The Biggest Modern Writer in the World
Susan Swan is a Toronto novelist and non-fiction writer with international publications. She is also co-founder of The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the largest literary prize in the world for Canadian and American women and non-binary fiction authors. Currently, she is finishing a memoir, Too Big, about the way size shaped her life and working on a sequel to her short story collection, Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With.
When my friend Janice Zawerbny asked me to help her start a literary prize for women, I had no idea what I was signing up for. Zawerbny is a Toronto editor and she was upset by the grim statistics about women’s writing that I brought to a Vancouver Writers Fest panel in 2012. Like people …
When you think of the giants in Canadian literature, chances are you think of writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro or Margaret Atwood. Few readers these days remember Constance Beresford-Howe, who wrote ground-breaking novels about the struggle of women to be autonomous. You may not know about her because she was shy. Or because, …
No matter what he says, he believes what he says when he says it An Unpublished Short Story from The Dead Celebrities Club. Originally Published in Now Magazine, November 26, 2019. He was called lizard man at school but he didn’t let it bother him. He isn’t really scaly. The look of his skin …
The Literary Review of Canada wrote an article about my new novel, The Dead Celebrities Club, and it’s deconstruction of the marketed, monetary value first language and society we have developed in the 21st century. Examining the way Stéphane Larue and I look at financial characters and stories, the article talks about how our novels …
Post Media Columnist Praises The Dead Celebrities Club: To read an excerpt from the novel, Click Here.