Design by Ingrid Paulson for House of Anansi Press.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Cover story in Capital Xtra!
Photo by Jenna Wakani
"Down-to-earth and lacking the egotism often found in young, successful writers, 33-year old Whittall is funny, charming and ironic. This often comes through in her work, which is laden with thick tones of authorial personality. Bottle Rocket Hearts, for example, contains some of the most tragically funny and self-destructively entertaining characters to emerge out of Can Lit in recent memory." Click here to read the full article by Lorianne Garrison.
Monday, March 30, 2009
I'll be reading with Dave Brock, Sean Dixon and more. 9-11pm, at This Ain't the Rosedale Library, on April 9th. On April 29th, I will be reading at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival.
In other news, my new novel is officially called Holding Still for as Long as Possible. I'm working on the final touches now, and it will launch with House of Anansi this coming fall.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Yesterday I got to meet Daniel MacIvor, the prolific & genius writer (in residence at Guelph, currently), and since I'm almost done the MFA program there, we met to discuss my work.
Proof of my glee/nerdom:
Proof of my glee/nerdom:
Thursday, March 05, 2009
long time coming
I've been finishing up the final draft of my second novel, coming out with House of Anansi **in hardcover** this fall. Woot! I've been calling it The Beast. The Beast doesn't allow much time for other things.
Upcoming Events:
- Ottawa International Writers' Festival, April 29th. Details TBA. Did a photo shoot with photographer Jenna Wakani for Cap Xtra. Despite the worst sinus headache of the century, we had a lot of goofy fun.
- I will be reading at Harbourfront Centre on March 25th with 19 other poets as part of an under-35-year-old poets extravaganza.
- I'm one of the authors involved with The Canada CODE, the first digital collaborative art project of its kind and a project of the Cultural Olympiad of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. I know, me + olympics = tres bizarre, but it's a pretty interesting project.
I finally got new headshots done since trying to be 28 all the time was getting a bit, well, dishonest. The lovely Kelly Clipperton took them. Here is a sample:
Upcoming Events:
- Ottawa International Writers' Festival, April 29th. Details TBA. Did a photo shoot with photographer Jenna Wakani for Cap Xtra. Despite the worst sinus headache of the century, we had a lot of goofy fun.
- I will be reading at Harbourfront Centre on March 25th with 19 other poets as part of an under-35-year-old poets extravaganza.
- I'm one of the authors involved with The Canada CODE, the first digital collaborative art project of its kind and a project of the Cultural Olympiad of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. I know, me + olympics = tres bizarre, but it's a pretty interesting project.
I finally got new headshots done since trying to be 28 all the time was getting a bit, well, dishonest. The lovely Kelly Clipperton took them. Here is a sample:
Friday, December 19, 2008
Pics from the launch of Precordial Thump, December 3rd, 2008
The lovely cover, featuring photo of Jess Lyons by Neetu Bains.
Joe, Lara and I
MC & I
Sandy & Lisa Foad - you should all buy her new book, The Night is a Mouth, right now!
Big thanks to Chelsey Lichtman, Emma McKenna, Julia Gruson-Wood, Nolan Natasha, Lisa Foad and Marcilyn Cianfarani for making the night amazing!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
From Quill & Quire...it's official
Deals: October 30, 2008 | 3:46 PM | By Stuart Woods
House of Anansi Press publisher Lynn Henry has acquired at auction the new novel by Zoe Whittall. Doing Nothing for As Long As Possible, the follow-up to Whittall's well-received 2007 debut Bottle Rocket Hearts, is the story of how a love triangle comprising three Toronto hipsters unravels in the wake of a disastrous freak accident. Anansi will publish the book as one of its lead fiction titles in fall 2009. The deal was arranged by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency.
In other news - I am off to France in less than a week, for a 2.5 week long touring literary festival through the country, thanks to the fabulous Neil Bisoondath and Cormorant Books. MC will be joining me for a week in Paris and Brussels...can't think of a better way time to spend the normally blah Toronto November.
Those of you in Toronto, please come out on December 3rd for the launch of Precordial Thump, my third book of poetry, at the Gladstone hotel. Stay tuned for details.
House of Anansi Press publisher Lynn Henry has acquired at auction the new novel by Zoe Whittall. Doing Nothing for As Long As Possible, the follow-up to Whittall's well-received 2007 debut Bottle Rocket Hearts, is the story of how a love triangle comprising three Toronto hipsters unravels in the wake of a disastrous freak accident. Anansi will publish the book as one of its lead fiction titles in fall 2009. The deal was arranged by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency.
In other news - I am off to France in less than a week, for a 2.5 week long touring literary festival through the country, thanks to the fabulous Neil Bisoondath and Cormorant Books. MC will be joining me for a week in Paris and Brussels...can't think of a better way time to spend the normally blah Toronto November.
Those of you in Toronto, please come out on December 3rd for the launch of Precordial Thump, my third book of poetry, at the Gladstone hotel. Stay tuned for details.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Birth Announcement - Precordial Thump!
Please order a copy from your nearest independent bookstore - I like The Toronto Women's Bookstore, This Ain't the Rosedale Library and my neighbourhood indie, Type Books. You can also order a copy from the problem child of publishing - (though I will confess to enjoying how books arrive in two days) or the big corporate meanies.
Friday, October 17, 2008
mention on CBC.ca today
From an article by arts writer Sarah Liss, Stunt Woman - Toronto writer Claudia Dey’s city of the surreal
Young Canadian writers like Dey and O’Neill (Dey jokingly dubs them “the grimy dozen”) are answering Northrop Frye’s archetypal CanLit question — “Where is here?” — by shining their flashlights into the seedier nooks and crannies of Canada’s urban centres and suburban wastelands. Young writers like Ibi Kaslik, Zoe Whittall and Emily Schultz are carving out a magical new geography of Canada that incorporates a love of poetry, an appreciation of industrial beauty and a strong commitment to teasing out issues of race and class.
+ precordial thump arrives from the printers next week. I'll be launching in Toronto on December 3rd at the Gladstone Hotel as part of the Granny Boots series. More details TBA.
+ I'll be in France this November with celebrated author Neil Bisoondath as part of the festival Les Belles Etrangers.
+ Click here to read an article about me in the U of Guelph paper.
Young Canadian writers like Dey and O’Neill (Dey jokingly dubs them “the grimy dozen”) are answering Northrop Frye’s archetypal CanLit question — “Where is here?” — by shining their flashlights into the seedier nooks and crannies of Canada’s urban centres and suburban wastelands. Young writers like Ibi Kaslik, Zoe Whittall and Emily Schultz are carving out a magical new geography of Canada that incorporates a love of poetry, an appreciation of industrial beauty and a strong commitment to teasing out issues of race and class.
+ precordial thump arrives from the printers next week. I'll be launching in Toronto on December 3rd at the Gladstone Hotel as part of the Granny Boots series. More details TBA.
+ I'll be in France this November with celebrated author Neil Bisoondath as part of the festival Les Belles Etrangers.
+ Click here to read an article about me in the U of Guelph paper.
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