Poet & Novelist
I don’t know if you find this phenomenon—literary quote as as ad slogans—as funny slash irritating as I do, but for a little light reading, go to my piece on the CNQ website, and lend your sympathy to some poor abused literary quotes. What is it about coffee shops, hairdressers, Cadillac? Can’t they come up with their own damn words?
*A Room of Our Own, Canadian Writers Summit, July 17, 2016, 4 p.m.
*What's Your Story, summer 2016
*Which is the Sea and which is the Land, Canadian Notes & Queries, Summer 2016
*A Windup Reading, October 15, 2015, 382 College Street, 8 PM.
*Garrick, forthcoming in The New Quarterly, 2015
* Giller Filler, on the Smell of Success, published in Geist, January 2015
* Look, Don't Look published in the New Quarterly, Summer 2014
* Dog Days published in TRUTH, DARE, DOUBLEDARE: Stories of Motherhood, edited by Kerry Clare, Goose Lane Editions, Spring 2014
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* Hear Diana read poems from CLINIC DAY on Brick Books audiosite
* NO PLACE STRANGE is one of the Canadian nominees for the IMPAC Dublin 2011 AWARD!
* NO PLACE STRANGE longlisted for the RELIT AWARDS!
* NO PLACE STRANGE reviewed in the UNDERGROUND BOOKCLUB.
* NO PLACE STRANGE reviewed in CANADIAN LITERATURE
* NO PLACE STRANGE available on KOBO!
* NO PLACE STRANGE available on KINDLE!
* NO PLACE STRANGE nominated for AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD!
* NO PLACE STRANGE a staff pick in the Halifax Library system
* Susan Cole reviews NO PLACE STRANGE in NOW MAGAZINE, January 7, 2010.
* NO PLACE STRANGE makes the GLOBE AND MAIL'S FIRST FICTION LIST FOR 2009! Read more here.
JULY 17, 2016 4 pm at the CANADIAN WRITERS SUMMIT, Harbourfront,
Diana will next appear on:
* OCTOBER 15, 2015 at A WINDUP READING in Toronto, with Ghazal Mosadeq, Claudio Gaudio and Ann Shin, 382 College Street, 8 PM
* JULY 6 at the BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES in Toronto, with Ian Malczewski and Antanas Sileika, 270 Gladstone 7-8:30 PM
* JUNE 14 and 21 at book clubs in Toronto and Oakville
* MAY 6, 2011 at Fort York, as one of four guest authors for the TDSB and TCTE Student Short Story Contest and Author's Day
* DECEMBER 11th at the ALPHABET CITY: AIR launch in Toronto, location TBA
* OCTOBER 19th at the MANSFIELD PRESS 10th Anniversary event, at The Boat in Toronto
* APRIL 27th at the AMAZON.ca FIRST NOVEL AWARD readings and presentation at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, with Jessica Grant, Annabel Lyon, Damien Tarnopolsky, Dragan Todorovic and Iain Weir
* MARCH 30th at the FREE SPEECH Reading Series at Tinto, 89 Roncesvalles Avenue, with Joe Fiorito, Andrea Thompson and Elizabeth Shepherd. Doors open at 7, Show at 7:30.
Watch this space for details on other upcoming readings and events, or visit the News & Events page.
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden