonora Rao (erao@unisa.it)
Atwood wins National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award!
Congratulations, to Margaret Atwood, winner of a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle!
2016 MAS Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2016 winners! Best Undergraduate Essay: Madison Gretzky for “After the Fall: Humanity Narrated in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Best Book: Jackie Shead’s monograph Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer. The Reworking of a Popular Genre (Ashgate: 2015).
MLA 2017 Panel
Humor as Social Critique in Margaret Atwood’s Novels, Short Stories, and Poetry Friday, 6 January 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110B, Pennsylvania Convention Center Presiding: Eleonora Rao, Univ. of Salerno “The Place You Would Rather Not Know About: Bearing Witness through Humor,” Lauren Rule Maxwell, The Citadel “Satirical Freudianism in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman,” Kate Marantz, Univ. […]
Margaret Atwood Studies, Volume 10 is live!
Hello, Atwoodians! The newest volume of MAS is up! To see the table of contents and abstracts for the new issue (and past issues), please visit this page: https://atwoodsociety.org/issue-10-toc-masj/ To read the new issue, you must log into the Margaret Atwood Society site at this URL: https://atwoodsociety.org/atwood-society-journal/ Once you are logged in, a “Click […]