3.3.2010 Yesterday the nominees for the Atlantic Book Awards were announced. My novel Migration Songs has been shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award, along with George Elliott Clarke's I&I and Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man. I feel pretty amazed to be in that company. The Atlantic Book Awards ceremony will be held April 14, and hopefully I'll be doing some readings from the novel that week, in Halifax and other communities in Nova Scotia.

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9.1.2009 I have hopefully fixed up the typos from my last post, and am ready for actually writing. Life often seems like a lot of proofreading to me... cleaning up your mistakes, hoping you can catch them all. I can't believe it's already September and that my book tour is less than a month away! I've actually started writing my next novel and it seems a lot like I imagine breast feeding to be- sometimes lovely, sometimes painful, unending and often mind-numbing. If there's a better way I'd like to know. September is full of golden rod, cicadas and straggly stuff. The world is going beautifully bald. Enjoy every hair of it. READ MORE

In 1995, Anna Quon began volunteering at the home office of Spencer Bevan-John, publisher of the now defunct Ability Network magazine. This life-changing event marked the beginning of Anna’s involvement with a number of disability-related non-profit organizations, as well as the world of freelance writing...

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