The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • Art Crimes and Misdemeanours

    When I was in high school, a friend and I often hung out at Café Wim on Sussex, near the current location of the National Gallery. Safdie’s glass and metal marvel was still under construction, and it was sited in such a way that it mirrored the Parliament Buildings across from it. Ottawa was an…

  • Writers and Scams in the Era of AI

    (My first-ever AI-generated image, courtesy of Gemini 3. Why do all these AI tech products sound like space missions, or satellites? The image shows a robot typing a manuscript, which was my prompt. Rather worryingly accurate.) If I were to launch a profitable and efficient scam, which is beyond both my capacity and my interests,…

  • “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…