The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • Celebrating the Work of Gail Bowen (1942-2026)

    In March, Canadian crime writer Gail Bowen included in her Newsletter a brief excerpt from her forthcoming–and final–novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series. It’s entitled Homecoming. Last night Bowen’s many fans across Canada and around the world learned the sad news that she has passed away. Bowen published her first novel featuring Regina, Saskatchewan…

  • The Writing (and Reading) Life

    Photo of the University of King’s College Arts and Administrative Building by Robert Alfers, used with permission under CC license. I’ve recently returned from an intense (exhausting, exhilarating) 10-day MFA residency in Creative Nonfiction. I spent my evenings and our one day off keeping up with my online students, who quite reasonably still needed timely…

  • The Helplessness of Grief and the Trauma of Academia: Maria Adelmann’s The Adjunct

    As I was reading Adelmann’s campus novel, I was thinking about one of the most brilliant and personable labour organizers I’ve ever met, the late Miranda Merklein. I miss her. Like this novel’s protagonist, Merklein had realistic expectations of a middle-class life as a college teacher: not a cossetted existence, but decent health insurance and…