The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • “We Can’t Ask Alice”: Our Munro Roundtable at MLA 2026 in Toronto

    Huge thanks to Sarah Caskey, Nadine Fladd, and Julie Rivkin for their wonderfully thoughtful and engaging presentations. This was a tricky session for me, and I appreciated the guidance of Munro scholars–notably Maggie Redekop and Naomi Morgenstern, during the planning stage–as well as Lorraine York, whose work on Atwood and celebrity helped shape Nadine Fladd’s…

  • Books on Writing: Setting Writing Goals, Developing Better Habits, and Giving up on Perfection

    A break from crime fiction today to talk about writing goals. I tend to do better with five- or ten-year goals than with New Year’s resolutions. A year is a brief period of time in which to accomplish anything of note, but it is a decent time-frame for changing habits. And that’s what I did…

  • 2026 Reading and Writing Resolutions

    Not all of my resolutions are linked to crime fiction. I’ve also picked up some new sheet music so I can learn more pieces by female composers, and that will be a welcome break from writing. I’m looking forward to teaching creative nonfiction and to trekking out to our college’s new suburban campus to teach…