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McSweeney’s Anthology of Contemporary Literature

Emma’s story ‘Brigit’ features in this, the 25th anniversary edition of McSweeney’s Quarterly (aka issue #74), an edition that comes in a orginal-art tin lunch box, complete with literary pencils and author trading cards. (See the wonder of it all here.)

radio 4 story

Emma’s short story “Dawn” (read by Emma, with music by Emma…) featured on BBC Radio 4’s Short Works program June 7th (15:45) and 9th (23:45), 2024, and is now available to stream here.

New! quartet! album!

Emma’s string quartet, Red Carousel, have just released their first full length album We’re Getting There. All collaborative composed by the four players, it’s available for happy listening on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and pretty much all the other places..

N’ayons pas peur du ciel

The Québecois edition of We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky, N’ayons Pas Peur Du Ciel has been launched. Translated by the super Dominic Fortier, it’s received some lovely press and praise such as these reviews in Le Devoir and La Presse.

TNQ #166

Emma’s story “Brother Anthony” features in The New Quarterly, issue 166 (Spring 2023). (It’s based, a bit, on the life-story of the guy her elementary school was named after…)

Carol Shields Longlist!

We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky has made the longlist for the first ever Carol Shields Prize! The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a major new English-language literary award to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in the United States and Canada.

SPANISH WRITING RETREAT

This year Emma and fellow author Samantha Harvey will be running their idyllic writing course in the Alpajarras mountains of Southern Spain, September 8th-15th, 2023. More info and inquiries here.

PRESS GALORE

The first wave of We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky press has crested including nice and interesting features, interviews and reviews both online (CBC) and in print (Globe and Mail), on TV (Global) and on the radio (CBC).

“We should not be afraid of the sky” Now Out in Canada (Whoop!)

Emma’s third novel, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky (hardback) was launched in Canada on August 9th, 2022 at all booksellers and in audiobook format.

(More launch dates TBA.)

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