Welcome to Margaret Atwood's Website!
I hope this site helps you to find what you are looking for. Happy reading!
Upcoming Events
We just launched the landing page for “Practical Utopias” on the Live Learning platform Disco!
The program will happen in late Feb/March/early April: the mission is to group-design new ways of living and decision making to combat the Climate Crisis:
New materials, new energies, new foods, new social forms: there is no “perfect,” but there can be “better.”
HERE’S an interview I did on Amanpour about Practical Utopias, among other things.
You can find the landing page for “Practical Utopias” amongst the moving carousel above – or select it from the LEARN & APPLY menu bar. If you are using a mobile device, it’s menu system will guide you as well.
This will either be very helpful and instructive or it will go pear-shaped, just like many real Utopias, and I will become an evil dictator.
Your mission: Stop that from happening!
This isn’t an upcoming event, it’s an ongoing event…
My friends are laughing at me for not being dead.
What's on my Desk...
Today we launched the Canadian cover for “Burning Questions”, which will be published in March, 2022. It’s selected essays from 2004 to now.
We had to go through about three times as many to decide what should go into the book!
See the covers (UK, Canada, US) above.
Like everyone, I’m somewhat Covid-bound.
I did manage to sneak out before Omicron hit. I made it to Amsterdam and to Italy, and also to the US … all for events that were supposed to take place in 2020.
Very vaxxed and tested, and travel felt safe.
But now we’re all waiting and seeing.
What am I working on now?
Apart from everything else! Finishing some stories, doing some holiday baking (date + raisin squares, very nutritious). Catching up on letters and journal. Counting the number of Zooms done since March 2020: over 200.
Never mind, Covid can’t go on forever!
