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The show will also be archived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/2ce2734b-d78c-42c4-b15f-47d64aba3714/VMI+Omnibus+Reading+Social+Post+Oct+2021+DRAFT3.png Events - VMI Omnibus Reading Join me with Gary Barwin, Jonina Kirton, Betsy Warland, and hosts Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Rachel Rose for a reading celebrating the work of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive’s mentors! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/f6e6f09a-94ab-4d41-aff8-be77bb787bbc/Island+hike608.jpeg Events - Victoria Festival of Authors, 2021 Join me for readings and music at “A City of their Own,” a live (and livestreamed) event with Sara Desai, Carla Funk, and Tamara Goransen, hosted by Kathryn Calder at the Victoria Festival of Authors, on Oct. 2, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/8e57748a-9cc0-48fb-8de1-7b7697c0c62b/Susan-Olding-Banner-1.png Events - Kingston WritersFest, 2021 Join me for conversation or a workshop at the Kingston WritersFest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/53b378b5-3a2b-42b6-90fc-f9fd6c60c5b6/wildwords_north-outline-sm-for-zoom.jpg+copy.jpg Events - Wild Words North I spoke with the wonderful Leona Theis about structure in fiction and nonfiction at the Wild Words North Literary Festival, 2021. 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Olding has found exactly the right balance between the details of her life and the wide reach of research and obsession. The book pays tribute to what the essay has done in its long and honourable past and what it continues to do in the hands of a remarkable thinker and wordsmith.” —Lorna Crozier, author of Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) About the Book A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayists. Ever since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind: through every experience, Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it means to be human, to be a woman--and to be a reader. Big Reader is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss, and the nuanced disappointments and joys of a reading life. https://www.susanolding.com/pathologies daily 0.75 2021-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612391254987-WLIDX5FNNKYGVSK3DLCM/PATHOLOGIES_by_Susan_Olding_Book_Cover.jpg Pathologies: A Life in Essays - Pathologies: A Life in Essays Praise and awards for Pathologies “Wise…filled with…well-wrought, pithy observation about life, pain, parenting, illness and other essential components of human existence.” (Nigel Beale, The Globe and Mail) Chosen as one of the Top Ten Canadian Books in Kingston WritersFest’s Canada 150 Event Amazon.ca and 49th Shelf: 100 Canadian Books to Read in a Lifetime Creative Nonfiction Collective, Readers’ Choice Award, 2010 About the Book In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of being human. Each essay concerns a different aspect of her life, from her complicated family relationships to her tricky dealings with peers, to her work as a counsellor and teacher, to her struggles with infertility and adoptive parenthood. Throughout, she probes the ethics of writing about others, never shying from turning her scalpel upon herself. Pathologies heralds the arrival of one of Canada’s finest new writers, one who has taken the challenging, much-underused form of the literary essay and made it her own. Download the reading guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612391507209-7MZ99AWLKJX3IKM1FYT4/Creative+None+Fiction+Collective+Prize+Seal%2C+Reader%27s+Choice+Award+2010 Pathologies: A Life in Essays https://www.susanolding.com/about daily 0.75 2023-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612389502755-YDZFTKPZBUEST528U7W5/Writer%2C+poet+and+essayist+Susan+Olding+headshot Meet Susan Susan Olding, writer, poet and essayist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/4c72ea55-668d-4707-aa04-4ffa6f6ce28c/PanamaFlats+hike.jpeg Meet Susan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/ac42c47f-3dbf-4a8e-aae9-c42afeb7e429/blackberries.jpeg Meet Susan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/bb60a05d-fdd3-4e75-8f02-b98e3507ec20/Susan%26Max.JPG Meet Susan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/f6e6f09a-94ab-4d41-aff8-be77bb787bbc/Island+hike608.jpeg Meet Susan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/eaa91e1f-6f0e-47f3-a138-4544461ba579/SusanandMax2.jpeg Meet Susan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/ebf4c9ba-155b-4a89-b1bb-d3676d24daf9/Panama+Flats+2.jpeg Meet Susan https://www.susanolding.com/press-kit daily 0.75 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612446100326-RFUMGTIWAJCLPTEKGFIM/Susan+Olding+BW+landscape+press+photo Press Kit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612444362571-BOWCPF7Q53ALMM97LP0R/Susan+Olding+BW+Portrait+photo Press Kit Photo credit: Hélène Cyr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612444392398-ZKTTGF8A4277SGWXECLG/Susan+Olding+Colour+Portrait+Photo Press Kit Photo credit: Hélène Cyr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612444304165-DOC8O7NRUD170CB8P4KC/Susan+Olding+BW+Landscape+Photo Press Kit Photo credit: Hélène Cyr https://www.susanolding.com/coaching-editing-consulting-content daily 0.75 2023-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612447772045-2MTQSRCRKBUP9KAZQBEK/Person+writing+in+notebook. Mentoring, Editing and Manuscript Consultation - Mentoring and coaching Are you: An emerging writer hoping to take your work to a professional level or seeking greater accountability? A professional working in a new genre or trying a new approach? Looking for a fresh perspective on your work and practical suggestions for your development as an artist? You might benefit from coaching or mentoring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612447871436-19B04UEAHLMKPBXFB3DL/2-people-writing-on-paper-romain-dancre-doplSDELX7E-unsplash-2.jpg Mentoring, Editing and Manuscript Consultation - Manuscript Consultation Are you: Finished or partly finished a draft manuscript that you’re ready to revise? You might be ready for a manuscript consultation or developmental edit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60106b6708950557c4ee7a05/1612448052501-TSGAFQJ3YWD4OBQI0LLV/susan-olding-bookclubs-workshops.jpg Mentoring, Editing and Manuscript Consultation - Book Clubs and Private Workshops with Susan Olding I love meeting with book clubs and presenting workshops to writing groups and am happy to do so for a small fee. 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