September 2008
NEW TITLE ALERT!!
-Susan's first children's book, Bernadette and The Lunch Bunch, will be published by Second Story Press.
-Susan will be reading at Ellington's Music & Café, 805 St Clair Ave West, on September 25 at 7 pm, as part of the St Clair Artwalk.
May 2008
-Susan visited the book club at Holy Blossom synagogue in Toronto on May 13 to discuss her novel The Violin Lover. This month she also attended the Writers Union of Canada AGM and admired the hard work done by so many of her colleagues to improve the lot of writers in Canada.
April 2008
-Susan read at the Deer Park Public Library in Toronto, April 17. I was competing with the Anansi Spring Launch. Rats.
March 2008
-Susan read some poetry, and presented a paper entitled "Angels, Not Polarities: Poetry and Prose in the Work of Bronwen Wallace," at the Common Magic conference at Queens' University on March 8th. The paper is posted on this site under the link titled "Other Writing."
December 2007
-Susan partipated in a soiree to celebrate Jacques Rancourt and the Festival Franco-Anglais de Poesie at the Alliance Francaise in Toronto, December 4. (a really nice venue with exceptional food and drink, as one might expect, though oddly enough, the red wine was Spanish!)
-She read some poetry of Margaret Avison at the annual Art Bar "Dead Poets Society" reading at Clinton's Tavern in Toronto, December 11. (a wonderful Toronto event, always interesting. Other tributes this year included AR Ammons, Dorothy Parker, William Matthews))
October 2007
- Susan read at Queens' University in Kingston, October 16 (excellent crowd, excellent questions, as always)
- The Jewish Public Library in Montreal, October 17(Wow! what a great turnout. Gracious too, with lovely food)
- McGill University English Department, October 19 (unfortunately, I was competing with a symposium on AM Klein which I would rather have attended myself than hearing myself!)
July 2007
-Susan was invited by the CNIB to record The Violin Lover as a talking book for the blind.
Sitting in a little recording room by myself, reading the whole book out loud from beginning to end, was a very cool experience. It was as though I'd never seen the text before.
June 2007
-The Violin Lover wins the fiction prize of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards!
The awards ceremony, with speaker Robert Fulford, champagne and strawberries, took place June 21 at the Leah Poslun Theatre in Toronto.
April 2007
The Violin Lover makes the longlist for the ReLit award.
Three years ago Running in Prospect Cemetery was nominated. Maybe this time I'll get lucky!
-Poetry reading with Erin Knight at Hart House, University of Toronto, April 10
February 2007
--Reading to and discussion with residents of Shalom House in Hamilton, February 8
Including a long-lost relative I found through writing The Violin Lover. More on this later.
January 2007
-Book Club discussion with members of Congregation Darchei Noam, Toronto, January 27
My first experience of discussing The Violin Lover with people who'd actually read it -- what an honour!
December 2006
-"Books and Bagels" reading and discussion at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, Toronto, December 3
Excellent coffee. Excellent questions from the audience. And happily, no gate-crashing drunks.
November 2006
-Fiction reading with Alan Cumyn and Goran Simic at the GritLit Festival, Hamilton, November 5
An added pleasure was enjoying the wonderful exhibits at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, where the event was held.
-Group poetry reading November 19, and a presentation of The Violin Lover with music by violist Macey Cadesky and violinist Agnes Klinghofer at the Vancouver Jewish Book Fair, November 20. My dream reading! A dialogue between literature and music. Mozart and Bach mostly.
-Solo Reading at the Winnipeg Jewish Book Fair, Winnipeg, November 21
The JCC is a beautiful place. Unfortunately, I didn't have time for a swim.
April 2006
-Fiction reading with Camilla Gibb and Yann Martel at the Blue Met Festival, Montreal, April 8
Yes, I was nervous. Like being the warm-up act for the Rolling Stones.
-Fiction reading with Martha Baillie and Linda Holeman at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, April 20. During our subsequent interview with Nigel Beale, poet Rob Mclennan kept making funny faces at me from the back of the room, rendering it difficult to proceed with dignity.
You should have been there! An itinerant boozer crashed the event, demanding a drink. When we asked him to leave, since this was a private party, he retorted grandly "I AM a private party" and absconded with a two-litre bottle of red wine.
- -Solo reading at Queen's University, Kingston, March 29. The students were scrupulously well behaved. Did Professor Carolyn Smart bribe them? Must ask her!
--Reading to and discussion with residents of Shalom House in Hamilton, February 8
Including a long-lost relative I found through writing The Violin Lover. More on this later.
January 2007
-Book Club discussion with members of Congregation Darchei Noam, Toronto, January 27
My first experience of discussing The Violin Lover with people who'd actually read it -- what an honour!
December 2006
-"Books and Bagels" reading and discussion at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, Toronto, December 3
Excellent coffee. Excellent questions from the audience. And happily, no gate-crashing drunks.
November 2006
-Fiction reading with Alan Cumyn and Goran Simic at the GritLit Festival, Hamilton, November 5
An added pleasure was enjoying the wonderful exhibits at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, where the event was held.
-Group poetry reading November 19, and a presentation of The Violin Lover with music by violist Macey Cadesky and violinist Agnes Klinghofer at the Vancouver Jewish Book Fair, November 20. My dream reading! A dialogue between literature and music. Mozart and Bach mostly.
-Solo Reading at the Winnipeg Jewish Book Fair, Winnipeg, November 21
The JCC is a beautiful place. Unfortunately, I didn't have time for a swim.
April 2006
-Fiction reading with Camilla Gibb and Yann Martel at the Blue Met Festival, Montreal, April 8
Yes, I was nervous. Like being the warm-up act for the Rolling Stones.
-Fiction reading with Martha Baillie and Linda Holeman at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, April 20. During our subsequent interview with Nigel Beale, poet Rob Mclennan kept making funny faces at me from the back of the room, rendering it difficult to proceed with dignity.
March 2006
-Launch of The Violin Lover at Nicholas Hoare Books, Toronto, March 22. You should have been there! An itinerant boozer crashed the event, demanding a drink. When we asked him to leave, since this was a private party, he retorted grandly "I AM a private party" and absconded with a two-litre bottle of red wine.
- -Solo reading at Queen's University, Kingston, March 29. The students were scrupulously well behaved. Did Professor Carolyn Smart bribe them? Must ask her!