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Wall flower She’s Not
A Canadian (born 1987) graduates from the University of Victoria, comes to England in 2011 to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) on a scholarship, wins the Commonwealth Short...
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Pascale Quiviger
Le cercle parfait, Prix du Gouverneur Général du Canada (fiction de langue française) 2004 Pascale Quiviger, from Montreal and author of several books and a young adult series, lived in Italy for ten...
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Get thee to a nunnery
CWA contributor Jane Christmas published her memoir, And Then There Were Nuns, in 2013. In the interval, I have been searching for the perfect reviewer. Found one. Both author and reviewer live abroad:...
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Emily in Dulwich
(Dulwich Picture Gallery) Coming out of the Emily Carr exhibition, “From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia,” at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, I heard the family behind me speculating...
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Emily in England
Emily Carr was both artist and writer. Something I didn’t know: she took a writing course at Victoria College in the summer of 1934.* Bed-ridden by illness, she wrote towards publication from 1937...
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Colonial Moderns
Review of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 by Anna Snaith, Cambridge University Press 2014, 278 pp hardcover (ISBN: 9780521515450). Reviewed by Debra Martens. Modernism is...
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English Winter
January in Cornwall Wednesday noon the weather in London today is 5 degrees celcius and 83% humidity with a chance of rain at 10%, cloudy skies. According to the Met office, the weather in February...
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Mulling Over Food, Writing
Carla Lamont in the kitchen of The Ninth Wave (photo: Debra Martens) At the end of April we (DM, husband, daughter) took a short holiday on the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides. As this trip would involve...
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A Kitchen Poem
Carla Lamont has kindly given permission to post one of the poems from her collection The Body Banquet. “I am Nigella Lawson” can be found on page three. I am Nigella Lawson (After reading How to be a...
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London Short Story
I was sitting at a table in the Waterstones Piccadilly lower cafe, sipping my water and watching people trickle in to the opening of the London Short Story Festival (18-21 June 2015) on Thursday...
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Flight Paths
Landing Gear by Kate Pullinger, Doubleday Canada 2014, hardcover 286 pages. Reviewed by Debra Martens. Kate Pullinger is a Canadian author living in the UK and was interviewed for Canadian Writers...
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British Rite
British Rite of Passage for Fathers One of the many good things about being married is that I read things I wouldn’t otherwise read. Such as the humorous book How to be a Husband by Tim Dowling. I am...
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Powning in London
Beth Powning (photo: Peter Powning) I met Beth Powning at a literary lunch at the Canadian High Commission, which was held on the top floor, with fantastic views of Trafalgar Square and environs....
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Griot at Solstice
Marva Jackson Lord has been living in the UK for just over 17 years, drawn like so many others by love. The love is a Welsh Englishman named Stephen Lord; they make their home now in the Brecon Beacons...
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Casting Himself on a Breeze
Marius Kociejowski(photo Debra Martens) Jig Street, where Marius Kociejowski’s Polish father and English mother settled in 1948, is twelve miles into the countryside from Kemptville, Ontario. And from...
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Lit Trip
St Giles’ Church Parish of Ashtead dates back to 14th C. People flock to Westminster Abbey to visit the Poet’s Corner, where writers are either buried or have a memorial. What is the satisfaction of...
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That Mammal Martel
Yann Martel (photo: Emma Love) I was very tempted to call this entry “The Martels” because in explaining why Yann Martel should be included in Canadian Writers Abroad, I must mention his parents, Émile...
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A Maid and her Cow
The cow and its maid, Durham Cathedral A recent trip to Durham has caused me to spend more brain cells than I ought mulling over cows and maids. I grew up near Queenston Heights, which was deep in the...
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Cusk’s Writing Class
This review of Outline by Rachel Cusk is written by Kim Reynolds and has been published on her website, Book Giddy. A freelance writer, she lives in Ottawa, where she pens her passion for CanLit. Kim...
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How to Settle: Theresa Muñoz
Theresa Muñoz Poet Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, where she took a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She left at the age of 22 “to see the world” and do a Ph.D....
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