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/

The 60 Minutes Interview with Atwood (she should have gotten the whole 60):

A memory of Atwood, in The Guardian:

CBC on Atwood's memoir:

Guess what book dropped today?

The New York Times, interviewing Atwood ahead of the publication of her memoir later this month:

Atwood will show solidarity for Edmonton in her book tour! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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!

The short list for the Atwood Giblson prize: www.cbc.ca/books/5-cana...

Atwood will be featured at the Chicago Humanities Festival! www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

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

A little message about what Atwood loves about Canada:

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

Atwood & Neil Young defending a library. :)

Atwood, on threats to speech, at the British Book Awards, where she received the Freedom to Publish Prize:

Congratulations to Atwood on her Women in Entertainment award!

Congratulations to Margaret Atwood on the Griffin Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award!

A short review of the last season: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Of course the challengers haven't read the books. Readers tend to be open minded.

Atwood's Hopkins Lecture: www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025...

Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch The Handmaid's Tale. Now. Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA. When a book becomes alive. Too quick. It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong. #TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism

Had my students read a short essay by Margaret Atwood. One student remarked, "There's a twist. At the end, she reveals she's the author of The Handmaid's Tale." 🤦

Some Atwood writing tips: nofilmschool.com/writing-tips...

Tonight's the season premiere of The Handmaid's Tale! I (Karma) had the pleasure of being interviewed about the show's impact: www.thewrap.com/the-handmaid...

PAMLA 2025: Nov. 20-23, CFP This session, Adaptations of Atwood (co-sponsored by the Margaret Atwood Society), seeks papers on adaptations of Margaret Atwood's work, including television, film, graphic novels, song, opera, theatre, and ballet.

Starting to get excited about the new series! deadline.com/2025/03/the-...

Wolf hybrids? The term is wolvogs. www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2...

St. Francis is getting sued because its school district voted to let anonymous book reviews on a far-right website determine which books were in the library. Parents, librarians, students, and teachers had no say. www.startribune.com/book-ban-st-...

In Oryx and Crake's corpocracy, “hampering the dissemination of commercial products” gets you executed. Trump and his attorney general are insisting that vandalizing Teslas is "domestic terrorism."

Had somehow missed this sketch by French and Saunders: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUZ...

The Hay Festival founder says he hopes God is like Atwood. Same. www.pressreader.com/uk/features/...

Bradley Whitford is a gem. screenrant.com/the-handmaid...

Atwood on Victoria Amelina, a journalist who sacrificed her life to report on women in Ukraine: lithub.com/margaret-atw...

MLA 2026 Toronto, 8–11 January 2026, CFP The circle game We invite proposals on Atwood’s work and impact engaging with the theme of Families—broadly defined, including lineage, kinship, inheritance, found families, cross-species bonds, intertextuality and literary genealogies.

The latest volume of our journal is here! Membership in the Margaret Atwood Society is only $15. :) atwoodsociety.org @margaretatwood.bsky.social

Atwood's memoir will be out in November! www.vogue.com/article/marg...

Atwood-inspired fashion: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/st...

A solution without a problem: the SAVE Act would make voting difficult to impossible for many, many citizens. One provision would disenfranchise women who took their husband's last name. Is it a coincidence that Project 2025 said married women shouldn't be allowed to vote?

The headline made me think this priest was against the books; she's against the banning. Florida allows parents (and random people) to challenge books, but recently decided parents couldn't challenge book bans.

In Utah, they haven't just banned books; they've said students aren't allowed to even have copies on campus to read in their spare time. www.alternet.org/utah-book-ban/

Here’s the cover of my next novel, #KingSorrow and a bit about what to expect. It’s out in October and available for preorder with all the usual suspects. My thanks to Today for making a nice little splash out of the cover reveal. www.today.com/popculture/b...

U. of Iowa combined 6 small women's/ethnic studies programs in a new division. State lawmakers sent a threatening letter demanding the regents veto the proposal on ideological grounds. That's jawboning and it's wrong, @penamerica.bsky.social's Amy Reid explains. pen.org/press-releas...

Heather Cox Richardson drew my attention to a proposed Republican resolution on women's health care that includes this gem: "Whereas health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities as they relate to women’s health care..."

The Atwood Session at this year's MLA is on Saturday, Jan. 11th, at 8:30 AM Central Time. It's virtual, so any registered member can join! mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

Only one more step to Pigoons! www.npr.org/sections/sho...