The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • “I’m no prude but . . .”: Alice Munro’s Women and the Problems of Sex and Love

    In Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? (I always feel like the question mark is wrong, as it’s an accusation and not a question), Rose recovers from the birth of her first child in a maternity ward, where one woman dominates the conversation about how her kitchen shelves are arranged. In a sea of…

  • “Don’t Exhaust Yourself” (from Sisters in Crime)

    The full quotation from this morning’s email from my favourite organization is “Challenge yourself; don’t exhaust yourself.” I’m doing a “January Jumpstart,” which is a kind of crime-writing marathon training of daily writing practice. My relationship with my writing gets tetchy if I don’t write five or six days a week, and it’s much like…

  • Student Accommodations in Higher Education: Faculty Resistance and Workload

    This is a companion piece to my morning reflection on teaching with chronic illness. And this post–which has nothing to do with Women Writing Crime Fiction (sorry, readers!) is more likely to be of interest to folks who teach in higher ed and who, like me, are growing increasingly concerned about the discourse around student…