On the newsstand now is the latest issue of Eighteen Bridges.  Catch the launch if you are in Toronto, or better yet, subscribe. In it you’ll find my piece about the trials of maintaining pacifist principles while raising a son – “How I Lost the War Against War and Learned to Love Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

Read the National Post conversation I had with Vancouver writers Annabel Lyon, Zsuzsi Gartner, Timothy Taylor, Billie Livingston, Lee Henderson, Steven Galloway, Ian Weir, John Vaillant and Kevin Chong about the challenges and benefits of writing in Vancouver.

I’m pleased to be heading to Jasper to deliver an author talk at the 2011 Alberta Library Conference, April 29th.  I’ll be presenting an overview of my writing career to date, interspersed with short readings from some of my nine books for adults and children.  Get more information here.

I’ll be reading from The Sky Is Falling at the Memorial Park Library in Calgary on Thursday 28 April at 7 pm.   Click here for more information.

Please join me on Friday, April 15th at 7:00pm at the North Vancouver City Library, 3rd Floor Singh Room, for a reading and talk about The Sky Is Falling.  Click here for information about all the readers at the North Shore Festival.

Screenwriter Michael MacLennan (Being Erica, JPod, Queer as Folk) is going to camera with a film version of my short story “Hauska Tutustua” from Pleased to Meet You.  Read more about the production.

It’s always a thrill to be translated.  The Women’s Publishing House in Hanoi has just published this anthology of short fiction by Canadian women writers, in Vietnamese.  My story “And the Children Shall Rise” from Bad Imaginings is included among work by Margaret Atwood, Annabel Lyon, Sandra Birdsell, Lisa Moore, and others.  This is the 17th anthology to reprint a story from Bad Imaginings.

Please join me for a talk sponsored by the Department of English at UNBC in Prince George.  March 10th, 11:00 am -1:30 pm, Room 7-212.

The Sky Is Falling is nominated for The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.  Read about all the shortlisted books.

Writer Daphne Gray-Grant interviewed me for her popular newsletter Publication Coach.  Read it here.