@atwoodsociety.bsky.social
We have 2 panels at #MLA26 today!
Friday, 9 January 2026 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM in MTCC – 601B
Session 216 The Circle Game
Friday, 9 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM in MTCC - 715B
Session 328 Now More Relevant Than Ever: Sharing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood
Friday, 9 January 2026 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM in MTCC – 601B
Session 216 The Circle Game
Friday, 9 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM in MTCC - 715B
Session 328 Now More Relevant Than Ever: Sharing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood
January 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
We have 2 panels at #MLA26 today!
Friday, 9 January 2026 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM in MTCC – 601B
Session 216 The Circle Game
Friday, 9 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM in MTCC - 715B
Session 328 Now More Relevant Than Ever: Sharing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood
Friday, 9 January 2026 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM in MTCC – 601B
Session 216 The Circle Game
Friday, 9 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM in MTCC - 715B
Session 328 Now More Relevant Than Ever: Sharing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood
Atwood's books are among the banned ones in Alberta:
Dozens of library books removed from Alberta schools as new laws take effect
New policy requires schools to remove books containing explicit images or illustrations of sexual content
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Atwood's books are among the banned ones in Alberta:
I really love the question Elizabeth Warren asks Margaret Atwood in this interview:
“All Dictatorships Do This”: Margaret Atwood on Trump & History
YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher
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January 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I really love the question Elizabeth Warren asks Margaret Atwood in this interview:
Checked the Atwood Society mail today. There were several emails from people congratulating Atwood on her memoir. They then said the book wasn't doing well but they could help, for a fee.
Oh, spammers. Margaret Atwood doesn't need your help.
Oh, spammers. Margaret Atwood doesn't need your help.
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Checked the Atwood Society mail today. There were several emails from people congratulating Atwood on her memoir. They then said the book wasn't doing well but they could help, for a fee.
Oh, spammers. Margaret Atwood doesn't need your help.
Oh, spammers. Margaret Atwood doesn't need your help.
A 30-minute with Atwood, who has won the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Honor:
Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards' Lifetime Achievement honoree Margaret Atwood in conversation with Joe Donahue
On October 11, The Eleanor Roosevelt Center in partnership with PEN America presented the 2025 Banned Book Awards at The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, New York. This year’s Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achi...
www.wamc.org
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
A 30-minute with Atwood, who has won the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Honor:
A little news story about Atwood at Wordfest:
Margaret Atwood makes appearance at Wordfest in Alberta
YouTube video by CTV News
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December 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A little news story about Atwood at Wordfest:
Pictures from The Testaments!
‘The Testaments’ First-Look Photos Drop As Hulu Sets Premiere Month
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale follow-up, The Testaments, will premiere in April, starring Ann Dowd, reprising her original role of Aunt Lydia, Chase Infiniti as Agnes, Lucy Halliday as Daisy, Rowan Blanc...
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pictures from The Testaments!
It's Margaret Atwood's birthday!
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's Margaret Atwood's birthday!
Submissions for the Atwood Society awards are due 12/1! Categories are best undergraduate essay, best graduate MA piece, best graduate diss, best published article, best book, and best collection.
atwoodsociety.org/awards/
atwoodsociety.org/awards/
Atwood Society Awards – Margaret Atwood Society
atwoodsociety.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Submissions for the Atwood Society awards are due 12/1! Categories are best undergraduate essay, best graduate MA piece, best graduate diss, best published article, best book, and best collection.
atwoodsociety.org/awards/
atwoodsociety.org/awards/
The 60 Minutes Interview with Atwood (she should have gotten the whole 60):
Margaret Atwood: The 60 Minutes Interview
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The 60 Minutes Interview with Atwood (she should have gotten the whole 60):
A memory of Atwood, in The Guardian:
The day Margaret Atwood saved me from a mortifying interview | Letters
Letters: Barbara Esstman shares a memory of chatting like friends with the author in front of an audience at the Smithsonian Institution, while Jane Crossen is intrigued by Atwood’s Norfolk connection
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A memory of Atwood, in The Guardian:
CBC on Atwood's memoir:
Margaret Atwood on reading palms, getting older — and holding grudges | CBC Radio
Margaret Atwood’s new memoir Book of Lives explores how the world has shaped her writing, and how that writing in turn shaped her life
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
CBC on Atwood's memoir:
Guess what book dropped today?
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Guess what book dropped today?
The New York Times, interviewing Atwood ahead of the publication of her memoir later this month:
For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The New York Times, interviewing Atwood ahead of the publication of her memoir later this month:
Our journal editor, Karma Waltonen, will be reading some of Atwood's poetry at @freethoughtday.bsky.social, Sunday, Oct. 12th at the CA state capitol. www.FreethoughtDay.org
www.FreethoughtDay.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our journal editor, Karma Waltonen, will be reading some of Atwood's poetry at @freethoughtday.bsky.social, Sunday, Oct. 12th at the CA state capitol. www.FreethoughtDay.org
I had the privilege of seeing a stage adaptation of this a couple of decades ago; I look forward to this series adaptation!
Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap To Produce The Series Adaptation Of Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Edible Woman’
Margot Robbie’s production company LuckyChap will now produce the series alongside eOne, Z Films and Shinawil.
www.nexuspointnews.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I had the privilege of seeing a stage adaptation of this a couple of decades ago; I look forward to this series adaptation!
The short list for the Atwood Giblson prize:
www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...
www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...
5 Canadian writers shortlisted for $70K Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | CBC Books
The award, named after Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, recognizes the best Canadian fiction of the year.
www.cbc.ca
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The short list for the Atwood Giblson prize:
www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...
www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...
Atwood will be featured at the Chicago Humanities Festival!
www.wbez.org/arts-culture...
www.wbez.org/arts-culture...
Author Margaret Atwood, comedians Cheech Marin and Kate McKinnon top 2025 Chicago Humanities Fall Festival
Tickets go on sale Thursday for a list of fall programs that also includes a tribute to late Chicago fashion designer Virgil Abloh and performances by Kurt Elling and Kurt Vile.
www.wbez.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Atwood will be featured at the Chicago Humanities Festival!
www.wbez.org/arts-culture...
www.wbez.org/arts-culture...
Atwood, whose graduate degree is from Radcliffe (Harvard), has added her signature to support Harvard from Trump's attacks:
Trump ‘just wants to make Harvard bleed,’ and these alumni are standing up to him - The Boston Globe
Harvard alumni step up to protect the university’s independence.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Atwood, whose graduate degree is from Radcliffe (Harvard), has added her signature to support Harvard from Trump's attacks:
Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg, on the set of Elephant, in London
June 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg, on the set of Elephant, in London
A little message about what Atwood loves about Canada:
Our Country: Margaret Atwood on beavers and tolerance
YouTube video by Canadian Geographic
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June 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A little message about what Atwood loves about Canada:
Atwood is part of a new anthology on Canadian identity, out in October!
Margaret Atwood, Jay Baruchel, Canisia Lubrin among writers of new anthology that explores Canadian identity | CBC Books
Elbows Up!: Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance will be published Oct. 14, 2025. Edited by Elamin Abdelmahmoud, the anthology also features Canadian writers Omar El Akkad, David A. Robertson,...
www.cbc.ca
June 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Atwood is part of a new anthology on Canadian identity, out in October!
Escambia was my county, where a science teacher said there was no such thing as evolution & where my World History teacher was told he'd be fired if he mentioned anything that happened more than 6000 years ago. Sex ed was watching a movie in which a teenager who got pregnant killed herself. 1/2
UPDATE: Board gives Escambia County superintendent ability to remove books without review
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. --The escambia county school district's board is set to vote on a motion recommending the ban of eighteen books.The motion was added to t
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June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Escambia was my county, where a science teacher said there was no such thing as evolution & where my World History teacher was told he'd be fired if he mentioned anything that happened more than 6000 years ago. Sex ed was watching a movie in which a teenager who got pregnant killed herself. 1/2