Caroline Adderson

Two events at the 2024 Vancouver Writers Fest, Oct. 21-27

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I’m so delighted to be holding two on-stage conversations at the Vancouver Writers Festival this year. One on short stories — with Caroline Adderson, Shashi Bhat and Aaron Kreuter — where we will talk about the extraordinary range of characters these three authors have dreamed up, the writing of short stories, why the genre can often offer more thrill than a novel, openings and closings — and all things craft and character….

The other event is an hour-long intimate conversation with author Heather O’Neill about all her books, but particularly focusing on the new, and brilliant The Capital of Dreams. Heather O’Neill is the author of a wide-ranging and extraordinary series of novels, from Lullabies for Little Criminals to The Lonely Hearts Hotel, to the fairytale, kafka-esque The Capital of Dreams. I had a deep dive into her work, reading all her novels this fall. It was deep and rewarding treat. Hope you can join us! You can buy tickets and find out more at the Vancouver Writers Fest website.

Event 25: Short Stories, Infinite Identities
Wed. Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. — Performance Works Theatre, Granville Island

From the VWF program: “Good short stories can share expansive truths with the smallest details. Each of these authors offer mesmerizing insights into what it means to be human in their collections. Bestselling author and Festival favourite Caroline Adderson considers what it means to find happiness — and how we so often seem to understand it through our encounters with others — in A Way to Be Happy. Shashi Bhat shares the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman in the sharply funny Death by a Thousand Cuts. Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Discover more about the intricate craft of short stories, which offers a necessary tapestry of humanity. Moderated by Shaena Lambert.” GET TICKETS →

Event 44: Heather O’Neill in Conversation
Thurs. Oct. 24, 8:30 p.m. — Waterfront Theatre

From the VWF program: “Few authors can transport us quite the way Heather O’Neill does. Whether gritty, small town Quebec, or strange circuses or — in the case of her latest work — the magical woods of a forgotten country — we are immersed in vivid worlds of heightened emotions and possibility. Savour a conversation with this multi-award-winning author. In conversation with Shaena Lambert.” GET TICKETS →

Two events at the 2024 Vancouver Writers Fest, Oct. 21-27Shaena Lambert2024-10-16T14:58:25-07:00

Off the Record: “A dazzling collection”

“Metcalf’s latest project, the anthology OFF THE RECORD brings together six of the writers with whom Metcalf has worked, in what becomes a dazzling collection of memoir and fiction. If Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine, and Kathy Page aren’t quite household names, OFF THE RECORD is a powerful argument for just what a mistake that oversight is.” —Robert Wiersema, The Toronto Star

Read the entire review here.

Off the Record: “A dazzling collection”Shaena Lambert2024-02-03T10:42:09-08:00

Talk at Munro’s Books, October 13, 2020

Munro’s Books, October 13^th, 2020. Three BC writers of historical fiction talk shop about their new novels. This was such a fabulous event! A Zoom show and share, using photographs to illustrate our research process! Then a conversation led by acclaimed novelist, Claire Mulligan. Featuring Dede Crane, author of the newly released One Madder Woman, the story of the brilliant impressionist painter Berthe Morisot – a woman who changed our relationship to light, shadow, figure and movement in painting, but whose name is far less known than her contemporaries, Degas and Manet, both of whom owe much to her innovations. And Caroline Adderson – the author, most recently, of A Russian Sister, which brilliantly tells the story of Masha Chekhov, the famous writer’s sister – whose watchful eye sees deeper into her brother than he can see into himself. I talk about my earliest drafts of Petra, how wolves haunted my drafts, and a single image that got under my skin for years.

Talk at Munro’s Books, October 13, 2020Shaena Lambert2021-05-05T05:42:01-07:00