Plotters (and schemers), please join me for a workshop on “Plotting Your Story Line,” organized by the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Authors Association, Saturday January 28th from 1-4 pm in the Alma Van Dusen Room of Central Library.  Click here for more details or to register.

I am Richmond Public Library’s first ever Writer-in-Residence.  During February and March 2012, I will be presenting a variety of free literary programs,  from bookmaking workshops to manuscript consultations. I hope to see you!  Click here for more details.

It’s out!  Thanks so much to editors Ibi Kaslik and Christopher Doda for selecting my piece “Highlights for Children” originally published in The New Quarterly.  Congratulations to all the contributors.

Charmed to have received the first copy of my new kids’ book, whimsically illustrated by the wonderful Ben Clanton.  Look for it in bookstores next March.

Writer-director Michael MacLennan’s adaptation of my short story “Hauska Tutustua” from Pleased to Meet You debuts in the shorts program at the 2011 Whistler Film Festival.  December 2, 4:30 PM Village 8 Cinema.  Click here for more information.

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, Adderson is one of the most talented writers in Canada.

View the entire list here.

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 title.
And with the title.

Interestingly, the original title went from In the Middle of Nowhere, to The Middle of Nowhere.  Then Simon accidentally left off The and we discovered we liked that better anyway!

For more information about Simon Ng and his work, click here.