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The Margaret Atwood Society is an international association of scholars, teachers, and students who share an interest in Atwood’s work. The main goal of the Society is to promote scholarly exchange of the writer’s work by providing opportunities for scholars to exchange information. To let us know about current Atwood-scholarship-related news or events, please email us the appropriate information. We will include your news on this site and/or our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We welcome your friendship on Facebook and Twitter, whether or not you join the Society.
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Special Note: We often receive queries about how to contact Ms. Atwood. We are unable to forward your message to her—we do not correspond with her directly. See her official website on the links page, where she provides an address for queries.
New Atwood Collection
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Atwood’s latest book, is a variety of lectures, reviews, and short stories that trace her personal involvement with science fiction as a genre.
Atwood lent her dress for art show
Artist Jane Eccles’s new exhibit opens February 26 and runs until April 10 at the Whitby Station Gallery in Whitby, Ontario. Eccles’s exhibit is called “Overlap,” and includes a painting of a dress donated by Margaret Atwood, painted by Eccles. For more information, see the Station Gallery’s website.
The garment Atwood donated to Eccles.
New book to be released summer 2011
Margaret Atwood will soon publish her seventh children’s book, Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery.
Royal Society of Literature Lecture
The Royal Society of Literature announces that Margaret Atwood will be delivering a lecture in London on November 3, 2010. For more information, please visit the Royal Society of Literature website.
Margaret Atwood shares international prize for literature
See the full story at The Vancouver Sun website!
The Handmaid’s Tale premieres at University of Colorado at Denver
UC DENVER’S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION ANNOUNCES ITS NATIONAL PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF WILLIAM LEIREN’S STAGE ADAPTATION OF THE NOVEL BY MARGARET ATWOOD, THE HANDMAID’S TALE.
DENVER (February 11, 2010)— The University of Colorado Denver’s Department of Theatre, Film & Video Production is pleased to present its national premiere production of William Leiren’s stage adaptation of the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale on February 25-27 & March 3-6, 2010.
Imagine a society where ultra-conservative religious fanatics control everything and keep everyone under constant surveillance—even those responsible for conducting the surveillance. Imagine a time when women have lost all rights, can’t even have their own money, and are valued only for their ability to do housework and get pregnant. Imagine a place where living in fear and suspicion is the only thing common to everyone.
And now imagine this is not a foreign society unfamiliar to us, not another time but now, not a place halfway around the globe. Imagine all of this in your house, your neighborhood, your town. Award-winning author Margaret Atwood imagined all of that and created a stunning and compelling picture for us in her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. And now, for the first time, this brilliant work has been adapted for the stage. Denver playwright William Leiren, with Ms. Atwood’s blessing, has dramatized this story and UC Denver’s TFVP Dept. is presenting an exciting and hard-hitting production in a transformed Eugenia Rawls Theatre from February 25-27 and March 3-6. Featuring a multi-faceted cast of 26 students, faculty, and alumni, as well as dynamic and innovative design elements, this promises to be one of the high points of the theatre season.
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2008-09, the College of Arts & Media (CAM) at the University of Colorado Denver embraces the influence of modern trends on traditional art forms. Located on UC Denver’s downtown campus, CAM is at the heart of Denver’s thriving, dynamic arts community. The college encourages its students to discover new artistic forms, explore creative applications of technology, and prepare themselves for careers in the current and emergent culture industry. CAM is one of 13 schools and colleges at UC Denver. The University offers more than 100 degrees and serves more than 28,000 students in Metro Denver and online. For additional news and information, please visit the UC Denver newsroom.
(In)Habitation CD
Centaur Records is releasing a CD by Eileen Strempel (soprano) of Syracuse University and Sylvie Beaudette (piano) of the University of Rochester. The duo recorded musical settings of the poems of Margaret Atwood, as part of the Atwood Project and to celebrate Women’s History Month. Please click here for more details.
Exciting News
You can now follow Margaret Atwood on Twitter!
Or read her blog, which has a number of wonderful posts, such as “Ten Gifts to Give Beginning Novelists.”
The Year of the Flood buzz
Some links of interest:
Margaret Atwood’s Tour Blog from The Globe and Mail
A review by Jeanette Winterson in The New York Times
A review by Ursula K. Le Guin in The Guardian
A review by Jane Shilling in Telegraph
2009 Awards
Please encourage your colleagues and students to submit to the 2009 Margaret Atwood Society Awards — or submit your own work! More information is available here.
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