3D mock-up of the book cover for The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
In conversationUpcoming

A morning of longhand with Margaret Atwood

with Margaret AtwoodNovelist & poet

Date
Wed, December 2, 2026
Time
local
Venue
Massey College, Toronto, CA

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What happens in the room

Sixty listeners, one notebook, and three hours on revision, contracts and staying curious.

CA$30 · 60 seats

About Margaret Atwood

  • Booker Prize, 2000
  • Booker Prize, 2019
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award, 1987

Atwood has published more than fifty books across six decades — fiction, poetry, essays and graphic novels — and still begins in longhand in the morning. She grew up partly in the bush of northern Quebec, an upbringing she credits for both her practicality and her interest in what people do when systems fail.

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3D mock-up of the book cover for The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodIn conversationUpcoming

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Time
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3D mock-up of the book cover for The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodReading & Q&AUpcoming

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Winning twice: on prizes and the work after them

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Date
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Time
local time
Venue
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Atwood reads from The Blind Assassin and takes questions on what a prize does and doesn't change.

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