Feb 8, 2023 | News Item, Snow Road Station
The main characters and the locale of Snow Road Station (available in April, 2023) will be familiar to readers of my previous novel His Whole Life. Lulu Blake, in her sixties now, has the starring role in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” An ambition come true, until she...
Jan 15, 2019 | All Things Consoled, News Item, Postings
All Things Consoled: a daughter’s memoir was a finalist for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize for Nonfiction. Here’s the jury citation by the three jurors, Camilla Gibb, Roy MacGregor, and Beverley McLachlin: IN THIS BRILLIANT AND HONEST MEMOIR, Elizabeth Hay...
Oct 3, 2018 | All Things Consoled, News Item, Postings
All Things Consoled: a daughter’s memoir has won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction. On November 7th, in the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, seven literary awards were handed out by the Writers’ Trust, this one among them. You...
Jan 18, 2018 | News Item, Postings
For a long time I wanted to narrate at least one of my own audio books and now I’ve narrated three. In the fall of 2017, in a studio across the Ottawa River in Aylmer, I spent eight sessions or so in front of a microphone reading my second novel Garbo Laughs. We...
May 16, 2017 | HWL-Review, News Item, Postings, Review
Isabel Costello from the Literary Sofa, one of the best fiction blogs in the UK, included His Whole Life in her roundup of the best Spring 2017 titles. Now she has gilded the lily by featuring the novel with a review, several photos, and a posting by me. For the full...
Apr 3, 2017 | News Item, Postings
Available now as a beautiful chapbook published by Maureen Scott Harris is the Page Lecture I gave at Queen’s University in 2015. “The Original Title” is a talk about editing and being edited and bears directly on my novel Late Nights on Air. Here is...
