On the Artsy Raven M.A.C. Farrant describes her journey of becoming a prize-winning writer, the Zenlike process of discovery when she writes and how cows inspired her latest Jigsaw Puzzle book.

M.A.C. Farrant - Marion Farrant has been writing and publishing since the 1980s: 18 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and Toronto Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks. Along with Pauline Holdstock she ran the Sidney Reading Series from 1994 – 2009.

Her books have been a finalist for many awards, among them the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Ethel Wilson fiction prize, two Jessie Richardson theatre awards, The Van City Book Prize, the National Magazine Awards, the ReLit Award, the Gemini Awards for the Bravo short film adaptation of her story, Rob’s Guns & Ammo, and the Victoria Book Prize (three times), the last of which she won in 2014 for her collection of miniature fiction, The World Afloat.

Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller. In 2024, Talon Books will issue the 20th Anniversary Edition of her memoir, My Turquoise Years.

Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. Sheila Munro, has called her “Canada’s most ascerbic and intelligent humourist”.

Bill Richardson has called her “a master of the Zen-like art of delivering weight in a way that is featherlight”, further noting that she’s “the most accomplished and unapologetic miniaturist in Canadian letters.”

At time 15:00 she reads from Jigsaw.

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