The Sky Is Falling is on the 2012 Dublin IMPAC Award longlist! It’s a thrill to be nominated along with so many wonderful Canadian and international authors. Congratulations everyone. The citation reads: The Sky is Falling immerses us thoroughly and believably in the paranoia of the 1980s Cold War era. An intelligent and delightfully acerbic writer, …
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Please join me for this presentation at Vancouver Public Library’s main branch. Thursday 20 October, 2011 in the board room on Level 7, 6:30 – 8:00 pm.
This piece, originally published in the Spring 2011 issue of Eighteen Bridges, is now available online. Read it here.
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre is now accepting host applications for Book Week 2012. Teachers and librarians can get more information here.
The genesis of a book cover isn’t usually something the author is privy to. Not so with Groundwood, who kindly sent me the cover of my forthcoming (Spring 2012) middle-grade novel, Middle of Nowhere, in stages as artist Simon Ng worked on it. Here is the preliminary sketch. Here is the final version without the …
My book list, Imperfect People, is posted at Canadian Bookshelf.
I am delighted to have been selected for the 2012 TD Canadian Children’s Book Week, 5 to 12 May, 2012. I’ll be touring schools and libraries in Ontario with two new children’s books: Jasper John Dooley, Star of the Week (Kids Can 2012); and Middle of Nowhere (Groundwood 2012). For details on on the touring …
Found Press is republishing my uncollected, meta-fictional story ‘Obscure Objects’ (The New Quarterly 90) in its digital quarterly. I’m so pleased it will reach fresh readers in this brave new format. Advance praise from high places… Barbara Gowdy: “Caroline Adderson is such a graceful and intelligent writer that the work that must surely go into …
Received recently from a reader: “I want you to know that I’m reading Anna Karenina as a result of The Sky Is Falling… I’m enjoying it thoroughly and am not even absolutely sure that would be the case had I not recently read and liked The Sky Is Falling so much. Just so you know what …
A piece I wrote for The New Quarterly’s “Magazine as Muse” feature (Winter 2010) has been chosen for inclusion in The Best Canadian Essays 2011 from Tightrope Press. Thank you to editors Ibi Kaslik and Christopher Doda, and to Kim Jernigan for originally commissioning it. Read “Highlights for Children” here.