This page highlights FEATURES & REVIEWS about Diana and her books, and recent/upcoming EVENTS.
In 2012…
Nose to the grindstone time, as Diana works on her new novel, Tunapuna, and diverts herself with essays and reviews for The Globe and Mail, among others.
In 2011…
JULY 6 Diana read at the Brockton Writers Series in Toronto, Wednesday, July 6 7-8:30 p.m, at St. Anne’s Church, 270 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto, with Ian Malczewski and Antanas Sileika
JUNE 14 and 21 Diana visited book clubs in Toronto and Oakville.
MAY 6 Diana was one of the guest authors at Fort York in Toronto for the TDSB and TCTE Author Day and Student Short Story contest. Student finalists attended workshops with Diana, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Pasha Malla and Matthew J. Trafford, followed by a ceremony for the winners of the contest.
APRIL was National Poetry Month. Six poems from Clinic Day can now be heard on the Brick Books audiosite, as part of an ongoing collaboration between Brick and Julie Wilson (aka Book Madam), to record Brick authors.
APRIL 9, 2011, New work by Diana was read at Wine and Words: New Writing, a fundraising event for Theatre By The River. Artists from all over Canada donated new work to support this Winnipeg-based theatre company, dedicated to producing artistically innovative, socially relevant and financially accessible theatre.
In 2010 . . .
DECEMBER 11, 2010, Diana will read new fiction at the Alphabet City AIR launch, location TBA.
NOVEMBER 15, 2010, No Place Strange has been longlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin award.
OCTOBER 19, 2010, Diana will read from her first poetry book, Learning Russian, at Mansfield Press 10th Anniversary launch and party, at The Boat, in Toronto. For more information visit the Mansfield Press website here
AUGUST 2010, No Place Strange has been long-listed for the ReLit Awards.
JULY 2010, No Place Strange is reviewed in Canadian Literature. Read the review here.
No Place Strange receives a fine, thoughtful review by Michael Bryson on his blog. Read the review here.
JUNE 15th, U.K. Writers Invade Toronto! Diana will be at the Toronto Writer’s Centre, introducing a group of U.K. writers and independent publishers to Toronto and its writing community. For more information about the event, and the writers and publishers themselves, go here.
MAY is Book Club month – three presentations to the Great Women’s Book Club at hospitals in Oakville, Milton and Georgetown, and Diana will be a guest at other book clubs.
APRIL 27th, a READING at the presentation of the AMAZON.ca First Novel Award, along with the five other nominees: Jessica Grant, Annabel Lyon, Damien Tarnopolsky, Dragan Todorovic and Iain Weir, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, Toronto.
APRIL, an INTERVIEW with Diana by Rob McLennan, as part of his 12 or 20 QUESTIONS series. Read the interview here.
MARCH11th, a READING at The Eh! List Author Series for the Toronto Public Library, with Karen Connelly, details to follow.
- No Place Strange is named a FINALIST for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award! Read more here.
FEBRUARY, an APPEARANCE at The Book Lovers’ Ball, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
JANUARY, a review of No Place Strange in NOW Magazine.
In 2009 . . .
NOVEMBER
- A note: The Globe and Mail‘s Jim Bartley gives No Place Strange an Honourable Mention on his list of top first fiction of the year.
- A reading at IFOA Ontario in Parry Sound with Miriam Toews, John Brady, and Alan Bissett.
OCTOBER
- A reading at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors.
- A reading at the Fine Print series, Dora Keogh pub, Toronto, with Cathy Marie Buchanan.
- A reading at McNally Robinson in Toronto as part of the ‘Fictionista’ reading series, with Connie Gault, Rhea Tregebov, and Alice Zorn.
- An excerpt from the novel in the Vancouver Province.
SEPTEMBER
- A reading at Words Alive, in Sharon, Ontario.
- The official launch of No Place Strange in Toronto at Mitzi’s Sister.
- A review in The Globe and Mail.
- A review in Quill and Quire.
AUGUST
- A review in the Vancouver Sun. Read “Intelligence, politics, globalism on display in poet’s first novel” by Rebecca Wigod.
- A review of No Place Strange in the Winnipeg Free Press.
- A review of No Place Strange and profile of Diana, by Donna Bailey Nurse, in the Ottawa Citizen.
- A profile of Diana in the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
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