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International Festival of Authors, Toronto, ON (virtual), October 31st, alongside Samantha Bailey:
festivalofauthors.ca/event/maternal-mys…Vancouver artist Nat Happe has won the Writers Trust Draw the Word Challenge for her artwork inspired by HWBL:
www.writerstrust.com/draw-the-word-chal…Interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC's The Last Chapter:
www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-ep…Interview with Sheryl Mackay on CBC's North by Northwest:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north…Vancouver Writers Festival: Marjorie Celona in Conversation with Leslie Hurtig, Saturday, April 25, 2020, 1 PM PST, Facebook Live:
writersfest.bc.ca/event/marjorie-celona…Bonnie Stern Book Club, March 23, 2020, Toronto, ON:
foodnews.bonniestern.com/Interview with short-story writer Jason Brown about his latest collection in Fiction Writers Review:
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Archived News, Media, etc.
"Counterblast" has won an O.Henry award for 2018 and was picked as a juror favorite by Ottessa Moshfegh:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564983…Cuirt International Festival of Literature 2015 panel with Vincent Lam and Dionne Brand:
www.faber.co.uk/blog/event/marjorie-cel…Y has won the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Héroïne (France) for Best Foreign Novel: www.livreshebdo.fr/article/madame-figar…
Irish actor Damien Molony will read "Othello" at Foyles on April 3 in London: www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.a…
"Othello" has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/bo…
The Dutch edition of Y, Waarom, has been nominated for the Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuur Prijs 2014:
www.djp.nl/index.htmlY has won Drake University's Emerging Writer Award:
artsci.drake.edu/english/WritersandCrit…Y is shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award:
www.centerforfiction.org/awards/the-fla…Y has been chosen as one of the Waterstones 11:
www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/page…Y is the #1 Indie Next Pick for January 2013:
www.indiebound.org/indie-next-listY is among CBC Books' Best Canadian Books of 2012:
www.cbc.ca/books/2012/12/best-canadian-…Y makes the Vancouver Sun Books Editor's 2012 Top Reads:
www.canada.com/entertainment/books/edit…Globe & Mail's Top 23 Canadian Fiction Books of the Year:
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-…Amazon.ca's Best Books of 2012:
Amazon.ca Top 100 ListPodcast with Joseph Planta of The Commentary:
thecommentary.ca/ontheline/788-marjorie…Interview with Beth Carswell of AbeBooks:
www.abebooks.com/books/authors/marjorie…Podcast with Chris Wood of the Banff Centre about Y, the Rocky Mountains, and capybaras:
Banff Centre Blog, October 18, 2012The author who couldn’t let go of the question Y: Profile by Marsha Lederman
Globe & Mail, Oct 10, 2012"Far and away, the best novel I've read this year" - National Post Book Editor Mark Medley on Toronto's Metro Morning, aired Oct 2:
www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/1…Q&A on the International Festival of Authors' Blog:
internationalfestivalofauthors.wordpres…Video Interview with Jennifer Hunter of The Toronto Star:
www.thestar.com/videozone/1259774--auth…Q&A with CBC re: Y and the 2012 Giller Prize:
www.cbc.ca/books/scotiabankgillerprize/…Y has been longlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize:
www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/2012-longl…Interview with Jo-Ann Roberts for CBC All Points West:
www.cbc.ca/allpointswest/2012/09/06/gil…